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Adobe Flash iPhone Blockade

I was looking at my blog on my iPhone to see what my mobile theme looked like and I saw the “flash player required” button… Nothing new, everyone knows that smart phones don’t do flash… But when I accidently hit it it took me to the following adobe page:
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Flash Player not available for your device

Apple restricts use of technologies required by products like Flash Player. Until Apple eliminates these restrictions, Adobe cannot provide Flash Player for the iPhone or iPod Touch.

Copyright © 2009 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved.
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I’d never seen that before. Interesting to say the least. I’m a huge adobe fan. I think they’ve done about everything right with there software brands. I live in CS4 now. I’ve been using Photoshop for almost 10 years. I love adobe. Please apple, please allow flash on the iPhone!

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What happens when Parker gets my iPhone

Oh the pictures and video I find on my phone. Every now and then I have to go through my pictures on my iPhone and delete random pictures of feet, blurry toys, too close faces, or just blackness… But these were too funny to delete. Maybe it’s because it’s so late/early, or the fact Parker had a photo shoot with Hand Manny’s tools… Whatever the reason, I had to share these.

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FOUND: AT&T Towers in Clarksville

Well, I didn’t much sleep last night…  Being the huge geek that I am, I stayed up late messing with my new 3G signal.  I’m loving it.  I wanted to find just where AT&T put those shiny new antennae, but could quite find them.  I stumbled across an AT&T website called ATTTowers.com.  You have to register, but it is free to use and search.  They even have pictures of the towers.  Below are two screenshots of the google map that was generated from my search on that website, and an excel doc listing towers in the Clarksville City limits.  I’m curious how far the 3G signal goes…  Let me know where you are and if you have 3G in Clarksville, TN or Montgomery County, TN.  Thanks!

Spreadsheet of Towers: ATTTowers

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3G in Clarksville! Whaa?!

I was just about to go to bed when I checked my phone and discovered something that I never thought inwould live to see… The 3G symbol on my phone! Clarksville has arrived! I wasn’t sure how long this would last so I grabbed some screen shots from kayce’s phone (my power button still doesn’t work, see post about water and iPhones…). Those pics are below. Notice the speed tests I ran. Pretty sweet! I’m pumped. I’ve been so irritated not having 3G for so long. Finally! I feel like u should stay up late watching YouTube videos just to make up for lost time and bandwidth… I won’t. Did I mention how pumped I am?!?! The pics are thus: 1) Home Screen with 3G symbol. 2) Speed test on 3G. 3) Speed test on Edge. 4) Speed test on WiFi. 5) All the speed test results.

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The iPhone 3GS (“S” for Submersible)

Well, I’m sure most of you have heard by now.  One of the most loyal fans and addicted users of the iPhone, jumped into the lake with his brand new 3GS in his pocket.  Yes, that was me.  But, firstly, let me say, it IS just a phone.  I had a great day on the lake with the family.  Ok, now back to the phone deal… 

So, most of you know I’m never, NEVER, without my phone.  I use it constantly at work (remoting to servers, computers, checking e-mail, playing Stick Wars…  you know what I mean).  So, I’m very used to it being in my pocket.  And that is how it ended up in the lake.  Habits, they kill people and phones.  After about one minute in the water, panic quickly swept through me, followed immediately by shame.  Kayce dried it off the best she could and turned it off.  We swam, fished, and drove all over the lake.  Great day.  Oh, I got sun-burned, caught one blue gill, and did I mention the phone thing?  So, after getting home and getting everyone settled back in, I broke out my tools (and my camera, enjoy the below pictures). 

I found several guides to tearing down the iPhone, but it really wasn’t as hard as I had imagined.  I guess if you’re going to build hundreds of thousands of these things, it better be easy to put together.  So, I managed to get the water all cleaned that I could see, and per the suggestion of several folks, I’ve put all the components in a bag of rice, Calrose Rice.  Yes, the good stuff, but its all we had on hand.  We like our sticky rice!  I actually debated for a moment on whether I should use the good rice or not, but then common sense won out.  $200 phone versus $20 bag of rice, hmm… 

So, now my phone… I almost hate to call it that, it’s so much more.  My PDA, no.  My…  Ok, let’s just call it what it is…  Karen.  Her name is Karen.  True fans of Spongebob will know what I’m talking about.  Kayce actually gave my phone that name.  Anyway.  So, now my phone sits in pieces in a bag of rice.  I’m probably going to leave it there until Sunday afternoon.  I’m only worried about the battery.  I’m postive the other components will dry out.  But batteries are very sensative.  And this is an $89.00 battery.  If it doesn’t work, I’m tempted to mod my phone to run on AAA’s.  I’ll let you know how that turns out, if I have to go down that road. 

So, enjoy the pictures of the breakdown of my phone.  I actually enjoyed doing it.  Any excuse to take something apart.  I’m off to search the cars and sofas for change to replace my phone for when the rice trick doesn’t work, and my corrupted battery explodes and destroys the rest of my phone.  Have a great night everyone.  I’m so glad I took the day off.  Ah.

Oh, in the meantime.  I’m not without a phone.  I always have my trusty HTC 3125, better know at the Cingular 3125.  It is the best (Probably the only) flip phone/Smart Phone ever!

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iPhone Headset Mod

Well,  I finally did it.  After being annoyed by the factory earbuds that came with my phone, I decided to trade them out for something alittle better.  I had a set of Sennheiser CXL300’s, which sound great, but due to the Lanyard design, were useless for my iphone.  They were cheap, since no one wanted the lanyard deal, but the in-ear drivers were really good.  Actually on the regular CX300, the same drivers cost about $80.  So, I was up for trying to swap them out. 

If you are wondering why I didn’t just make the cable longer, or even buy a new headset with in-ears…  Well, fair question, but I just like to do this kind of stuff.  And quite frankly, most in-ear headsets for the iphone are just too expensive, I refuse pay that much.  I wanted to have the functionality of the iphone controler and mic that are on the headset, so that’s why I didn’t just go with headphones.  Anyway, below are pictures of the project.  I had to do alittle research online about the wiring of the iphone headset, but after that it was pretty simple.  Just connect the two wires on each earbud.  Alittle solder to get a good connection, and then some heatshrink to make it all look nice and hold together.  Oh, I did put alittle liquid insulation on the wires to keep shorts from happening.  They seem to working like a charm.  I’m happy with them anyway.  I know kayce will like them, since those iphone earbuds hurt her little ears too. 

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iPhone 3Gs… Pretty Peppy!

I’m alittle shocked to say this.  I didn’t expect there to be a huge difference from the 3G, but the 3Gs does seem to live up to the “s”, being speed.  My apps do seem to load very quickly compared to the 3G.  The compass is cool, the video is really great (although, this seems like something that should have been on the device all along).  Belows is a video taken with the phone.  Don’t judge the quality, it has been heavily encoded.  Below are a few screenshots of the new apps included in OS 3.0.  These are actually available for any iPhone, not just the new one.  The voice control is cool, but not practical, since it shuts down after you use it.  So for any followup commands you have to hold the home button again.  The voice recorder is nice, but several third party apps filled this void since Apple took three years to make their own app.  The compass is nice too, but I haven’t been able to get google maps to rotate to my current heading that way it should.  Which would really make the compass useful.  Right now, it’s just another neat toy.  Well, that’s it from me on the new phone.  Summary…  I like it!  I’m sure Kayce is also happy with her phone.  Which is my old iPhone 3G.  She’s addicted to a game called Falling Gems, and Pandora Radio.  Well, that’s the scoop on the iPhone 3Gs, as far as I’m concerned.  Maybe AT&T will get its act together and enable MMS and let Slingbox function over its network.  And while they are at it, they can hire some people, help the recession, and build the 3G towers in Clarksville, that they have been talking about for over a year.  Get to AT&T…  iPhone’s going to go to Verizon soon, and I might go with them!  Now that I’m on AT&T, I might just do another post later about that.  Check back for my rants on the Biggest Small-Time Carrier in the US!

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Obsessed.

This is my new obession. It’s a game on the iphone called stick wars. It is really well done and is a classic flash game I used to play in the pc when I worked the long boring in the rec office. I’ll admit I actually paid for this one. Only 0.99, but so worth it! If you have an iphone, check it out. I think they have a free version, but you will get hooked and buy the full version, just warning you! Oh, and I’m using the cheats, so if you play and wonder about my scores from the screenshot… I’m a cheater.

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New phone!

I just got my new iPhone about a week ago and I am having a blast with it! I’m actually posting this from my phone, pretty cool, huh! I think so. You will also notice that I am changing the look of the site… Just try something new. I hope you like it.

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