Some find it annoying that iPhoto on the Mac opens every time they plug in their iPhone to synch it with the computer. iPhoto opens up as soon as the phone is plugged in – even when there are no photos on iPhone’s “Camera Roll.” To stop this from happening, there is a preference in iPhoto that needs to be changed.
Here's what you do:
Open iPhoto->Preferences->General. Change the option “Connecting camera opens” option to “No application”. Close iPhoto.
The next time you plug in your iPhone, iPhoto will not open. To synch photos from the iPhone’s “Camera Roll” change iPhoto’s preferences back so that “Connecting camera opens – iPhoto.”
Author: Damon Brown
We don't know exactly what Electronic Arts, Gameloft and other gaming powerhouses are planning now that Apple has unleashed its iPhone SDK, but a few enterprising folks are giving us an idea of what we *could* be seeing this fall. Tech sites have been drooling over "Raging Thunder," a new, independently made racing game.
More a tech demo than a potentially licensed and sold product, "Raging Thunder" is a traditional arcade racing game - except the car is steered by tilting the iPhone itself. It sounds strange, but, as shown in the video, the controls seem to be intuitive (though we'd have to assume a finished product would use the much easier widescreen mode, not the vertical).
The visuals aren't too shabby, either, which leads us to think that an official version of Need for Speed couldn't look that much different.
"Raging Thunder" Video:
About the Author
Damon Brown wrote the "Pocket Idiot's Guide to the iPhone" (Alpha/Penguin Books). Available on August 7, you can preorder it at Amazon or your favorite online bookstore. Damon also writes for Playboy, SPIN and The New York Post.
Author: Susan Schrank
Rubicon Consulting surveyed 460 US iPhone users and found that, although they are generally "very satisfied" with the iPhone, a third of them carry a second phone. iPhone Matters reports that these folks use the iPhone for "media and e-mail functions" and use another handset for phone calls. The article posits, and we have to agree to some extent, that they might not even know that the iPhone is even a phone.
Half of the respondents got an iPhone to replace a standard cell phone, 40% were replacing a smartphone and 10% have an iPhone as their first cell phone, Rubicon found. E-mail and Web browsing are the most-used functions, and 75% said having an iPhone has encouraged them to spend more time browsing the mobile Web.
Post courtesy of MobileContentToday.
In iPhoto, create a new album called “iPhone photos.” (File->New Album). Then drag and drop selected photos from the iPhoto library on your computer into this album.
Connect your iPhone to the computer and open iTunes. Under the tab “Photos” check the box “Synch photos from iPhoto” and the box “selected albums.” Then scroll down the list of albums and check only the album called “iPhone photos.” Synch your phone.
All the photos on your iPhone will disappear, except for the photos on your “Camera Roll,” and a new album - “iPhone photos” - will be there.
You can add to, delete, or change the photos on your album, just by changing the contents in the iPhone photos album in iPhoto.
Delete e-mail messages without even reading or opening them.
On your iPhone you can delete e-mails without even reading. With the list of e-mail messages on the screen, just stroke your finger across the message you wish to delete. Then tap the red delete button that appears. It is that simple.
Appears to be the latest salvo in feud with Apple--after all, NBC is the network that pulled its shows from iTunes because of pricing differences with media-download leader.
NBC, the network that pulled its shows from iTunes because of difference with Apple, is now streaming two of its shows, 30 Rock and The Office, to the iPhone and iPod touch without ads, for free.
As the streams take up a lot of bandwidth, it requires a Wi-Fi connection. AT&T's 2.5G EDGE data nework won't due. Look for this to change when the iPhone that supports the carrier's 3G network becomes available this summer. That should offer the pipe nessesary to support streaming and downloading such large files.
Head to over to m.nbc.com/iphone/fullepisodes.shtmlfrom within Safari to stream the shows to your iPhone or iPod touch. Keep in mind, should you exit Safari while watching a show, it won't resume where you left off. You'll have to watch the show from the beginning.
In related news, a sketch called iPhone: The Affair on Saturday Night Live featured a real live iPhone. No suprise there. It turns out the iPhone NBC used was jailbroken to run unofficial native applications.
[ via gizmodo]
AT&T's listing a new iPhone model, called the iPhone Black, on its account management site. Could this be the upcoming 3G iPhone we're all expecting Apple to release within the next couple of months? After all, the finish of the rear of that eagerly-awaited smartphone is a glossy black, as rumored leaks and pictures have revealed over the last few weeks.
Whatever the significance of the listing, it can be seen as yet another indication that the days of the creepy crawly EDGE-enabled iPhone will soon come to an end.
Update: According to an AT&T executive who spoke with Gizmodo, the iPhone Black in just a temporary placeholder for a "scheduled catalog update" for a current iPhone model, not for the coming 3G edition. That sounds a little fishy to us.
Meanwhile, Telecom Italia Mobile executive VP Luigi Licciardi's just asserted in an interview that "we will sell the iPhone 3G next month." The very same month of Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC), this will take place from June 9th to 13th in San Francisco.
Hmmm. Now that's even less discrete than AT&T presumably's been with the iPhone Black reference. Apple can't be happy about that.
Apple's just picked up four more wireless operators to deliver the iPhone. Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) will ship the iPhone in Singapore, Bhariti Airtel in India, Optus in Australia and Globe in the Philippines later this year, reports Reuters.
Today's news follows last week's announcement that Vodafone would be extending the iPhone's reach as well, by ten countries. Vodafone markets include Australia and India, and, like Telecom Italia Mobile, which will also carry the iPhone, Italy.
Apparently, Apple's decided the one-carrier-per-market model it's been following since launching the iPhone in the U.S. through AT&T isn't the best strategy for all markets. Perhaps the competition will help consumers where the iPhone becomes available from multiple sources get a better deal.
Orb Networks is pushing the boundaries of placeshifting with its latest application that lets folks stream live TV to the iPhone or iPod touch.
While Orb's placeshifting software works with most mobile browsers, the iPhone is known for limiting the types of video content it supports. To get around these limitations, Orb has developed something called OrbLive, which it says enables the streaming of any video format to an iPhone.
"Although the iPhone provides users with a great way to experience the Web, it offers a ridiculously sub-par streaming video experience," said Orb CEO Joe Costello. "When all the carriers' free phones can stream lots of things that my iPhone can't, something's seriously wrong."
Sounds cool, but you gotta wonder what the folks at Apple will think of the new software. To see how it works, check out a video at MobileContentToday.
We take a close look at ringtone creation for the iPhone. It's a process that is as easy or as involved as you'd like it to be
Author: Damon Brown
Last September'>September we did a column on the new iPhone ringtones - or, namely, the lack there of. Licensing problems with the five major music groups made only eight percent of the Apple Music Store available as a ringtone. As you may remember, out of 14.3 days worth of music, I had 14 songs I could turn into a ringtone. Therefore, we focused on a "backdoor" way to turn your music into a ringtone (which Apple blocked in iTunes update 7.4.1.2) and virtually ignored the Apple sanctioned way - simply because you probably didn't have a song that qualified.
Now there are many, many more songs that qualify as ringtones - nearly 100 songs in my collection are available. (Side note: I proudly ring Menahan Street Band's jazzy "Make the Road By Walking," as opposed to the generic tubular bells default plaguing iPhones since last June.) This is an excellent time to look at the ringtone creation process. It is as easy or as involved as you'd like it to be.
