Comments on: iPhone does not love linux.

By: Kalle

Kalle — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:43:00 +0000

LOL! Damn. *twitch*

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:33:18 +0000

Heheh Seeker…don’t stray from the path or the path may stray from you lol almost forgot about those days We were much better than Potter could ever be! (esp. after I took charge)

By: Kalle

Kalle — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:09:23 +0000

Oh. That’s nice, yeah. I guess I’ll have to start nudging the brother about getting me my Mac back…

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:56:34 +0000

Don’t forget that iTunes also automatically takes a backup of your iPhone every time you connect it with a cable. That way if you lose the phone or it needs repairing, iTunes can restore everything from the backup.

Also assuming you don’t subscribe to MobileMe (which gives you over-the-air ‘push’ syncing), iTunes also keeps your contacts, calendar, bookmarks etc in sync between PC/Mac and iPhone when you connect it with a cable. I keep hoping that eventually Apple will bring out wireless syncing (like Zune), but I guess that they won’t, as it’s one of the (few) benefits of subscribing to MobileMe.

By: Kalle

Kalle — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:02:33 +0000

That’s the thing though. The phone requires that I use an iTunes store account before it lets me download apps, and since I had none I had to create one, and in the creation process, I am forced to go into iTunes to activate it … believe me, I have no intention of using iTunes ever again. Though I have a feeling I will be required to do so if I ever want to upgrade the iPhone firmware.

By: Gabychka

Gabychka — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:00:33 +0000

Why don’t you just download apps from the app store icon on your iphone and use your cellular connection? I rarely, if ever, use itunes anymore, unless adding in music….

By: Kalle

Kalle — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:15:01 +0000

*laughs* Well, considering I may be doing iPhone development here in the near future, I may benefit from checking out what is possible on the phone, even if it costs me a little so maybe I’ll bite the bullet.

As for the Mac — you don’t know my brother, or you’d understand. Besides, my lap top was basically just a repository of my main desktop. Wiping it clean wasn’t that big a deal in the long run. And installing XP again was kind of amusing actually. I walked back and forth between the spot where I’d put the lap top (the eth cord was too short so it was standing on a chair by my door) and every time I’d click either one of 1) “reboot”, 2) “Start > Windows Update > Standard update” or 3) “I agree, Install” repeatedly. Luckily I was hungry that night so I went to the kitchen back and forth a lot.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:11:21 +0000

Wow, well it says something that you’d go through *all* of that hassle/punishment rather than fight to get your Mac back. You’re mad!

Definitely check out that app; I guarantee you won’t regret it, as it is superb – the best of all of my dictionaries (I also have Collins Pro and SlovEd). Especially as you likely have the 3GS model, which also negates any speed quibbles I have with all the dictionaries on my 3G.

Finally, to aid you in increasing your spending (haha), if you’re a Google Reader user, check out “Byline”.

By: Kalle

Kalle — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:57:58 +0000

I have a Mac too, but my brother is hogging it at the moment, or I’d just use that. The downside of being out of the country for years at a time is that people tend to not easily wanna hand back stuff they “borrowed” from you those years ago.

As for the Apple store, I’m up at ~80 yen or so so far. *grin* Not anywhere close to where you are and hopefully that will remain so. Though I might grab that Japanese app one of these days. It still pocks at me…

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:44:04 +0000

Bummer, sounds like a bit of a run-around there.

Unfortunately I have no idea about this side of owning an iPhone, as I haven’t run Windows since 2001, and haven’t run Linux as a desktop since 2003 (but still do on all of my servers). I just plugged it into my Mac and it worked. *shrug*.

On a (slightly-)related topic, I downloaded “App Store Expense Manager” and gave myself a shock; that I’ve spent £173 on iPhone applications, including £72 on foreign language dictionaries! Still, well worth it, and still a fraction of what my (now little-used, thanks to the “Japanese” app) Casio EX-Word cost me a year or two ago.