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Help: My iPhone 3G or 3GS is slow, how do I fix it?
My iPhone 3GS (yeah, the “fast” one) has been getting slower and slower since the iOS 4 update. Recently calls have come in without answer buttons popping up instantly. Whenever I call up the keyboard I can now type an entire sentence before seeing anything show up.
I have found something you can do to fix this…
Here’s how:
- Settings
- General
- Reset
- You want “Reset All Settings” – be warned that you will lose all of your setting information. Generally this isn’t much. You will forget your saved WiFi networks, and any Sound / Wallpaper settings etc. You will NOT lose any of your email account information, photos, songs, data, bookmarks, notes, or application information.
This helped me a LOT. Of course I did spend a minute setting up my old settings again.
I’m not sure if this works because after a while the “Multitask” bar gets extremely long or what. It just seemed like a big “Recently Used” applications bar to me.
Google Chrome 6 Released
Google released version 6 of their up an coming browser, Chrome.
The biggest feature of almost every Chrome release, is speed. It’s nice to see browsers focusing on doing their jobs more efficiently (cough cough Microsoft) instead of bloating the software with more unnecessary features.
Some of the features of the new release over previous releases:
- Various UI tweaks
- Auto Fill of forms
- Better Syncing
Chrome has been an exciting browser to use and follow, as it has been growing in leaps and bounds. Recently Chrome just overtook Safari usage, and is rapidly gaining on IE and Firefox.
Chrome is my current browser of choice. In the mere 2 years since it’s launch, Chrome has grabbed the position of being the browser to copy. Through minimalistic design, and significant speed enhancements, Chrome has forced other browsers to become leaner.
To update your software go into “About Google Chrome” and click update (if it hasn’t already). If you don’t have it, then download Chrome now!
Apple TV: Why I believe in It
I’ve had an Apple TV for about 3 or 4 years now. The old one that is, and have been very happy with my purchase. I know it wouldn’t have had a major impact being it costs about $300 and to be useful, requires the end user to be pretty saavy with the setup. I think the new Apple TV is enough of a departure to possibly be a BIG thing.
iTunes 10 is Available, iPod/iOS/AppleTV updates!
I’ve been trying to download it all day, finally seeing it available at Apple.com.
Yesterday Apple announced some new features to iTunes 10, some new iOS builds (4.1 and 4.2), new iPod models, and a new Apple TV line.
I’m a big fan of the Apple TV, and am very excited to hear it’s getting an upgrade (and a huge price cut, I paid $300 and was happy to do so). I may finally be able to have one on every TV in the house — without feeling guilty about it.
Apple TV has been the viewing platform of choice in our house on and off. It’s so easy to rent a nice looking movie (sorry Netflix, but the quality is just much better on Apple in my opinion — but I love the free movies). With the news that TV shows will be rentable, suddenly that $150 a month cable seems more optional than ever.
At $0.99 (the rumored price of renting a TV show) that’s 150 tv shows a month. Bye bye cable! If only you didn’t have my internet connection.
Google Code University: Free Courses, Tutorials and Lectures for Web Development – AJAX, HTML5, HTML, CSS, Javascript and more
I grew up with webmonkey as the single best destination for web developers and any tutorial you could want, but just saw that Google has a Google Code University featuring Tutorials, Contributed course content and Video lectures on:
- Web Programming
- HTML
- CSS
- Javascript
- AJAX
- HTML5
- Web Security (yes, web developers should be well versed in Web Security)
Just looking through the site it is so much more than basic web development. Material covers topics ranging from the Android platform, to basic algorithms. Please check out the material that isn’t just web development. There’s a reason Google is providing content for Distributed Systems, Tools and working with APIs.
We’re never beyond refreshing our own skills, as I’m sure Google has some great advice on their site.
I wish I could send this link to some other web developer’s I’ve had to rescue projects from.
Facebook to drop IE6 support on IE9 beta day, September 15
I’ve been quiet for while, and wanted to start up again with some great news. Facebook is going to stop IE6 support for chat on the IE9 beta day.
Projects always ask about IE6 support, whether they need it, etc. Surprisingly IE7 and IE8 support is also an issue, since they don’t support many of the cool toys supported by actual modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox).
I hope IE9 quickly replaces at least the IE7 and IE8 communities. IE 6 seems here to stay, at least for that last 6-8%.
Some other information from that article:
- Microsoft will support IE6 until April 2014
- Google has removes IE6 support in Google Docs, Google Sites, Gmail, Google Calendar and YouTube!
- Microsoft Office Web Apps doesn’t even support IE6 (how could you when trying to do anything cool)
The article quotes numbers as high as 17% for IE6 usage share, but I haven’t seen those numbers in a long time. My website enjoys an IE6 user base of 0.5% (in the last month, whereas IE, all versions, was around 19%). Other larger websites I manage see around 7.7% IE6 usage (with IE, all versions, being an amazing 55% of overall traffic).
Rant: Privacy, Tracking, and the Internet
I just got an email alert from WSJ.com saying:
The largest U.S. websites are installing new and intrusive consumer-tracking technologies on the computers of people visiting their sites—in some cases, more than 100 tracking tools at a time—a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.
The tracking files represent the leading edge of a lightly regulated, emerging industry of data-gatherers who are in effect establishing a new business model for the Internet: one based on intensive surveillance of people to sell data about, and predictions of, their interests and activities, in real time.
This impacts me directly, as I frequently work on large e-Commerce sites and have seen first hand the use of tracking technology.
Tracking technology has been around for a long time. Both on the internet and off. When you walk into a store, a well trained sales rep should be watching you, gauging your interest, seeing what you look at, and overall deciding the best way to approach you for a sale. This is not aggressive, this is their job. This is what websites do.
Help: WordPress is stuck in Maintenance Mode and is unavailable
If you see the following:
Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.
and you can’t log get back into your WordPress install to fix anything…
I have a solution!
You just need to rename the “.maintenance” file to something else, I used “old.maintenance”
Once that file is renamed (or deleted, but I recommend renamed), your WordPress installation should work again.
Worked for me
Web development with the iPhone and iPad in Mind
In the very near future, I will be posting a series of posts on what you should/shouldn’t be doing to develop a website where the iPhone and iPad are a target demographic. jQuery will figure prominently in the series, as I’ve seen almost all websites now require work with jQuery (or anther AJAX platform).
Let me know if you have any specific questions / concerns, and I’ll be glad to answer them.
Some interesting things to think about:
- How are mouse clicks triggered? (It’s not as straightforward as you’d think)
- How are hover states triggered? (Hint: the iPad has a hover state, but it’s not what you think — remember you only have a single touch, no arrow following your finger)
- What types of gestures can we use?
- What special considerations must we make for CSS?
- What are the ideal screen dimensions? (this is easy, but remember we have multiple devices, and multiple orientations)
- What types of video can we play? (iPad, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, iPhone 2G and the original iPhone all have different specifications, it’s not that easy)
CSS3 and HTML5 For the masses: HTML5Shiv and CSS3 PIE make it possible
Everywhere I look on the web (the web developer web that is) is CSS3 this, jQuery that, shadows, HTML5.
Such a tease, what about our minimum browser requirements spec? Damn IE6 is yet again 10% of the target demographic.
Not only is IE6 the problem, but so is the most recent IE8, as well as IE7. They just don’t support CSS3 and HTML5.
Now we have some solutions…
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