Lyle Schofield’s Technical Journal
On line log of technical adventures
My phone just stopped (iPhone 4S). It was switched recently from my personal carrier account to my corporate carrier account. So, when it stopped working I contacted the company help desk. Nature of problem: the buttons don’t turn on the phone. Holding down the power button does not bring up the restart slider. Plugging in […]
A few weeks ago I upgraded my iPhone 3G to iOS4. The only feature I was interested in was the folder feature for stacking applet icons. I don’t like all the side scrolling you need to do once you have more than 16 applets. While I was very happy with the folder feature – especially […]
From Yahoo news we hear that there is a “Rickrolling” worm hitting iPhones: iPhone fear as ‘Rick Astley’ worm spreads – Yahoo! News. This is a ittle misleading on two counts. First, the worm can only stick to the phone if it has its operating system modified to allow unauthorized software to be installed (commonly […]
Today’s sync dumped the new v3 operating system into the phone. Lots of improvements, including cut & paste, and the greatly anticipated text search through Email. But, I’ve been extremely happy with the phone since I got it so I wasn’t really waiting for a lot of new features. Sideways Email viewing will be nice […]