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I have just discovered, purely by accident, that you can only install 180 applications on your iPhone. Why, there is a maximum of 11 pages of applications plus the 4 spots on every page.

And how did I find this? Reading an iPhone tips page told me that I could put a Web Clip shortcut on my home page for any website. Just select “+” in Safari and tap “Add to Home Page”. Sounds simple enough, right. No, when I pressed “+” there is no add to home page option.

Much research later, with nothing helping I wondered if a limit on installed apps could be causing the problem. Deleting an unused app brought the menu option back!

So, if you’re getting up there with your installed apps it might be time to do a bit of housekeeping.

And here’s a bonus tip… Got something on your iPhone screen that you’d like to share, or just remember? press the Menu button and then, while holding it down, press the On/Off button. Your iPhone will make an impressive camera type noise, flash the screen white and store a “photo” of the screen in your photos. Thai’s how I collected the proof of the limit.

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The MacHeist 3 Bundle is a way of getting nearly $700 worth of Mac software for just $39 AND 25% of that goes to charity.

At the time I am writing this, nearly 40,000 bundles have been sold which means that nearly $400,000 has been raised for the supported charities.

I would be surprised if you cannot find more than one application in the bundle which will be a welcome addition to your applications folder. And MacHeist even allow you to gift any of the applications in the bundle before you place your order!

I’m particularly looking forward to trying Kinemac, a 3D animation package.

Anyways, I strongly suggest that you check to see if the offer is still current.

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Success – Recorded Video with my iPhone

If you keep up with this blog, you’ll know that I suffered major trauma trying to jailbreak my iPhone recently

Now I am pleased to be able to give an update, after having success!

What you see below is a very short, very amateur, video made in the middle of the night with my iPhone … just a proof of concept really.

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Yesterday I decided to jailbreak my iPhone. Today, I’ll share with you some things I learnt during the failed attempt!

Firstly, DO NOT attempt to jailbreak your iPhone from a MacBook Pro running Leopard 10.5.6 … all the indications are that you’ll end up with a MacBook with no keyboard or mouse, an an unchanged iPhone.

So what did I learn?

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On holiday in Adelaide (that’s the capital of South Australia) I naturally had to keep my MacBook Pro and iPhone close by. Then, OmniFocus, one of the software demos I had installed early in the piece expired. As the developers would have hoped, I’ve already come to depend on OmniFocus to manage my daily workflow. It’s dead simple  to create quick reminders of things to do as a result of browsing and reading my daily emails.

Therefore, OmniFocus has become one of the first licenses I have purchased.
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The very first thing that my wife noticed about the spanking new iPhone I bought her recently was the glassy touch screen. You might have thought that her comment would be along the lines of “amazing technology”, “beautifully elegant interface” … but no, it was more like “how will I keep it clean“!

A later observation related to the fact that she has had to develop a touch style which works with her beautifully manicured (long) fingernails. This was after discovering that several improvised “styli” did not work.

I, of course, informed her that her new iPhone’s glassy touch sensitive screen is only sensitive to human fingers. Why? Because it uses a technology called capacitive touch which I am told measures the flow of electrons through the skin. Problem is, even without the manicured nails, fingers are pretty rounded and not too precise at picking out tiny URLs in Safari.

Luckily the geniuses behind the Pogo iPhone Stylus have magically solved this problem by making a stylus that somehow tricks the iPhone into thinking it’s really a finger. What’s more, the tip of the stylus is a soft felt like material that has the added benefit of keeping your screen clean while you tap away. How do they do it? Frankly I have no idea, but hopefully it doesn’t involve grave-robbing. (Leave a comment if you know the answer).

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