Since got the iPhone, I've been using it to access my Gmail account. By default Gmail runs IMAP in iPhone, which is great if one will access the e-mail on multiple computers. The downside, of course, is the heavy usage of GPRS/EDGE (which is kind of slow).
I've been using Gmail's web-interface for quite a year until now - when I found this article:
Turn Thunderbird into the Ultimate Gmail IMAP Client
Let's see how it goes on Thunderbird, compare with the already-familiar web-interface.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Saturday, April 12, 2008
First week with iPhone (1.1.4)
On the first night, I've already fill up the 8GB (7.1GB space) with ScreenCasts Online PodCasts, songs and photos. Not to mention that I begins to install third-parties' applications and games via Installer.
Playing iPhone for couple of days, I found that without anytime-anywhere Internet access, iPhone is nothing more than a WM/Palm PDA. In fact, its PIM is weaker than that on PDAs. iCal does nothing more than Calendar in S60 devices, for example, both lack of full support of category. Its soft-keyboard is harder to type than using stylus on WM/Palm (Graffit is the best), nor as fast as T9 on mobiles' keypad. Despite of those, its outlook are still cool. Its fully touch screen concept is great and provides more possibilities in programming. Yet, iPhone still can't worth its price (US$399) if without EDGE service. EDGE is need to unlock the mobile-Internet capability, because WiFi-access online limited to office or home, unless you live in Pacific Coffee.
iPhone is so simple and direct to use. I passed it to a girl, just to show her some photos. Without any help, she unlocked the phone, located Photo, and browsed all photos. Apple's design is great and user-friendly (unless you want all power from the device or the computer). So, iPhone doesn't come with a thick user guide or manual. However, we stil need some fixes and third-party software to make it a really cool piece of devices.
Patches for HK subscribers + JailBreak 1.1.4
Open Installer, select iClarified (might need to add source: http://installer.iclarified.com), and install AppSupport Patch(1.14) to fix the area code issues in call display (I always store phone number with area code).
The following tutorial shows how to share the EDGE connection with a laptop. I will try it some day.
http://lifehacker.com/software/feature/use-your-iphones-internet-connection-on-your-laptop-327066.php
Playing iPhone for couple of days, I found that without anytime-anywhere Internet access, iPhone is nothing more than a WM/Palm PDA. In fact, its PIM is weaker than that on PDAs. iCal does nothing more than Calendar in S60 devices, for example, both lack of full support of category. Its soft-keyboard is harder to type than using stylus on WM/Palm (Graffit is the best), nor as fast as T9 on mobiles' keypad. Despite of those, its outlook are still cool. Its fully touch screen concept is great and provides more possibilities in programming. Yet, iPhone still can't worth its price (US$399) if without EDGE service. EDGE is need to unlock the mobile-Internet capability, because WiFi-access online limited to office or home, unless you live in Pacific Coffee.
iPhone is so simple and direct to use. I passed it to a girl, just to show her some photos. Without any help, she unlocked the phone, located Photo, and browsed all photos. Apple's design is great and user-friendly (unless you want all power from the device or the computer). So, iPhone doesn't come with a thick user guide or manual. However, we stil need some fixes and third-party software to make it a really cool piece of devices.
Patches for HK subscribers + JailBreak 1.1.4
Open Installer, select iClarified (might need to add source: http://installer.iclarified.com), and install AppSupport Patch(1.14) to fix the area code issues in call display (I always store phone number with area code).
The following tutorial shows how to share the EDGE connection with a laptop. I will try it some day.
http://lifehacker.com/software/feature/use-your-iphones-internet-connection-on-your-laptop-327066.php
Monday, April 07, 2008
iPhone 8GB (1.1.4)
Today I got Apple iPhone 8GB (firmware 1.1.4) as a gift. Although I prefer to wait for the iPhone 3G version with official Hong Kong software, the 1.1.4 is still a prefect gift. Otherwise, the next alternative might be a MacBook or MacBook Pro.
Is it time to play or time to do programming on iPhone?
Is it time to play or time to do programming on iPhone?
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