My iPhone 4 Death Grip
July 14th, 2010
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Has Apple gone too far making the iPhone simple?
Just installed iPhone OS 4.0 beta that was released to developers yesterday. It seems to be a great release and delivers on a lot of feature requests. One of the biggest new features was multi-tasking support. Multi-tasking is the ability to switch from one application to another without closing the current application. Basically when you switch apps they are kept running in the background or frozen until you return to them where you can pick up where you left off.
To activate this new multitasking feature in iPhone OS 4, one has to double click the physical Home button (the round button with a icon of a square) to bring up the new app switcher. Now up until now double clicking the home button brought up the iPod controls when music was playing. In this new release the popup iPod controls are nowhere to be found. Here are some other Home button combos:
- Click Home once (from lock screen) – Wake iPod
- Double click Home (from lock screen) – Bring up iPod controls
- Click Home once (from dashboard) – Go to first icon page / search
- Double click Home (from dashboard) – Display the new multi-tasking app switcher
- Hold Home – Voice Control
- Hold Home and press Lock – Take screenshot
- Hold Home and Hold Lock – Restart phone
Goodness knows where the accessibility options have gone which used to be triple click Home.
Now is it me or is by having just two hardware soft buttons (i.e. function determined by software) a bit to much on the sparse side? The fact that there are this many key combinations is slightly worrying. Can anyone remember all of these? It also does not help that Apple changes this combinations in each iPhone OS release.
Maybe it’s time that the next iPhone device has a few extra buttons?
iPhone v3 Rumor Round Up
June 4th, 2009
With WWDC 2009 just around the corner more and more bits of information are circling the web regarding a possible announcement for a new iPhone hardware revision. The folks at tgrblog.com have created this wonderful iPhone rumor round up graphic for you to digest. If these rumors are true I will be first in the queue at the Apple store to buy one.
iPhone Rumor Round Up (Click to enlarge)
The worst thing about Macs?
October 11th, 2007
I found a very interesting article today at ExtremeTech about what the author thinks is the worst thing about Macs. I have to agree on most of the points in this article, but I don’t want to spoil it so if you have five minutes go read it yourself.
I’ve been going through my backup of my old blog and restoring all my old posts. When I came to this post it made me chuckle as when I originally wrote this article I agreed with most of what it says. Now that I have owned my own Mac for the last couple of years I can safely say that I love Mac’s and do believe they are better than PC’s for most things.
See me recent post: Mac’s are better than PC’s
Cameron – 06/08/2009