If you’ve got problems with Safari not remembering your username and password on sites like Google and Facebook (forcing you to log in repeatedly), there are a number of different ways you can fix the issue. Some require doing manual terminal work on the device, others guide you through the process using SSH. Here’s one I stumbled upon through iPhoneFreakz that fixed my cookies not being saved on-device. Just add the installer source: http://repo.ispazio.net. Then look for iRemember in Installer. After that start to enjoy surfing again without entering your bloody login every single time you turn your phone on :)
As if I wasn’t a bit too dependant on Jott already now they have gone and added a superb new feature- Jott Feeds.
While visiting Jott’s site this morning I stumbled across their newest offering- Jott Feeds- and decided to try it.
Jott Feeds is the next logical step in the evolution of RSS feeds and it pretty much turns the Jott experience upside down.
Instead of speaking to Jott and having its voice recognition service transcribe your words for you or someone else to read, Jott Feeds takes the written word and speaks it back to you on demand.
On one level it is similar to PimpMyNews (which Patrick blogged about a few months back) but with two huge differences.
This is a very quick and simple tip, but one that we get asked an awful lot, so it seemed worth covering.
Topic Description: Sources are web-based repositories for iPhone applications, used by the leading application installer program for the iPhone, Installer.app (or just Installer). Some iPhone application developers choose to have their apps distributed via one of the existing well-known sources (e.g. BigBoss, MMi), and others choose to host their own repository.
In order to install some of the latest apps for the iPhone, you’ll often find you need to add a source so that the desired application shows up in Installer for you.
Just a small tip here, and one that may already be obvious to some, but helpful to others hopefully. This is a quick way to get rid of a persistent ‘Spinning wheel of wait’ in the top status bar (shown in the screencap above) that you sometimes get when a particular iPhone application can’t quite catch up with what you’re trying to do with it.
For example, this morning I was emailing a number of iPhone photos to myself, but after mailing the one shown above the spinning wheel in the top status bar just kept spinning, and the Photos app was not yet offering me the choice to email the next photo - even though I’d already heard the ’swoosh’ sound that confirmed the previous one had been sent. Closing Photos and re-opening made no difference - the wheel continued to spin, and the email option continued to be greyed out.
The solution? A simple one. I just force-quit the Photos application, and when I re-opened it, it had got with the program and was ready to email another pic.
To force-quit an app, you just hold down the Home button for 8-10 seconds until you are dropped back down to the Home screen.
The force-quit method is useful in a number of situations where an individual program seems to have got its knickers in a twist - and should help clear the spinning wheel that doesn’t want to stop spinning in most cases …
In yesterday’s post we looked briefly at using the iPhone’s camera to capture text images and, using Evernote, make them easily searchable. It works incredibly well.
But what if we want to capture text and then USE that text elsewhere? The fact is, while it requires some additional software it is just as simple.
In this case we need OCR (optical character recognition) software. I use Readiris and find it to be quick and accurate.
The museum/center is a must-see. It is a powerful place and an important reminder that freedom and equality must never be taken for granted. It quickly became clear that there was far too much information for me to take in, let alone remember. Moreover, I knew that I would want to refer back to it at a later date for both personal and pedagogic reasons.
I could have taken out a pen and paper but that would have been so… 20th Century. Instead, I pulled out my iPhone and snapped picture after picture of both the images I saw and the text describing those images. In all I took 80 pictures. (Ahh, the beauty of digital photography.)
When I got home I imported the pictures into iPhoto and labeled them as “Freedom Center Pictures”. That way I knew I could refer back to them with ease.
80 pictures is a whole lot of pictures, though.
I realized that if I wanted to refer back to one specific description it could take a while to find the right picture. For instance, what if I remembered that one of the pictures was accompanied by text describing Thomas Jefferson’s involvement in this dark period in our nation’s history? Sure I could look through each of the 80 pictures until I found the one I was looking for, but that would be slow and would have required me to read all the text I photographed.
It turns out there is a much easier way to both store and access text images photographed with the iPhone. It is not only fast and convenient, but it reveals that, when combined with the right software, the iPhone is an excellent research tool.
How To Add Summerboard Themes to the iPhone Manually
Topic Description: Summerboard is currently the most popular program for applying themes (different wallpaper, icons, dock, and status bar designs typically) to a jailbroken iPhone. It is installed via the Installer program on the iPhone itself. In Installer, you can also find dozens of Summerboard themes for use with the program, to help customize and add some style to your phone.
However, you will also quite often see a theme you just like a lot that is not available on Installer; one that is just listed for download on a theme creator’s or iPhone forum site. This brief guide will walk you through the simple process of adding a theme manually to your iPhone when you need to.
Requirements & Assumptions:
A jailbroken iPhone.
Knowledge of how to make an SSH connection to your iPhone from your computer. See our quick guide HERE if you need help with this.
There are slightly different requirements in terms of where to place theme folders and files depending on which iPhone firmware version you are running. For the purposes of this guide, we’ll assume iPhone’s current 1.1.4 firmware is in use.
We never seem to get round to doing enough of these How-To sort of posts, but I’m trying to knock out a few on topics that seem to come up frequently on iPhone forums and discussions - such as …
How To Connect to Your iPhone Via SSH
Topic Description: SSH (secure shell) is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged over a secure channel, in this case between a computer and your iPhone. If you have a jailbroken iPhone, an SSH connection over a wireless network is often the best way to browse your iPhone, carry out simple file transfer back and forth to the iPhone, or manually install applications to it. This short guide provides a rundown of how to establish an SSH connection to your iPhone.
Alright - the image isn’t exactly showing the issue I had but - here’s roughly what I’m talking about. See the dots in the month view? Imagine if you had them everyday for months, no matter if you had an appointment that day or not. Sucks right?
Well, you folks did’t know it yet - but I just bought a Blackbook the other day, and finally got around to syncing my iPhone with it. Turns out (and I don’t know who to blame on this one) but somehow between iCal, Google Calendar, and Spanning Sync all my "All Day" appointments had become all day starting on the correct day and ending on the previous day. So basically every all day entry I had in my calendar was an "illiegal" entry.
So the problem is: You have dots on every day of the month, no matter if you have an appointment or not.
The solution is painful: You need to go back until when the dots start appearing - for me it was September of 2007 - and check every calendar entry for appointments that have an end time BEFORE the start time. For example:
Soccer Practice; Starts 3/23/08 5:00pm; Ends 3/22/08 4:00pm. The events CANNOT end before they start.
In my case I ended up changing about 50 calendar entries. Thankfully it didn’t take too long once I figured out what had happened.
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If you’ve got problems with Safari not remembering your username and password on sites like Google and Facebook (forcing you to log in repeatedly), there are a number of different ways you can fix the issue. Some require doing manual terminal work on the device, others guide you through the process using SSH. Here’s one I stumbled upon through iPhoneFreakz that fixed my cookies not being saved on-device. Just add the installer source: http://repo.ispazio.net. Then look for iRemember in Installer. After that start to enjoy surfing again without entering your bloody login every single time you turn your phone on :) 
