As I’ve written here on numerous occasions I’m a huge fan of both Jott and Remember the Milk. Both work remarkably well, are relatively easy to set up and use, and are easy on the wallet — with Jott being free and the Pro version of Remember the Milk (needed for optimal iPhone integration) costing a grand total of $25. Regardless of the technology you use I highly recommend both. Where both Jott and Remember the Milk shine however is in their usefulness with an iPhone and the way in which they interact with each other to create and manage tasks.
While setting them up individually, and helping them play nicely with each other, is relatively straightforward, it does take a few steps. To turn "easy" into "even easier"–This three part "how to" will provide a visual walk-through of how to get things going.
The first part, "Setting up Jott as your "on the go notetaker" is posted below.
The second part, "Setting up a Remember the Milk account and leveraging its excellent iPhone interface" will be posted later in the week.
And the third part, "Integrating Jott and Remember the Milk for use with iPhone for task creation and management will follow shortly thereafter.
From the Lego impossible to jailbreak … to the iPhone/Touch super simple to jailbreak. Honestly folks it sounds like it doesn’t get any easier than this. Erica over at TUAW and the AppTapp page itself is mentioning a new one-touch (since you technically don’t click on a iPhone or a Touch) jailbreak solution for firmware 1.1.1. The solution uses the previously mentioned TIFF exploit to do everything you need to jailbreak all by hitting a single website and with no need for a PC or a MAC. Obviously there’s not much sense in linking the site (look up) and since I don’t want you to accidentally jailbreak if you aren’t expecting it. I’ve not tried this one out myself, but maybe I’ll do a reset sometime this week and see how it goes as this seems a lot cleaner than the method I used!
A crew of hackers (including hdm/metasploit, rezn, dinopio, drudge, kroo, pumpkin, davidc, dunham, and NerveGas) have introduced a one-touch instant jailbreak for both iPhone and iPod touch. The jailbreak opens your iPhone for full disk access and installs Installer.app so you can add pretty much any third party application you like.
Sure you can use a service such as the recently iPhone-optimized Google Docs, but if you are in an area without wifi or edge, or your iPhone is in flight-mode, you are out of luck. On this week’s edition of The Apple Phone Show Andy Ihnatko, author of the upcoming bookiPhone Fully Loaded, gives an excellent tip. He suggests converting documents into jpegs and then syncing them to the iPhone as you would any other photo.
On a Mac he suggests using Automator to print pdfs and then convert them to jpegs. On a PC running Windows he suggests using a screen capture program such a SnagIt. It is easy and it works.
I tried it with three different documents:
a two-page web page
a three-page handwritten note from Windows Journal
a twenty-page users manual
I printed each document to my desktop as a pdf and then converted them to jpegs using Adobe Acrobat. I put all the jpegs in a new folder and then synced them to my iPhone as pictures.
Results
The two page web document was easy to access but the print was too small and the resolution too low.
The Windows Journal note was easy to access and read.
The twenty page users manual was legible but since each pages was saved as a different file, it was awkward to open them in the right sequence, making the process frustrating at best.
Pros
Simple (but cumbersome) conversion process
Free so long as you already own Adobe Acrobat (or another program to accomplish the conversion)
Works (I finally have a way to make my “must have” files resident on the iPhone.)
Cons
Cumbersome (but simple) conversion process
Hard to read if the document’s print is small.
Complicated for large documents since each page requires a file unto itself.
Conclusion
The “pdf to jpeg conversion” works but is, at best, a “good enough” workaround. I am hoping that there is a better solution offered when Apple opens the platform to developers in February.
Very quick tip, this one. If you’re just trying to use Dock’s screenshot utility for the first time, and finding that it appears to be doing its thing, but screenshots are failing to show up in the Camera Roll for you, here’s a quick fix that may well work for you.
If your Camera Roll is empty (as mine was the first time I tried to use Screenshot) then you need to just take one pic with your camera to populate the Camera Roll. For some reason, Screenshot does not want to work until there is at least one item in the Camere Roll. Once there is at least one pic there, you should find that your Screenshot captures show up as desired.
Tinman reminded me of this one when I was trying to resolve an issue with Dock failing to uninstall correctly over the weekend.
As for the annoying occasional screencaps where the utility has a lag before clearing its own screensplash off the screen while capturing it (so you end up with the whole splashscreen effect or just a silly looking flare effect on the right-hand side), I don’t know any clever workarounds for that as yet - apart from just try again until it gets quicker and more responsive. It always does; just takes a few tries sometimes.
iPhone Atlas has a good post up outlining a potential fix if your computer is failing to recognize your iPhone (or iPod Touch). The fix involves a restart of the Apple Mobile Device service on Windows PCs, or a removal and reinstall of these components on a Mac.
An Apple Support troubleshooting assistant document suggests the same fix on the Mac OSX side.
It is interesting that the (potential) Windows fix is much less of a pain - a simple service restart vs. a reinstall of iTunes.
Full platform-specific steps for trying to resolve this issue after the break …
Thinking of trying out a prepaid data plan for your iPhone? Like the idea of a quick trip to Flickr costing you $24? Doesn’t sound too great to me.
Luckily, Erica Sadun at TUAW has given a prepaid data plan a good once-over. She offers a nice list of typical data usage and browsing activities, and shows the specific cost that resulted for each.
One of her (not surprising) conclusions is that "the iPhone doesn’t play well with limited data plans" - but she still offers some good tips on the best ways to avoid getting stung and manage your pre-paid plan so that you don’t get hit with crazy ‘overage’ type rates and charges if you need to use this type of plan.
Check out Erica’s post to see how that dog picture on Flickr ended up costing her $24 and to get those tips that’ll help if you’re considering a pre-paid plan:
Well, like everyone else who jumped in head first to the iPhone 3rd party app scene - one of the first things I did (because I’m a windows user) was install OpenSSH. If you’ve noticed the battery life slipping a little bit since adding some third party apps - chances are OpenSSH might be part of the problem.
So you’ve just finished hacking your iPhone and installed every application you could find, but what the heck happened to your battery life? In the process of installing various things, you’ve likely installed OpenSSH, the tool which allows remote login to your iPhone from a computer. The problem is, SSH requires that a listener called SSHD constantly runs, waiting for a remote login attempt. This in turn drains your battery. The solution is to disable SSHD when you don’t need it.
Hit the link below for the rest of the (super simple) how-to….
So far, Twinkle is very nice to use, and has some unique, fun features. It is missing some more basic ones that are found, for instance, in the Hahlo web app Twitter client, which it would be nice to see added, but I have to say this is already my favorite iPhone Twitter app. — Patrick’s Twinkle review
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