1.1.3

Phone different Podcast 11

By Dieter Bohn, Wednesday, Feb 6, 2008 a 9:17 am

The Phone different Podcast is back, baby! We had a long, unplanned hiatus due to technical and spiritual difficulties. Maybe not so much with the spiritual, but you get my point.

In this episode, Mike and I talk about the Macworld experience and the new products that were announced there. We also spend a bit of time on the 1.1.3 iPhone update and some other industry news. Listen in!

Ask PD: Fixing Email in 1.1.3

By Dieter Bohn, Monday, Feb 4, 2008 a 11:29 am

Have a question about your iPhone? Email us with "Ask PD" in the subject line!

Patrick writes in:

I updated to 1.1.3 and love it but now I am being asked for my email [...] all the time when I click on mail and it isn’t storing it.. also it isn’t storing the voicemail password.. can you help me out please so I don’t have to go back to 1.1.2

Eep. Looks like you're one of the many to experience weirdness with 1.1.3, my sincere condolences.

iPhone v1.1.3 Round up

By Dieter Bohn, Tuesday, Jan 29, 2008 a 10:54 am

Add Phone different to your Home Screen!

By Dieter Bohn, Wednesday, Jan 23, 2008 a 6:01 pm

Thanks to this excellent how-to and a surprisingly little time with Photoshop, we now have our very own custom Home Screen Icon for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. If you're here with your version 1.1.3 iPhone (or iPod Touch with the $20 upgrade), just click that "plus button" at the bottom and add us to your Home Screen. The iPhone's bookmark tool is even smart enough to grab the first two words from our title - "iPhone News," which seems like a pretty good indication of what you'll find when you tappy tappy that little icon.

Firmware 1.1.3 Unbricks iPhones, is also Jailbroken

By Dieter Bohn, Monday, Jan 21, 2008 a 7:53 am

Here's some good 1.1.3 news, two pieces of it. Piece one is that 1.1.3 looks to be pretty comprehensive in how much of the firmware is re-written. Which is to say that it seems to overwrite some of the nasty bits that could have been corrupted with a bad AnySIM unlock. If you have an iPhone that's inoperative, it's worth a shot to apply the 1.1.3 patch. Sure, you'll be stuck back on AT&T again, but at least the thing will be functional:

1.1.3 Surprises: Bad and Good

By Dieter Bohn, Thursday, Jan 17, 2008 a 11:19 am

Love Native Apps? Don't even try the 1.1.3 Update

By Dieter Bohn, Wednesday, Jan 16, 2008 a 2:38 pm

Apple Patent Confirms 1.1.3 Jiggly Icon Moving Scheme

By Dieter Bohn, Wednesday, Jan 2, 2008 a 2:52 pm

Big ups to hrmpf.com for remembering a certain Apple patent: "Portable Electronic Device with Interface Reconfiguration Mode." Basically it shows a portable device clearly letting you know you're in "reconfiguration" mode by way of jiggly icons. While I personally don't much like the jigglies, I will admit that, as rener and archie say, it does make it unmistakable that you're in the "move stuff around" mode.