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back to the future - iphone 3G downgraded
Submitted by peter on Tue, 06/07/2010 - 08:42.
The story so far...
In a previous post (poor performance of iphone 3G under OS4.0), I described how the latest iphone OS4.0 software upgrade effectively killed my iphone 3G.
To cut to the chase, I have now reloaded the previous OS (3.1.3) into the phone, and things are working nicely again.
poor performance from iphone 3G under OS4.0
Submitted by peter on Thu, 24/06/2010 - 21:56.Just uploaded the OS4.0 upgrade today to my iphone 3G.
Turns out to be a bad move. The new OS is extremely sluggish on the 3G platform.
tomtom satnav app: killed
With the tomtom satnav app - the response time from keypress to activity is way too long. (and in case you were wondering, yes, I upgraded the tomtom app to the 4.0-compatible version)
car stereo: killed
The sluggishness introduced by the new OS has also caused issues with the car stereo - an Alpine unit which connects directly to the iphone and controls it via the unit's control panel.
I am now looking for a way to downgrade this software back to the 3.x version that I was running previously.
Wikis are so last-century
Submitted by peter on Sun, 02/11/2008 - 20:30.
Many organizations these days use wikis to allow people to collaborate on projects, and documentation. Problem is, the out-of-the-box wiki works, just, for assembling pages of unrelated items, like an encylopedia. For anything more structured however, it falls well short.
No flash!
Submitted by peter on Tue, 08/07/2008 - 09:51.
In the animated movie "the Incredibles" there is a wonderful scene where Edna (clothing designer for the superheroes) explains to Mr Incredible all of the reasons why he shouldn’t have a cape on his next super-suit. At the end, she sums it all up nicely: No Cape!
Is your website sleepy?
Submitted by peter on Tue, 01/07/2008 - 12:11.
Your website shouldn't just sit around - it needs to do something!
In the past couple of years, the web has changed. Today, we don't think about websites as being collections of "pages" any more - we look at websites as collections of content. That content can be articles, blog posts, events, audio, video - just about anything.


