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I’ve got an Apple TV and two iTunes libraries on my local network. Remote (on my iPhone) connects fine to my main iTunes library but gives this error message when connecting to either the aTV or the secondary library:
Obviously it’s not a router issue since all the devices in question (iMac, MacBook, and aTV) are connected to the same Airport Extreme. So…what’s the deal?
Apparently there was an update to the Wordpress app for the iPhone today and it finally works with my blog again!!! For some reason the previous version would crash every time I tried to acces this blog. Not any more!
This is somehow not a compilation of my various Tweets and Plurks but rather an independent compendium of what happened today.
That is all. Well maybe a video too…
I’m really more interested in trying this out than anything. When Apple finally announced official 3rd party app support, my initial idea of a “killer app” was mobile blogging software. Now that Wordpress for the iPhone is out, my wish has been realized (I know TypePad was first but I’m a Wordpress guy) and here I am blogging from work. Will this newfound ability increase my output? Doubtful. I’ve vowed to be more prolific too many times to count yet this blog still chugs along at one post a month. Still, the idea of slowly crafting a post via iPhone throughout the day when a spare moment presents itself is an attractive proposition. Heck, it sure beats wasting time on Twinkle which seems to be slowly morphing into some sort of Web 2.0 dating service (see attached screen grab – “female playmate” – enough said). And so concludes my first truly mobile post. I hope there will be many more.
Note: After posting originally with Wordpress on my iPhone, I went back in with ecto to center the image (for some reason I hate left-aligned images) and also to add a few links to the body of the post. Despite some minor post-production, I think posting from my iPhone is powerful indeed and will—hopefully—drive me to be more active.
Now that I’ve got 1.1.4 jailbroken on my iPhone with not one but two package managers with which to obtain 3rd-party apps, I may not care what Apple announces on Thursday. For now, here’s some shots of my home screens…after the jump. Continue reading »
You asked, I answer. Normally I don’t flash-embed on the main page (or the RSS feed) but in this case I will. It’s a video blog post after all.
Liveblog contained after the jump. Enjoy!
Know someone with a new iPod or iPhone? Apple’s newly released iTunes Tutorials may come in handy. Heck, I might even learn something.
Found this on Vimeo, my video sharing site of choice. Great spoof, plus he’s wearing a Daring Fireball t-shirt.
There comes a time when a man must learn to admit when he’s done wrong. And my iPhone is seriously messed up. Almost every time I use the device—whether I’m checking e-mail, using a Web 2.0 app in Safari, or listening to a podcast—I experience some sort of freezing and/or crashing. I’m not sure if this is due to my re-jailbreaking a few weeks back or something I’ve installed since then but I definitely have some sort of issue going on. Typically the problem starts with a consistent crash. When attempting to read e-mail, MobileMail will load and will seem to function normally for a few seconds then suddenly crash. After four or five repetitions of this, the phone while kick back out to the “Slide to unlock…” screen. After unlocking the offending app seems to work all right—for a while. Occasionally the entire OS will freeze necessitating a two-finger reboot (home and sleep/wake button together). At this point I feel my only solution is to restore and re-jailbreak. Again. While liveblogging the whole process. The live updates are after the jump. |
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