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Posting from my iPhone

Just a quick post here. If you have an iPhone, and have updated to the 2.0 software, be sure to checkout the new Wordpress application. It’s a lovely little app for blogging on the go.
It supports wordpress.com and self hosted domains and will store your drafts locally if you don’t have time to finish them.
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HOWTO: Install WiFi Certificates on your iPhone

So I now work where they employ the use of certificates for wifi security, and I want to use the wifi on my iPhone since the data connection sucks. But how?
Well with iPhone 2.0 software, there is support for certificates. But how do you get it on your phone?
Well…
1. Go to http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/iphoneconfigurationutility10formacosx.html and download the iPhone [...]

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My iPhone - One Month In

Its th 16th of December and I’ve had my iPhone for a month. So what are my thoughts so far?
Well overall I’m really pleased. I can easily say the main features I’ve used are Mail and Safari . Since Gmail opened up IMAP, I’ve got my gmail accounts set up in Mail.app so I get [...]

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Cost of an iPhone

So I’ve been using my iPhone for about a week now. Its lovely. But this is about the cost.I was watching a video on YouTube about the iPhone making a deal about the overall cost. So I wanted to address the issues raised.
Contract Length - O2 require an 18 month contract. OH MY GOD! 18 [...]

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My iPhone Review

Ok. Its sunday lunchtime. I’m currently doing a custom install of MYSQL and its time to start my review.I’ve been using my iPhone on and off for about 2 days now. So lets go through things.
Phone
I’ve only had some brief use of the actual phone call aspect, but from that I can say that its [...]

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Live blogging from the Apple Store - Birmingham

I arrived at 10.15, had a drink from Starbucks and went to wait. It wasn’t until about 12pm that the first people started the queue, and then I made my move. I’m now sitting here, in 4th place on a cold hard floor waiting for my iPhone.There’s 7 people so far (12.44pm) and its bound [...]

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iPhone Launch Day ideas

So I’ve booked off the 9th November to go get my iPhone. Rumour has it that it will be available at 6pm, like the US release. And what I’m wondering is what to do during the day. I’ll have my laptop there (and power cable, very important) and I was wondering about live blogging my [...]

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Leo Laporte on the iPhone

Leo Laporte on the iPhone

Originally uploaded by domster83.

I was just watching unwired from Channel Flip, Wil Harris’ latest venture and spotted a certain tech-guy’s name in his contacts. Thats gotta be a nice thing to show off

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iPhone, Edge, and Fort Augustus

I managed to enjoy a week off last week as I spent the time in a lovely log cabin in Fort Augustus, Scotland [see Flickr]. While there, I managed to miss most of the excitement around the Apple event in London on tuesday. And the big news was the iPhone is coming to O2.
Now I’ve [...]

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