Aug

2

iPhone screenshots after App Store

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I thought it would be cool to share my current iPhone apps now that it has been a few weeks since the App Store has been available.

Here are the screenshots (click on each one for full view of screen):



Apps in order of appearance:

Twitteriffic, BeeJive (technically not an app but I still prefer to use this over the AIM app), WordPress, Remote, Facebook, Google, Monkey Ball, Loopt, Jolt, Kyte (have not used this yet - only installed it because I thought it would allow live streaming to web), Yelp, Bank of America, Labyrinth LE, Tap Tap, NYTimes, Pandora, Crash Kart, Salesforce, AP Mobile News, iBeer (bought this by accident - definitely not worth the $3), iPint, Urbanspoon, Restaurants, Shazam, Light, Twinkle, vSNAX, Currency.

So far, I have been installing new apps a couple times a week as they become available or I hear about them. I’d love to see links to your own screenshots and let me know if you have any questions about the apps I currently have installed.

To take a screenshot on your iPhone, simply hold down the Home button then simultaneously hit the Power button and the screen will flash. The screenshot is now in your image library.

Update: Since this post, I have rearranged my icons for better organization and grouped similar apps on the same screen (main iPhone apps, games, social tools, etc).

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Jul

31

The application “Facebook” cannot be opened solution

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I recently kept getting this error when trying to launch the facebook iPhone application. I did some research and found that I was not alone.

It seems like the only solution to get it working again is to simply remove the facebook app completely from iTunes and the iPhone then reinstalling it from the App Store. I tried to restart the iPhone and that did nothing but you should try that first. When you go to download the app again, you may be prompted with this dialog box:

Just click OK and once it’s done downloaded, sync the iPhone and your done. It should now work and you will have the latest version. I have also been having several issues with downloading app updates and getting them to sync properly once they are downloaded. Hopefully these bugs will be fixed with the next iPhone software update.

I can also imagine this simple approach will work if you are getting a similar error message with other applications.

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Oct

27

Leopard missing hard drive bug

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Many people (including myself) may have panicked a little when Leopard did not recognize their internal hard drive. It will, however, locate an external hard drive if you have one connected. There should be no reason to use disk utility or resort to a clean install if this happens to you.

After doing some research on the Apple support forums, I found a simple suggestion and solution in this discussion: just wait. It took my computer a few minutes before my hard drive appeared grayed out and then a minute later I was able to select it. Other people have reported it took up to 15 minutes for their hard drive to appear. It should not make any difference whether you have Disk Utility open or not.

Forum member ‘fancontrol’ explains what is most likely happening:

When Leopard checks for available installation volumes it does a quick check to find out if the file system is dirty/clean. If the file system is dirty than Leopard does a full file system-check on that volume. This process is running in the background and makes the volume disappear. The file system check can take up to 20 minutes depending on the size, speed and number of files on your drive. Once the file system check is finished, the volume should reappear. As it turns out the file system check on Leopard works different than on Tiger.

Apple should really have included a progress bar when the check is running (rather than doing it in the background) and letting the user know what is going on.

I definitely agree, a progress bar would have been smart. My total install took over an hour and went very smooth otherwise. I did the default upgrade and everything was exactly as I had left it in Tiger which was very comforting.

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