LiewCF.com: “iPhone OS 4: What Everybody Ought to Know About” plus 2 more

LiewCF.com: “iPhone OS 4: What Everybody Ought to Know About” plus 2 more

iPhone OS 4: What Everybody Ought to Know About

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 04:04 PM PDT

Apple iPhone OS 4

Apple has announced the iPhone OS 4, the newest mobile operating system for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. The iPhone OS 4 has over 100 new user features and 1500 new APIs for developers.

What should you know about iPhone OS 4? Here are the features highlights of iPhone OS 4:

Multitasking, sort of

Yes, finally, iPhone OS supports multitasking! The feature allows you to run multiple apps at the same time and easily switch among them.

However, in order to reduce consumption of system resources, the background processes are limited to 7 classes: music, VOIP (read: Skype), GPS, Push notification, Local notification, and Fast app switching.

Don’t expect the multitasking works like you have on your computer.

Folders

Now you can group iPhone apps together into a folder. Example: put all game apps into a game folder. Folder name is auto generated but you can rename it. You can also change the wallpaper of the iPhone folder.

Better Mail app

Mail for iPhone now use unified inbox so that you can have multiple email accounts delivered into one inbox. Thread messages is integrated.Open email attachments in third-party app. Also, iPhone OS 4 now support multiple Exchange accounts.

iBooks

Similar to the iBooks on iPad but a smaller version. Support wireless page and notes syncing.

Game Center

Steve Jobs described it as “social gaming network”. Find your friends and challenge them to game. Compare high scores on leaderboard and so on.

Enterprise

Better encryption and data protection. Support wireless app distribution for internal apps and support for SSL VPN.

iAd

iPhone OS 4 has build in mobile advertising. The in-app ad is interactive, could include video, games, etc. All ads based on HTML5 (no flash).

Other features

iPhone OS 4 allows you to set wallpaper for lock screen and background, just like iPad. Added 5x digital zoom to camera. When taking video, you can tap to focus. Also, support of bluetooth keyboard.

When will iPhone OS 4 be available?

iPhone OS 4 will be available for iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch (3rd Generation) in late June 2010.

iPhone 3G and iPod Touch (2nd generation) not fully supported, such as no multitasking. iPhone-no-3G is not supported at all.

iPad will get iPhone OS 4 in late September 2010.

iPhone OS 4 upgrade pricing hasn’t reveal. iPhone might get free upgrade like previous versions.

My two cents

iPhone OS 4 is a killer-wannabe!

  • iPhone will support Multitasking. The advantages of other smartphone OS over iPhone OS is lesser.
  • iBooks on iPhones & iPad is threatening Amazon.com’s Kindle.
  • The Game Center is a challenge to PlayStation Network and Xbox Live.
  • The enterprise features is a threat to Research in Motion (BlackBerry), which is popular among business users.
  • iAd, is the Apple’s answer to Google’s mobile advertising.

Wow, and wow!

HOW TO: Use Gmail for iPad on Your Computer

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 08:03 PM PDT

Gmail for iPad (tablet computer)

As soon as Apple iPad available, Google announced a new Gmail interface specially designed for tablet computers (read: iPad).

The Gmail for iPad is a 2-pane design. The left is the list of your emails with excerpt; the right is the email message body. It looks similar to Apple’s official Mail app for iPad.

Though Gmail for tablet is not designed for your desktop or notebook. You can edit your web browser’s “user agent” info to fool Gmail to think that you are using an iPad.

The Apple iPad safari’s user agent string is:
Mozilla/5.0(iPad; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B314 Safari/531.21.10

FireFox users: Install User Agent Switcher Firefox extension to modify the user agent string.

Google Chrome users: There’s a User-Agent Switcher for Chrome extension but I can’t get it to work on Mac. If you are using Chrome on Windows, you can edit the Google Chrome shortcut and add the following string to the end of Target field:

-user-agent=”Mozilla/5.0(iPad; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B314 Safari/531.21.10″

Done. You are good to go. Visit http://gmail.com/ for your Gmail for Tablet.

Let us know if you have gotten it work and how do you like the 2-pane Gmail user interface.

New WordPress T-shirt to be Available in 2010

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 04:09 PM PDT

red wordpress tee. model: liewcf

I often received inquiries about the WordPress tee I wore when I was attending some IT events. They have reminded me that it has been a long time since WordPress Shop printing new WordPress tee.

The last print was the Olive Green t-shirt in 2008. The first WordPress tee (red) was printed in 2007. No new WordPress tee in 2009.

Any WordPress t-shirt in 2010? I dropped a email to WordPress Shop and they replied!

Hi,

I think this will happen a bit later in the year. Sorry for the delay.
Kind Regards
Alex Walker

Yes! They will print WordPress tee 2010! Would you like to order one?