1. I didn’t realize I had to use and switch between different playlists, rather than just dragging and dropping the stuff I want to listen to (in contrast to my iPod shuffle gen 2). See Apple support doc here.

2. I couldn’t use the controls fully. You can hold the voiceover button to change playlist, oh what a n00b mistake not to know of. Tutorial is found here.

Hope this helps some poor fool out there!

If 3G connection is dead and you only have GPRS, you want to use Google reader or other simple and/or text based pages, I warmly recommend Opera mini. If, on the other hand you require a smooth experience and more sofisticated features, Safari may be a more pleasant experience. When it comes to zooming for example, it’s faster with Opera mini as you only need one click to zoom. The downside is that you won’t get the smooth effect and control that comes with the “pinch zoom” that goes with Safari.

Let’s not forget the most important feature in a browser; speed. Some tests show that Safari is faster on some occasions, but that Opera mini gains on page load time, which I personally think is the most important assuming that it is a simple page primarily text-based.  All in all, it is free after all, so I think Opera mini is worth a shot, don’t you?

We don’t really like Flash, do we? Security issues, CPU eating monster, crash-generating nightmare. Did you try running Youtube in HTML5? It works fine. And the best part is that you don’t need to install anything extra to make it work. You won’t even notice it’s there. Like it should be.

As in the article linked in the beginning mentions that Flash doesn’t work well on Mac OS X, I would like to ask: Where does it work well? I have used it on Windows on various computers and I rarely find it a positive experience (except in the few cases when the connection is very speedy, the computer includes good hardware, the content in the website is made by professionals as linked in this post and all various other factors that needs fulfilling. But it is a bit too much to ask of each and every person, isn’t it?). Every time I reboot, I am reminded of yet another bug fix due to security issues.

Which smartphone is the most sold one? Does it support Flash? No.

Does Flash run smoothly and speedy on any (smart)phone?

A little background info. I previously worked for the company inventing Flash. I supported people that had issues with Adobe Flash player in addition to other software. No wonder Adobe allocated web support only to Flash player, considering the volumes of trouble we would have had otherwise. I had enough headache caused by this constantly insufficient tool.

Before the era of Adobe, I used to produce content with Flash. Flash is fun. Creative people use Flash, I found. They create beautiful stuff that takes minutes to load (unless you reside in Sweden, where they have up to 1gb broadband connection). When wanting to go back, tapping backspace will not do the trick. In short, Flash is not very practical.

I find Flash impractical, beautiful, demanding and out of date. When I Googled these words, the first link that came up was related to Internet Explorer 6. Therefore I would like to encourage all Flash promoters to speak up, convert me. Please.

The templates I found prior to this were almost exclusively either for project work or for teams. Please feel free to use and rate the template here.

No need anymore, Photoshop.com is now available for the iPhone!

Cropping
Cropping is made smart, taking good advantage of the touchscreen, placing a grid over the picture with possibility to move or change size of the cropped area. Rotate and flip are also available as sub categories.

Effects
Some effects I could live without, some are cool. The application is not technically as advanced as Adobe’s heavy desktop software which I notice most in this area where I feel some effects could have been replaced, such as the “rainbow”. It takes a long time to use compared to others and is not very useful. Being a free application, it is still more than I expected fom Adobe in the first place, however.

Exposure and other manual settings
By dragging your fingertip from left to right you are cleverly using the “slider” that is not really visible in this mobile version other than displaying the % or other value that are being applied upon release. Before dragging your finger over the screen, you start off with a suggested value that many times is quite alright for optimization to begin with.

Conclusion
As a former employee of Adobe, one could say that I would know what to expect. This time I got the opposite, admittedly. I was waiting an expensive, extensive app with questionable interface and user friendliness. I ended up with an easy, free and userfriendly although limited application, but still in the field of adding something new to the market. It makes me glad to say Adobe“Adobe is still up for surprices.

What interests me more though, is the Apple tablet. Washington post writes that it will be a touchscreen device and look like a big iPhone. See a good picture example here.

Are you also one of the people that think Wacom feels a little foreign to use and takes the edge off the artistic experience when creating art with Adobes Photoshop for instance? I believe this tablet will be rewarding for many graphical designers to mention one group of people, but hopefully for the rest of us it will be a step for mankind as well to be able to touch the screen and create without any middle hands. (Apple as we know it have a good experience with cutting of middle hands.) The cost is claimed to be between $700 to $900.

Other rumors do say that the tablet will not be released until 2010. Let’s hope they’re wrong.

Hopefully Steve Jobs is back with us to make all dreams come true in September (?)

Issue:

When trying to connect iPhone 3G (software updated to English version 3.0) to a (Swedish) wireless network on a Netgear router with SSID including a special character (in this case “ä”), then iPhone 3G does not find/detect the network.

Analysis:

Tried turn wifi on/off. Tried switching between airplane mode on/off. Tried rebooting iPhone 3G. Tried changing wifi signal between “b and g”/”b”/”g”. Tried broadcast the network. Tried removing the WPA encryption. Tried connecting a HP laptop to the troublesome network, which worked fine. Tried connect to another wireless network in the same area which worked fine with the iPhone 3G.

Outcome:

When changing SSID, removing the special character “ä”, then iPhone 3G finds the network also with WPA encryption and connects/works excellent.

I have. Many times.

Is it just me, did I miss something, or is iPhone the first and only phone unable to navigate through the menues and applications during a call?

Please let me know. Also, comment about the worst side effects you had; can you beat mine?

• Well. I tried out the 3.0 software on my iPhone 3G. While many people found the battery time even worse, especially on 3Gs, I have to say I haven’t noticed. Did not use spotlight yet as no need to, but overall it runs smoother. Copy/paste function was used quite frequently indeed.
• Rumors has it that Facebook is about to release a new version for 3.0 software version.
• Now iPhone 3GS users can also jailbreak by using Purplera1n. The iPhone devteam choose not to release their version of jailbreak for various reasons that can be found here.
• Next up. Porn was available in Appstore the other day. Did anyone notice (use) before they censored it?
• Talking about censorship, did you know that Apple computers are currently free from censorship in China?