There are not technical reasons, only Apple marketing policies, but the iPhone is not allowed to run multiple applications simultaneously , by design only the phone, mail, ipod, and maybe some other Apple application can run in the backgroud.
This is of course not the desired behavior for many cases…
Multitasking you can, for example:
- Have a messaging service available at any time.
- Have an IP phone (e.g. skype, gizmo5) available all time.
- Pause a game, go to write an email, read the news, and go back to the game…etc.
- etc
So this is what’s needed to enable Multitasking in your iPhone:
- In order to enable it, the iPhone must be jailbroken, if it’s not, there’s a jailbreak how to here.
- From Cydia (or Icy), search and install the backgrounder app. This will provide the availability to run applications in the background.
- From Cydia (or Icy), search and install the application kirikae. This will provide a task manager that will let you switch between open applications and close them. You can also add favorite apps to open faster.
- Have Fun
Usually, you want to use your phone as a modem to provide internet access to your laptop, but there are somecases were you want the opposite, e.g. I’m in a foreing country, with no wifi internet, just wired access, how do I get my iPhone into the internet via WiFi and avoiding the muche expensive data roamig bucks? This is what I did:
I’m Using Ubuntu Linux and an iPhone.
-Connect the laptop to the wired internet.
-Click on the NetworkManager Applet
-Select “Create New Wireless Network…”
-Give a Name (e.g. MyOwnWiFi)
-If you want give a security option (e.g. WEP) and provide a password.
-Connect the iPhone to the new Wirless Network (no changes required, this shuld work in standard DHCP mode)
Ready to go.
Today I shared my lap-top during a conference, to performa a presentation of a Power Point file that was on a an USB, something happened maybe the usb was pulled out improperly and now everytime I open OpenOffice it tries to recover the file, but since it does not exists, it just keep trying for the next time.
So, if you ever have this problem, just remove (or rename) this file:
~/.openoffice.org/3/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/Recovery.xcu
inVisibleSHIELD-Apple iPhone 3G
I have tried several cases for my iPhone 3G, and I never felt satisfied, they were big, and make the device look ugly….
But now I found inVisibleSHIELD, this is really worthy, It provides protection against scratches all over the phone and the device is still looking as it was designed to be.
My device was already all scratched, and the apple mirror was dull. Well since this new layer was added, it shines again, really!
You can buy it on-line here:
inVisibleSHIELD-Apple iPhone 3G
[only for jailbroken devices]
There is a new application called iPhoneVM that adds Virtual Memory (a swap file) to your jailbroken iphone.
I don’t know the origin or license of that application, but I have tested it on the 3G and… it works!
I’m running 10 applications right now and I still have 24Mb of free memory (I have backgrounder of course).
The file is rapidly being hosted in several places, try this google search for the deb file
Download the deb to your iphone and install it via command line either from MobileTerminal or via ssh session logged in as root with the command:
dpkg -i iPhoneVM.deb
PS: It’s also available in the beyouriphone repo.
UPDATE: I have experienced a lag, seems like swapping system takes some time…
Unless you have a bunch of files with macros, you don’t really need Microsoft Office (even if you have them you can port them), so:
- Go to Add/Remove Software in your Control Panel and Remove Microsoft Office.
- Go to http://www.openoffice.org download and install it (this will provide Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access replacements, including support for Formulas and Drawings)
- Go to http://www.mozillamessaging.com download thunderbird and install it (this will provide an OutLook replacement)
- Got to https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/ and get the Lightnin Add-on, in order to incorporate calendaring functions.
Welcome to the Free World.
Today I needed to restart the GNOME panel, this is all what it takes:
Open the run application box (Alt+F2) or a console and type:
killall gnome-panel
That’s it.
We are connecting 6 branches, setting up a VPN, the company that sold the hardware, gave us the appliances already configured.
But once we begin to install the appliances had some troubles, specially with the firewall functions and we were hitting against the wall
We ask for some advise, and things are very clear now.
TELMEX made some modifications to it’s Thompson modems that doesn’t allow them to work properly with dynamic DNS services…
Today I saw again a problem with a college not being able to use his email outlook because the max size of the PST file has been reached, it’s incredible how often this happens to many people, I read that some versions of Outlook have corrected this problem… I have seen situations where it’s not possible even to delete messages,…weird.
The preoblem comes from two design errors, as far as I can tell:
-The PST have a maximum size of 2Gb
-Removing emails from the emails does not realy empty the file, this is related to the file structure.
The solution to solve this problems are:
-Remove as much as you can, and wait some time.
-Create a new Personal Folder, and assign it to be the new incoming folder.
The real solution, stop using Outlook, move to a better program, like thunderbird, or even better, stop using Windows, switch to Linux.
For some unknown reason the images in the iphone, stored as png files do not have a standard format and are not viewable by the general image viewers.
In order to be viewable by linux or windows, they need to be normalized, Axel E. Brzostowski has written a python script that normalize the files, making the readable by any imaging program.
Here is a zip file with the script: iPIN – iPhone PNG Images Normalizer v1.0 it sholud work on any system with python installed (I have personaly only tested in linux)
