Hi_Rob,
I got the pic from Magic Window
Filtered it with picfx
Watermarked with Impression
And mixed it with Mixel.
Regards,
Tash
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Transcript for Episode 251
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With out a doubt this has to be the strangest iPhone story I have reported on - and felt it was worthy of the top story. It is about people in Pennsylvania specifically those in the 717 area code - well some of them have seen the AT&T logo replace with Dan - Now this is not causing any real issue - other than your network showing Dan on the phone instead of AT&T - and it is likely a prank by some disgruntled AT&T worker - or better yet maybe a testing issue that got lose in the wild. But in any case if you live in 717 area code - have an iPhone and it is on AT&T - well it may now be saying it is on Dan. No word on if Dan allows FaceTime calls over cellular for unlimited customers - just sayin.
iOS 6.1 beta 3 has been released upon the devs and those of us with access to a dev account. and my thoughts are it is working fine - just like beta 2. Some of the new things I have seen mentioned about beta 3 relate to iCloud setup, Passbook Sample Card being updated, Voice dial only feature added and reset advertising identifier was tweaked. Yeah exciting times. But this does mean we are getting closer to the launch of iOS 6.1 - probably with in the next 4 to 5 weeks.
iPhone Ship times dropped early in the week to 2 to 4 days and now tonight are sitting at in stock. That's right the iPhone 5 has finally reached in stock status. Which is probably why Apple also removed the limit on how many iPhone's each person could buy - so now - if you have one of those extended families feel free to buy them each an iPhone for the holidays.
The iPad Mini has had its ship times improve as well - It is now down to 1 week for deliver times. This is for all versions black or white - and regardless of the carrier - at least here in the US that is.
The big questions for those on wall street is of course - is the reduction in lead time for these products a result of slowing demanding or increasing supply. These are questions not likely answered until next quarter. I will say in my family this holiday season - I have 3 out or 4 and maybe 4 out of 4 of my nieces and nephews that are getting iPad Mini's - not from me - but from my Parents or from their own parents. Now maybe my family is skewed towards apple products - but not overly likely as they live over 1,200 miles away. It just seems those that had iPod touches for presents in the past - are now upgrading so to speak to the iPad Mini. Which makes a lot of sense given the price points and that the apps all cary over and then some.
Well on the last episode I reported on a rumor that T-Mobile would announce they are getting the iPhone at the investor conference and that is what actually happened this week. Kudos to Scott Craig at Merril lynch for nailing that call. Now what was not rumored is how T-mobile plans to do the offering which their CEO says will be a dramatically different experience. And what exactly does that mean - well it likely means T-mobile is not going to subsidize the iPhone - but rather reduce the monthly rate you pay. No word yet on exactly what that monthly rate will be. It is also reported that T-mobile will not force everyone to upfront pay the $649 to $849 that an iPhone will cost. They will also offer a finance plan for the iPhone. Of course the CEO also said all the reports on how this will be different are wrong. So when is T-mobile getting the iPhone - well sometime between Jan 1st 2013 and December 31st 2013. Beyond that no other info on when in 2013 it will be. But if you have been holding out at T-mobile waiting and waiting for the iPhone - at least now officially your wait if coming to an end.
Speaking of people waiting for the iPhone - there are over 600 Million of them on China Mobile that are doing so - and by the sounds of it - that wait is not going to be over soon enough. Yue Li President of China Mobile - the world's largest carrier said that they have been in Talks with Apple about the iPhone since 2009 - however both sides are still far apart on getting a deal agreed to. It is reported he said they were even close to an agreement last year - but that the deal fell through. So when is the iPhone coming to China Mobile - well on the surface it might seem like don't hold your breath - but usually in these things - when the CEO's say one thing it often means another. So maybe these comments are just a little public posturing prior to an announcement about a deal. Or maybe I am being overly optimistic.
Missed it by that much - The official word about the iPhone 5 in China that is - Apple put out the press release announcing that December 14th was the official date as had been suspected just a few hours after ep 250 went live. Apple also announced December 7th as the official date for when the iPad Mini and 4th gen iPad would be available in Main Land China as well. Initial reports are that lines for those devices were well not there - of course many of those reports did not mention that you really could not line up and needed to pre-reserve your iPad - so those reporting on no lines - they might want to look a little closer.
And Yes Virginia the iPhone 5 will be in 100 countries before Christmas. With Apple officially announcing that more than 50 new countries will be getting the iphone 5 this month. I was going to read the 50+ countries the iPhone 5 would be in - but you know Ken from Mac OS Ken did such a good job - I thought I would just use his clip here - with his permission of course.
MAC OS KEN CLIP.
iPhone 5 will be available in South Korea on Friday, December 7 and on Friday, December 14 in Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Ecuador, Grenada, Indonesia, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Kuwait, Macedonia, Malaysia, Moldova, Montenegro, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela. iPhone 5 will also be available on Friday, December 21 in Barbados, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Egypt, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St.Vincent & the Grenadines, Tunisia, Uganda and Vietnam.
Thanks ken for allowing the use of that and folks check out Mac OS Ken if you are interested in a very good Mac / Apple Podcast.
Rob,
I had the same problem with my iPhone 5 not wanting to automatically pair after upgrading from my iPhone 4s.
The way I found to fix it was to make the iPhone 5 the primary Bluetooth device on my car radio, now it pairs up automatically.
Thomas
Tuscaloosa AL
Rob, I've had the same problem of my phone dimming. Mine dims after I've used the "flashlight app.
I wonder if everyone who has had this issue had it after using the flashlight?
Cary in Placitas, NM.
Hi Rob,
About the brightness problem with the iPhone 4S/5.
Prefences>screen&brightness and switch the automathic off. This will solve the brightness problem.
regards,
Tim from the Netherlands.
Hi Tim - yes - turning off the automatic brightness option should be one way for those suffering from the dimming issue to go away - the down side is if you use it a lot both indoors and out - you are going to either have to keep manually changing the brightness or you will need to just turn it up so you can see it out doors and deal with the extra battery drain.
Hi Rob,
On the email Mass Delete. A Jailbreak App 'Mail Enhancer Pro' does this from individual email accounts and or the All Emails selection. This might help the visually impaired guy.
Regards,
Chris in London
For some of you over 40 crowd that does get an iPad mini - you may find the text a little hard to read - fear not there is a solution - well at least for many cases there is. If you go into the setting app and then General and then accessibility - you will see an option for Large text - tap it - and then select the font size you want from those displayed - I actually did this with my iPhone 4S . Once you do this - the text in apps such as mail, contacts, notes and messages will be easier to read - I definitely can see this being of help for those getting the iPod mini. Again - Settings - then general then accessibility and then large text.
Thanks to Jonathan for this next one - seems there were actually some features depricated in iTunes 11. Some of the features killed off are - 1. Cover Flow 2. The De-duper, 3. iTunes DJ, 4. Gapless playback editor, 5. Multiple Windows and 6 Quick volume control / song progress in mini player. Ok - really nothing I ever even used - hence why I did not notice they were missing when I played with iTunes 11 last week or this week for that mater. But when I said I thought all the features were still there - I really meant all the features that count i.e. - the ones I use.
Speaking of things killed off by Apple - lets talk about the Youtube app - and more specifically the Youtube app on the iPad - well as you know Google had a new Youtube app for the iPhone - and now they have a new Youtube app for the iPad. One thing I wish Youtube app would do - is add in parental filters / controls - if anyone know of any parental controls for youtube let me know. Right now I don't see anything. I would also really like to be able to block videos from the app / account from showing up. So yes there is a new iPad Youtube app - but no - it does not seem to be Kid friendly. Now some would say Youtube is not a place for kids - but I disagree - there are many good educational videos and interesting videos on there for kids - the vids of all the russian trucks is one of my sons favorites. Ok - I know I am rambling and ranting here - I just wish I could let my kids watch a couple of Youtube videos with out worrying about what they might stumble upon. Thanks by the way goes out to Netflix for making their app much more kid friendly.
I guess the real issue here comes back to google - Google's customer is not the user - it is the advertiser. oh well nice to dream. Maybe someone can figure out how to skin an app that overlays on youtube and filters out content for kids. Or maybe someone from the don't be evil company will use their 20% of their time and develop something like that. Yeah right.
Ok - lets get into something more likely - the iPhone 5S rumors that is. And there have been some rumors the past week and by rumors I mean photos of what is supposed to be the back plate for an iPhone 5S - Seems on the outside it looks exactly like an iPhone 5 - but on the inside it is slightly different. with screw hole locations moved a little. Initial speculation by those posting the photos and those reporting on said photos is that this must be for the iPhone 5S. But my initial thoughts were that rather it was for an iPhone 5 for China Mobile - given that the CEO of China Mobile stated they were still Far apart on negotiating - as I stated earlier that might just mean the opposite - and either way - I am sure Apple has a device designed that works on China Mobile - which due to their unique TD-SCDMA network - would likely require a new device just for China Mobile. Personally If I have to choose between this back plate being for the iPhone 5S already or for China Mobile - I vote China Mobile.
Switching gears Another day another consumer watch dog group testing Tablet battery life claims - this time it was a UK group called which? - which did the tests and guess what - well ok - not much guessing if I am talking about it - the iPads won their categories. There were two groups - 16 different over 8 inch tablets and 10 under 8 inch tablets were tested. In Which's tests the iPad 4th gen lasted 811 minutes. That is over 13 and half hours for those of you that don't know how to divide by 60. Which was much better than 2nd place finisher at 590 minutes which was the iPad 2. Third place went Sony Xperia at 534 minutes. The Surface RT from MS lasted 501 minutes. or more than 5 hours less than the iPad 4th gen. ouch. And by the way they considered the MS Surface RT in the good category. Double ouch.
In the under 8 inch category - Standing heads and shoulders above everyone else was the iPad mini at 781 minutes or a little over 13 hours again for those of you not able to divide by 60. The Kindle Fire HD came in 2nd at 591 minutes or more then 3 hours less than the iPad mini. And yes the Mini weighs less then and has a larger screen than the other devices in its category. Yeah can't wait to Jan conference call from Apple to hear how many tablets they sold. Should be a good quarter.
It is that time of the show to put on my Apple fan boy hat ok in this case really Apple fan boy boots. Seems all those reports about Malware on Android and it not being something to really worry about - might be well not exactly accurate. Seems some nefarious types released some malware and botnets out on the world These applications were targeting Android, Blackberry and Windows PC's. The attack used the Zeus Trojan with is a keystroke logger and looked for people doing online banking activities. And then they did some real world stealing of money - to the tune of over $47 million dollars from victims accounts. Bet they wish they had an iPhone and mac right now. The attacks started in Italy and spread quickly to Germany, Holland and Spain. The article says there is no easy way to prevent these attacks - which I disagree with - get an iOS device and get a mac Or if you don't want to give up your PC or android device - then just stop doing online banking. Just sayin.
There was an article in Ad Age titled App developers shun Microsofts surface - and well ok - that is not overly surprising - There just is no uptake yet in the device - but the one developer or should I say company I found most interesting when mentioned as not developing an app for the Surface was Facebook - I mean considering Microsoft invested 240 million dollars in Facebook back in 2007. Awkward.
Hi Rob,
I want to share a solution that I came up with yesterday to a problem that I suspect many people are having. When I open iTunes and there are iOS devices connected to the same Wi-Fi, like for instance an iPhone, iTunes will find them and connect to them. However, if the iPhone is disconnected for some reason, it seems to be impossible to make iTunes connect to that iPhone again. This happens to me all the time and I don't usually carry my lightning cable with me so there is no way to reconnect without restarting my computer. You would think there should be a "Search for iOS devices" button but there isn't. Well yesterday I decided to try something: I disconnected my iPhone from iTunes, quit iTunes and then turned off Wi-Fi. When I tuned it back on and opened iTunes, it immediately searched and found my iPhone. This works every time.
So the steps are:
1. Quit iTunes
2. Turn off computer WiFi
3. Turn on computer WiFi
4. Open iTunes
After a few seconds, iTunes will search and connect to your iOS devices like it would when you open it the "first" time after turning on or restarting your computer.
Best regards
Eddy P, Sweden
Eddy - thanks for that tip.
Hi Rob - Thought I'd send a review of Fantastical for iOS…
I had heard about this app on the desktop but didn't see why a parsing of text would really speed up my calendar entry. I use BusyCal on the Mac and that works great. But when 4 people I follow on Twitter all said "buy it" I couldn't resist. (It's on sale for $1.99 right now)
The first thing I found was that in calendar view you can quickly swipe over several months and add or view events - and when you want to get back to today, you just hit the "Month year" top banner and it flys back. Perfectly intuitive and fast! The text parsing takes some reading to learn about: If I type "Concert 7p /J" it will put an event called "Concert" at 7PM and it will put it on the calendar I am subscribed to that starts with J - no extra dialog boxes or anything. I haven't learned all the ways this can help me but it really speeds up calendar entry. And gets me around the annoying endless scrolling of trying to look a few months out using the stock iOS calculator.
-Dan
Rob - I just remembered a tip that I thought I'd share… I've got an 8GB iPod Touch that is pretty full. I've found that updating over the air requires a LOT more space than if you just pull the update down into iTunes and then update it from there. Somehow it never makes you clean up quite as much. Maybe this is obvious - but for those with limited space might need this tip. Also, I didn't follow your advice of shutting down all the apps and I had to boot it a few times before it worked.
Meanwhile another family member has a 32GB Touch and she doesn't shut anything down and just does the over the air update. I think with open space the over the air update works a LOT better.
-Dan
Rob,
What’s up with that user question about mail on his Mac?
I mean, the podcast is “today in IOS” and all.
Please, leave out Mac stuff; some of us truly care much less than not at all about the Mac.
Keep up the great work.
Kevin
Kevin - his question was about iCloud - and iCloud is part of the iOS world - that is what it was designed for to tie together iOS device and computers. So I felt that fit on this show - just as if someone would have asked about iCloud and Exchange - I would have put that out there.
Now if he asked about the App Dragons lair on the Mac - which causes me to flashback to the 80's - that would have been a different story. But as long as a question for the most part is related to iOS - I will do my best to answer and or put it out for others to answer on the show. I definitely have presented in the past Windows questions about iTunes and other iOS related sync questions.
Thanks to Tash for this next one which is about a kickstarter project - yup we are at that point in the show again. And this one is called 1 second everyday app. It has already passed its goal of 20k with over 36k raised and has until December 27th at 10:03 AM ET for you to fund it. So what is 1 second everyday app - it is an app that will make it easy for you to record 1 second of video each and every day of your life and have that in a single video stream. sure you can look at photos you took - but photos miss so much of what video could have like the sound of someones voice you met on a specific day or a dog barking or birds chirping. The only thing I am not sure about on this is what the heck you get for pledging - with out a doubt some of the most confusing pledging levels I have ever seen. For example the $10 pledge states quote Reward #1 + reward #2 + exclusive access to a private FB group where backers can share their 1sec experiences together yada yada yada. any way it is a neat app and since he reached his goal - might be best to just wait for the app to make it to iTunes app store. Just sayin. Or you could you know pledge $250 dollars and get rewards 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 and your choice of reward 5 and 7 and you get the app beta right now. Did I mention he hit his goal - yeah sometimes a neat idea can overcome confusing pledge levels.
Hi Rob,
here's the kind of news no Kickstarter backer likes to hear about,
Regards,
Ray N
And what Ray is talking about is the issue with the Geode Kickstarter project - if you remember back in the summer we had reports from listeners who had received their geodes and quickly found out the cards for them were dead and had major issues - and new cards were sent and those had issues as well. Seems like they may have run out of funds before they fixed all their issues and shipped all or even many of their orders. Now some are reporting and by some I mean many - is that the guys took the money and ran - but I don't think that is the case - as reported by listeners of the show earlier this year - episode 234 to be precise - end of the episode to be really precise - there were issues with the Geode. I just think this guy ran out of money trying to fix a major design flaw. I know I have had other emails come in to the show since then from those that purchased the geode that they received multiple cards with multiple issues - and well that sounds like lots of money down the drain for the geode people - not like someone skipping off to the bahamas with peoples money like many of the articles are saying. Now that all said - the folks at Geode do owe it to their customer to say what is going on - and it should not be a case where their building is boarded up and no one can reach them - as that does not look good. Remember folks when ordering from Kickstarter - some projects will go like this - not everything is easy to do - if it was - probably would not need kickstarter.
Hey speaking of things that crashed and burned a horrible death - Remember the Daily - yeah - well if so - consider yourself in the minority - because definitely not enough did remember and more importantly pay to subscribe to Rubert Murdochs iPad only news magazine to keep it afloat. And now comes word it has officially crashed and burned. From a news corp press released buried near the bottom was the following gem.
Quote News Corporation also announced that effective immediately, Jesse Angelo, the founding Editor-in-Chief of The Daily and long-time Executive Editor of The New York Post, will assume the role of Publisher of The New York Post. As part of a digital restructuring initiative, the company will cease standalone publication of The Daily iPad app on December 15, 2012, though the brand will live on in other channels. Technology and other assets from The Daily, including some staff, will be folded into The Post.
Mr. Murdoch said: quote From its launch, The Daily was a bold experiment in digital publishing and an amazing vehicle for innovation. Unfortunately, our experience was that we could not find a large enough audience quickly enough to convince us the business model was sustainable in the long-term. Therefore we will take the very best of what we have learned at The Daily and apply it to all our properties. Under the editorial leadership of Editor-in-Chief Col Allan and the business and digital leadership of Jesse, I know The New York Post will continue to grow and become stronger on the web, on mobile, and not least, the paper itself. I want to thank all of the journalists, digital and business professionals for the hard work they put into The Daily. unquote unquote.
See where mr. murdoch made a mistake was not getting me on board as a reporter - I did offer up my services - instead they went with highly paid journalists the types with degrees in journalism and you see where that got them. Ok just kidding - I love journalism majors. This ultimately was just a failed business model - which was to offer up general interest content for a premium price and hope people will pay for your general interest content vs consuming all the free general interest content with similar or close to similar levels of quality. In the end - Cnn.com and usatoday.com and huffintonpost.com won out for eyeballs.
The FTC put a little smack down on Google for their attempts to band apple products for getting into the US because of use of Standards Essential Patents. Now I am not a big fan of lawsuits by Apple to put it mildly - but at least when apple does sue over patent violations it is not per standards essential patents. The FTC in a brief filed this week stated that a district court was right to dismiss a request by Google for an injunction against sales of iPhones, and iPads in the US. And they went on to smack down google for these actions and said such actions can quote harm consumers unquote. Apple did not respond to a requests for comments - but Google did have the following audio comments per this ruling.
Hello! Love the show over the last several years!
I bit at the $99 iPhone 5 offer from AT&T to replace my iPhone 4S. The cable issue is not too much fun but my issue is with the otterbox defender. I have used this model since the 3GS. This one fits great, but the home button is Very hard to press and must use the tip of your finger. Has anyone else had this problem and any solutions? I tried the new griffin case but think its a bit too bulky. Thank you!
Sent from my iPhone
Daniel W
Hi Rob!
Just a thought, just wondering out loud... Reading about Apple's Maps division shakeup etc. They get the maps data from TomTom, right? So was that the wrong maps vendor to partner with, is TomTom that bad? Or is TomTom not sending Apple its best data?
-Phil from Green Bay
Hi Phil - Yes. ok - well I am not really sure if they partnered with Garmon if things would be any different. But I do expect we will see improvements soon on the Maps side - but sadly that improvement can not get hear soon enough and since it is more of an on going improvement - a little bit better here - and little better there and so on - it is not like one day a switch is flipped and everyone goes wow the Apple Maps app is now better than Google maps. So sadly even when the day gets here when Apple maps is better - it is likely going to be a day most people don't even realized past. At this point the perception is Apple Maps sucks - that is the general perception in the tech blogs and main stream media and what I hear from everyday people - it will take a lot and I mean a lot of work from Apple to change that perception and sadly getting maps up to snuff is likely going to be much easier than changing the perception around apple maps. If Eddie que can pull this one off - that will be an amazing feet.
Hey Rob
I was checking the amount of space I had left on my iPhone 5 16GB. I don't have that many things on it but I realized I had left than 200MB left. After checking for hours to see what was going on, I decided to unsubscribe to some shared photostream albums that people shared with me and saw that the amount of space went up. I thought that the shared photostream was in the cloud. I guess I would need to unsubscribe to a lot more to save space.
Love the show
AJ
Hi Rob -
I am looking for a way to stream video to my Apple TV, but to simultaneously have the audio on my iPhone, or even iPad. What I am trying to do is watch video on my Apple TV (such as Netflix streaming), while using my earbuds or headset on my iOS device. My wife goes to bed earlier than I do, and I want to be able to turn the sound up for me while keeping it quiet for her. Is there an app that can make this happen, or a setting in AirPlay that I'm missing? I know there is optical audio out on the Apple TV, but I don't want to have to hook this up through a stereo receiver.
I've enjoyed your podcast since the 3g days. Thanks for all you do.
Best regards,
Mark J
Little Rock, AR
Hi Rob,
Is there an app that you can view the apps that your children are using. Like Facebook or view text messaging from an 3rd party app? Thanks
Rob
Hey Rob, love the show. Long time listener. Question about jailbreak. I am currently jailbroken on 5.1.1 on a 4S. I believe I have found evidence that it is safe to update my Mac to 10.8.2 (currently 10.8.1) but I'm not sure. I'd like to update my Mac and iTunes but I don't want to lose my ability to restore to 5.1.1 if I need to. Any info would be great. Thanks. You rock!
Daniel
Hi Daniel in the past upgrading versions of iTunes and other versions could cause an issue with jailbreaking - but not usually an issue with a current jailbreak - however if your jailbreak is corrupted it could become a problem if you needed to re-jailbreak. However with the most recent jailbreaks - I don't believe there have been those constraints. If anyone knows of any issues in updating to OS 10.8.2 or updating to iTunes 11 with regards to jailbreaking a iOS 5.1.1 device - please let us know. For now Daniel I would say wait on updating.
Hi Rob,
True or false? Your thoughts?
Steve from AZ
And steve was / is referring to a link he sent me titled DreamJB: Hacker Announces iOS 6.0.1 Untethered Jailbreak for 22 December - and this is on the ubber popular blog - Mobilespie.com - yeah never heard of it either. But that does not make it not true - just makes it suspect - plus the fact that this jailbreak team with quote around team consists of just one person - yeah that also makes it look suspicious. So for now I would say don't get to excited about this - and if and when this person offers up a solution - keeps an a good arms length away from this until others have tested it out. I definitely would not be upgrading to iOS 6 from your current jailbreak to try it out. That is one thing I can say for sure. More to come on this one after December 22nd.
Do you love robots - and no not in some japanese fetish type of way - but love reading about robots and what they can do or can't do - well there is a new app from the IEEE - which is the organization for Electrical engineers - I used to be a member a long time ago in another part of my life - but I digress - any way they have a 5 dollar app that goes over 100 different robots. You can search for ieee robot or the actual name of the app which is Robots for iPad and this weekend only the app is reduced to $0.99. So if you like all robots that are not androids - this could be a fun app for you and your kids. Oh and it is a big app at 430 MB.
A correction from the last show - I mentioned the App Slyde - spelled s l y d e - and said to search for said app using said word - well for some reason on iTunes s l y d e by itself does not find the slyde show app - you need to search for slyde first word and show second word at the same time to find the app or to look for the link for it in the show notes. And for those that did not listen on the last show or have short term memory issues like me - Slyde show app is an app for the iPad for showing real time flicker photo slide shows.
Hi Rob,
I do not need GPS directional services that often but I have been using Apple Map navigation to get a sense of how it works and how accurate it may or may not be. Last night, I ran directions from my workplace to Dick's Sporting Goods. It routed me to the doorstep of rival chain Sports Authority. I used the feature to report problems with maps and was able to place the map pin at the correct location. Presumably, if there is enough feedback, Apple will make the correction. That got me to thinking--what if a devious business owner decided to game the system by directing traffic away from a competitor. He or she could use their IOS devices to suggest map changes and also solicit conspirators to do the same. Just a thought. Just my nature. I should have been a spy.
Thanks for everything.
Matt S
Winston Salem NC
I just upgraded to a Verizon iPhone 5, switching from an AT&T iPhone 4. I used to be able to block my caller I'd from the settings>phone>show my caller id. On the iPhone 5 I no longer see this option.
Is this something new with 5, or with Verizon, or just my phone.
Sorry if I missed the answer on the show.
Thanks.
John, From my iPhone
Hey Rob, when adding an event to the iOS calendars, is there a reason you can't click on a time slot to bring up a new event screen for that exact time? It seems so logical when you're adding a new event, to just click on the time of day to add an event. Do you know?
Aric B
Hi Aric - actually you can add a calendar item by selecting the day mode at the bottom and then tap and hold on the time slot you want to add to. But you can't just tap - you need to tap and hold on the time slot you want and you need to be in the day mode.
Hi Rob,
I just got through listening to episode number 249. Thank you for responding to my email question, however, I believe, in your response, you interpreted my question to refer to the App Store, rather than the Apple Store. I hope I didn't lose out on a chance to get your input as to the question at hand. I've researched this online and found it's a frequently asked question that never gets answered. You are about the only source i know who might be able to shed some light on why there is no iPAD version of the Apple Store app available for download. Love your show, and happy holidays to you and your family.
Regards,
Steve San Pedro CA
Hi Steve sorry for mis-understanding you original question - which I know understand to be why there is not an iPad optimized app for the Apple Store App. Not the App store app. And I guess the only reason is they are working on it still. Can't imagine why it would have any priority it is only an app that helps you buy more apple products - kind of a low priority app - probably best to add some features to the compass app or the newsstand app first. tongue firmly planted in cheek - in case the sarcasm did not shine through. But if anyone from apple that listens would like to drop us an anonymous email letting us know when or if an iPad optimized Apple store app is coming for the iPad - we would appreciate it.
There is a long interview in Businessweek with Tim Cook - and I have a link to it in the show notes - look for the one titled - Tim Cook's Freshman year. If you are a Tim cook fan or just Tim cook curious - then probably best if you read it yourself. Some items are best not summarized by me - I think this article falls in that category. Tim also was making the rounds on TV as well.
A quick reminder I will be speaking at blogworld new media expo in Las Vegas - which will be going on from Jan 6th to the 8th - I will be speaking about how to podcast 100% from an iPad and my speech is Monday the 7th at 10:30 AM Las Vegas time. We at Libsyn will also have a booth at the show - booth 517 - please stop by and say hi - and get your picture taken with me or if you are libsyn customer - with the libsyn team. If you want to save 20% off a New media pass - use promo code Walch20 - that is w a l c h 2 0 - that is c h - not s h. Walch20. Hope to see some of you at the show. I am also speaking on Tuesday the 8th again at 10:30 AM LV time - and that one is a panel about podcast distribution. But other than those times I will be at the Libsyn booth. Hope to see you there. Hey and I also got my press passes for CES - I will be over at CES on Wednesday the 9th.