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Default calendar in iOS

Yves Roumazeilles — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 10:10:07 +0000

When I recently replaced my ageing iPhone, I had to install some applications again and I encountered a little issue: Since I have several calendars all in the same phone (my office Outlook agenda, the personal calendar from Google, and some others), the phone insisted on creating all my new meetings in the wrong calendar.

I had to change the calendar used “by default” by the iOS Calendars application. Nothing really difficult except that it took me hours to find how to do it. Here is the right way:

Open the Settings applet
Select Mail, Contacts & Calendars
Scroll down to the Calendars category
Select Default Calendar
Choose the calendar you want to select

That’s all folks! But I advise you not to change it too often. And, this is better if you do not have too many calendars on the same screen (you’d easily be lost in the diversity).

Aluminium anodization

Yves Roumazeilles — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:03:31 +0000

Metal parts can be colored in the strangest ways. When we speak about aluminium, Apple is able to produce extraordinary hues on aluminium covers. As a matter of fact, they are using an anodization process which oxydizes the surface of the metal to create small pores to receive color pigmentation which will become nearly impossible to remove.

This video from Bill Hammack explains it all in details.

Lien YouTube

100 million Opera’s and one iPhone

Yves Roumazeilles — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:57:51 +0000

Opera just announced that, while they are not the larger player in the browser field, they cornered a nice piece of turf: 100 million users of Opera (about 50 millions on the Desktop, and a 50 million chunk on the mobile phone).

This impressive position in the mobile phone market is probably going to get a serious boost with the other announcement from Opera: Apple just approved the Opera free browser on iTunes for application on the iPhone. Up to now, the iPhone user had no other choice than Safari (from Apple), but it seems that the competition will now be open with Opera mini which is generally considered as the best mobile browser (at least on the Windows-based phones).

I started to test it as early as this morning on my own iPhone 3G-S and I can tell you: it feels great.

Installation and configuration in a whizzzz (near instantaneous (including the synchronization of bookmarks and Speed Dial with my Opera on PC Win7)
Overall feeling: Very fast browser, a little jumpy. Sometimes, it even feels more nervous than most iPhone applications, but the operating mode is still 100% consistent with the rest of the iPhone apps, so it feels right)
Screen surface well used and very good rendition of all the web sites I could rush to.

Highly recommended up to now.

The best mobile phone display

Yves Roumazeilles — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:00:11 +0000

All phones are not born equal. Some people seem to believe that the iPhone has a marvelous touch panel. But is this pure marketing BS? Is it Apple fans going overboard? MOTO, a small company supporting the development of high-tech gadgets and products, has created a (rather simple) test to check the precision and comfort of touch panels. It’s very easy: The tester will just draw simple lines on the screen and the software will display what the phone has recognized. Long lines drawn at an angle on the screen should display as such: Long lines.

Then, you apply that to a set of high-end phones: iPhone, HTC Droid Eris, Motorola Droid, Google Nexus One (the most prominent product on this mobile market). Of course, there is a difference if you press very lightly or if you push significantly on the screen with your finger.

Light finger touch

Light pressure

Medium pressure

All in all, it seems quite obvious that the iPhone has a strong advance in terms of sensitivity (light touch) while the HTC and Nexus One (HTC apparently designed this phone for Google) are quite good if you accept to press a little more.

So, Apple is not only marketing the iPhone through the roof; They also have a very good product and this explains (in part, at least) that the customers are so happy with the man-machine interface.

Video

DIY Touchscreen Analysis from MOTO Development Group on Vimeo.

Although MOTO usually uses sophisticated tools to test touch screen accuracy, we have also developed a simple technique anyone can use to evaluate the resolution and accuracy of a touchscreen device. All you need is a basic drawing program (download one if necessary), a steady hand, and a few straight lines drawn very slowly on the screen.

To read more, visit http://labs.moto.com/diy-touchscreen-analysis/

iPhone 3.0.1 corrects SMS vulnerability

Yves Roumazeilles — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:49:43 +0000

In the recent Black Hat conference, it has been revealed that the iPhone/iPod OS 3.0 had a severe vulnerability to hackers. A series of SMS messages could be used to get full access to your phone. Apple issued a revision of the OS that you can download from iTunes: rev 3.0.1.

TomTom on iPhone

Yves Roumazeilles — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:21:48 +0000

Did you see the presentation of the next generation of TomTom navigation software? It will arrive on the iPhone 3G/3G-s.

YouTube link

For me, this was reason enough to get my own iPhone 3G-s last Saturday.

Strong iPhone 3G-S sales

Yves Roumazeilles — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:49:15 +0000

Steve Jobs is rejoicing: It seems that Apple already sold more than 1 million iPhone 3G-S (the new Apple mobile phone) in the first 5 days after its launch.

36-hour autonomy for the iPhone

Yves Roumazeilles — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:40:56 +0000

or how to ensure the best possible battery autonomy of an iPhone: 36 hours of operation.

As a matter of fact, the iPhone battery seems to be its weak point as it seems. But Guy Kawasaki explains us that -for the best part- it comes from some options that eat a lot of power (WiFi, BlueTooth and geo-localisation ) and they should not stay in full/permanent operating mode.

Simple, obvious, but useful to repeat.