Notes from 2008-12-28
- Heavy thunderstorms two days after Christmas…weird! #
Apple has released the latest iPhone software update, version 2.2.
Among other things, this update adds several new Maps enhancements including Google Street View and sharing location via email and improves several key areas including email formatting, voicemail sound quality, and Safari Web browser performance.
During installation you are presented with the following “Important Information” for this release:
iPhone 2.2 Software Update
This update contains many bug fixes and improvements, including the following:
• Enhancements to Maps
- Google Street View
- public transit and walking directions
- display address of dropped pins
- share location via email
• Enhancements to Mail
- resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching
of email
- improved formatting of wide HTML email
• Improved stability and performance of Safari
• Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes
application (over Wi-Fi and cellular network)
• Decrease in call set-up failures and call drops
• Improved sound quality of visual voicemail messages
• Pressing the Home button from any Home screen takes
you to the first Home screen
• Preference to turn on/off auto-correction in Keyboard
SettingsProducts compatible with this software update:
• iPhone
• iPhone 3GFor feature descriptions and complete instructions, see the user guide for your iPhone at:
http://support.apple.com/manuals/iphoneFor more information about iPhone, go to:
http://www.apple.com/iphoneTo troubleshoot your iPhone, or to view additional support information go to:
http://www.apple.com/support/iphoneFor information on the security content of this update, please visit this website:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
Tulsa TechFest is this week, Thursday and Friday October 9th and 10th.
Two cans of food or two dollars gets you in each day (donated to charities in either case). There are a ton of interesting speakers and topics planned (click here to access the complete agenda).
I’m speaking on the Synthesys Platform and especially its Java API in a talk entitled “Hacking the Meaning in Human Communication” on Thursday afternoon at 2:30PM in the Java track.
The abstract for my talk is below.
Most text is not structured to help you find critical concepts and connections. Important knowledge is often buried deep in the text in mounds of irrelevant data. And unfortunately, keyword search, topical filtering, and tagging technologies don’t solve this problem because they require you to know what you’re searching for in advance.
The Synthesys Platform, however, helps you find unexpected, critical knowledge hidden in your data. Synthesys takes unstructured text as input, uses entity extraction with strong semantic relationship analysis to operate on the input, and then outputs abstracted knowledge objects. You can then use these objects (people, places, connections, etc.) to understand and analyze what’s important.
The Synthesys Platform is available both as a hosted service exposed via REST and a downloadable engine with SDK and Java API. This session introduces the Synthesys Platform including its core engine and SDK, then dives into using the APIs to build synthetic applications.
Watch my blog and Twitter stream (search for ‘tulsatechfest’) for live updates from the conference. Hope to see you there!
Missed something or want to revisit the first US Presidential debate held last week?
Watch it (possibly again) via Hulu. (Weird aside: When I launched it in Hulu, it was “brought to me with limited commercial interruption by Hungry-Man“…bizarro world!):
SNL had their own take on the debate, of course:

What a day for a 500th post to my blog. Given all that’s going on in Washington, I think I’ll keep it short and to the point:
500! Whoo hoo! Now back to worrying about economic doom and gloom and all of that good stuff…
Apple has released the latest iPhone software update, version 2.1. Among other things, this update addresses many of the iPhone 3G call drop and performance issues reported by users in the last couple of months.
During installation you are presented with the following “Important Information” for this release:
iPhone 2.1 Software Update
iPhone version 2.1 contains many bug fixes and improvements, including the following:
• decrease in call set-up failures and call drops
• significantly improved battery life for most users
• dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
• improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
• faster installation of 3rd party applications
• fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes if you have lots of 3rd party applications
• improved performance in text messaging
• faster loading and searching of contacts
• improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
• repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages
• option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
• Genius playlist creationFor feature descriptions and complete instructions, see the user guide for your iPhone at:
http://www.apple.com/support/manuals/iphoneFor more information about iPhone, go to:
http://www.apple.com/iphoneTo troubleshoot your iPhone, or to view additional support information go to:
http://www.apple.com/support/iphoneFor information on the security content of this update, please visit this website:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
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