- Kentucky’s excellent elk recovery and conservation efforts including hunting http://tinyurl.com/4z7u77 #
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…
- Watching US financial bailout Senate hearing and hoping those that made the very bad decisions don’t get off scott free #
- Electrons finally sorted out the 2001 Anthrax mail attacks http://tinyurl.com/4b8blq #
- Decide for yourself just what Obama would do to our 2nd Amendment if he had the votes in Congress http://tinyurl.com/4lpxp6 #
- Obama: Destruction of our Bill of Rights that You Can Believe In (TM) #
- Obama’s gun ban politics are clear http://tinyurl.com/4y42dp #
- Top Clinton fund-raiser backs McCain http://tinyurl.com/4wq26b #
- Obama would be the most anti-2nd Amendment President in US history http://gunbanobama.com/ #
- John Robb is worth reading http://tinyurl.com/5tuby5 and http://tinyurl.com/4qby9u #
- Web 2.0 Expo NYC presentation slides http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/schedule/proceedings #
- Gigaom “Mobilize” conference live stream http://events.gigaom.com/mobilize/08/Watch #
- Inside the iPhone App Store acceptance process http://tinyurl.com/6l9tzu #
- How Apple can really take advantage of iPhone location data http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/09/apple-location-chance-iphone-gps.html #
- “Bad Finance 101 – A Programmer’s Guide” http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/09/why-programmers-should-be-watc.html #
- Charles Scwhab on how the financial crisis may affect you http://tinyurl.com/4tf9yn #
- Wired examines Better Place’s plan to electrify auto transport http://tinyurl.com/65t8mg #
- Congrats to Russell Beattie on his new Nokia position
http://tinyurl.com/6y5p48 #
- Ended up with 4in of rain from Hurricane Ike, now sunny and cool #
- Exploring the many and wondrous iPhone soc-net apps #
- Looking for a way to automatically propagate tweets to my LinkedIn status… #
- Jazzed about attending and speaking at TechFest http://techfests.com/Tulsa/2008/default.aspx #
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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