Car use

Apple iPhone iPod Touch - Car use

I have a 2nd Generation iPod Touch that my wife and I use to listen to audio books while we are making our weekly 100 mile (one way) drive. I also 'have' a Kensington Liquid Aux holder/stand/charger. I like the fact that it charges the iPod while it is playing. Last week the part that fits into the power port broke - the tip came off and it tripped a fuse in the car.

I got the tip out, so there is no damage. I was able to re-assemble the item but I don't trust the thing. If I were to make a permanent fix I would glue the plastic seam the separated back and hope that works. Like I said, I don't trust is.

On the trip back I plugged the aux cord in and it worked fine. It did not charge the iPod though. I plugged in the charger cord I have through the working power port, but the sound cut off as soon as I did. I can use an arrangement like this when using house power, but not a car.

I am not fond of putting the weight of the iPod int the power port - I was afraid of damaging the port, but it looks like I damaged the device instead.

Does anybody know of a device that will let me charge and play the iPod at the same time? There is something from Griffin that works like the Liquid Aux but it uses FM and it still mounts in the power port. I attempted to use the car's USB port, but that did not work well. Is there something that uses a suction mount that allows me to charge and play at the same time.

iPhone Touch
You can find a bunch here:
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipod/ipod_accessories/car_audio?mco=M\
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Call Kensington, they will probably replace it for you. They have replaced two trackball devices for me over the last 12 years, no questions asked. And once was just because the silver paint came off. I was just trying to give them feed back ask to the quality of their paint choice.

Warranty on 3G

Apple iPhone - Warranty on 3G

I have a new iphone4 and gave my 3G to my daughter. The 3G is just about 2 years old.

The 3G now only receives some of the texts sent to it. When I put the 3G sim card in another phone all the old texts suddenly arrive on the other phone so the sim appears fine.

The 3G appears to be defective to me. I shall do a full restore and also update to 4.2 (it's currently on 4.1).

But my question is if I still have issues is the phone still covered by Apple at all? It's out of contract (finished this summer). Is it worth seeing Apple for a fix or do I just use it as a chunky iPod touch?

iPhone Warranty
unless you specifically purchased an additional warranty, your warranty has expired at least a year ago.

as far as not getting your text messages,it seems to be a common problem with the 3g. A quick google of the problem was pretty interesting. Several said the following worked

1. Press the home button (the big circle below the screen) and the sleep wake button (the button on top of the iPhone) simultaneously.

2. Hold both buttons simultaneously for a few seconds, Ignore the "Slide to power off" and keep holding

3. The iPhone should now shutdown automatically - (fade to black)

4. Turn the iPhone back on by hitting the sleep/wake button.

5. You should now see the Apple logo, your iPhone is restarting and thus booting up.

6. You have completed a hard reset successfully.

FaceTime users

Apple iPhone Video Chat - Any FaceTime users out there?

Looking to test out Apples FaceTime feature with some people... Let me know :)

iPhone FaceTime
To do Facetime with a stranger would require that you give them your phone number. Do you really want to do that. It does not sound safe to me.

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Actually since Facetime launched on the iPod Touch and the beta for Macs/OS X you can use e-mail addresses (Apple / iTunes ID) or a phone #.

http://www.apple.com/mac/facetime/

In fact if you have a mac and an iPhone 4 (or iPod Touch 4) or an iPhone 4 and an iPod Touch 4 you can "FaceTime" yourself to test and play with it...

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I totally agree, I'm not a fan of giving out my number for every one to see.... I did some research and found a site that claims to connect facetime users safely called "facetimebff". Funny name right? Anyway it seems legit so I signed up and made a profile, looks like they have a decent amount of users so far, me thinks they must be pretty new. So if you guys wanna join and contact me through there then we can test out facetime!

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Call Apple to test out Facetime. They created a number just for people like you that want to test it out with complete strangers.

The number is (888) 322-3846

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I just bought a MacBook. Does facetime work on it?

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If you install the beta -

http://www.apple.com/mac/facetime/

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Can anyone tell me what is facetime ?

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Video chat.

Push calender and reminders

Apple iPhone iPod Touch - Looking for good push calender and reminders...

Does a really good calender that pushes reminders and adds as a nudnik exist for the iphone? My kids bought me an ipod touch last year and I have been researching all kinds of calenders.

Most of them have synched with Google calender.

I have found none of them impressive.

I need something to push me to make phone calls and run errands. It has to be easy to set up and easy to reset reminders. Preferably at the push of a button. Does such a thing exist for iphone?

Are these calenders not working properly for me because I am using an ipod touch?

At the moment, I am ashamed to say I have gone back to using the little calender with its reminders on my cheap Nokia phone. At least it keeps reminding me to do things... drives my fellow workers nuts when they hear it ringing... But at least I get things done in the end.

Is there a solution for this? Will I be able to test run it on my ipod touch before I run out and buy that iphone that I have been hankering for,..

iPhone Touch
What the heck is a nudnik?

I doubt you can get push notification on an iPod. You might be able to get email reminders when you are on wifi.

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Would push notification work on the iphone?

A nudnik is someone that pesters you until you do what they want...

I have a very hectic lifestyle. The normal Apple calender with reminders just doesn't seem to do it for me... I really wanted to test it on the ipod touch before I bought...

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The built in calendar synced with Google Calendar works fine and gives "push" or pop up notifications, I use it all day every day. It definitely takes 3-4 steps to reset the reminder to a different time but is very easy to do - use it on both iPhone and iPad WiFi.

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Thought she said iPod Touch, as long as there was a data connection at some point and the Google Calendar synced to the phone the reminders pop up just as if they were "pushed' they are stored on the phone when the events are synced. My iPad doesn't have data connection when I am in the car, etc and the events still pop up the same as they do on my iPhone.

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I find that the google reminders don't always pop up... Don't know what the problem is...

It's just not persistent enough...

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Apple patents iMac touch screen

Apple iPhone - Apple patents iMac touch screen

Is this real or the rumor mill?

iPhone Touch
Apple patents a lot of technology and ideas that they come up with. They don't USE all these things they have patents for, however.

That said, I suspect there will eventually be an iMac with touch-screen technology.

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Very interesting, wouldn't be the first but I'm sure (if it happens) it'll be innovative and 1 of a kind.

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Innovative? With Apple, definitely. One of a kind? Not so much, HP has had touch screen all in one machines for a couple years now and "Gateway" is starting to - never huge sellers and somewhat overpriced:

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If you do it right and works as Apple say it would then it would be great.

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Ya. I thought it would be cool to have those touch screen monitor. But its so useless. You sit about two feet away and whenever you want to touch the screen, your hand hovers. How long can you have your hand hover like that?

Good to show off though.

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I've been waiting for such news and hope it is in the works, as I would like to update an old G4 laptop to a better product. This would be great!

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I can't lie, I'd most likely buy one .....