Apple iPhone and related items (cont.)

[Will2403]

Any good iphone friendly p&g deals out there at the moment. o2 have pretty much cut us off, orange's dolphin tariff allows a max of 100mb per month.. havent checked the other 3 yet as i doubt there is anything better than o2's crappy simplicity tariff.

apart from turning off push notifications and not using safari so much what else can i do to cut down my usage? can you prevent safari from loading images?

according to my phone i've received 15.5GB in a year and sent 870mb. I think its a year, although the phone did crash back to factory settings back in february. i got this message from them a few weeks ago...

O2: Your data usage is exceptionally high and is affecting the service for other customers. This is against our excessive use policy. To comply with our policy you need to dramatically & immediately reduce your usage. One way to do this is ...by using your home broadband Wi-Fi or public Wi-Fi hotspots such as BT Openzone and The Cloud. Don't forget you get unlimited Wi-Fi on all our data tariffs. Please go to o2.co.uk/datainfo for more information. If you do not immediately moderate your usage we will have to stop you from using data on your mobile.

 

[Will2403]

also are o2 p&g iphones automatically unlocked after a year or do i have to call them up?

 

[Piers Gibbon]

it might be worth looking at this guide to all the iphone deals out there..though I'm STILL dithering!

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/deals/cheap-iphone

 

[ChrisFilter]

Wow, Will, how the fuck did you download 15GB in 6 months over a data connection?!

That's some serious porn browsing!

 

[stupid dogbot]

also are o2 p&g iphones automatically unlocked after a year or do i have to call them up?

They charge £15 to unlock a prepay...

 

[Sunray]

Wow, Will, how the fuck did you download 15GB in 6 months over a data connection?!

That's some serious porn browsing!

This, on an iPhone its difficult to imagine what your doing apart from no-stop YouTube and streaming tv and radio and downloading endless applications.

 

[editor]

This looks awesome if you're a guitarist.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

This looks awesome if you're a guitarist.

That's pretty impressive.

 

[Gromit]

I didn't understand any of what he said so i'm so obviously not a guitarist. Still it was impressive. Turned your iPhone into a magic box of music tricks.

 

[paolo]

This looks awesome if you're a guitarist.

It doesn't look anything if you're reading this thread on an iThing.

(Maybe I should post in the feedback / new forum software thread. Video embeds don't render anything in mobile safari).

 

[editor]

It doesn't look anything if you're reading this thread on an iThing.

(Maybe I should post in the feedback / new forum software thread. Video embeds don't render anything in mobile safari).

That's got nothing to do with us, but everything to do with the overlords at Apple banning Flash off all iPhones and iPads forever.

I see a link to the YouTube app or the browser, both of which plays the clip fine on my Android/Tapatalk phone, btw.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...sons_why_Flash_isn_t_going_away?taxonomyId=18

 

[paolo]

That's got nothing to do with us, but everything to do with the overlords at Apple banning Flash off all iPhones and iPads forever.

I see a link to the YouTube app or the browser, both of which plays the clip fine on my Android/Tapatalk phone, btw.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...sons_why_Flash_isn_t_going_away?taxonomyId=18

Out of interest, if someone embeds a YouTube video here, does it work? YouTube works on iPhones etc. Not as an embed of course, but if vBulletin rendered a link, it would be usable.

 

[Crispy]

I think it's an issue with vbulletin. youtube embeds work everywhere else on my ipad

 

[Winot]

Quick question if I may - I have an unlocked iPhone 3G (out of contract). Can Mrs Winot use it with a pre-pay sim and port her existing Vodafone payg number? Would the pre-pay sim have to be from Vodafone? And how does it work - do you load it with cash like a payg Oyster card?

Thanks.

 

[Badgers]

Have Spotify Premium now
It is really, really good and I have not once used iTunes since upgrading it.
Spotify is better sound quality and twice the volume as iTunes too.
You can run Spotify in the background while using other apps.

 

[Kanda]

That's got nothing to do with us, but everything to do with the overlords at Apple banning Flash off all iPhones and iPads forever.

I see a link to the YouTube app or the browser, both of which plays the clip fine on my Android/Tapatalk phone, btw.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...sons_why_Flash_isn_t_going_away?taxonomyId=18

I think it's an issue with vbulletin. youtube embeds work everywhere else on my ipad

So, which is it??

 

[Kanda]

HTML5 Continuing to Gain Ground With Yahoo! Mail for iPad, Vimeo Embedding

 

[FridgeMagnet]

So, which is it??

Youtube embeds normally work fine for me too, with a linking placeholder; I just checked one I posted myself elsewhere over a year ago, so it's not some modern thing. The vbulletin module must be doing something odd to put them in.

 

[editor]

HTML5 Continuing to Gain Ground With Yahoo! Mail for iPad, Vimeo Embedding

"Gaining ground" isn't much help when you want to view Flash content today though is it? No matter how you spin it, not being able to access vast amounts of web content is a pain in the arse, especially on the iPad.

There's still a fair way to go before HTML can replace Flash too: http://www.mediabistro.com/webnewse...rs_worried_about_html5_development_170788.asp

 

[Will2403]

Wow, Will, how the fuck did you download 15GB in 6 months over a data connection?!

That's some serious porn browsing!

haha rumbled. yes, fair to say I've watched one or two (hundred) spankwire vids.
Was in a psych ward for 3 months and there was fuck all else to do.

Lots of Youtube, Facebook, websites, quite a few apps... I guess it all adds up.
I think it was over the whole year rather than 6 months as the reset stats should show a reset even if its a factory reset no?

I'm gonna try o2 text n web and see how I go.

 

[elbows]

The new way to embed youtube videos makes use of an iframe and it then decides whether to serve flash or html5 based on the browser & device. The old way, which this forum seems to use and so doesnt work on ipad etc, is to embed/use object of type application/x-shockwave-flash which clearly isnt going to work on the ipad. It could take some time for various web software plugins to use the new method.

A blog post from youtube explaining this new way to embed:

http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/07/new-way-to-embed-youtube-videos.html

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Have Spotify Premium now
It is really, really good and I have not once used iTunes since upgrading it.
Spotify is better sound quality and twice the volume as iTunes too.
You can run Spotify in the background while using other apps.

Been really getting back into this, loving browsing friends playlists, tempted to get a premium account.

 

[DIMPLES1]

Advice required please- I may be being really thick, but how do I get photo's off my iPhone 4, so that portrait photo's are portrait?

I imported lots of photo's last night, but they are all landscape. If I view them through my camera software they are portrait, but when I upload to facebook they are landscape. I got the photo's off the phone via cut & paste, haven't worked out how to do it on itunes.

 

[Crispy]

The new way to embed youtube videos makes use of an iframe and it then decides whether to serve flash or html5 based on the browser & device. The old way, which this forum seems to use and so doesnt work on ipad etc, is to embed/use object of type application/x-shockwave-flash which clearly isnt going to work on the ipad. It could take some time for various web software plugins to use the new method.

A blog post from youtube explaining this new way to embed:

http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/07/new-way-to-embed-youtube-videos.html

I've implemented this, does it work now?

 

[paolo]

Post a video and I'll tell you

 

[Crispy]

 

[paolo]

Very good. Watching on the bus.

A little less hysteria mr Ed.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

The new way to embed youtube videos makes use of an iframe and it then decides whether to serve flash or html5 based on the browser & device. The old way, which this forum seems to use and so doesnt work on ipad etc, is to embed/use object of type application/x-shockwave-flash which clearly isnt going to work on the ipad. It could take some time for various web software plugins to use the new method.

A blog post from youtube explaining this new way to embed:

http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/07/new-way-to-embed-youtube-videos.html

Odd. The embed I C&Ped from the youtube vid (over a year ago which works on the iPad) doesn't do either; it's an application/futuresplash object.

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Advice required please- I may be being really thick, but how do I get photo's off my iPhone 4, so that portrait photo's are portrait?

I imported lots of photo's last night, but they are all landscape. If I view them through my camera software they are portrait, but when I upload to facebook they are landscape. I got the photo's off the phone via cut & paste, haven't worked out how to do it on itunes.

that's the only way the only other thing to do is to get hold of a second and better digital camera and take a photo of the photos on the iPhone with that then downloading those to your computer. This also allows you too increase the megapixel ratio in the image as the iPhone only has a tiny megapxiel camera so you can in effect get better photos this way ... it's an apple feature...

 

[Crispy]

iphone presents a DCIM folder to your computer, so any decent photo management software should see it and interpret the orientation data and display the images correctly. Try Picasa.