I only bought it in November and two days ago the microphone stopped working. I could hear others when they called but they couldn’t hear me.
Yesterday a friend who called claimed that my voice sounded like that of a Dalek from Doctor Who. So now I’m left with what is essentially an iPod touch. All going well it should be under warranty given that it is only 5 months old.
Other strange glitches started to appear lately as well. The wi-fi connection kept dropping on me despite being in the same room as the router. Applications would start to hang with alarming regularity requiring frequent reboots. Grr.. extremely annoying so it is.
My few regular readers will have noticed that I have changed my theme. The more I looked at the old one, the more gaudy it looked so in came this one. However while browsing through some plugins, I came across a rather brilliant one called WPtouch.
It detects if you are using an iPhone or iPod touch and makes it look more like an iPhone application. So no more squinting or pinching or squeezing to read as you can read in the screenshot.
Incidentially, if you have an iPhone and are wondering how to take a screenshot?
Well it is a simple matter of holding the home button and then pressing the the power button.
I got myself an Apple iPhone 3G recently. It’s a truly wonderful thing purely from an aesthetic point of view but it does have a few tricks up it sleeve too. Like most new mobile phones these days, the Apple iPhone has built a built in GPS receiver. It is fairly accurate too.
This got me thinking of some interesting things to do with it. While browsing through the iTunes store I discovered a neat little application called GPS tracker and best of all it is free to download. It ties in with a free service from Instamapper.com. Once installed you can configure your iPhone to update your own personal map which wil display your location along with other details such as speed etc. It’s not just limited to the iPhone however so you can check to see if you can install it on your GPS enabled mobile here.
While this may not be to your liking if you value your privacy you needn’t worry as by default your own map is set to private to default. You can also embed a map into your facebook profile or onto your blog.
It is a bit gimmicky but then I love these gimmicky things. If you are curious as to how it looks you can view my location over on my personal blog 
One final thing to be aware of is that the application needs access to the internet. So just be aware of your data charges from your mobile phone provider first!
