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June 30, 2007

Cramming your stuff into iPhone's 4 or 8GB

If you're a heavy iTunes and iPhoto user, you will probably quickly overflow the limited storage in the iPhone. You could dedicate a day of curatorial work to sifting through your photos and music to pick the ones to put on your phone, but if you want a quick and dirty solution, try creating a Smart Playlist and Smart Album that favor recent music and photos.

If you only want to hear music on your iPhone, create a Smart Playlist with conditions like this one:

Match: All the following rules
Last Played: is in the last 120 days
Play Count: is greater than 2
Genre: is not Spoken Word
Genre: is not Audiobooks
Genre: is not Podcast
Limit to: 250 items, selected by random

(Since Podcasts have their own tab in iTunes, they are probably synced separately from music anyhow, but it can't hurt to have them in the exclusion list.)

If you buy a lot of music in the music store, you can also force some purchased music onto the iPhone with a second Smart Playlist:

Match: All the following rules
Playlist: is Purchased
Play Count: is greater than 2
Genre: is not Spoken Word
Genre: is not Audiobooks
Genre: is not Podcast
Limit to: 250 items, selected by random

If you're using iPhoto, you can create a simple Smart Album that specifies "Date is in the last 90 days" and you'll get all your recent photos. If you use more than one camera, you can add one or more additional conditions: "Camera model is not...", and put your low-quality cameras in there, such as your cameraphone. That way, you'll be more likely to get your most polished photos in the mix.

Once you've done that, go into iTunes, click on your iPhone, and then go to the Music tab. Tell it to Sync Music, but only the "Selected Playlists." Pick the playlist(s) you just created. Do the same on the Photos tab, and tell it to sync only the album you just created. You'll probably need to tweak the number of items in your playlists, and the number of days in your playlist and album to get a good balance of photos, music, and free space.

June 29, 2007

The obligatory iPhone disassembly

iFixit has their iPhone safely disassembled, complete with parts identification and photos that will help you through the process.

Why disassemble your iPhone? DIY repairs such as changing the battery immediately come to mind. As nice as Lithium Polymer cells are, my own experience is that they tend to die and not hold a charge after a couple of years. From the photos, it looks like a relatively straightforward soldering job to replace the iPhone's massive battery.

iPhone disassembly - [via] Link

Connect iPhone to a WEP Network

If I'm not the only person in the world using WEP, some of you might find this useful (I'd prefer to run a wide open network, but use WEP to keep random people from accidentally connecting to my network). I had a heck of a time typing in my password because the iPhone defaults to "WEP Password" mode. To make things more difficult, when the iPhone discovers a new network and asks for the password, I couldn't find a way to switch modes from within the dialog.

So if it keeps rejecting your password, try something different: ignore the "Select a Wi-Fi Network dialog" and press the Home button. Next, go to Settings, choose Wi-Fi, and tap on your network name. Then you need to tap on "WEP Password", and you'll be able to choose "WEP hex or ASCII". Once you've done that, click Enter Password to go back and type in your password. Click Join after you've typed your password, and you should be in!

Hackszine Camping Out for iPhone

I've got a seat (#5) out in front of the Warwick, RI AT&T store. There are 7 people here right now, so my chances look pretty good. If you're in the area, come by and say howdy! With any luck, I'll get one of these today, and I'll be poking and prodding it and writing up any cool hacks I can get to work on it over the weekend. If you've found some cool iPhone hacks, let us know! Wired is also looking for iPhone hack ideas, so let them know, too.

June 24, 2007

iPhoneDevCamp-iPhone hackers converge on San Francisco on July 6

whurley writes in with an invite for you all to have a really amazing time pushing the limits of the iPhone:

Apple's releasing the iPhone next week, and webapps were the way to go development-wise. So, Raven Zachary, whurley, and Chris Messina have teamed up on a new BarCamp inspired event: iPhoneDevCamp. For those of you who aren't familiar with BarCamp, here's how it works. It's a non-commercial event, organized by volunteers, with no cover charge for any attendee. A week ago we set up the initial wiki. During that time over 100 people have signed up to participate, sponsors have come forward, and Adobe Systems stepped up and offered the use of their facilities in San Francisco to host the event. It's also been covered by Wired, Business 2.0, MSNBC and other major press outlets.

So who will be at the event? What's going to take place? Well, attendees will include web designers, developers, testers, and iPhone owners--all working together, on their precious weekend, to improve the web experience for iPhone owners. Development projects will include both solo and ad-hoc team efforts encouraged by the organizers based on skills and expertise. Everyone will work on a development project in some fashion. However, you don't need to be an expert developer, an owner, or a designer to participate. The event is open to everyone, and the only price is participation.

They've got all the details up on the iPhoneDevCamp Wiki Link

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