Jun 30
With iPhone 1.x and 2.x, you could hold down the Home button to “force quit” an application (kill the process) and return to the Home Screen. With iPhone 3.0, however, holding down the Home button now activates Voice Control on the iPhone 3G S.
So, how do you Force Quit under iPhone 3.0?
To force quit an application in 3.0, press and hold the sleep/wake button until the slide to power off screen appears, then press and hold the home button until the application quits (about 6 sec).
written by AppleMacGenius
\\ tags: Apple, Force Quit, iPhone 3.0, iPhone 3GS, ipod touch
Jun 11
AOL: Help Test the Apple Push Notification Service
From iPhone Developer Program:
Dear AppleMacGenius,
As a developer actively working with iPhone OS, we would like your help in a private test of the Apple Push Notification service. For this test, we have selected AOL’s AIM Developer Preview for iPhone OS 3.0 to create a high-volume test environment for our servers.
To participate, we ask that you follow these steps:
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Download AIM Developer Preview for iPhone OS 3.0 from the iTunes Store via your desktop by entering this unique redemption code in the ‘Redeem’ section of iTunes, found under the ‘Quick Links’ section:
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Note: the functionality of the application will expire in seven days.
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Install the application on a development device running iPhone OS 3.0 GM Seed by synching it to iTunes. This application can only be installed on devices running iPhone OS 3.0 GM Seed.
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Launch the application and accept to receive Push Notifications when prompted. You can log in with any existing AOL, AIM, .mac or MobileMe account.
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If you do not receive notifications from the app within 48 hours after installation.
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written by AppleMacGenius
\\ tags: AIM, iPhone 3.0, ipod touch, WWDC09
Feb 27
For some reason this week I am on a iPhone App kick. I went through a lot of ones I feel are useful for every day and yesterday I posted a link for a iPhone App that is very useful for Hotmail and Windows Live email users. Today I have found another useful iPhone App. The App is called HotMacNews. This particular iPhone App pulls all your favorite technology news site in to one place. HotMacNews.com has already become one of the most popular websites for viewing all your news, so it was only a matter of time before this service invented an iPhone App as well. It’s basically a RSS Reader on steroids. There is around 48+ RSS feeds you can pick from, including AppleMacGeniusVille.com. It even uses the iPhone Accelerometer, and how does it do this, just shake the iPhone and you will randomly be brought to one of the 48+ and growing RSS feeds. Brilliant!! HotMacNews uses the Safari engine, so whenever a RSS site updates or is added you get a live update, no waiting for the App to be updated to the next version.
HotMacNews app provides you with access to HotMacNews- the premiere Macintosh news and tips support site on the World Wide Web in a special iPhone format. After navigating to HotMacNews, you can choose from over 60 news sites (constantly growing) and see the top news in the selected site. You can also choose the classic web version in which you can configure preferences to show up to 8 news sites and display the most current news from each of them. 
written by AppleMacGenius
\\ tags: App Store, iPhone, ipod touch, rss reader
