For me it’s been quite obvious but I am surprised how many iPhone owners I see complaining about EDGE speeds when they’re covering the antenna (that black plastic area on the back of the phone) with their hand. A very useful tip for those using EDGE: Take your hand off the antenna! Your meaty fingers are absorbing all the Internet packets

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phone on August 28th, 2007

Here’s some code to initialize the accelerometer to run at full speed. Pass the desired sample rate (in Hz) to the initialize function.

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phone on August 27th, 2007

Note (9/12): there is an application in the iBrickr PXL repository called ‘Balls’ which links to this page. I have nothing to do with that app; it was created by Grudgnor over at the MacRumors forum. Those who have followed this blog will know that I like to like to play with unusual input methods (see my earlier posts on , ambient light sensors , and the SmackBook )

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on August 26th, 2007

This just in — AT&T now has simplified their billing! They sent out a mass text message today to all customers.

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