Upgrade to iOS 4.2

I've done the upgrade to iOS 4.2 on both my iPad and iPhone. Annoyingly after install to iPhone the iPhone was very very hot. Also none of the apps would open so I had to do a reboot. It's now working fine.

As for the iPad; it's fantastic to get multitasking but the sweet double click for iPod controls now requires an additional swipe to the left to get the iPod controls to appear. A little annoying. Additionally the rotation lock control has now become a mute switch annoyingly. I wonder if there is an option to change this?


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Location:UK

Cross country results

The results are here;
http://www.benfleetrunningclub.com/eccl.13.11.10/essexlg3.xls




I came last in my age category oh well :-)

Oh yeah and Phoenix Striders came 13th out of 23, not bad!

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Location:Hockley

Car repair

So I got into a little accident in my car, not to worry no one was injured. Take a look at the before and after shot.

Before



After



Repairs were done by Brockley Road Bodyworks in Chelmsford. They did a fantastic job, thank you.

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Location:UK

Some iPad tips and initial findings

Wow just worked out how to sync the calendar, follow these directions;

http://help.apple.com/mobileme/interface/index.html#mmcc733205

VLC is fantastic all the videos that wouldn't load via iTunes now can be pulled across and play. Unfortunately there is a bug where the movie freezes after 15 minutes. Pressing home and going back in makes VLC crash, then you can go back in and continue the movie - not ideal I've emailed the developers so hopefully they'll sort out an update.

iBooks is slightly disappointing, all the titles and authors I looked for weren't in there. Plus the price is quite expensive.

Twitter app is great - I'm getting back into Twitter.

Pulse news is fantastic, I'll never read RSS in the same way again.

Bad on Spotify, Facebook and Tutor 24x7 for not having iPad apps, hopefully that'll be sorted out.

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Location:UK

I bought an iPad!

So I finally gave up waiting for the new iPad. I cancelled my holiday plans, so I had some spare cash so I thought what the hell I'm getting one. I don't want to have not had a first generation iPad and even if the iPad 2 comes out then I'll just have to get a new one and I'll sell this or give it to someone as a present :-)



I absolutely love it, there is something addictive about using it and I haven't yet found anything about it that I don't like.


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Lost photo

OMG I thought I'd lost a photo from my holiday to Portugal; a classic photo of me and my brother-in-law pretending to do a number 2 on some historic toilets in a monestry....!!

I thought I remembered copying the photo out of iTunes and uploading it as my profile picture (cropping to my face). In doing so I would have copied it to my desktop and then deleted it off my desktop once uploaded. It was there cropped on Facebook showing just my face.

Only looking back through Portugal photos tonight, it wasn't there. I paniced. I looked through my memory cards - but I'd deleted my photos. I got very irate with iPhoto as the photo was missing even going back far past the date of deletion. I rang my sister and she said she hadn't got a copy of my pics but they may have taken the picture. I was convinced it was my camera. But even my facebook gallery didn't contain it. I was fuming.

Then I looked through my brother-in-law's facebook pics and there it was, with me holding my camera in my hand. Doh! Problem solved :-)

Location:UK

Cross country

I did my first ever cross country run on Saturday in Hockley. Parking was at a school with a 5 minute walk to the race start.

I've learnt that I should have given alot more than 5 minutes and that I should have taken a bag with me; because after the race I didn't have any food or drink handy, or a jacket.

When it started everyone went so quick. I was last for a while before overtaking 3 people and losing one position half way through. After half way round the first lap I checked my watch and I'd only been running 15 minutes, it was hard!

I also learnt cross country requires trail shoes or spikes. It was fun slipping everywhere and getting covered in mud.

I did 8.5km in 47minutes 48 so that is 5.28 miles. Which is 9 minute per mile pace. Would like to get back to 7 minute mile pace.

Location:Hockley