If you setup your iPhone and iPad to connect to Google as an Exchange server, you get instant push notifications of mail and sync your calendars and address book. And in my experience it works great. But syncing under Mac OS X can sometimes be slow to update. So I wrote this little program to force an update immediately. It’s been useful to me, so I thought I put it here if someone else needed it.
ifttt is a free internet service for automating a lot of stuff you do online. There’s often things that you do repeatedly, and ifttt is there to help. For example, when you write a new blog post, you want to post a link to Twitter and Facebook, and this is something that’s perfect for ifttt to do automatically. Continue reading
Update
It looks like I finally found a solution to my iPad gen 1 crashing problem. I found it on a forum and I’ve been running my iPad all day without one crash. Haven’t been able to do that since upgrading to iOS 5.01.
All you need to do is to reset all settings. Open the Settings app and under General and choose Reset. Press Reset All Settings. This sounds dangerous, but you won’t lose any data, only your settings. The machine will show a progress bar, which is normal. After the machine is reset, you should now hopefully have an iPad gen 1 that doesn’t crash all the time. All the settings for mail etc wasn’t affected by the reset by the way.
I’ve had problems with my iPad since I upgraded to iOS 5. Apps would constantly crash, usually when opening a built in browser or showing video. I tried to backup and restore, but the problem remained. Looking at the crash logs it’s always memory full errors. But after searching iPad forums I finally found a solution that at least makes the iPad crash less. I turned off most of the iCloud functions. My guess is the photo sharing that causes some of the problems. Anyway, I have had zero problems with my iPhone 4, which has twice the ram amount.
Hopefully Apple will fix this in the 5.1 update, because it’s really handy to have automatic photo sync between my iPhone and iPad.
Update: After a day my iPad is back to crashing often. This is getting annoying.
People who use Canon cameras know the EF flashes can be a bit overwhelming trying to understand ETTL II, and how to compensate for background and foreground exposure. Setting up multiple flashes isn’t always easy either. Here’s a great video, explaining all the ins and outs of Canon EF flash photography.
