iOS 4 Sync Videos

Summary: Import videos taken on your iPhone into iPhoto just as you import photos. To include the videos when you sync the iPhone, check Include Videos in the Photos tab of the iTunes Device page.
It took me ages to find this as I was looking for iTunes to sync videos taken on the phone – so I looked under the Films tab of the Devices page on iTunes (I guess this will be Movies if you set en-US as your language; I have en-gb). (Connect your iPhone and select it in iTunes under Devices to see this page.)
When you sync, iPhoto asks whether to import photos – and will import videos also if you've taken any. Just as with photos, you can then delete them from the camera roll. To get them to reappear on your phone, you just need to check Include Videos in the Photos tab of the Device page, then sync.
So, photos are dealt with by iPhoto; tunes are dealt with by iTunes.
—and videos?
Some videos are dealt with by iTunes; others are dealt with by iPhoto.

iPhone overheating

If the sun gets too hot, treat your iPhone to a moist towel and a hat.

The Tech Specs say: Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C). Summers in Greece are long and dry, with temperatures often exceeding extremes of 37°C (99°F).

Sailing in Greece the temperature went high, the iPhone overheated, and defensively stopped charging—it said it was charged, which was confusing, as it wasn't. When it got really hot it just gave up altogether and shut down. Our Humminbird Fishfinder GPS unit also shut down from overheating—even before the iPhone did.

How to keep your iPhone cool? Take a moist paper towel, folded to the size of the back of the phone. Put it on the back of the phone and ensure that the air can get to it so that the moisture evaporates gradually. You'll need to take the paper towel off from time to time to moisten it again.

I also used a hat to keep the phone in the shade.

This enabled me to keep navigating with Navionics GPS software in the relentless Greek sun.

iPhone 3.0

released at 17:25 GMT 230.1MB

17:28 GMT still downloading ...

17:45 GMT up and running—it feels faster

Apple don't make it easy to find the instructions for using new features.

You can test MMS by sending a picture to yourself (the interface in messages, which was SMS, lets you take and send a picture, or send one from your photo album). If MMS doesn't work, prompt O2 to direct your MMS messages to your phone (instead of to a web page as before) by texting the message "MMS" to 1010.

To see Google StreetView on maps, drop a pin on the street you want to view. The StreetView icon appears on the pin label; click it. (This isn't new to 3.0, but it's new to me.)

Skype on iPhone–iChat next?

VoIP on iPhone. Find free Skype for iPhone on the App Store.

It works–Skype calls over WiFi–and the quality seems better than Fring or TruPhone.

Why hasn't Apple got an iPhone version of iChat yet–or Gizmo5 to give us a free SIP phone?

iPhone Google Voice Search Arrives!

Google Mobile App

Out with the old; in with the new.

It doesn't appear as an update, in the iTunes store, the post date and version number appear unchanged (see the image) — ignore that! Just delete the old one then get the Google Mobile App again from the AppStore. Apple will tell you the update is free since you already bought this App. The packaging is still old, but Now the update appears and the packaging is updated too the app inside is new (version 0.3.142.951) and it does do voice search.

iPhone Screen Capture

To screen grab: While holding the Home button, click the on/off/lock button.

You will find an image file among your photos. Download it to iPhoto. Export as PNG, TIFF or JPEG.

VPN on iPhone L2TP/IPsec

Settings > VPN > Add VPN configuration...

To connect to vpn2.net.ed.ac.uk ...

Account

<your UUN>

Password

<your EASE password>

Secret

<find it here>
No cheating in the library!

Save

free iPhone SDK

Apple say:

``Start your development today with the free iPhone SDK ...''

... not quite: this is a 2.1GB download, and it looks as though AAPL wasn't ready for the demand. Currently at 7% after seven hours, and just picking up speed (presumably as the US goes to sleep): occasional bursts of action, but still very slow—10 hours to go...