Life is Full a Vit

Well… first the major bummer. And this should of been expected all along. The MMS feature is currently disabled on the phone and on the carrier side. I even called AT&T to bug them about it and their customer service reps had no clue 3.0 was even available to developers yet. I ran across a post on the Apple developer forums that stated the MMS feature was not considered a developer feature and its functionality was disabled. Lovely. However all the functionality is there. I’m sure you’ve already seen screenshots or videos of how it works (and it’s pretty slick), so just this one from me.

On to the other things of note… Landscape view of emails and MMS/SMS is a definite improvement and in my opinion was needed from the beginning. The orientation changes currently can be a bit buggy, with the keyboard sometimes not switching to landscape mode (maintains portrait mode when phone is in landscape). This glitch can be seen throughout the OS currently, including bookmarks in Mobile Safari. No big deal, this is a beta OS release.

The new Bluetooth functionality I haven’t played with. I never use Bluetooth anyway, but I would love to see Apple enable OBEX so I can do file transfers to the phone with my PC, as well as send contacts to my friends via Bluetooth. Maybe someday, huh?

On the developer side, the Push Notification framework is in place. Maybe I’ll start playing more with iPhone apps finally… Anyway, there are more things to note, I’m sure. Maybe on another day.

PS: This is amusing (Pwn2Own interview): Safari the easiest to exploit.

Is out! And look at this… I’m a registered Apple Developer. The SDK is downloaded, the MacBook Pro is updated. Time to figure out how to load this from the SDK (I’m sure it’s pathetically easy) and overwrite my Jailbroken 2.2.1. It looks like the Dev Team is already working on jailbreaking 3.0… so I shouldn’t have to deal with the locked firmware for too long… I hope.

The server is up and running. I’ve completely ditched Apache in favor of Lighttpd and PHP via FastCGI. Let’s just say things are running MUCH faster and much smoother. It also helps that this server is much faster….

On another note, we’ve had some random downtimes due to some issues our host has with their ISP. Extremely annoying, but it’s being worked out. Nothing to worry about, the host hopes to have a final solution sometime this coming week. I’m waiting to hear more from them, so stay tuned!

Oh… screenshot…

On the new server as of 1:21am Saturday morning. I’ve just been to lazy to post about it…