Helpful Tips
Make Your Website iPhone Home Screen Ready In A Few Easy Steps
Oct 7th
My iCon
I hope this helps you all out, and I expect to see you all making your icons so we don’t have those ugly screen shots on our iPhones!
Here it is in 4 easy steps!
Step 1: Open the image you want to use in photoshop or image editor
Step 2: Crop the image to 45×45 pixels.
Step 3: Save the image as a png file with the name: apple-touch-icon.png
Step 4: Save this png in your root directory of your site and you are done!
This is the finished product on my home screen!
The Home Screen With My qPlog Icon
Looking For Advice
Feb 10th
I am tearing out our old picket fence in the front yard. It is mostly rotted wood, and just in really poor shape. I am looking for some advice from anyone out there who can tell me the best place to take something like this to be recycled, or re-used somehow. I would really like to not see it just end up in a landfill out there.
Thanks in advance for any ideas any of you have.
Another Elitch Special – Friday 19th Only
Oct 18th
Area 93 – KTCL is offering a coupon for Friday the 19th between 5-7 pm. It gets you into Elitch Gardens for $9.33.
Here is the link to the special.
Hope to see you all there! 
Are You Annoyed By Anonymous Callers?
Oct 10th
Trying to figure out if that 800 number is one you should answer? I discovered this site tonight when I was trying to figure out who has been calling me every night for the last week now. They can get really annoying, especially since I am on both the state and national do not call list!
I found this very handy… Turns out that one of the numbers calling has been a political survey company… another has been Columbia House.
I would recommend bookmarking this site so you can see if you want to answer that call or not!
iPhone Upgrade Woes… Learn from My Problems!
Sep 27th
Today, Apple release iPhone update version 1.1.1. It brings some great new features like the iTunes Store for the iPhone,
Other new features:
- Louder speakerphone and receiver volume
- Home Button double-click shortcut to phone favorites or music controls
- Space bar double-tap shortcut to intelligently insert period and space
- Mail attachments are viewable in portrait and landscape
- Stocks and cities in Stocks and Weather can be re-ordered
- Apple Bluetooth Headset battery status in the Status Bar
- Support for TV Out
- Preference to turn off EDGE/GPRS when roaming internationally
- New Passcode lock time intervals
- Adjustable alert volume
However, in all the greatness, Apple overlooked one issue. When I installed the update to my iPhone, it told me that I needed to enter my passcode to unlock the phone… However, when I went to do this, my phone told me it had to be activated before I could do anything other than make emergency calls.
I was getting quite frustrated, and only more so when I had to wait for 45 minutes to get ahold of tech support. After that, I had to talk with the tech support for 30 minutes to get my problem resolved. Unfortunately, it meant having to do a complete restore of the iPhone, but how does one do that when iTunes won’t recognize the iPhone?
I had to disconnect the phone from the computer, then turn it off. Once it was off, I then had to hold the home button down for 10 seconds, and then connect the phone to my computer. Once I did that, the phone asked if I wanted to restore the phone. Once that was done, I then had to sync the phone, and go back in and reset all my settings on the phone.
One big thing, if you are reading this Apple… Please make a way to delete multiple e-mails at once, as well as a way to empty the trash can!
