3 steps to fix iPhone 3G slowness after iOS4 upgrade

July 27, 2010

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If you’re like me, you upgraded your iPhone 3G to iOS4 as soon as it was available. Sure, multitasking wasn’t supported on the 3G, but features like app folders and integrated mailbox were too cool to pass up. Like me (and many others), maybe you also noticed that after the upgrade your iPhone 3G was slow, unresponsive, lagging and prone to app crashes. Well, I came across a tip that fixed all my performance issues. Thought I’d pass it along. Maybe it will help you, too:

  1. Turn off Spotlight Search: Go to Settings | General | Home Button | Spotlight Search, and uncheck everything
  2. Reboot your iPhone 3G: Just a normal power down and restart
  3. Turn Spotlight Search back on: Go back to same screen as step 1, and re-check everything you unchecked in Step 1

I’m not sure if there is corruption or a compatibility issue with the Spotlight Search database. Whatever the issue is, this did the trick for me. YMMV, but give it a try. It can’t hurt.

Let me know in the comments if it works for you, too.

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Giving Posterous a Try

July 21, 2010

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I’ve been looking for a way to consolidate push out messages and links to all of my various social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed and my personal blog at DaveKawalec.com. It looks like Posterous might fit the bill. It seems to be great for those things that are bit shorter than a blog post and longer than a tweet. My friend Frank is using Posterous to host his blog (www.frankneill.com/), and I love what Guy Kawasaki is doing with Holy Kaw (http://holykaw.alltop.com/) through Posterous. So, I figure it’s time to give it a shot.

I think I’ve disabled most of the other auto-post mechanisms that link my stuff together now. But, if you see a few duplicate posts here and there, please forgive me while I work out the kinks.

– Dave

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Words are Important: 800-pound Gorilla

June 10, 2010
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Words are Important
The business world seems to generate more jargon and buzzwords than goods and services these days. Words are being misused and abused. This is a disaster because words are important. When words can be made to mean anything, they mean nothing. Without precise meaning, we can’t form rational thought and the world is [...]

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Words are Important: Technically

May 17, 2010
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Words are Important
The business world seems to generate more jargon and buzzwords than goods and services these days. Words are being misused and abused. This is a disaster because words are important. When words can be made to mean anything, they mean nothing. Without precise meaning, we can’t form rational thought and the world is [...]

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Words are Important: Outside the Box

May 13, 2010
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Words are Important
The business world seems to generate more jargon and buzzwords than goods and services these days. Words are being misused and abused. This is a disaster because words are important. When words can be made to mean anything, they mean nothing. Without precise meaning, we can’t form rational thought and the world is [...]

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Words are Important: Transparency

May 12, 2010
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Words are Important
The business world seems to generate more jargon and buzzwords than goods and services these days. Words are being misused and abused. This is a disaster because words are important. When words can be made to mean anything, they mean nothing. Without precise meaning, we can’t form rational thought and the world is [...]

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Words are Important: Straw man

May 10, 2010
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Words are Important
The business world seems to generate more jargon and buzzwords than goods and services these days. Words are being misused and abused. This is a disaster because words are important. When words can be made to mean anything, they mean nothing. Without precise meaning, we can’t form rational thought and the world is [...]

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Is Google + Adobe a threat to Apple?

April 9, 2010

Google vs. Apple
Remember the not-too-distant past when Google did Search and Apple made iPods and iPhones. They both had a minimalist aesthetic to their products, and both seemed to be obsessed with making computing simple and pleasant for their customers. Way back then, I thought a merger of Google and Apple could be the [...]

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Aftermath: Every Apple announcement ever (A Play in Two Acts)

April 8, 2010

ACT I:
SCENE: Steve Jobs is standing on stage in front of a giant video screen. The screen is filled with a photo of Apple’s latest innovation – iProduct.
Steve Jobs: Today, we’re releasing iProduct. It can do X and Y and does those things better than anything else out there.
Hater: But it doesn’t do Z! Apple [...]

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Facebook as a memorial

April 2, 2010

In November, my friend’s brother Sean passed away. Sean was a young man, and his death was tragic.
Time has passed, and Sean’s family and friends are grieving and moving on in their own ways. However, Facebook carries on indifferently, churning through its algorithms, spitting out reminders to let me know I haven’t been in touch [...]

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