twitter.com - 7/11/2009
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Loader Twitter.com Login Join Twitter! You can install UNLIMITED APPS! Only 180 show up as icons—but Spotlight can find and open all of them! (And yes, we tried. Stopped at 250!) 8:51 PM Jul 10th from Seesmic Desktop Pogue David Pogue Footer 2009 Twitter About Us Contact Blog Status Apps ...
pogue.blogs.nytimes.com - 7/16/2009
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While writing his new book on iPhone 3GS,
David Pogue (nytimes.com) discovered some features he couldn’t wait...
to talk about, one of which is part of the accessibility features built-in to iPhone. “You’d never suspect,” Pogue remarks, “that the iPhone ...
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How to make “the iPhone icons speak”
davidpogue.com - 7/13/2009
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davidpogue.com —
Special columns Keeping Up with Data Rot March
1, 2009 Computer formats come and go leaving some...
users with data no longer compatible with software or hardware. As David reports on CBS Sunday Morning, this is called data rot. Click here to watch the ...
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David Pogue, New York Times technology columnist, CBS ...
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How To: Access More Than 180 Apps or WebClips via Spotlight on iPhone 3.0
The iPhone Blog —
... For some, even the newly expanded 11 Home Screen, 180 (including 4 fixed dock) app slots under iPhone 3.0 isn’t enough. It’s not about need — it’s about want. Luckily, iPhone 3.0 offers another handy, theoretically unlimited way to access apps: Spotlight. According to David Pogue: ...
Using search to launch apps
iPhone J.D. —
... posted an interesting tip to his Twitter stream: because of the search-to-launch-apps shortcut, you can actually install unlimited apps on the iPhone. iPhone Software 3.0 only has 11 screens to hold apps (up from 9 in 2.x), and with 16 apps per screen plus the four on the bottom of every screen, your iPhone can display icons for 180 different apps. But David figured out that you can keep adding more apps then that—he got up to around 250—and even though you won't see those extra apps on any of the 11 pages of your home screen, you can still launch those hidden apps by using ...
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