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Apple Authorised Service Provider and Reseller

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Bite are a Norwich based Apple Authorised Service Provider offering a carry in Apple warranty repair service and we also offer an out of warranty repair and upgrade service. Our Apple certified engineers use genuine Apple parts.
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Bite are a Norwich based Apple Authorised Reseller, offering the complete range of Apple products as well as many other Apple compatible hardware and software options for Home to corporate and… Continue reading

Fix for YouTube on iPod Touch

If YouTube has stopped working on your iPod Touch look to the Date and Time setting. If it is wrong videos might not show.

Up until I realised my son had been running his with the wrong date I was due to do a full restore to try to fix because it worked fine on my iPhone… Continue reading

Not PC vs Mac

I just haven’t been prepared to journey across Oxfordshire to help someone with a tired looking Dell running Windows 98. I will continue to refuse encounters of that sort, but a reasonably recent PC running a modern OS should not be beneath me when it or its owner has some trouble. Continue reading

Mailbox locked by other server

post about an error message that you might be getting especially it seems if you are using Tiscali in the UK: “mailbox locked by other server” Continue reading

Customise iPhone dictionary auto-correct 'feature'

Make a contact (perhaps First Name iPhone, Last Name Dictionary so you remember) and put in the company field all the words you don’t want auto-corrected. That’s it. Continue reading

iPhone compatible blog

Have just installed a plug-in from bravenewcode.com that makes wordpress blogs appear a little more neatly on the iPhone screen, and allows installation of a custom button for the iPhone home screen that links directly to the blog. It was a quick and easy install.

Thanks to Joshua at Macgasm for the tip… Continue reading

EasyWriter

You can write emails in landscape format using the wider keyboard with EasyWriter. For a limited time it is free on iTunes so go get!

Anything that makes it easier to write emails is a must… Continue reading

Homescreen buttons on iPhone

I love the way you can add a website bookmark as an icon on the homescreen of the iPhone. It appears as an icon from the website when you chose the option when adding a bookmark in Safari.

So for instance going to the BBC iPlayer site and adding the bookmark from there adds an iPlayer icon to your screen and takes you straight there next time. This makes firing up… Continue reading

Some iphone shortcomings

Forced by a broadband fault to max out my iPhone usage… I will be really happy to be corrected about anything in what follows.

Although email is able to receive some attachments it doesn’t seem able to send them.

I can’t resend an email. I had made a typo in the address (not one of my contacts) and it had bounced back so I wanted to send again to the right address… Continue reading

O2 but no 3G

Trying to collect email or surf the net with the iPhone without 3G here in the UK is hideous. I am going to have to try to find someone’s open network because while I wait for BT to repair my line I can’t do a thing. Well, there are some things that work well given the narrow bandwidth here in Wantage, Oxon:
1) The App Store (installing new software takes a… Continue reading

Blogging from an iphone

Because I can. Something else I couldn’t do with iWeb as far as I know. There seem to be so many plug-ins available too, that extend the powers of the blog; making automatic search engine optimization and google sitemap updating possible for a start.

But for anyone used to iWeb the graphical flexibility of it is dreadful. Not saying you couldn’t knock up a graphically rich blog, just that at the… Continue reading