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anonymuser
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On 2008-10-29 13:09:28, masseur wrote:
btw, sometimes you actually want the word you typed and not the suggested word which would get replaced in when you press space. Just touch your word before pressing space and it will keep your word and next time it won't try to replace your word either. (Not sure if you found this out yet)
anyway, welcome to the club!
Thanks! Yep, I worked out the trick with the word suggestions - it seemed a little unintuitive at first, but actually Apple's approach really makes a lot more sense once you're used to it, letting you clatter on with your bad typing uninterrupted except for those rare moments when you actually meant to type gibberish!
I'm already finding typing on this to be a lot easier/more accurate than on my old Tytn II, bizarrely, considering that had a "proper" keyboard. Apart from the fact I don't have to slide anything out or use two hands, the predictiveness is actually improving my accuracy and reducing the number of times I'd have had to go back and change things on the Tytn II. I often found with that keyboard that it would either not register certain keypresses, or register them twice, which really lost any advantage it might have had in being a hardware keyboard. I know it (or rather WM) would suggest words too, but it was always a bit slow and fiddly, and unlike the iPhone misspelling something means the correct suggestion gets lost rather than used.
Using the iPhone keyboard reminds me more of happier days with the M600i - not a great phone in many other ways, but great for text with that clever keyboard and a similar degree of predictiveness on top.
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Barachus
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great!, i work a few minutes away from regent street so i will pop in to buy the case
yeah the font i use is helvetica and helvetica bold
uploaded here https://www.yousendit.com/download/Y2ovYURLU1BqV0N4dnc9PQ
to get them on the iphone i followed these instructions
Step 1: Install OpenSSH from Cydia (found easily in featured apps)
Step 2: Restart iPhone
Step 3: Use WinSCP to connect to the iPhone via your IP address Username:root Password: alpine
Step 4: Download the file and extract it to your desktop
Step 5: Navigate to the following folders on your iPhone using WinSCP and rename the following files, adding .bak at the end [this is just a precautionary measure, you don't ever wanna lose your original files]
/System/Library/Fonts/Cache/Helvetica.ttf
/System/Library/Fonts/Cache/HelveticaBold.ttf
copy the font files in the link to these folders, make sure each file goes where it belongs.
Step 6: Restart iPhone
Step 7: Enjoy!
i have found that for tasks like this iFunbox http://www.i-funbox.com/ is an easier file manager that SSH, you dont need a wifi connection, just plug in the usb and you're good to go! so if you have that you can use in place of SSH(just dont ever use it to copy music to the ipod part of the iphone)
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RyaN
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Cheers buddy!
Personally i dont mind using SSH, i'm never x-ferring huge files across and i only fiddle with stuff at home. Will give that proggy a try though... the easier the better!
What colour slider are you going for? Post some piccies of it on the iphone when you get it  |
Barachus
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i was hoping to get it in gun metal, but they only had white and black colours 
i dont know what to do now, maybe i will have to order it from the states
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spikeyjac
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Gunmetal?
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RyaN
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afaik they dont do it in gunmetal, just glossy white, matte black and pink. And thats coming from the incase US site |
Barachus
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saw gunmetal on the apple website
http://store.apple.com/us/pro[....]A5Ng&mco=MTg5NTYzMA&s=topRated
and a few US ebay sellers carry it, i think i saw a few earlier
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RyaN
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yeah thats the matte black one, think its just the picture tbh lol http://goincase.com/products/detail/slider-case-cl59055
Saw an Incase on ebay but they were in different colours like blue and red and they were the ones for £4.99 so must be fake as the official site only sells black, white and pink
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Barachus
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yeah thats what i thought but some of the reviewers clearly refered to it as different from the matt black,
http://www.ilounge.com/index.[....]ase-slider-case-for-iphone-3g/
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RyaN
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yeah you're right there's definitely a difference, it seems like the US Apple Store sells the Gunmetal one but the UK store doesn't
http://store.apple.com/uk/pro[....]node=MTY1NDA0NA&mco=MTcyOTEzMg
http://www.store.apple.com/us[....]node=MTY1NDA0NA&mco=MTg5OTcxMw
Hmm.
Don't know which i prefer now!
How much are the ones you've seen on shebay?
edit, oh Apple US do sell the black one as well 
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Barachus
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i think i really like the look of the gunmetal
it was for $39.99 and $15 shipping on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-Inc[....]418779&_trksid=p3286.m63.l1177
did you get the font thing done ok? |
RyaN
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That's the metallic slider case i think http://www.goincase.com/products/detail/slider-case-cl59059
Wait....which one are you going for the placcy one or the metal one? lol
Just going to have a little look at the fonts now 
I'm loving Intelliscreen atm, installed it yesterday and it's better than i ever thought it would be. Sometimes it's a pain to have to unlock your phone just to check an email thats not important and it's nice to be able to check it on the lockscreen |
Barachus
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hmmmm looks kinda different there, thats why i was hoping they had it in the apple store so i could see what it looked like, it looked darker metalic in the ilounge review
i had seen intelliscreen but i havent got round to installing it, so its that good? there are so many things to try out on the iphone, never had phone with sooo many options and enhancements! |
RyaN
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sweet got the font working I'm interested to know how it worked as there was a load of different fonts in the cache folder already, and the same fonts as well, and obviously after copying them over and rebooting they worked! How does it know how to apply the fonts? hmm
Yeah intelliscreen is wicked, i've had it on my pc for ages and like you just never got round to installing it, but pleased i did now. As well as your email, you can get news feeds and by swiping across the story you want it pops open a half screen size bubble like a mini browser so you can view the story. I recommend giving it a go |
Barachus
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On 2008-10-30 10:00:33, RyaN wrote:
sweet got the font working I'm interested to know how it worked as there was a load of different fonts in the cache folder already, and the same fonts as well, and obviously after copying them over and rebooting they worked! How does it know how to apply the fonts? hmm
Yeah intelliscreen is wicked, i've had it on my pc for ages and like you just never got round to installing it, but pleased i did now. As well as your email, you can get news feeds and by swiping across the story you want it pops open a half screen size bubble like a mini browser so you can view the story. I recommend giving it a go
yeah i know, i think the iphone has the ability to change to the different fonts but apple havent enabled it yet, cus i cant see any reason why all fonts will be in there, unless they are just used for website and document rendering, helivicta must be the default font it uses, so any other font we want to used must be renamed to that and it still thinks its uing the default
i will try and get intelliscreen installed this weekend |
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