Hathology » apple http://hathology.com The random thoughts of Benjamin Hathaway Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:31:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How To Find Your iPhone/iPod Touch Serial Number http://hathology.com/2008/09/how-to-find-your-iphoneipod-touch-serial-number/ http://hathology.com/2008/09/how-to-find-your-iphoneipod-touch-serial-number/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:24:09 +0000 Ben http://hathology.com/?p=104

If you have ever contacted Apple for support on any of their products, you know the first question they are going to ask you is… “What is your serial number?”. The serial number is easy to find on most of their products because they allow you to access it through the software. This is typically a much better alternative to turning the device off to flip it over, remove the battery and squint to read the long string of letters and number in a size 4 font.

The only problem is that each device OS has a different location to find this serial number. This article explains how to find the serial number in your iPhone device. It will also work for the iPhone 3G since they use the same operating system. And it should also work the same for the iPod Touch.

  1. From the main screen on your iPhone/iPod Touch, tap the “Settings” icon.
  2. On the Settings screen, tap the General section.
  3. Now tap the About section.
  4. Scroll down a ways and you will see an item for “Serial Number”. That’s it, read that off to the support person and you’ll be on your way.
]]> http://hathology.com/2008/09/how-to-find-your-iphoneipod-touch-serial-number/feed/ 103 The iPhone 2.1 Update Should Have Been The 2.0 Version http://hathology.com/2008/09/the-iphone-21-update-should-have-been-the-20-version/ http://hathology.com/2008/09/the-iphone-21-update-should-have-been-the-20-version/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:35:17 +0000 Ben http://hathology.com/?p=84

Apple doesn’t typically rush the release of a product. That is something that most Apple product fans appreciate as a good alternative to the Microsoft model of service pack 1, 2, 3, etc.

However, when the iPhone 2.0 software update was released, it was done prematurely. There were a large number of complaints that came out with the release of this software update (which was included in the new iPhone 3G model). In fact, there were a lot of new bugs in 2.0 on features that were there in 1.x already. Basically, they had messed these features up. And the highly anticipated third party app support was very difficult to work with since those apps had a tendency to take forever to install and crashed frequently.

Apple finally got it right by releasing their iPhone 2.1 software update. If you have an iPhone and have not updated to this version, do it now! It does take that long and you’ll feel like you got a new and improved iPhone instantly.

Here is a summary of what the 2.1 update includes:

  • Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
  • Significantly better battery life for most users
  • Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
  • Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
  • Faster installation of 3rd party applications
  • Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications
  • Improved performance in text messaging
  • Faster loading and searching of contacts
  • Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
  • Repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages
  • Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
  • Genius playlist creation
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