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iPhone MMS Not Working on 3.0? Here’s Some Help.

by Jay Garrett on June 18, 2009

iphoneos3If, like me, you updated your iPhone with 3.0 then went to send a picture as soon as possible only to have it not send – here’s why.

According to O2 if you’re on the Simplicity scheme or you’re a pay as you go customer, once you’ve updated your iPhone, you need to text ‘MMS‘ to 1010.

This free text should start the process of activating MMS on your phone, and you should be good to send pictures of your cat sleeping within 24 hours.

If, like me, you’re a pay-monthly customer, the delay is down to demand on the O2 servers.

All you have to do is wait until the correct settings are delivered to your iPhone. O2 will text you to let you know when you’re ready to go, which should be within 24 hours.

If you haven’t heard anything by then, you too should text ‘MMS’ to 1010 to trigger the process.

I know it’s a tad annoying but let’s face it – we’ve all waited two years to send MMS on an iPhone, you can surely manage another 24 hours!

Look out for the iPhone S review happening soon ;)

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HAR – Robot Home Help Learns Not To Mop The Cat

by Jay Garrett on October 27, 2008

Fancy yourself a butler/maid/skivvy but can’t afford the wages?

Well, a one off payment of around $10,00 could score you the “Home Assistant Robot”.

The housproud bot is the product of joint research between Toyota and the University of Tokyo.  It stands 5-foot tall on its practical wheels and weighs in at 286lb.

The HAR uses five cameras and six lasers to map and navigate round your home and has fairly free movement – the neck alone can be moved in three directions while the arms move seven!

The helpful HAR can open and close doors, tidy up rooms, mop floors, do your laundry and put away dishes – all this without a marriage certificate :P   ~ducks out of the way of flying frying pans~

What impresses me is that mechanical home-help is clever enough to move furniture out of the way to clean floors and such and then place it back in its original position when the chore is done.

I’m not exactly sure how the robot learns from its mistakes but the programming seems to operate on simple “Magic Eye”-type principals distinguishing what’s different about a room from its original room image and correcting the differences accordingly.

You can get between 30 to 60 minutes of graft per charge and can be expected to arrive at homes in the next decade.

So, save a grand a year…………..

Asahi via CrunchGear


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