Dayn W Creative

I’ve had my iPhone for a month or so.  Best device ever.  Most importantly, best PHONE ever.

Yet, something is amiss.  There seems to be a dead row or area on the touch screen that has just surfaced.  Not dead in that it’s a display flaw, but rather the touch screen is unresponsive.  Unfortunately, it occupies an fingertip’s height for the entire width of the screen when held in portrait orientation.  This makes me think the touch sensor or controller for this row is out.

Doubly annoying is that this row is the row needed for the top line of the qwerty keyboard, and the number “0″ on the keypad when dialing.  Dragging my finger over this dead to touch area on the iPhone screen registers as a mouseup or release, so I no longer am able to scroll the full length of the screen.

Thankfully, I’m not alone.  I have found some articles on this issue at:

•  Wired
• Apple Insider Forum

According to the posts in the Apple Insider Forum, it sounds like I’ll have to take the iPhone into the Genius Bar with all its accessories.  At that point, they’ll either exchange the phone, or charge me $30 US for a loaner while mine will be ‘repaired’.  In this case I think the repair will probably just be a replacement iPhone.

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I’m working on a project that requires me to embed a Google Calendar on a page.  The visitor to the page will only be given access to view the calendar, but not to edit or add events.  Thankfully, Google has provided an easy method to do this via an iframe.

However, the fun doesn’t end there.  I have been developing on a Mac and in Firefox, but I keep a PC with IE6 around for testing.  I fired up the old girl and imagine my amazement to find an extra feature when viewing the page in IE6!  The “Week” tab appears in IE6, but is absent in the Firefox rendered calendar.  For some reason, viewing the iframed calendar in IE6 allows you to view the calendar by week, while the same feature is absent from both Firefox Mac/PC and Safari on Mac.  Who knew?

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