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Quick tip I found on the hackint0sh forums about an issue with MobileMail crashing on a Jailbroken 1.1.4 iPhone.

Forum member Bobhope:
chown -R mobile:mobile /private/var/mobile/

Run that, will solve the problem with mail and iTunes Sync crashing.

Edit: I’ve recently found 2 new things regarding this issue. One, recently I have been unable to receive mail through MobileMail. iPhone appeared to download the mail, but wouldn’t display. This seemed to be the exact same permission issue, as with a lot of other apps that seemingly would not save anything. I’m not sure if this is due to iLiberty, but it appears there is a fix in the payload repo. Instead, I ran the above command, which brings me to number 2. Previously I did not need to run the command under root, I just ran ran it as displayed above, and it worked. For some reason it’s not working now, so I had to run su first, and input the root password.

su <enter>
<enter root password, should be alpine unless you’ve changed it>
chown -R mobile:mobile /private/var/mobile/

This is an old one, but through all the updates I’m sure some people have ended up with this ugly font back on their iPhone. Go ahead, do yourself a favor, remove it!

Gruber: Removing Marker Felt font

That will at least get you to Arial. If you’re ok with that, then you’re good to go. If you despise everything that is Arial and want to show your support to Gary, follow Gruber’s other tutorial:

Gruber: Editing MobileNotes binary

From the Documentary’s blog.

I found Helvetica looks much nicer on the iPhone’s high DPI screen (when compared to Arial).

Read Mike’s story a few comments down.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebeauchamp/2215285685/in/photostream/

To sum it up, iPhone wins.

Going to jump in with a quick post on Garmin’s latest announcement on their new phone.

I’m a happy owner of an iPhone, but when talking to a friend yesterday and the topic of smart phones came up, I struggled to recommend anything else other then the Treo he already owns.

Well, now I may have a new recommendation for him.

The Garmin Nuvifone has a clean exterior look to it, same form factor as the iPhone (at least it looks that way, of course I haven’t seen one of these yet), the phone app looks similar to the iphone, and seems that it has a full web browser on board. Direct compitition with the iPhone? Yes.

A few things pop into mind right off the hop. I’ve never owned a Garmin GPS device, so bare with me if they already tackled these;

1) Does it play music? I hate to say it, but after the iPhone, I wouldn’t consider owning a phone that doesn’t play music.

2) What engine is the browser going to be based on? I’m dreading that 2008 is going to be the start of a mobile browser war. IE, Safari, what’s next?

3) Will it support flash?
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No, I’m kidding.

I’ve been scrobbling for over 2 years now! Recently turned over to the 100,000 scrobbles mark, shouldn’t there be some kind of reward for that? Other then more accurately targeted ads by Google, of course. (Not that I think Google has access to this information)

http://www.last.fm/user/dyck15/

Even my iPhone scrobbles when it gets connected to WiFi!