4Wallz iPhone Blog

An iPhone enabled/optimized blog

4wallz — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:19:44 +0000

Well I am trying out this new blog service I found that supports Wordpress plugins.� Unfortunately, I am looking for a specific plugin (WPtouch) which optimizes Wordpress blogs for viewing on the iPhone.� If you are reading this post on an iPhone, check out this blog >>� iwebkit.� Reading the iwebkit blog on any other browser will show a regular Wordpress format, but on the iPhone it is optimized for that device’s slimmed down version of Safari.

Note: added rel=�lightbox� to image to create lightbox effect.

Moving day

4wallz — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:55:09 +0000

Today mom and dad (Froese) got possession of their condo in Abbotsford. It is hard to believe that they listed their home in Three Hills and sold it a day later. The family that bought their house wanted to move in at the beginning of September. Mom and dad had to move quick and get something here while the market is a little slow.

A bunch of us got to the condo today to help move boxes and furniture. Shannon made pizza for us all then we went to DQ after all the boxes were unloaded from the truck.

Here are the girls taking a little break.

Memories of Eastern Europe

4wallz — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:57:58 +0000

Today while we were in the grocery store in Bellingham, we noticed an aisle of Russian foods. Having lived in Georgia for over a year and a half, we were curious to see if there were any familiar foods. Here is what we found.
(Blogged from my iPhone)

Joe Biden’s pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record

4wallz — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:52:03 +0000

By Declan McCullagh, CNET Sat Aug 23, 9:09 PM ET

By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders…

Read the whole story here.

Some iHeadlines

4wallz — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:47:31 +0000

Block Party 2008

4wallz — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:48:37 +0000

We showed up for the second year in a row for the annual block party. Shannon and Kendra were doing henna tatoos. It was a big hit.

Northwest Washington Fair

4wallz — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:31:03 +0000

We are sitting in the grandstands at the fair watching a horse pulling show. Tonight at 8pm the Newsboys are in concert. Here is a shot of one of the horse teams.

Using Palm OS apps on the iPhone

4wallz — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:45:27 +0000

I was looking for a new app for my iPhone, a pilot logbook app.� Imagine my surprise when I ran across this forum post which said that there is an iPhone app for running Palm OS software on the iPhone!� Wow, there are thousands of Palm apps and I would love to try them on my new iPhone.

StyleTap Platform: Update on StyleTap for iPhone

For now, the StyleTap app can only be run on an iPhone that has had the Jailbreak procedure run on it.� I am not ready to take that plunge until InstallerApps has come out with a stable version of their software.� But this is an interesting development and I will be watching the progress of the StyleTap team.

Enjoying the warm summer weather

4wallz — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:44:41 +0000

Today we are sitting outside after supper enjoying the warm weather. Our latest game that we have embraced is called “Nuust”. Here we are sitting on the deck playing. Amanda was the first one to 20,000 points today.

iPhone vs Windows

4wallz — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:30:17 +0000

There are many things that the new iPhone does well but one of those things does NOT include managing the Contact list from the phone directly.

I sync my Contact app with gMail’s contacts. This was easy to set up but I was unable to place existing contacts into a group. Creating a new group is possible as is creating a new contact inside a group.

So in order to manage my contacts from Windows, I had to take the following steps.

1. Create a new MobileMe account. This is a free trial for the first 60 days.

2. Sync my contacts in MobileMe with my gMail account.

3. Open Windows address book and delete the one address that was present there.

4. Log out of MobileMe.

5. Start iTunes and change the sync options for Contacts to the Windows address book and Sync. When prompted, I had the iphone overwrite the address book on the computer.

It took me a couple of tries to make it work, but now I can create, edit and delete groups from Windows and it is reflected on the iPhone. Yeah!

Here is a screen shot I took of my iPhone after learning how to take screen shots.