Jay Yoo

This is great.  Apple, with more cash in the bank than the US Treasury, takes matters in their own hands when it comes to sustainability.  It’s great to think they would venture to reinvent “the battery,” or find other new ways to better power electronic devices, as more powerful gadgets require more power, particularly their displays.

Straight from the patent application:

“Our country’s continuing reliance on fossil fuels has forced our government to maintain complicated political and military relationships with unstable governments in the Middle East, and has also exposed our coastlines and our citizens to the associated hazards of offshore drilling,” the filings state. “These problems have led to an increasing awareness and desire on the part of consumers to promote and use renewable energy sources.”

It’s incredible to me that they put this in the Background / Related Art section of a patent application; sounds like something to campaign on.  

Via Apple Insider

Recently my mic on my iPhone 4 stopped working properly.  When I put it on speaker during a call, people could barely hear me.  Strangely, when I made a voice memo, my recording was as clear as away?  I thought for sure it was a hardware malfunction, but the fact that I could record a voice memo then made me think it was a software glitch.  

I tried everything  from restoring and backing up to bringing it in to the Apple Store, only to have them tell me I needed to, yes, buy a new iPhone.  

Here is the stupid solution: Take a sewing needle and push the pointed end though the tiny voice reducing mic hole next to the headphone jack (but not all the way through).  Don’t worry, the hole is so small you will not be able to get much of the needle head in.

After taking a vacuum cleaner to the hole and headphone jack, viola!  

There must have been some lint buildup causing the noise reducing mic to cancel virtually everything out. 

It amazes me how many useless other fixes seemed to bubble up on Google.  

Jay