Copy Video on iPhone without iTunes

If you are in need of copying a home video on to your iPhone and you have lost the computer which has the original iTunes sync, do not despair.

VLC app on ios is there for the rescue.

Official Documentation: https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:IOS

Steps

1. Temporarily turn off the lock feature of your iPhone. You can bring it back after the video upload.
2. Download VLC player from the App Store. Ensure that the vendor is VideoLan.
3. Ensure your iphone and computer are connected to the same WIFI.
4. Open VLC app.
5. On the top left hand corner, is the hat symbol. Click on hat.
6. Go to Wiki Upload. Enable the server.  Note down the IP address it provides.
7. Go to your browser and type in the IP address:  something starting with http:
8. You will see Fig 1
9. Click upload files button and choose the video file.
10. Once the file is uploaded, enjoy the home video. Remember VLC can play many formats : mp3, mp4, m4u etc.
11. Remember to turn back the locking feature on your iphone.

12. 

    Fig1: Browser Interface

iphone4 antenna issues

Now that Apple has released iphone4, there are growing complaints from users about the Antenna.

Based on this story, Apple acknowledges the antenna issues.

Apple has responded with a statement:

"Gripping any mobile phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases."

To mitigate this problem, it is best to get one of the cases for the phone. Not only with a case do you guard the phones from drops, but also the reception issue is solved.

iPhone: Stuck Email Messages

Sometime, your iphone fails to send email messages. Then it tries to send the email messages repeatedly, until your battery gets drained.

One Workaround:
1) Go to settings.
* Enable "Airplane Mode".
* In Mail etc, disable the email accounts. Set to "Off".
2) Now go to the Email account where you are having outgoing messages issue.
3) In the OutBox for the email account, go through the stuck emails and delete them.
4) Go to settings and disable "airplane" mode and re-enable the email accounts.

This should work.