My iPhone 4S battery replacement experience

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After one year of service the battery of my iPhone 4S started to show signs of weakness. When I used the data connection or the GPS more than usual, the device often ran out of power before the end of the day. I worked around the issue by disabled I few things including the Bluetooth and even the Wi-Fi. My cellular plan includes enough data per month and the 3G network is fast enough in Paris that I could update apps and download podcasts painlessly via 3G.

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Mail files to Dropbox

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I love Dropbox. It is a great way to share files with and between iOS devices. Dropbox is also available as a service for other apps so I hope it will become a standard way to share files between devices and even maybe between apps on the same device. However one feature that Dropbox is currently missing is a way to send files to Dropbox by email. Most iOS apps allow you to save files and attach them to an email. So if these attachments could end up automatically in Dropbox, wouldn't it be great? So let's do it.

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Automatic birthday reminders from Address Book to iCal

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With Mac OS X Tiger (10.4), Apple introduced a new feature in iCal: the ability to generate a calendar from the birthdays that you added in Address Book. Find out more at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iCal/2.0/en/wr70.html. However I was disappointed that one cannot set an alarm on the events in the Birthdays calendar. So I created a hack to fix that.

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