Shyam Guthikonda

Overall, the iPhone is the best existing device for my needs, but of course it has it’s own faults. Below are a couple of the most irritating things (for me) about the iPhone. I have other unlisted issues with the device, but most of them are common complaints that you’ve probably read about somewhere else already.

• Screen Rotation Toggle – When trying to read something on my iPhone while lying at an odd angle in bed, it would be great to be able to disable the screen rotation. I wish there was a global option to disable this somewhere.
• Touch Screen Toggle – One case is when I am trying to read a long Wikipedia entry, or a long article in Safari. When scrolling [touch + drag] through a long page in Safari, such as a long Wikipedia entry, it is too easy to accidentally click on a link [touch]. This re-directs you to another page, or even opens a new browser window. This could easily be fixed in Safari by adding another button to the bottom (near the bookmarks) to toggle the tap gesture. It still doesn’t fix the problem on an application-wide level (I have the same issue when reading from the AP News app, or even Mail).

I recently just built a new PC using the Antec 900 gaming case, and a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P motherboard. Audio was configured to utilize HD audio (as opposed to AC 97). After the build was complete, I noticed that the front audio jack on the case was not working. The audio jack on the back of the case works fine. This seems to be a common issue with this case.

Here are the steps I took to get this working properly:

• Open the Realtek HD Audio Manager, which was probably installed at the same time the motherboard drivers were installed.
• Navigate to the Audio I/O tab.
• Click the “Connector Settings” button (a small circular button with a wrench icon).
• Put a check mark next to the option “Disable front panel jack detection”.

Other than this small issue, the case was a breeze to work with.

Here are some pictures from the building process: