Joost Schuur

Suck it, Tim Langdell.

Could he be factoring in some kind of monthly data plan for a year?

Third party video support was added in the iOS 4.3 API and a few apps are already taking advantage of it. Air Video was recently updated to support both video and audio AirPlay streaming.

I had an issue with the alarm time changing every time I fast app switched to and from Night Stand HD on the iPad 2 on Saturday and couldn't replicate it this morning.

It doesn't sound like it possibly be related to a DST problem in the OS, but the timing was curious. Maybe there was a DST bug in the app itself.

The whole idea is that if you properly store your state to persist between terminations when your app is suspended, it can safely be killed without an additional chance given to you with another method call. Since your app was already suspended prior, there were no changes in your data to save, and you're not forcing the phone to expend more resources at a point when it was running low in the first place (since that's why the app is being fully terminated).

Even better, in MobileSafari, prefix the URL of a PDF with 'g' to trigger loading iron GoodReader.

Another vote for Teleport here. If you need to connect 2 Macs, it's much easier to configure than Synergy.

I was thinking the exact same thing when I read the article's opener. I almost assumed that Erica was simply smarter than me (no doubt that's the case) and hinting at some bug-level problem in 4.0 that legacy apps might exhibit, since all the developer docs I've seen say a 3.x app terminates when you hit the home button in 4.0, just like it did in 3.x (i.e. with one last delegate call and the ability to handle a few seconds of cleanup, but nowhere near 4.0's task completion).

Since state restoration was left fully up to the app anyway in 3.0 and apps that haven't been updated to 4.0 don't even get the benefit of fast app switching's automatic 'freeze drying' when they're suspended, what would these problems be that Eric eludes to?

In most cases, the app isn't 'running in the background. It's suspended to the point where it doesn't require CPU cycles and doesn't use any additional battery power.

It's hard to miss when apps are still running. They'll play audio, handle location updates or let you do VOIP calls.

And the moral of the story: If your mailbox is just down the drive way, don't be lazy and drive there. Get some exercise and walk to it! Even if it is more than a few hundred feet away.