I’d been noticing lately that at times incoming calls on my iPhone were going straight to voicemail. In fact I’ve probably had more calls missed than have rang and I’ve picked up. At first I thought I just wasn’t hearing the ring or feeling the vibration. But the last couple of days made me thing something was up when I was waiting for a call and having the phone in my hand only to not have it ring but get a notification that I had new voicemail!

This morning I did some tests, I called several times and it wasn’t ringing, it would go to voicemail. Even more problematic was the fact that the voicemail I left was not coming through either. It took an hour for the voicemail to show up.

I turned the unit off and on several times to no avail. I took it down to the Apple Store and a genius there did a reboot of it and I was back in ringing business. I’m starting to see reports of iPhone users not being able to receive calls on their iPhone. These reports are saying that if the phone is retrieving data from the Edge network that all calls will go to voicemail.

I’m not sure if this was something I was running into, but now I know if I’m waiting for a call I shouldn’t be pulling data from the Edge network. I’ll keep my eye on it, but if you run into similar issues give your device a restart (hold down the lock/unlock button on top and the Home button for about 10 seconds until the Apple logo displays.

Along with the iPhone developer site from Apple there is a new iPhone developer blog that recently launched, iPhoneDispatch.com. iPhoneDispatch.com is a blog about using and developing on the iPhone written by Gary Rosenzweig. I know Gary from early days in the industry working in Director so I can’t wait to see what comes of his iPhone initiatives.

This wasn’t apparent to me and a google search wasn’t turning up a solution for me. I had a few photos that I’d taken with my iPhone that I wanted to move from the iPhone to my computer. Like I said I wasn’t seeing anything in iTunes for syncing photos from the camera. Google and the iPod manual weren’t turning up any information either. But on a hunch I launched iPhoto and low and behold iPhoto recognized the iPhone camera and there were the images.

I suspect most user might not run into this if they use iPhoto or have not turned off iPhoto to automatically launch when a camera is connected. A few months back I switched from using iPhoto for my digital darkroom workflow. I switched to Adobe Bridge to catalog my photos and turned off the feature in iPhoto to launch when a camera is connected. Here’s a photo from the iPhone, this is Zeb on his 3rd birthday out ice skating, I did size the image down for the web.

One of the iPhone dissapointments, besides the lack of Flash support, is the fact you can’t control your mac with it. I had hoped for the ability to send commands to AppleTV or other Macintoshes via bluetooth. Hopefully that ability will come in the future. For now there is the telekinesis iPhone Remote. The project appears to install a web server that has the ability to interact with the host system in such ways not possible with a traditional Web server.
Features:

• Stream music and videos from your computer ( 0.9.8 ) learn how
• Screen capture with mouse click and basic typing support
• Simple iTunes Remote control
• Browse your files
• Run applescript remotely
• iSight image capture
• Easily create and add more apps

Be sure to check out the security warnings, this might not be for everyone.