Archive for April, 2009
I will start by saying this, DO NOT BUY THE ZAGG INVISIBLE SHIELD FOR IPHONE! It is a complete waste of money!
I received my zagg invisible shield on Febuary 10th, and recount my installation horror story here: http://www.dailyrelevance.com/iphone/zagg-invisible-shield
Im not one to completely disown a company, however, this has to be the worst product you could ever put on your iphone. Here are just a couple of things that Zagg needs to seriously improve on before they ever consdier selling their invisible sheild to anyone!
Installation was the most frustrating experience I have gone though in a while! Now, I can understand that it was my first time and that it does require a bit of a delicate touch, however, should it really be that hard?
Decreased touch response on the screen. I brought this up with zagg support and they said “You’ll get use to the change in touch performance. It’s not hindered, just different.” What is that supposed to mean? Why would I want my touch performance to be different than if I had nothing on the screen at all? To their defense, i never did call customer support. But I was at this point fed up with the product and going to just live with it.
Now if those were the only problems with the product I think that I would be OK, but obviously they are not!
The cover becomes severly discolored! I own a white iphone and after only 2 months with the zagg “invisible” shield it had become anything BUT invisible! Take a look at the above picture after removing the back cover.
After about a week of failed attempts at getting my Creative X-FI sound card to work with ubuntu, I finally found a guide that got me through!
For everything to work properly, you will need to disable the asla drivers and download a new volume mixer, all of which are outlined in the documentation.
You will need to follow the documentation pretty close except for some situations where the version numbers on the downloads have been updated and you will need to change the commands accordingly. Specifically when obtaining the OSS source files. When the document was written they were using v4.1, when i downloaded it was v4.2. this will affect subsequent commands and will just have to be updated.
The last part was to get the volume controller working, which was done again by following the instructions and just downloading an updated version of the *.so file. After doing that I had to remove and re-add the volume mixer to the pannel.
All is now right with the world!! You can check out the guide here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenSound
Good luck getting the Creative X-fi drivers working on your ubuntu system!