Light of the World: Magic Safari Disappearing Trick

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Magic Safari Disappearing Trick

Maybe its an old developer bug/Easter egg, or a iPhone 2G jailbreak shadow hanging on, but since I can remember (iPhone 3G iOS3, iPhone 3GS iOS4, iPhone 4S iOS5) triple tapping my Safari icon will make it disappear and the only way to bring it back is to move the icons around which makes it pop back, but it still won't work anymore. I have to restart the phone to make it work, otherwise I need to use the taskbar or search in Spotlight to open the app. None of my co-workers or family have the phenomenon. Anyone else?

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About Me

I'm a Christian, husband, electrical engineer, Mac guy, dirt bike freak, dog owner, and photographer. One of my classic statements about any given project is "I could have done this in high school if I spent enough time reading (and hacking)." Sometime in the last couple years I realized that this really is true, but I'd have to spend about 10 years reading and hacking to do it. Oh, wait, that's what I did.

Over those 10 years of reading and hacking I've been listed as co-inventor on 10+ patents; architected new embedded communication and data encoding schemes; taken multiple PCB projects from napkin sketches to preproduction shipments including power, high voltage, analog, and digital circuitry; designed, wrote, and sell software for automated industrial machines; published an iPhone app; and hacked Apple mobile device hardware and software.

I publish these articles because I fully agree with Brett Victor's Method of Learning infographic. I may be an average engineer, but I'm an above average internet searcher, if nothing else. With this in mind I'm starting to understand that if it took me hours/days/weeks of research to learn then there are many people out there who could save hours/days/weeks because of some of these articles.