Sunday, July 26, 2009

The FirstClass iPhone app - 'unhide' the calendar and contacts containers

Well here is an interesting and curious easter egg.

If you triple-tap at the bottom of the FirstClass iPhone app's settings
page you can turn on an alarm which will provide a calendar icon and
contacts icon, and access to these items.

So, triple-tap on the version number in the lower left corner of the
settings page and you will turn the alarm on (whatever that is) and make
your calendar and contacts available. You may need to logout and log back
in before the icons appear amongst all the other FC icons.

The calendar interface is a little underdeveloped but it works.

There has been no official word from FirstClass about this hidden feature.
Since they haven't indicated that it does any harm I think it is
reasonably safe to give this a try, but you should be aware that they are
definitely not supporting this.

Fred

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Fred Bartels
Head - Computer Department
Rye Country Day School
914-925-4610


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