At the start of march, I planted eight tomato plants. Let’s check in and see how they’re doing.

For comparisons sake, here’s Roma 1, the day it was planted.

This is Roma 1, the day it was planted. A baby. It's growing so fast.

Discovering that the person on the other end of the phone can’t hear you talk, especially while driving on the freeway, is frustrating, scary and dangerous. Is your headset broken? Is it the iPhone itself? Do you need to repair or replace? Very frustrating.

However, as I recently learned, it’s likely a simple issue called “headphone mode” – the setting the iPhone automatically switches into when you listen to music with standard headphones (not the headset with the microphone and button). If the headphones are removed the wrong way (what that is, I do not know), the iPhone might think you still have them inserted and won’t respond correctly when you try to use the earpiece.

A call to the Apple technician recommended rapidly plugging and unplugging the headphones. However, that didn’t work for me. The other option was to restore the iPhone, erasing all my contacts, photos, etc.

Before doing that, I tried one last thing that worked immediately. Here’s what to do:

1. Put your iPhone into iPod mode with the headphones plugged in
2. Unplug the headphones. iPhone goes back to regular mode.

Voila, the problem is solved. Enjoy.

Monthly Giveaway! Every month I’m giving away a nice prize for helping support DO IT and spreading the DIY love. Here’s how to get in on the action.

BMX Vampire Hunters IN PARIS from Mike Senese on Vimeo.

My sister and I met up in SF a few week back and did a fun video project called BMX Vampire Hunters IN PARIS. Deliberately full of mistakes, translation errors and misconceptions. Filmed on the Powershot SD1000 and edited in iMovie HD. Music: Air – Radian; Mordred – Falling Away.

The best part is when the video shows the car skating forward, balanced on the crumpled up front end.

Suppose you like to make pizza, so much so that you cook it a few times a week. At that point, you’re probably exploring all the tips and techniques to make all the ingredients fresh and delicious. Which is exactly why I decided to start a tomato garden.

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