Did twitter lose some of my messages? Yes and no The last week has not been kind to the twitter servers. As someone who has a twitter product (twittfilter.com) I get to see (and hear) everything that goes wrong in twitter land. A combination of servers issues and a few virus (kinda) attacks on the system has forced twitter to moat certain bits of itself… Read More
A jailbreak (limited) App store! Cydia in full, well limited, effect.. Yes, I know, I have not been active in a LONG time. Between twittfilter.com, my taxes (which are still not done) and this monster flu, I’ve been gutted.. However, lots to talk about, so hopefully I will get back into the flow of things. First off, I guess 4 or 5 days ago, Cydia released… Read More
iphone 3.0 beta has been jailbroken.. what took so long? Ok, a joke there. The fact it was jailbroken so quickly is quite impressive. I would have figured early summer, but the proof code is out there. Course, Apple has some language in the SDK agreement saying that you will NOT contribute to jailbreaking efforts. This will not stop the jailbreaking, but does give the… Read More
Skype has a new iphone, Truphone’s respone? Unlimited plan Ok, so we all knew Skype’s app was coming out soon. And we ALSO knew that Truphone has something is mind to reply to it. The answer? In my email of course. Here is what I got.. Lets the VoIP wars begin! Get even more value from Truphone with an Unlimited calling plan (find out… Read More
New comment system offer everything you need in 1 word Thanks to JS-Kit, we do not have to worry if our grammer is correct anymore. You get one word… Just One! Less is more people. 🙂… Read More
ROLF Copter for the iphone! Yea, you know you want it What more can I say? A ROLF copter for the iphone. Does nothing but play the well known animation. Entertainment value, 2 min. But what the heck. 😉… Read More
Skype for the iphone not working for you? Did you check Clippy? I downloaded the Skype app just for the heck of it and it crashed every time I clicked on a text field! What? I tried a reboot, reinstall, nothing … Oh, there is one more thing I could try .. Turn off Clippy. Yup, that was it. Now when I first tried to login, it… Read More
Control your presentations from the new apple earphones? Well, according to macosxhints. They have not tried it, nor have I, but it seems like it could work. Since the new MacBooks now receive input from the iPhone’s headphones, you can use those headphones as a remote for running a presentation in Keynote ’09: One click starts the presentation. Two clicks moves to the… Read More
iphone 3.0 to give us remote controllers? Yea.. or at least, it better At GDC yesterday, I walked past a display showing the ‘Zeemote’. They had it working with a verity of phones (from the site: major manufacturers like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, LG, Motorola, and, Samsung). Missing of course? The iPhone! Why? Because it uses Bluetooth which the iPhone VERY poorly supports. However, times.. they are a chang’in..… Read More
Why tethering is critical at GDC, when you cannot wait for iphone 3.0 This is the first day at GDC, and in the press room, the interwebs connection was good, but in the middle of drafting another post, the thing went south on me. Grr… Worse yet, in the conference rooms (of which I’m in now learning about various coding techniques for graphics on mobile devices) does not… Read More
Eat local with your iphone using Locavore How cool is this? Read this in TC. First off, what is a Locavor? “Locavore is someone who eats food grown or produced locally or within a certain radius.” I’ve been a kinda of locavore for awhile now. Go to my local farmers market, try to only eat and shop in walking distance. Costs a… Read More
Twittfilter: a twitter address book, scored new follower email … and much more I’ve been working on TwittFilter for quite awhile now, and I think it’s at a level where I can call it Beta. Not Google Beta, but Beta is the way we used to know it. Mostly there, but not fully perfect or fully bug free. Note: With twitter moving to full OAuth, not all features… Read More
Buy an iphone without a 2 yr contract. But still locked to ATT Are you kidding me? Here is what came across the wire.. The Associated Press quoted an AT&T representative Thursday confirming plans to sell no-contract iPhones for $599 or $699 starting next Thursday, as first reported Wednesday by the Boy Genius Report. There’s a catch, however; those phones will still be locked to AT&T’s network. Ok.. … Read More
iphone 3.0 presentation is complete. So what did we get that we have in jailbreak? A few days back I wrote a post asking.. are there clues to what we can hope to see, and expect to see, in 3.0 that has proven successful in the jailbreak world. I took my top ten list and looked at the odds of each app coming to 3.0. Now keep in mind that… Read More
Friendfilter: replace your twitter email with a scored new follower email Friendfilter, a service of Twittfilter.com has gone Beta! Currently, when you get a new follower, twitter sends you a generic email saying.. you got a new follower.. Well, great, but that does not tell me anything. Friendfilter is a service that will check for new followers and score them relative to you. A scorecard is… Read More
iphone 4G, Really? We are still in rumor control.. but… {update} Well, seems like we WILL get a flash! Wow. 🙂 Updated post on the iPhone4 here… Lots of chat about the 4G, each place I’ve checked out for info seems to read like rumor. Lots of images out there too. Here is one that was emailed to me.. Its pretty certain Verizon will be… Read More
What can we hope for with iphone 3.0 OS update .. can we look towards jailbreak apps? I’m sure you have already heard, Apple is going to present iphone 3.0 OS on March 17. And ho yea, I will be watching. Since its only the 12th now, we have some time to think about what we might see in 3.0. There are plenty of things that need to be fixed or improved;… Read More
Connecting your iphone/ipod to your radio (stereo) through the CD changer Last week I read an article in popular mechanics (link here) talking about the various ways, and the level of quality, per option. Nothing new here that has not already been talked about, except, the missed out on one.. Over ride the CD changer! Why would we want to do something like that? Well, lets… Read More
Review of Stanza as an ebook reader for the iphone I wrote about this last week, how I did not care much for the kindle reader, and cared less about amazon crashing on me. (still have not determined the problem yet… been busy). It felt slow and a touch klunky. It crashed the first time I loaded it. From what I read, the time is… Read More
Yahoo’s Inquisitor search app is … actually pretty good When I first saw the screen shots, I though, meh, too much screen space used up for the returns. But I downloaded it and gave it shot anyway. I still do not like how much screen space is taken up by the dividers, however, this thing is FAST! Very impressive. The web browser is pretty… Read More