PeriVisioN site running slow the last few days … fixed. Sorry, seems the twitter plugin I was using was killing the load times on the site. We should be good now. I removed the plugin for the time being. ~ management.… Read More
Kindle for the iphone is a touch buggy … at least for me .. I prefer Stanza I’m jailbroken, so when an app does not work, I tend to give it 50/50 odds that one of the jailbreak apps could be causing issues. But with the Amazon’s new Kindle, I’m beginning to think it could be more Kindle then jailbreak. When I first loaded the app, it locked up the OS forcing… Read More
NPR on the iPhone using PublicRadio and NPR Mobile I have been a iphone radio user since AOL radio first came out. I tend to use the digital radio just as often as I use the iPod feature. Missing however was public radio from AOL. Well, that has been sorted. Now, NPR Mobile has been out for a bit, but it lacked live streaming.… Read More
iphone tip #29: fix extra icon issue with categories If you have categories on your iphone, you may have noticed that when you update an app, it creates a new icon on the iphone’s ‘desktop’. The fix? Simply refresh categories. Here are the steps… 1) Open categories 2) open any folder 3) click add.. You do NOT have to add anything 4) close and… Read More
iPhone a FAIL in Japan? Sayz who? Like everyone else, I’m been seeing a string of articles (most based off the wired article) saying Japan hates the iphone. Now hate is a strong word, but I bought most of what I read. Most.. The only thing that seemed odd to me was the ‘unfashionable’ bit. Really? I have my complaints about the… Read More
Kill process (cnt-alt-del) for the iphone.. SBSettings gets cooler and cooler There is a good reason SBSettings is Ichiban for my 10 ten best iphone apps list, I use it daily. Really.. Daily! Mostly turning the 3G off and on. When 3G is on at my place, my odds of missing a call climbs to 20%. Well, whats really great about this app is other people… Read More
YouTube fail on the iphone getting fixed.. slowly First off, I’m really surprised not more people raised a stink about this. When I checked the boards and twitter, it was clear it was on many phones, but either few people seemed to care or the word got out to go through the web interface to play movies. Perhaps I’m one of the few… Read More
How to make a skype call on the iphone using truphone I use skype, not as much as in the past, but every now and again. Now truphone has brought in skype support. I can call skype people, skype’rs can call me and I can do IM. That’s all I need really. I’ve talked about truphone before (link) and VoiP in general for overseas calls (story… Read More
Cut and paste on the iphone. closer… closer.. I’ve written about Clippy before, however, its getting more and more interesting. Now whenever you press the .?123 button, it will read the current or top text field and offer to copy it. Plus, if you are in the email preview mode, and press and hold on a message, it will offer to copy the… Read More
How to play youtube videos on the iphone using a simple workaround Yesterday I wrote about a FAIL where movies for many iphone users are not playing. I do not have a the full answer as to why it’s not working, although it seems that the .flv (flash version) of the video is playing instead of the h.264 (apple version). As of this writing, it still does… Read More
Youtube on the iphone is not working.. This is odd. Around 1:30am pst (Feb 23 ’09), movies on youtube have stopped working. As if there was a glitch that has all flash flv being selected instead of the h.264 codec coming up. I did a quick check on twitter and seems others are having the same issue. The odd thing is I… Read More
WHY we are not going to see Flash on the iphone for a looongg time. I’ve written a few posts.. ok, a number of posts on how annoyed I am that Flash in not on the iphone. My biggest complaint is the lack of video support. But WHY? What we hear from Adobe is that there are technical issues and its up to them to solve. Riiiigghhtt.. Yes, I’m sure… Read More
Flash 10 coming to a mobile phone near you.. as long as its not an iphone Arrgg.. every time I read anything about the FAIL on getting flash running on the iphone, it just bugs the heck out of me. So guess what I read today from cnet? ‘Lynch demonstrated Flash Player 10 on devices running Nokia’s Symbian operating system, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, and Google’s Android operating system. But the quintessential… Read More
Can Apple send jailbreakers to jail? A statement from Apple came out today claiming ‘Jailbreaking an iPhone constitutes copyright infringement and a DMCA violation..’ Well, based on what I’m reading from Fred von Lohmann on the EFF site, I’m thinking no. Here is why; Apple’s copyright infringement claim starts with the observation that jailbroken iPhones depend on modified versions of Apple’s… Read More
Turn by turn GPS directions on the iphone and ipod with xGPS I already wrote about these guys awhile ago, but their app just hit Cydia, so I thought I would pass the word. I’ve downloaded the app to play with it, but have not had time to read the instructions yet. (did not work out-of the-box). Here is the orginal post.. and this post…… Read More
Two new apps make my top 10 jailbreak apps list Yes, its been awhile since I’ve updated my top 10 list, but in the last 2 weeks, there have been a number of really good apps coming online, and 2 of them are MUST haves. First new entry: Clippy Clippy was first sold as a ‘kinda’ cut and paste system. And ‘kinda’ is about as… Read More
How to take better photos on the iphone with clearCam Normally I do not write about an app more then once, typically I would just update the original post, ( I know, bad practice ), however in this case, I wanted to write about this again because of how impressed I am with this little app. ClearCam, the original post here, is a program that… Read More
Jailbreak for iphone 2.2.1 is out for both Mac and PC. As expected The dev team is on the ball, as expected. I never upgraded to 2.2.1 because I did not want to bother with it. Note, QuickPwn has been updated to version 2.2.5-2 for the windows users. Remember QuickPwn and PwnageTool are not the same things.. so read up. Here is the link http://blog.iphone-dev.org/ Remember, normal rules… Read More
Insert text, whole words and phrases, cut and paste on the iphone. Re review of Clippy. When I first wrote about Clippy, I liked it but I thought it’s usefulness was somewhat limited. However, its been improving bit by bit over time. Something they added a while back is a feature called the ‘Clipboard Stack’. It did not hit me right off, but one night I was filling out my login… Read More
Improved iphone photos with clearcam.. and yea, it works We all know that the camera on the iphone is about as poor as it gets. Basically its the same thing I had in my treo600/650. I’ve learn to accept this and move on with life. Well, seems like someone was not willing to take this laying down and did something about it. In comes… Read More