Twittelator Pro vs. Tweetie – FIGHT! July 1, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Guest post by Kevin Rochowski – @thunderberry Despite it’s enormous popularity, Twitter has no official iPhone app of its own. Developers, seeking to plug this gap, have taken up the challenge to make their own, ensuring that there is no lack of native clients to choose from. Today, we take two of the more popular… Read More
Will the iphone 3.1 update reduce dropped calls? Maybe … July 1, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment I’m not holding my breadth though. Since the 3.0 update, I have had more issues with dropped calls and poor cell performance. I’m not the only one to see it. Since my first post on this issue, I have received quite a few comments from people experiencing the same thing, and tips to help reduce… Read More
Review of Evernote 3.0 and the iPhone June 30, 2009 | perivision | 2 Comments Guest post by @thunderberry – Follow him! Evernote has long been the swiss army knife of universal capture. Running on Windows, Mac, the Web, multiple smartphone platforms and of course the iPhone, this hybrid of application and service has undergone multiple revisions in its goal to help you ‘Remember Everything”. Add or edit any note… Read More
Cut and Paste on the iPhone makes Evernote useful.. well more useful June 30, 2009 | perivision | 4 Comments I do not use Evernote much, despite having it on my desktop and iphone. However, I REALLY wish I could edit text in the cloud from the iphone, but Evernote just never made it into my workflow, instead I use Google Docs. Well, now with cut and paste being easier to use, I found myself… Read More
Running iphone app in the background on ready for 3.0 with Backgrounder June 27, 2009 | perivision | 10 Comments W00t I say, w00t! In case you do not know about running an iphone app in the background, read this.. https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/?p=1451 Remember though, if you are playing digital radio, it will take up power and thus your phone will get warm and that’s BAD for batteries. So make sure you do what you can to… Read More
iphone 3.0 tip #16 June 26, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment With exception to cut and paste, there was not much that I though was really useful in 3.0, but there are a few.. here is #16 Open Link In New Tab In Safari Safari now uses tabbed browsing, like big boys do on the desktops, and this new hidden feature is great. If you tap… Read More
Four Tips to Reduce Dropped Calls for the iphone 3G… again June 24, 2009 | perivision | 8 Comments I wrote this article for iphoneLife over 1/2 a year ago. For those who remember before the 2.1 update on the 3G, dropped calls was a continual pain. Well, I’m not sure what the story is; or if its just odd coincidence, I and others have been having issues with dropped calls once we did… Read More
Flash on the Android. Getting closer… June 24, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment This just came through the wires via Cnet.. Marking a departure from the world of iPhone, HTC’s new Android-based Hero phone will also come with the ability to handle Flash elements that adorn many Web sites and powers YouTube video. Adobe Systems announced on Wednesday that its Flash Player will be built into the HTC… Read More
Iphone increased dropped calls after 3.0 upgrade June 23, 2009 | perivision | 75 Comments I really do not understand this. But for some reason, I’ve been dropping more calls, and the quality of my calls seems to have degraded. I when I first upgraded, I tried to make a call and it sounded noisy like I had an analog connection. At first I thought perhaps since the baseband was… Read More
How I upgraded my iphone 3G to 3.0 using Pwnage Tool June 22, 2009 | perivision | 3 Comments First off, I’m not your typical user, and if you read my blog you would know this; I use jailbreak and LOVE it. However, I also cannot resist experimenting with the iPhone, so once I felt satisfied I heard the jailbreak for 3.0 was relatively stable, I decided to go for it. However, just as an… Read More
redsnow (redsn0w) ready for jailbreaking iPhone 3.0 3G, but NOT 3GS June 21, 2009 | perivision | 5 Comments And now we have Redsn0w!! {UPDATE} 3GS is jailbroken also. Link to story. First off, right from the Dev-Team Blog.. Read this… I’m serious!! READ THIS!! Here is the link. REDSN0W PROVIDES SIMILAR FUNCTIONALITY TO QUICKPWN. If you want to build custom firmware files with more flexibility it is suggested that you use ‘PwnageTool’ on… Read More
Special #iranElection search filter added to twittFilter June 18, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment I put this together pretty quickly in just a few hours, so I’m sure there are plenty of bugs, but I wanted to get it out there as soon as possible. here is the link: http://www.twittfilter.com/iranElection.php# A problem I have with twitter search during the election is some many RT’ed messages saying the same thing.… Read More
to DDoS or not to DDoS iranElection. That is the question. June 18, 2009 | perivision | 2 Comments There has been a movement to launch denial of service attached on various iranian pro government sites using standard DDoS tools to simple reload scripts like http://www.pagereboot.com/ Although I can understand the desire to increase the volume of expressed displeasure with the election, I’m not sure this is really helping. Because the government is already… Read More
Zannel creates a #iranelection channel June 17, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Today Zannel released a modification to its service to follow hashtags from twitter to support people posting media regarding the #iranElection hashtag. This would have been really useful 24 hours ago, but still, a great potential resource. Since this was just live today, there has not been a lot of action on the site, but… Read More
Twitter, #iranelection and social networks June 16, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment {update} I created a search on twittFilter that hides duplicate from a twitter search. This is useful for #iranElection here is the link: http://www.twittfilter.com/iranElection.php# I’m sure most of you who use twitter are already aware of what has been going on. Because of the media blocks in Iran, social media tools like twitter, friendfeed, flickr… Read More
Twitter reschedules in response to Iranian protests June 15, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment This is how you know your having an impact on the world. When you cannot perform an upgrade to your service because a group of users, say.. IRAN! is relaying on your system to communicate with each other because the government is blocking media systems. Tonight, twitter was suppose to go down for 90min (which… Read More
Twitterrific fix is now available. June 14, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment When the Twitpocalypse kicked off 2 days back, (story here) I figured most major apps would have been ready for it. I was wrong. I also figured, well, there will be a fix in 24 hrs. Wrong again. Its Sunday night and I finally saw Twitterrific after I manually refreshed updates. I installed the update and… Read More
Twitpocalypse claims more iPhone victims then I would have guessed June 12, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment Its not like we were not warned or anything. I knew this was coming 2 weeks ago. Twitpocalypse is twitters version of Y2K where the unique identifier associated to each tweet will exceed 2,147,483,647. This afternoon, I spend all of 10 min fixing the db in twittFilter to handle the changes and all good. (lux… Read More
How cool! A Stencil Interface Template for iPhone apps June 10, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment Just saw this in Gizmodo. How cool is this? Now, according to Gizmodo, there are only 100 of these, so go get it. Here is the link. www.designcommission.com The template is 16.95 USD which also includes the Zebra mechanical pencil seen in the pic. They also have a pdf you can download which has 3 prints of… Read More
An odd twitter bug if you’ve changed your password June 10, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment {note: if you are looking for the stencil story, click here } I’m drafting an article about twitter applications for the iphone. (if you have a fav iphone twitter app, let me know). I changed my password while I test out some apps and I’ve experienced some login issues. It’s even messed up twittFilter. (for… Read More