Cut and paste on the iphone. closer… closer.. February 25, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment 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 February 23, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment 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.. February 23, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment 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. February 21, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment 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
Favorite Apps for a Social Media Consultant February 19, 2009 | jacobmorgan | Leave a comment { Welcome Jacob – This is his first guest post on As seen through PeriVisioN.. } As a social media consultant it’s always important for me to be “connected” not just to clients or friends, but to information on the web. Of course, not all of the apps I use are necessarily for business, but… Read More
Flash 10 coming to a mobile phone near you.. as long as its not an iphone February 15, 2009 | perivision | 3 Comments 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? February 13, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment 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 February 12, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment 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 February 11, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment 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 February 9, 2009 | perivision | 5 Comments 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 February 7, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment 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. February 6, 2009 | perivision | 4 Comments 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 February 5, 2009 | perivision | 2 Comments 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
GolfTraxx… Not as FAIL as the first time… So, semi FAIL February 4, 2009 | perivision | 11 Comments So I went golfing a few days back and decided to give GolfTraxx another go. If you remember my first report on it.. beware of rant.. I was not impressed. So this time I tried it at another course in Sacramento and it seemed to work on some holes, not on others. The only thing… Read More
I still say this means flash on the iphone is getting closer, just not much closer February 2, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Argg.. So I read this on PCW: Adobe has confirmed that Flash capabilities won’t be coming to the iPhone anytime soon. Company CEO Shantanu Narayen recently discussed the difficulties in bringing Adobe’s most well distributed product to the iPhone. “It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating,”… Read More
Flash on the iphone gets closer January 31, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment rumor control alert!!…. Just read in engadget that Apple is bowing to the pressure of Android and has agreed to work with Adobe to put Flash on the iphone. <rumor> ..Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has revealed that Apple and Adobe are “collaborating” on making Flash a reality on the iPhone.. </rumor> Not too many details… Read More
Something I did not expect with my Griffin Macro lens January 29, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment When I first got my Griffin Clarifi Macro lens for my iphone, I was pretty happy, but then I realized there is one down side. I keep the lens closed to protect the iphones lens, which is a great plus I did not think about. But I also don’t think about removing the lens when… Read More
How to make a conference call on the iphone both natively and with ifbyphone January 28, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment I saw a new app in Cydia for conference calling over VoIP. That got me ta thin’kin, what are my conference call options with the iphone? Leaving out typical conference call services that work on ‘any’ phone, I did a quick look around and found an app called ifbyphone. Before I get into it, lets… Read More
iphone 2.2.1 upgrade is not worth losing jailbreak January 27, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment As I’m sure everyone knows, 2.2.1 is out. And what does it offer us? Not much. from PCWorld: The software is said to improve Safari’s stability and fix an image issue in which pictures saved from Mail don’t display properly in the Camera Roll. Yep — that’s it. Pish. Whatever. Not worth the download much… Read More
Instant messaging, google talk and twitter comes to Truphone January 26, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Look what I got in the email from the interwebs.. We are writing to you to let you know that in the next 24 hours, your Truphone for the iPhone application will be automatically upgraded with some exciting new features*! These new features are: 1. Instant Messaging (IM) IM will be added, meaning that you… Read More