Another cool update to Backgrounder on the iphone. Icons showing active jobs! Coolness Ok, this is just cool. I updated SBSetting last night and now I get an icon for active threads. Now since I have folders, I do not see everything, but still, kinda cool. 🙂 That is all. {update} I was just made aware that this is part of backgrounder. Which makes sense when you think… Read More
Why PdaNet, iPhone tethering and Jailbreak rocks!! Again!! Yes, AGAIN, PdaNet to the rescue. At the 140tc conference today, the wireless was in and out. I needed to do some updates to twittfilter and the FTP updates failed because of the wireless. I then gave up on the wireless and pulled out the trusty PdaNet app. Here is a hint though, if you… Read More
Slingplayer coming to the iphone… for 30 bucks And it might be worth it.. Not for me, but for some people. But what is interesting here is that price point of $30. Personally, for $30, I can see people paying for this even though the normal ‘top’ price is $10, except for one issue. Its wifi only! No 3G. So now recast the… Read More
NIN app accepted by the Apple store, Me so holy rejected. We STILL need a rating system The NIN app was accepted, then last night I read that a Jesus face app, Me so Holy (replace Jesus with your face) was rejected. Ok, fine, but again, this will offensive to some people, fun to others. This Boolean approach of Gatekeepers who decided what will and will not by accepted is somewhat dictatorial. … Read More
Measure height, width and depth of objects with your iphone .. well kinda This is pretty cleaver. Its not a new app, but something that just passed my notice. Now given that I also have a macro lens and clearcam, I can get pretty good images. The only problem is, the touch screen is not very accurate. Now if you do not need a precise measurement, its actually… Read More
Run Pandora in the background on the iPhone.. Jailbreak only of course. This is great. I use Pandora as my radio when I drive for my radio music exclusively. I have another app for BBC and NPR, but music… pandora. I do not even remember the last time I listen to the radio for music. Funny thing though, the radio stations in the Bay area stink for… Read More
iphone web cam viewer I’m not sure what I would use this for, but hey, you never know, I’m sure someone out there will find it useful, and thus… to posting!! This comes from ‘Hack n Mod‘ a very cool site. It’s pretty easy actually, here are the steps from the site.. On your iTouch/iPhone start up i-c-livecams. In… Read More
Baby Shaker iphone app pulled from app store… Do we need a rating system? I cannot count the number of times I’ve heard of useful and cool apps rejected from the Apple store for ‘typically’ stupid reasons, and when I heard about ‘baby shaker’ getting through, all I could do was shake my head and think, how did a sick tasteless app like this get through? Well, it took… Read More
Sweet Multi touch visualization hack for 4-20 This is pretty cool. I fully agree with Peter Kirn that Apple rejecting this as an app is sillyness. But then again, thats not new. Still, I admire the push to get this to work within the browser. I have not tried it myself since I only have PHP running on my linux box which is not… 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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