http://dillernet.com/apple iPhone, Nokia, PDAs, Smartphones, Entourage and the Mac - keeping it all in sync. Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:24:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It looks like on Friday hermitworks released a video showing a patched version ioquake for the iTouch/iPhone. No word is this is built on the opensource toolchain or the Official SDK, but I bet its jailbroken. http://dillernet.com/apple/2008/04/06/quake3-on-iphone/ Upgrading to Leopard 10.5.2 fixed many sync issues with iDisk, however, is stopped syncing all together on my ibook. This ars article has some good tips on fixing sync issues w/ iDisk. How-To: Truly reset your .Mac sync data http://dillernet.com/apple/2008/03/06/leopard-and-idisk-syncing/ I've never been happier with a device than I have been my my iPhone. However, there is one huge problem. You can't write your own software for it (this doesn't count) , or even hack some existing software that someone else wrote. OK, at least you can't do those things ... http://dillernet.com/apple/2007/11/12/could-android-crush-iphone/ I've been in search of a quick, simple and modern image editor for the Mac. For far too long I've been dragging around Photoshop 7, simply because I know I can use it to quickly do what I want. But what I need to do is limited. I want to ... http://dillernet.com/apple/2007/11/11/awesome-image-editor-for-macosx-imagewell/ Trying to get my mysql environment setup on 10.5 I ran head-long into the mysql python 1.22 drivers breaking with xcode 3.from _mysql.c:40: /usr/include/sys/types.h:92: error: duplicate ‘unsigned’ /usr/include/sys/types.h:92: error: two or more data types in declaration specifiers error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 The fixed is coved over at ... http://dillernet.com/apple/2007/11/11/mysql-python-driver-building-on-105/ Browsing the net I came across a great site that answered some questions I had about the new firewall in Leopard. Using it now on the company macbook, and it's nice. Having the 4 gigs of ram helps also. My poor macbook was pushed to the limit with just 2. ... http://dillernet.com/apple/2007/11/10/lepoard-firewall-not-your-ipfw-anymore/ http://dillernet.com/apple/2007/09/24/halo-affecting-our-world/ I've hit on a little TV obsession here in my idle hours between baby feedings. This one is cool because it involves way more than just watching something on the telly. This is unavailable-in-the-US show watching. The kind where you pull torrents of the show down from the net using ... http://dillernet.com/apple/2007/09/23/video-on-iphone/ I'm planning on getting iLife '08 or an airport express. Getting the $100 credit is the nice touch by Apple. I was happy paying $599 for my iPhone- the price drop will only mean more iPhones on the street, and more iPhone compatible websites. http://dillernet.com/apple/2007/09/07/what-will-you-do-with-your-100/ Yes, this is all over, but it's so funny. http://dillernet.com/apple/2007/08/23/zunephone/ Take that apple! http://dillernet.com/apple/2007/08/22/its-a-big-ass-table/ iTunes has the new iPhone 1.0.1 update- the first one from Apple. It says it just has some bug fixes. http://dillernet.com/apple/2007/08/01/iphone-101-update-available/ I've been dreaming of having a USB keyboard that uses the keys in my Macbook. I've been in total love with the keyboard on the MacBook since it came out and I picked one up a few weeks later. The keyboards on MacBookPros feel like crap. The current Mac USB ... http://dillernet.com/apple/2007/07/29/new-apple-usb-keyboard/ I've complied OpenEinstein 2007-07 build 48. Current as of today. You can download it below. It's about 1.8 megs, bzipped. It will expand into a 16 meg file. Feel free to download the binary here. You'll need this file also: Einstein.rex. The last thing you need of course is a ... http://dillernet.com/apple/2007/07/28/openeinstein-build-48-for-nokia-770/ We had another puzzle at work again. How to manage all the JMX controls that the devlopers had nicely written for us using little tiny MBeans. Normally, the devs just ssh -X over to their tomcat instance and fire up the jmx console via X. This won't scale out to 10's ... http://dillernet.com/apple/2007/07/24/managing-multiple-jmx-controls-on-tomcat/