1 Mint 2 PCalc Lite two great apps to have on your phone, and they don’t cost a dime. Meanwhile, I’ve got SimCity for the iPhone and it’s everything they claim it is, only downside is that it can’t run in the backgroud. I no longer need a port for the Mac…
Yearly Archives: 2008
2008 and the Newton
Genghis7777 has a great roundup of 2008 Newton Developments. I haven’t used my Newton much, but I’m actually considering taking it back up again since the iPhone is not able to track all the notes and things I need to keep around. There is still a strong community, still developing and making the Newton relevant…
Leopard as NFS Server
It’s way way easy to make your mac running Leopard into a NFS Server. Check your firewall settings…
iPhone Gmail Fail
If your iPhone won’t connect to Gmail when you first try and set it up, use this link http://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha to resolve the issue. Found the pointer over at the Apple Forums…
MacBook Pro – new trackpad
Just used the new MBP for about 4 hours. The new new ‘all one big button’ trackpad is really annoying. I had my thumb down at the bottom of the ‘pad trying to click a button that just isn’t there anymore. Having to remember to click the entire pad is just really…. weird. Too weird…
iPhone OTA Sync to Gmail/Plaxo
My wife just purchased an iPhone 3G, but she still uses Windows XP (I can’t get her to give up that ThinkPad). I’ve never experienced iTunes/iPhone syncing on Windows so I was curious to see what was going to happen when she plugged it in to her laptop. If she used a Mac I’d have…
iPhone syncing on Linux
I haven’t tried this (I use a Mac) but someone has the iPhone syncing on Linux (looks like ubuntu based). There is a lot of info about the iPhone/iTunes pairing and syncing via USB over at the site…
Boxee
I got my account on Boxee today. Installed it on my mac, and I’ve been enjoying it all day. Really amazing interface with some cool social features. This is what we are working towards at work (but with linear tv). The hulu assets are what really make it compelling…
Android 101 – Part 2
Now that the emulator is up and running, you need to get familiar with adb – the Android Debug Bridge – and start poking around at your device. I found ADB back in the latest SDK, and used it to connect to my emulator. You can start a shell and poke around. I want to…
Starting Android Open Source Emulator
Once you have build Android on your Mac OSX (I have Leopard) following the Google directions, it’s time to start it. This wasn’t as easy as it sounds, as I couldn’t find any docs that talked about this, except for this page that talks about the emulator in the SDK. In your droid repo directory,…
Building Android – Available Now!
Android is OpenSourced, and you can build it yourself on MacOSX or an Ubuntu machine. THis is not the emulator, but real Android OS running on your system. http://source.android.com/download Has the directions. Check out the known-issues page before giving up- there are some rough edges. 10/22 Update: watch out for your file system on the…
Zimbra and new IP’s
So I’ve been happily using Zimbra as my primary mailserver for a couple of years. My host recently changed IP addresses, and I took the time to update zimbra to the latest release. Two things tripped me up. First, this upgrade, unlike any other, refused to complete- the LDAP wouldn’t start after it was upgraded…
iPhone UI Mockups
We are gearing up for some iPhone development, so these look marvelous. Photoshop UI Elements OmniGraffle UI Elements…
EEE 901 Ubuntu and Netbook Remix
I was fortunate enough to pick up an EEE 901 for a work project and have spent some time with this machine. I chose the Linux version with 20G, which comes broken down into 2 different ‘drives’ (they aren’t really SSD drives, just chips that plug into the ePCI sockets, but they emulate real PATA…
Quake3 on iPhone
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…
Leopard and iDisk syncing
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…