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…
Could Android crush iPhone?
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 without using a process called…
Awesome image editor for MacOSX: Imagewell
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 resize and scale photos, add…
MySQL Python driver building (breaking?) on 10.5
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 the Ingels 3.0…
Lepoard Firewall – not your ipfw anymore
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. The site is worth checking…
Halo affecting our world
Video on iPhone
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 semi-legit sites, then go about…
What will you do with your $100?
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…
ZunePhone
Yes, this is all over, but it’s so funny…
It’s a Big Ass Table
Take that apple!…
iPhone 1.0.1 update available
iTunes has the new iPhone 1.0.1 update- the first one from Apple. It says it just has some bug fixes…
New Apple USB Keyboard
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 keyboards are also near useless-…
OpenEinstein build 48 for Nokia 770
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 real Newton ROM, so please…