iPhoneDevCamp! You know you want it!

Yup, almost time for another iphonedevcamp.  What? You did not go last year?  What’s wrong with you?  If you have an iPhone and have ANY interest to building or help build what everyone will see either at the end of this weekend or the end of the year, this is the place to be. So,… Read More

redsnow (redsn0w) ready for jailbreaking iPhone 3.0 3G, but NOT 3GS

And now we have Redsn0w!! {UPDATE} 3GS is jailbroken also.  Link to story. First off, right from the Dev-Team Blog.. Read this… I’m serious!!  READ THIS!! Here is the link. REDSN0W PROVIDES SIMILAR FUNCTIONALITY TO QUICKPWN. If you want to build custom firmware files with more flexibility it is suggested that you use ‘PwnageTool’ on… Read More

Great use of multiple frames in NYTimes by Apple

I’m not an Apple fanboy as anyone who has read this blog long enough will know. However, I have also admitted that when it comes to adverts, Apple is the best. Well, they did it again. Look at this.. In this advert, you can see the 3 people talking with each other, two guys on… Read More

New google comic is out. Chrome. No, I have not read it

Last year I went to Google’s IO event and loved it. Here is a post from last year. I’m going again this year and will report on it again, although I expect it will be a bit more toned down, but hey, you never know. So they send me a comic on the mail.  I’ve… Read More

AT&T 3G network to get faster … PLEASE!

And it might.  I wrote an article for iphone life over 6 months ago where I said things will improve as they move to a lower freq.  Well, according to Kevin Fitchard from Telephony Online AT&T is increasing the downlink capacity on its high-speed packet access (HSPA) from 3.6 megabits per second to 7.2 Mb/s… Read More

iphone 2.2.1 upgrade is not worth losing jailbreak

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

My personal project Twittfilter is now in Alpha

Twittfilter is actually an old project.  I started it last Spring but only shared it with a few friends.  The first feature of Twittfilter is the ability to send you an email if a term (typically your twitter name)  is found in the public stream. Since you get an email  you do not have to… Read More

iphone apps, from cheap to free

Black Friday hits the iphone.  Not much else to say about this site really, its a web site that shows iphone apps that are on sale, quite often too free.  Check it out. Appshopper.com… Read More

Social Media, the iPhone and the election

Well, another election has come and gone, but unlike other elections, this is the first election where social media had an impact on the outcome. Obama used a grass roots based approach building and managing the organization. Just 4 years ago, it would be hard to imagine the level of organization and communication required to… Read More

My top free iPhone digital radio apps

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a news junkie.  I watch or listen to WAY more news then I should, but the news and especially politics is like a soap opera that you know is somewhat trashy, you just cant stop following. 🙂 Anyway, when I drive, I normally listen to a 24hr AM news station.  Unfortunately, AM… Read More

Sarah Palin vs. Obama from a cartoonist point of view

A friend of mine ask ‘why would McCain choose Palin?’  In my opinion, I think McCain was trying to find someone on the ticket to take on the ‘rock star’ effect that Obama has as well as someone who could excite the conservative base which John has not been able to do to date, both… Read More

Google Chrome bad for IE, no. Bad for Firefox. Perhaps.

I have been seeing a lot of press (mostly those not or on the edge of the computer industry) talking about how Google’s Chrome browser is going to try and take massive marketshare away from Internet Explorer. Ehh. Doubt it.  Given that IE still has a current market share of over 75% and heck even… Read More

google’s chrome is out. And its fast

Especially heavy ajax sites like google mail and yahoo mail.  These two site fly!!  which is great because I’m on web mail all the time.  I’ve also noticed that all JS calls execute much faster, including some timer processes. For example, if you have a timed dynamically resizing window, it will execute faster.  I also… Read More

Mix iphone dropped calls and radio call in shows … FAIL

A friend of mine was telling me about people calling into radio shows and having their iphone drop them in the middle of the call. Now, we know cell phones are not great, and I have heard shows where a cell call was lost, but given the expectation of a new phone to perform well,… Read More