Skype for the iphone not working for you? Did you check Clippy? March 30, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment 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
Control your presentations from the new apple earphones? March 26, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Well, according to macosxhints. They have not tried it, nor have I, but it seems like it could work. Since the new MacBooks now receive input from the iPhone’s headphones, you can use those headphones as a remote for running a presentation in Keynote ’09: One click starts the presentation. Two clicks moves to the… Read More
iphone 3.0 to give us remote controllers? Yea.. or at least, it better March 24, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment At GDC yesterday, I walked past a display showing the ‘Zeemote’. They had it working with a verity of phones (from the site: major manufacturers like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, LG, Motorola, and, Samsung). Missing of course? The iPhone! Why? Because it uses Bluetooth which the iPhone VERY poorly supports. However, times.. they are a chang’in..… Read More
Why tethering is critical at GDC, when you cannot wait for iphone 3.0 March 23, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment 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 March 20, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment 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
Twittfilter: a twitter address book, scored new follower email … and much more March 20, 2009 | perivision | 8 Comments I’ve been working on TwittFilter for quite awhile now, and I think it’s at a level where I can call it Beta. Not Google Beta, but Beta is the way we used to know it. Mostly there, but not fully perfect or fully bug free. Note: With twitter moving to full OAuth, not all features… Read More
Buy an iphone without a 2 yr contract. But still locked to ATT March 19, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Are you kidding me? Here is what came across the wire.. The Associated Press quoted an AT&T representative Thursday confirming plans to sell no-contract iPhones for $599 or $699 starting next Thursday, as first reported Wednesday by the Boy Genius Report. There’s a catch, however; those phones will still be locked to AT&T’s network. Ok.. … Read More
iphone 3.0 presentation is complete. So what did we get that we have in jailbreak? March 17, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment 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
Friendfilter: replace your twitter email with a scored new follower email March 15, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment Friendfilter, a service of Twittfilter.com has gone Beta! Currently, when you get a new follower, twitter sends you a generic email saying.. you got a new follower.. Well, great, but that does not tell me anything. Friendfilter is a service that will check for new followers and score them relative to you. A scorecard is… Read More
iphone 4G, Really? We are still in rumor control.. but… March 15, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment {update} Well, seems like we WILL get a flash! Wow. 🙂 Updated post on the iPhone4 here… Lots of chat about the 4G, each place I’ve checked out for info seems to read like rumor. Lots of images out there too. Here is one that was emailed to me.. Its pretty certain Verizon will be… Read More
What can we hope for with iphone 3.0 OS update .. can we look towards jailbreak apps? March 12, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment I’m sure you have already heard, Apple is going to present iphone 3.0 OS on March 17. And ho yea, I will be watching. Since its only the 12th now, we have some time to think about what we might see in 3.0. There are plenty of things that need to be fixed or improved;… Read More
Connecting your iphone/ipod to your radio (stereo) through the CD changer March 8, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment Last week I read an article in popular mechanics (link here) talking about the various ways, and the level of quality, per option. Nothing new here that has not already been talked about, except, the missed out on one.. Over ride the CD changer! Why would we want to do something like that? Well, lets… Read More
Review of Stanza as an ebook reader for the iphone March 7, 2009 | perivision | 2 Comments 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 March 5, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment 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
PeriVisioN site running slow the last few days … fixed. March 4, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Sorry, seems the twitter plugin I was using was killing the load times on the site. We should be good now. I removed the plugin for the time being. ~ management.… Read More
Kindle for the iphone is a touch buggy … at least for me .. I prefer Stanza March 4, 2009 | perivision | 3 Comments 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 March 2, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment 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
iphone tip #29: fix extra icon issue with categories March 2, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment If you have categories on your iphone, you may have noticed that when you update an app, it creates a new icon on the iphone’s ‘desktop’. The fix? Simply refresh categories. Here are the steps… 1) Open categories 2) open any folder 3) click add.. You do NOT have to add anything 4) close and… Read More
iPhone a FAIL in Japan? Sayz who? March 1, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Like everyone else, I’m been seeing a string of articles (most based off the wired article) saying Japan hates the iphone. Now hate is a strong word, but I bought most of what I read. Most.. The only thing that seemed odd to me was the ‘unfashionable’ bit. Really? I have my complaints about the… Read More
Kill process (cnt-alt-del) for the iphone.. SBSettings gets cooler and cooler February 28, 2009 | perivision | 10 Comments 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