Jun

11

Hi, I’m Apple and I like to..

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ban people from using my iPhone SDK to do useful things, presumably so I can do those useful things with less features and sell them for more than the 3rd party would with more features.

Edit: Oh and heaven forbid people have applications that actually run in the background.  That would be the “wrong solution” so instead we’ll wait until september for them to give us a server to push “events” to the phones instead of letting us have the functionality immediately.  Everyone should just forget that practically every other mobile platform out there aside from the ever-crappy PalmOS allows background processes in some form or another without killing battery life.

Edit 2: So it looks like it was a sham (copied from the google maps terms), but the first edit still stands.

Mar

21

Forcing Safari to Stick to One Window

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So tuaw (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) posted a nice tip to force Safari 3.1 to truly stick to a single window (even when clicking links in gmail, for example):


defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

Feb

12

“Hidden” text on Apple’s front page?

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So I noticed the following on an in a gradient background on an image on Apple’s front page today. It’s hard to read but it’s either “F***! You” or “Frid Goo” — I can’t really tell. UPDATE: David R. wrote in to tell me the text appears to be “Fridge” with a curved line below it. He adjusted the image using irfanview to see the text more clearly. Screen shots below:

Feb

5

iPhone, now with 16GB

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of storage for your stuff, err…curses.  Oh well, 8GB’s plenty for me. Don’t get TOO excited though, this puppy doesn’t have 3G support.  :) 

Jan

24

AT&T Boosts UVerse Bandwidth to 10mbps/1.5mbps

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Engadget has reported that AT&T has boosted the bandwidth on their UVerse internet service to a maximum of 10mbps down and 1.5mbps up. That’s not too shabby. It puts pretty much all of the cable internet companies to shame, but doesn’t quite hold up to Verizon’s best FIOS offering. It’s important that service providers bring the speed and quality (that is, don’t put in unstated bandwidth caps like Comcast does) so web 2.0 platforms (like the wonderous Appcelerator) can take off. Although the frameworks themselves don’t take up the bandwidth, the dynamic content they deliver certainly does demand higher speed connections. A perfect example of this is Apple’s new movie rental service and Netflix’s movie streaming service. It’s especially important in Netflix’s case, where the possibility of high-quality, HD movies streamed directly to a set-top box could make a movie buff drool (assuming service providers don’t put in bandwidth caps).

Jan

20

iPhone 1.1.3 bluetooth woes

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Sadly, I’ve experienced an irritating lockup on my phone while using my Jabra JX10.  This is the smae JX10 that worked perfectly on firmware 1.1.2.  What gives, Apple?  A quick google showed others with similar issues.

Jan

15

iPhone 1.1.3 = dropped calls

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So it’s happened twice now (within a couple of hours) — my iPhone drops calls like they’re hot after 5-7 minutes of talk time.  It’s pretty bizarre; I hear the dreaded “beep beep” and my call’s gone.  Anyone else seeing this?  I suggest holding off on this firmware update.

Jul

1

iPhone Launch Bumbled by AT&T, IMHO

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So I buy an iPhone today; I’m happy, even excited to have dropped a wad of cash on my shiney new gadget.  I hurry home, get through the activation and am greeted with:  “Your activation requires more time.”  Ok, that’s cute — no useful information as to WHY or WHEN it’ll be resolved, just that it takes more time (riiiight).  So I call AT&T wireless’ customer service dept, wait on hold for 15 minutes to get some lame excuse (”the reason it takes so long to activate an iPhone is because so many people are calling in to activate them” <– yea, so every activation is processed manually, that’s as bright as a star) and am put on hold for another 5 minutes.  When the lady, whose name I couldn’t pronounced if you put a gun to my head, gets back, she gives me a random phone number: 480 055 9782 which is supposedly “iPhone activation support.”  Great, I’m thinking, this number looks hokey (why wouldn’t they use a toll free number?), but I’ll give it a go to get some help.  I call the number and it doesn’t work (dreaded “check the number and dial again” operator message).  Leave it to AT&T to bumble what is probably their biggest product launch ever.  What’s better is I’ll bet they’re already charging me for service, since they’re cool like that.

Jun

21

OS X 10.4.10

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has been released on software update.  Boot that mac up and get the 74MB goodness.