Archive for the 'iPhone' Category

MobileMeh [UPDATED]

Thursday, July 24th, 2008, by moose

So, mobileme…
I really wanted to like it… the idea is good, it looks nice… but it seems to be .Mac all over again.
I don’t care about the issue of the “push” not being real push and taking 15′ to propagate from my Mac to the “cloud”.
My problem is the sync with my iPhone. I subscribed [...]

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Spot The Idiot - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on the iStore deal

Saturday, June 28th, 2008, by moose

Are iPhone app devs getting a raw deal? - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW):
We mentioned yesterday a rumor that Apple won’t cut a check for iPhone application developers until the dev’s share of the sales tops $250. [...]
From the (indie) developer’s perspective, this stinks. They’ve already paid at least $99 just to participate, and now [...]

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Spot the Idiot: Samsung’s “iPhone killer”

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008, by moose

So here we are with a new iPhone killer… wait, the killer is late, its target is already dead! Samsung’s Instinct was supposed to go snipe the iPhone, but Apple already sent it to rest, and now iPhone 2 is coming…
Walt Mossberg on Samsung’s Instinct:
Also, the timing of the Instinct is unfortunate. It was designed [...]

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iPhone 3G is nothing… [UPDATE]

Monday, June 9th, 2008, by moose

Just came back from a serious beer session at the pool bar, which means I missed the WWDC Keynote.
…and I caught up on the news… my take? Forget about iPhone 3G, forget about GPS support and the AppStore…
THE big thing? MobileMe.
This is THE MOBILE COMPUTING dream everybody has been prophesying for years… the famous CLOUD [...]

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Spot The Idiot: deface your iPhone with this Vista Skin

Monday, May 26th, 2008, by moose

VistaPerfection 2.0:

So, like, urgh, they even have the boot screen with ugly progress bar and all.
Hmm, maybe if they have been really good, they have managed to reproduce the slowness, the bugs and even the annoying UAC behavior (maybe the iPhone will ask you for your PIN code every time you want to make a [...]

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iPhone most popular cameraphone on flickr

Friday, May 2nd, 2008, by moose

So, even if the iPhone’s camera is not exactly the best around, it seems it’s widly popular, as can be seen in flickr’s camera stats:

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I can’t say I use the iPhone a lot for shooting pictures (appart from the occasional family shot or for taking a picture of my parking space number [...]

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Why do Androids dream of Electronic iPhones?

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008, by moose

Interesting take on why Apple’s approach to controlling the whole iPhone application ecosystem is a better idea than Google’s “free for all” for the Android platform.
Why The iPhone Is Poised to Crush Android:
Apple’s approach to quality control addresses not only the customers interests, but the reputation of the iPhone as well. While it seems rigid [...]

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iPhone tip: simulate “mouse over” actions

Monday, April 21st, 2008, by moose

Did you know that, on the iPhone, you can do “mouse over” events in Safari, like on a regular computer?
If a link has an “hover” or “OnMouseOver” property, simply touch and hold the link for a couple seconds and you will see a “tooltip” pop up with the word “Action” in it. Now you can [...]

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