Archive for the 'iPhone' Category

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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The Joy of Tech takes on iPhone 3G

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008, by moose

As always, the JoT is spot on about the various expectations for a 3G iPhone.
The Joy of Tech comic… laughter is the best tech support.

All I can say is I have been using an iPhone for a few month, and I don’t really miss 3G. I had a 3G SOny Ericsson phone before, and I [...]

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Rumor: First Pictures of Nokia Tube iPhone Killer, Allegedly

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008, by moose

First Pictures of Nokia Tube iPhone Killer, Allegedly:

You know what? everytime I read something along the line of “[insert successful Apple product name here]-killer”, I can’t help but laugh…
How many iPod-killers were we presented? How many iTunes Store-killers services announced?
And now, how many iPhone-killers? Well, we can only wish Apple that this one succeeds as [...]

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iPhone vs chinaPhone: the showdown

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008, by moose

Parody or is she for real? It’s up to you to decide…

p.s.: I think even with her huge nails, she could probably use the tip of her fingers anyway… And you’ll just love the track playing in the media player of the fake iPhone…
p.p.s.: she admits to “hating Apple products owners, but then behing her [...]

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Quake3 on iTouch

Monday, April 7th, 2008, by moose

Well, hot on the heels of my post about a middleware provider porting its 3D engine to the iPhone/iPod touch platform (let’s call it iTouch), here’s a funky homebrew port of Quake3 to the iTouch.
Not that it seems the best way to play Quake to have to tilt the whole screen to move around, but [...]

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