October 2009
55 posts
The Ultimate Collection of 37signals Mac & iPhone... →
One-handed computing with the iPhone →
Not as dirty as the title makes it sound. Being able to use the phone easily while standing on the bus is great.
Web Services with Cocoa Surprise →
Motorola DROID first hands-on! →
Samurai: Way of the Warrior Review for iPhone →
Telus to start selling iPhones in November
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They look to be matching Rogers prices exactly. Kind of lame.
A Couple Foursquare Anecdotes →
Top 29 Cydia/Jailbreak Apps For OS 3.1 →
My coworker was showing my his jailbroke iPhone. Once I saw QuickReply I was basically convinced I need to jailbreak my phone too.
Piracy and the App Store →
App Store Hypocrisy Update: “Asian Boobs” Fine,... →
(NSFW)
How to start, build and launch your first iPhone... →
The first in a 5 part series.
iPhone Preferences and Settings.app →
If the news is Canadian, Harper's not watching →
PM’s admission that he watches mainly American broadcasts draws surprise and scorn
Marco reviews the Nook. →
No wait, he can’t do that, since he doesn’t own one. Marco talks about the Nook, with all sorts of guessing on what it can and can’t do. And then at the end, tells you to wait for real reviews before you go buy one. Awesome advice.
Volkswagen - Real Racing GTI →
Volkswagen got Firemint to make a GTI only version of Real Racing, which they are selling on the AppStore for free.
To quote Gruber, "If you can’t beat ’em, sue ’em." →
A review of some iPhone photography applications. →
“You know, if Verizon is going to pour millions of dollars into rolling out their...”
– blink, and it’s gone
A great post by Steven Frank on the iPhone and the... →
There is a lot of quotable stuff here.
Dear Palm, it's just not working out. →
“Folks, I couldn’t take it any more. Today I wiped my Palm Pre and bought an iPhone. Believe it or not, this actually has nothing to do with my utterly nightmarish experience of trying to get my applications into Palm’s app catalog, and everything to do with the fact that the phone is just a constant pain to use.”
“In my book a simple, well-written application that delights is far better than a...”
– Tweetie 2.0 – Shawn Blanc
Simplenote restyled →
An awesome theme for SimpleNote.
How does the music-identifying app Shazam work its... →
Mozilla Working on Mystery iPhone App →
Regarding the Pricing of the Wolfram Alpha iPhone... →
$50 for the application does seem excessive. I wonder who their market is?
Motorola Droid hands on! →
The lesson of the Sidekick failure
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App Store Heresies: Higher Price, Better Ratings. ... →
In-App Purchase now available for free apps →
Apple Developing FM Radio Application for iPhone... →
Flatland →
Some thoughts on the iPhone’s UI, and a response to a recent essay by Tog.
Trillian for iPhone: Two months later, still no... →
Danger data loss discussed on MetaFilter →
Microsoft's Sidekick/Pink problems blamed on... →
Pretty fascinating, assuming all these ‘insider’ claims are true.
iPhone app store is a squatter's delight →
Adobe's Photoshop.com iPhone app goes live. →
You can take a photo, do some basic editing, and upload to photoshop.com.
What Caused the Sidekick Fail? →
Stuff like this is why I hate having data only on the Internet.
The two App Stores
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An interesting discussion on the App Store, and the failure of the much hyped Ramp Champ game.
“And just as Rogers resisted Apple’s will to gradually subsume them as a carrier,...”
– Why there’s no Kindle for Canada - Techvibes Blog
iPhone & iPod touch firmware 3.1.2 released →
“Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPhone to not wake from sleep.” Please Jesus, let this work.
“Verizon knows what it wants, and it it definitely doesn’t want to be in the...”
– Marco.org: Good old Verizon
NYC BigApps Competition – $20k In Prize Money →
“Here’s the idea. NYC releases 170 datasets. Whoever can best make use of the data will win part of the $20,000 in prize money. The individual or startup with the best Web or mobile application gets an invite to a dinner with NYC mayor, MIchael R. Bloomberg.”
AT&T has change of heart about VoIP over 3G for... →
Palm: Free Apps For The Web, Free Development... →
“Adobe can barely write Objective-C apps themselves. We’re still waiting for an...”
– Jeff Rock: On Authoring iPhone Apps via Flash CS5