The General Theory of RIAtivity
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- Apple’s iPhone SDK will be four months late to the prom
So, let’s step back a moment and examine all that’s happened in the mobile world in 2007. In January at MacWorld Steve Jobs announced that in six months time the iPhone would go on sale, delivering applications with a desktop-class feel. In June, as promised, the iPhone was released and it had sold over 1.1 million [...]
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:42:42 +0000 - MacBook Pro Vista Experience Index 4.3 out of 5.0!
I’ve been using Windows Vista Ultimate since it was at RC2 stage and in that time I’ve run it on half a dozen different machines, ranging from a Dell Inspiron to an HP zv6000, each with plenty of horsepower (or so one would think) to handle Vista. The HP, in fact, was labeled “Vista Ready.” [...]
Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:18:52 +0000 - Dear Steve Jobs: Don’t punish legitimate iPhone developers
A Letter to Steve Jobs Dear Steve: The word today from the blogosphere is that iPhone firmware update 1.1.1 not only re-locks iPhones unlocked from the AT&T network, but also prevents access to any third-party apps installed on the iPhone, such as installer.app and other community apps installed by installer.app. For those of us trying to develop legitimate [...]
Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:18:45 +0000 - Readying your iPhone for Use in Europe
Update November 2, 2007 We got back from Italy on October 19 — it will still be another month or so before all roaming charges come through on my AT&T bill, but I wanted to provide an update on my service experience with the iPhone in Europe. While in the UK the service provider on the iPhone was Orange; while [...]
Sun, 16 Sep 2007 05:28:58 +0000 - Text Messages Remain on iPhone Long After “Deletion”
The other day I installed MobileFinder.app, a third-party, native iPhone application that allows browsing of the iPhone’s file system. While I was poking around the iPhone file system today I noticed a file called sms.db under the ~/Library/SMS directory. I opened the file in MobileTextEdit.app and saw that it was a SQLLite database file; no [...]
Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:47:41 +0000 - Two Year Around-the-World Sailing Adventure Nearing End for Three Seattle Men
Three men from Washington State and their trusty 44-foot sailboat, the S.V. SohCahToa, are about to complete a remarkable journey. The crew — Casey McNeese, Matt Smith and Jeff Stewart, who all met in college at Washington State University, shoved off from Seattle in August 2005 for an adventure that would take them to far [...]
Sat, 01 Sep 2007 09:42:15 +0000 - AT&T and iPhone - Your world delivered… for $20 per web page.
Courtesy Adam Aronson So here again we have an example of AT&T sucking the positive energy out of the otherwise revolutionary and exciting iPhone experience. More and more, AT&T seems to be the clumsy, dottering older sibling in the Apple/AT&T relationship. Adam Aronson, owner of San Francisco-based Arc Design, was floored (literally) when he opened his latest [...]
Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:18:20 +0000 - Is Adobe Flex Builder sluggish on Mac or is it just me?
I run Adobe Flex Builder 2 and Flex Builder 3 (Moxie, Beta 1) on my MacBook Pro (Intel Dual Core Duo 2.16GHz, 2GB RAM) and have noticed that both run sluggishly. When clicking “Run” my app opens with lots of screen artifacts, then I have to close it. If I then switch to run it [...]
Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:25:37 +0000 - Apple iPhone Tech Talk Debriefing - Part 2 (Vector graphics and animation)
Today we’re going to cover vector graphics and animation on the iPhone which was discussed by Mark Malone, Internet Technologies Evangelist at Apple. Frankly, I was surprised that hardly anyone asked questions about this during the session because it was all new information to me. There was no mention of Canvas at the iPhoneDevCamp just [...]
Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:04:43 +0000 - Update: Silverlight for Windows Mobile Prototype Demo
I should have checked this before publishing my previous post where I stated that it seemed “reasonable” to assume that Microsoft was going to include Silverlight support in the Windows Mobile OS. To that point, I just found this video on YouTube where some Microsoft folks at Microsoft Mobile DevCon 2007 demo a prototype [...]
Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:49:27 +0000
