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September 25, 2012

National Railway Museum | The East Coast Timeline

As someone who’s taken the Waverley–Kings Cross train many, many times in my life, this app just fills me with nostalgia.

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March 21, 2012

Fish: a tap essay

Fab thoughtful piece by Robin Sloan, delivered in an innovative form.

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November 1, 2011

The Eatery: Massive Health Experiment #01

Congrats to my lovely chums at Massive Health on the launch of their first experiment. As beautiful and playful as you’d expect. Curious to see how helpful it is.

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March 11, 2011

SoundTracking

Lovely “Here’s what I’m listening to” social sharing/discovery app for iPhone. Like Instagram, but for what you’re hearing instead of what you’re seeing.

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January 3, 2011

Dialvetica - Get all up in your peoples' grills

<3. Like a Quicksilver or LaunchBar for your phone contacts. Previous versions were good, new version has replaced the Phone app in my iPhone launcher dock.

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September 25, 2010

Glympse - Share Your Where

My new favourite iPhone app — When you’re running late, send an updating map of your whereabouts by text message so friends have some idea of when you’ll arrive! People should expect to receive these from me a lot!

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September 18, 2010

My First Week with the iPhone

A blind user describes the power of using an iPhone with VoiceOver. “I can safely say that the iPhone represents the most revolutionary thing to happen to the blind for at least the last ten years.”

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September 15, 2010

calvetica - The fast calendar for iPhone

I am digging the heck out of this. A lovingly-designed calendar app replacement for the iPhone which interacts with your existing calendars, so all the lovely syncing goodness of iOS keeps on working.

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August 11, 2010

“Contextual” advertising

“Contextual” advertising

The Pandora iPhone app apparently uses the text on album art to give you "useful" advertising.

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Scott Pilgrim for iPhone

The Scott Pilgrim books for reading on your iPhone or iPad. I’d downloaded some pirate CBRs into Comic Zeal, so it’s nice to actually pay for them!

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June 23, 2010

Tilt to Live

Outstandingly enjoyable iPhone game — like Geometry Wars if it had been designed from the outset for the iPhone. Challenging, smart, funny, and rewarding.

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June 13, 2010

Carcassonne for iPhone

Beautifully designed and implemented board game for iPhone. I’m still getting to grips with the strategy, but it’s rather fine.

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May 24, 2010

"Cons: Highly dependent on Google account."

Interesting perspective from Ben Ward on Android.

“I’ve just endured a week of reading Google’s ‘opener than thou’ harping, with ever increasing levels of irritation, and all along Android is locked in to their services? What bullshit.”

As a geek who cares a bit about openness, I live with my iPhone, but wish Android was a real competitor for my affection. It’s clearly getting to a stage where HTC can produce a quality smartphone — fast enough and featured enough to keep most people happy.

But, strangely for Google, I feel that my geeky desires are being ignored. Unless you buy the single “Google phone”, you’re not buying a particularly geek-friendly device. Due to Google’s Apache licensing, the phone makers and cell companies have enough control to ensure an experience where I have *less* control than with my iPhone.

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April 21, 2010

Mac & the iPad

Bruce Tognazzini on Apple & Steve Jobs: “His harsh treatment of both the ideas of, as well as the people of, the original Mac team led them to buy Steve a special red rubber stamp that said, “THIS IS S___!” so he could just stamp each page of their design submissions, instead of having to wear out his hand writing.”

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March 28, 2010

QRANK

Free iPhone trivia game — new questions daily, and compete against your Facebook friends for bragging rights. Initial poking points to: Rather Splendid.

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December 31, 2009

Tweeteorites iPhone App

Features push notifications of your tweets being faved, so you can have your ego stroked IN REAL TIME!

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November 30, 2009

Flickit - Fun and easy Flickr uploading for your iPhone and iPod Touch

This is now my go-to Flickr photo uploader for the iPhone. Great UI, lets you queue up photos and upload in batches, free. Everything you could want, and nothing more. Ace!

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November 29, 2009

Waze

Free car routing app for iPhone, which is using game mechanics (points & leaderboards) to crowd-source maps and traffic info. Initial prodding suggests it’s not ready for prime-time — you’re better off waiting for protonerds to fill up their data banks — but it might be worth watching in the future.

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November 28, 2009

Photography

Photography

My photo of Mum, using her new iPhone to take a photo of San Francisco.

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November 13, 2009

ARGH — Augmented Reality Ghost Hunter

Nifty augmented-reality iPhone game. The 3GS’s compass app might have seemed pointless, but opening up these kinds of possibilities makes it worthwhile!

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November 5, 2009

Photo

Photo

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October 23, 2009

My iPhone home screen

My iPhone home screen

The apps I want to get to most often.

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October 16, 2009

Piracy in the App Store

Really interesting stats on jailbreaking and use of cracked iPhone apps.

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October 9, 2009

The two App Stores

Really interesting perspective on the division of customers, developers and apps in the iPhone app store.

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Rock Band Coming to iPhone/iPod Touch

Will be interesting to see how this compares to the just-released Tap Tap Revenge 3. TTR3 costs $0.99 and has a fairly weak collection of free songs, and a small but decent music store. Rock Band will come with 20 tracks from bands you’ve heard of, but will likely be in the $10 range.

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October 5, 2009

Canabalt

Rather ace Flashgame, now available for the iPhone. Interesting sidenote: Reviews in iTunes are rather overwhelmed by their stupid decision to include a review in the app description containing the word “faggotry”.

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October 4, 2009

PCalc Prevents iPhone Profanity

Thank gawd at least ONE iPhone developer is Thinking Of The Children!

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September 29, 2009

Dropbox iPhone app

Dropbox release a (free!) iPhone app the lets you access all your saved files. I almost feel guilty that I’m still on their free plan — They rock my world massively.

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August 28, 2009

Yelp in “Actually doing something innovative” Shocker!

Yelp in “Actually doing something innovative” Shocker!

The new Yelp iPhone app has snuck in a nifty "Augmented Reality" view. This shot is taken from out of the window at Slide.

August 4, 2009

The Edge of Reason?

Excellent article on disappearance of an excellent iPhone game due to some douchebaggery perpetrated by a former publisher of ZX Spectrum games with a trademark on the word “Edge”.

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July 31, 2009

Apple Claims New iPhone Only Visible To Most Loyal Of Customers | The Onion

The packed auditorium, which had been listening to Jobs in hushed reverence for several minutes, then erupted into applause, with hundreds of men and women suddenly jumping to their feet and shouting, “I can see it!” “Look, there it is!” and “God, it’s so beautiful!”

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July 17, 2009

Serious doubts

Marco Arment, author of Instapaper, considers quitting iPhone development given Apple’s dumb moves. Steven Frank of Panic is looking even smarter for never falling into this mess.

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July 10, 2009

Tap Tap Thursday Presents: Phoenix

This week’s free Tap Tap Revenge track is from the stonking new Phoenix album.

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June 22, 2009

Dunkin' Run

Lovely site and associated iPhone app from Dunkin Donuts: Social software to organize your coffee run.

Current status: Craving a “large regular” and a bacon & egg bagel sandwich.

June 8, 2009

TomTom for iPhone

One of the more interesting demos at Apple’s keynote today - TomTom are producing an iPhone app, plus a souped-up holster that doubles as charger and GPS “enhancer”. No hints given as to the price, but tealeaf-reading based on TomTom’s previous Palm apps, I’d guess around $150 for the software, and another $100 for the dock.

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May 24, 2009

Daring Fireball: The Next iPhone

John Gruber’s expectations for what the next iPhone will hold. I’ve long said that I’d happily pay a premium for an iPhone with a decent camera, so that’s the only thing I’m hoping for.

May 10, 2009

Early stages of addiction

Early stages of addiction

I showed Mum Bejeweled running on my iPhone. She hasn't given it back in an hour!

I've now promised her that when I upgrade my iPhone this summer, she can have my old one!

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April 19, 2009

MLB.com for iPhone and iPod touch

The official MLB At Bat iPhone app is *killer*. Last year’s version was my second App Store purchase (after Super Monkey Ball), but the addition of live radio coverage of games is fantastic. Sitting at work, or driving somewhere, with the sound of Joe Castiglione calling the Sox is well worth $10.

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March 20, 2009

Tethering on iPhone OS 3.0 over AT&T

I suspect this won’t last long, but I’m happy to have it for now!

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March 17, 2009

gamemakers @ ngmoco:)

Blog from ngmoco:) on developing games for iPhone. Some fantastic insights.

March 13, 2009

foursquare

Another friend-location-tracking app, this one from the original makers of Dodgeball. The website is fairly bare-bones at the moment, although the iPhone app is pretty decent.

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Gowalla. A location-based iPhone game.

Was wondering when one of these would show up. Virtual geo-caching using the iPhone’s location facilities. Designed by the folks behind the Facebook “Packrat” game. (SF and Austin only at the moment)

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March 3, 2009

Kindle for iPhone. Well played Amazon

Sharp (and surprising) move by Amazon — you can buy any ebook from the Kindle store, and read it on your iPhone.

I suspect this is a trojan horse move: give users a live demo of how how good the bookstore (with its free samples) is, let them build up a library of purchases in Amazon’s walled garden, then once they realise how crummy (and battery-draining) the iPhone is as a reader, reel them in in for Kindle device sales.

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February 27, 2009

WordFu

Quick and fun iPhone word game from ngmoco. Somewhere between Dice Poker and Boggle. $0.99 from the App Store.

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January 28, 2009

10 iPhone Games You Must Own | Wired.com

The games on this list that I’ve played have all been top-notch, so I’ll have to sample a few more.

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January 16, 2009

PEE - App Store Popularity EnhancEr

Tweetie, my preferred iPhone Twitter app, now has everything it needs to top the iTunes App Store charts: Fart sounds and a flashlight.

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January 14, 2009

Slacker Personal Radio - Slacker Radio on iPhone and iPod Touch

I prefer Slacker’s personalized radio stations to Pandora, and their new iPhone app is top-notch.

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December 4, 2008

Tapulous - Tap Tap Dance

Stonking soundtrack to the new Tap Tap Revenge game (Daft Punk, Justice and Chemical Brothers, amongst others), and some trippy-ass visuals. Ace!

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December 3, 2008

Amazon Mobile for iPhone

Amazon releases an iPhone app for optimized shopping, including an wickedly-clever tool that lets you snapshot products in bricks’n’mortar stores and will then unleash Mechanical Turk users to find matching products on Amazon.

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November 30, 2008

App Shopper: TapDefense

Fantastic, highly-addictive and free tower-defense game for iPhone. After three (almost half-hour each) games, having trouble beating Level 30 on Easy.

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November 24, 2008

Dr. Awesome, Microsurgeon M.D.

Upcoming Qix-like iPhone game from ngmoco. While I didn’t care much for MazeFinger, these guys are clearly putting a lot of work into making the iPhone a respectable gaming platform.

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November 18, 2008

For sale: Red ring of death

For sale: Red ring of death

The in-store demo Xbox 360 at Target bites the dust.

November 17, 2008

Pictures automatically attach to e-mail?

Woman finds sent email from husband to another woman with attached photo of him having a hand shandy. Husband claims this is a known iPhone bug. She turns to the Apple support boards for confirmation. “The future of my marriage depends on this answer!”

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November 16, 2008

PuzzleManiak: It's demoniak

I loved the jailbroken version pre-App Store, and I’m delighted that a polished version is now available. Only $5 for a buttload of challenging puzzle games.

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Poolga. iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers for the rest of us.

Some gorgeous photos and illustrations, at just the right size to be your iPhone wallpaper.

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November 7, 2008

Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site

Some great thoughts on mobile website development from Flickr, whose iPhone-friendly site is a thing of beauty.

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October 27, 2008

RjDj

Echoing Andy Baio’s advice on Twitter: “If you have an iPhone, go install RjDj Single (it’s free), pop in your headphones, start it up, and go back to whatever you were doing.” S’bloody AMAZING!

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October 24, 2008

TinEye Mobile - Idée Inc.

Take a photo of a CD sleeve, and it’ll attempt to ID it for you. Like Shazam, but for product photos. Since I use my iPhone as a way of remembering books I’ve seen in Borders to buy off of Amazon, that’d be a handy app.

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October 21, 2008

Apparently, they were all out of “San Franciscans: Please key my paintwork” signs.

Apparently, they were all out of “San Franciscans: Please key my paintwork” signs.

Spotted near AT&T Park.

October 14, 2008

Tooths

Tooths

The x-rays of my teeth, displayed on the hyper-fancy computerised x-ray-o-matic software at my new dentist's office. This monitor is expressly positioned above the chair so patients can see what's going on.

October 13, 2008

1st and 3rd

1st and 3rd

The parking restrictions in our neighbourhood have changed from every week to the 1st & 3rd weeks of the month. I think this is a good thing and will make it easier to park, though I am cautious of getting more parking tickets through mixing up weeks.

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October 9, 2008

South Beach, Oct 9, 2008

South Beach, Oct 9, 2008

Possibly my favourite thing Kathy Sierra has created.

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The Hallway conference room at Current

The Hallway conference room at Current

Making myself feel better by posting some Kathy Sierra graphics around work. I left a couple in the hallway conference room yesterday evening, since there's a "senior staff meeting" there first thing today. Wonder if they'll be removed prior…

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October 4, 2008

The Dandy Warhols

The Dandy Warhols

Uploaded with AirMe

September 12, 2008

Hack Day Display

Hack Day Display

Kent Brewster's Hack Day Display, pulling in the latest photos from Flickr, and tweets from Twitter.

September 9, 2008

Mogwai Fear Satan

Mogwai Fear Satan

September 2, 2008

MLB At Bat

MLB At Bat

The MLB's official iPhone app finally has pitch-by-pitch game tracking. Hooray! (This screenshot was taken while I was following the game at the Embarcadero BART station!)

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August 27, 2008

The great thing about being a basset…

The great thing about being a basset…

If you're trying to sleep, but it's bright out, you've got your own built-in eyemask.

August 20, 2008

Things - task management on the Mac

I will confess to having fallen somewhat head-over-heels in love with Things as a TODO list manager over the last couple of days. Requires some light symlinking-to-an-iDisk to “sync” across machines, but offers the right levels of “This is a task for today/soon/sometime” to help keep me organized. Next step: Play with the iPhone app.

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iTeletext

MODE 7 lives! Teletext viewer for iPhone.

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August 13, 2008

Google Translate now for iPhone

Never spend money on a foreign phrase book again — translate phrases on the fly with Google Translate.

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August 10, 2008

Bacon & Clyde meet the Pacific

Bacon & Clyde meet the Pacific

Took the dogs for a walk along the beach at Crissy Field this afternoon.

Two bassethounds and an ocean

Two bassethounds and an ocean

Took the dogs for a walk along the beach at Crissy Field this afternoon.

July 28, 2008

San Francisco, Jul 27, 2008

San Francisco, Jul 27, 2008

July 27, 2008

I believe that is meant to say “fuel”

I believe that is meant to say “fuel”

but that's not what I saw when it caught my eye in the supermarket. This is what happens when your designer doesn't give a, ahem, "fuel".

July 24, 2008

Fielding Has a Posse

Fielding Has a Posse

New laptop sticker, swiped from Citizen Space. Seems appropriate since my role at Current is making things RESTful. (BTW, if anyone wants a Current TV sticker, ping me)

Could the next Twitterer please sign in…

Could the next Twitterer please sign in…

No meetup with Laura will be complete without a list of attending Twitter usernames! (@sfordinarygirl @beaulebens @meryl333 @dlieberman @jjtoothman @rodbegbie @missrogue @jbumpas @microplace @moyalynne @creativesage)

July 22, 2008

This’ll make an AMAZING fort later

This’ll make an AMAZING fort later

In Somerville, we had a three-floor house with basement. Now we have a one storey apartment. We used to have two offices and a spare room, now we have a combination office/spare room. Which will also hold my clothes, since we've got a smaller bedroom too.

In unrelated news, we'll be renting a storage locker shortly.

No Sleep ‘Til Hopen

No Sleep ‘Til Hopen

New bed from Ikea assembled. I AM THE KING OF THE ALUM KEY!

July 19, 2008

Eddie Izzard, San Francisco, Jul 18, 2008

Eddie Izzard, San Francisco, Jul 18, 2008

Aysys, Beesus, Seesus, Deesus, Eesus, Effsus, and Jesus.

July 16, 2008

AirMe

AirMe

Hurrah! A decent, geotagging, full-resolution, free Flickr-uploader for the iPhone. AirMe.

July 13, 2008

Shazam iPhone app

Probably the best free app on the iPhone so far: Hold your iPhone near a music source, and it will identify the track for you. My initial tests against slightly fuzzy FM radio and the background music in a crowded theatre worked perfectly. Wicked cool!

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June 9, 2008

PhoneFinger

Testing tool for iPhone development — Replace your mouse cursor with a lifesize finger. Needs a dirty-fingernail easter egg, if you ask me.

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May 22, 2008

PuzzleManiak

Great puzzle collection for the (jailbrokened) iPhone. Some are a bit fiddly to play with your finger as stylus, but overall they’re a lot of fun.

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May 14, 2008

Brand new Google Reader for iPhone

Lovely AJAXy enhancements to Google Reader make it a wicked quality experience on the iPhone.

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March 8, 2008

The Beauty Of 99¢ iPhone Apps

I hadn’t thought of this: Apple may have said they’ll let you give away apps for free on the iPhone Apps store, but why not charge a couple of bucks? Your apps will still be impulse-downloads, and you might make some serious cash.

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March 3, 2008

iPhone Stopwatch hits 1,000 hours

What happens when the iPhone stopwatch runs for 41 days and 16 hours.

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February 5, 2008

ProClip Mounting System

Gadget holders for your car. They come in two parts: a mount specifically designed for your car’s dashboard, and a holder designed for the gadget. I got and installed the 2001 Civic mount and the iPhone holder, and it’s a big improvement over my previous cup-holder-iPod-holster set-up.

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December 14, 2007

How to create custom ringtones in GarageBand 4.1.1

Apple gives official route to creating your own custom iPhone ringtones. Of course, they only sanction it for “your original songs”, but it’s a big step forward from the lockdown a couple of months ago.

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November 27, 2007

November 10, 2007

Not sensible, but, oh, the joy of it! | Technology | The Guardian

Stephen Fry reviews the iPhone for The Grauniad. “In the end the iPhone is like some glorious early-60s sports car. Not as practical, reliable, economical, sensible or roomy as a family saloon but oh, the joy. The jouissance as Roland Barthes liked to say.”

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October 6, 2007

Post-home-run Tweets

Post-home-run Tweets

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October 3, 2007

iPhreedom

There have been a lot of posts over the last week about Apple updating the iPhone in such a way that blocks third-party software from being installed.

This may be sacrilegious as a geek who values freedom, but I think it’s worth stating…

The applications that Apple has cruelly denied users from installing on their iPhones… weren’t very good.

1984 theme

Sure, they were cool. The fact that using reverse-engineering, undocumented APIs, and wicked-smarts, folks were able to turn out an IM app or a NES emulator is truly impressive, and a feat which should be applauded.

That said, the “platform”, such as it is, isn’t ready. Applications don’t work terribly well, or consistently. The things I installed that felt the most polished and useful? Were all games and timewasters.

For example what good is an IM app or a Twitter client which stops updating when you switch to another application? Or which gets confused and crash when you lose network connection?

When presented with the choice to upgrade my iPhone to version 1.1.1 (and get a louder speakerphone, the one new feature I really cared about), or to stick with my hacked and customized iPhone, it wasn’t even a contest. I upgraded that evening. And apart from the funky customization of my home screen (pictured), I haven’t really missed the hacks.

Will Apple open up, release an SDK and allow anyone to compile code and deploy to their cellphone? Perhaps. (Will Apple force developers to go through some convoluted approval and/or signing process? More likely). But they won’t do that until the platform of the iPhone is at a stage where the apps you can run will work stunningly well.

And while the locks may have been reinforced with this firmware update, I suspect the ingenuity of the apps created thus far will only strengthen the case within Apple to make a SDK freely available.

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September 28, 2007

PR Bluff: Apple's iPhone Bricking Is Legal and Technical BS - Gizmodo

Good breakdown of the FUD involved in the Apple “bricking” “scandal”.

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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: To all iPhone customers:

Fake Steve on the iPhone 1.1.1 firmware: “If you always wait for the vendor to actually get everything working right, you’ll never buy any technology product because there is always something that isn’t quite right. The good news is that if you buy products from companies that support them well, like Apple tries to do, you will receive years of frustration and anger, plus the envy and admiration of all your friends.”

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September 14, 2007

Rogue Amoeba - Transfer Ringtones With MakeiPhoneRingtone

Free app from Rogue Amoeba which marks AAC files as “Ringtones” as far as iTunes is concerned. Tested last night, and I now have a lovely chunk of Arctic Monkeys playing when I get called.

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September 12, 2007

iUnlock released: the first free, open source iPhone SIM unlock software - Engadget

Free hacks are now circulating to unlock your iPhone so it’ll work with any GSM SIM-card. Think I might try this tonight, before Apple release a “fix” to stop you doing it.

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Tap Tap Revolution: the fast-tapping iPhone music game

Best game so-far for the iPhone. And once again I say: If this is the awesomeness unleashed by reverse-engineering, imagine what might be possible if Apple ever get around to releasing a proper development environment for the iPhone.

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September 6, 2007

Apple - To all iPhone customers

$100 Apple Store credit for anyone who bought a pre-price-drop iPhone. There’ll still be whiners that think this isn’t enough, but from my perspective? Hey! Free copy of Leopard!

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August 22, 2007

HHGG on iPhone

HHGG on iPhone

The classic Hitchhiker's Guide text adventure, running on my iPhone. Thank you Installer.app and iPhoneFrotz. Oh, and DNA and Infocom, I suppose.

August 21, 2007

livinghardknox: Django and the iPhone

Quick guide to installing ssh, Python and Django on your iPhone, so you can run local webapps. OK, I admit defeat: I’m finally tempted to hack my iPhone and install crap on it!

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August 12, 2007

Two-way Video Conferencing for iPhone

Software (and tiny bit of hardware) hack to enable video conferencing between iPhones. Amazing that hobbyists have reverse-engineered a fairly-complete iPhone SDK.

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August 2, 2007

Remote Buddy > iPhone support

The excellent Mac remote control software adds an AJAX web-server designed for the iPhone. It works a treat for the old Mac Mini I keep under my TV.

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The song from the iPhone commercial

Download it for $0.99, then play it in the background when you’re showing off your iPhone.

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July 31, 2007

Bejeweled for iPhone

PopCap release an JavaScript version of the seminal Bejeweled which is designed to run in the web browser on the iPhone. Nice and all, but imagine if they were able to write a native app with sound, dragging, etc.

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July 27, 2007

iFuntastic 2.0 released with added features | iPhone Alley

OS X GUI which makes it a piece of piss to add your own ringtones to the iPhone. Those wily hackers!

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July 23, 2007

Exploiting the iPhone

The inevitable first iPhone security flaw announcement. Notable for how frankly *non* sensationalist it is.

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July 16, 2007

No 3G on the iPhone, but why? A Battery Life Analysis

Somewhat surprised that Wi-fi draws less power than Edge.

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July 15, 2007

Hack the iPhone - Ringtone installation instructions

Add ringtones to your iPhone in 23 easy steps. I think I’ll give Apple one firmware/iTunes upgrade to introduce the feature themselves before I go hacking around like this.

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July 14, 2007

Pickleview on iPhone

Live baseball game tracker for iPhone. Uses Twitter as a chat channel.

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July 11, 2007

Will It Blend? | iPhone

Best viral marketing for a kitchen appliance EVAR!

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July 10, 2007

beejive :: JiveTalk mobile messaging

AJAX-based instant messaging app for the iPhone. A bit slow, but it works!

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July 9, 2007

PocketTweets: Twitter For Your iPhone

Attractively-done Twitter front-end for iPhone. Really wish Twitter had a proper authentication API, so I didn’t have to keep giving my username and password to third parties.

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July 7, 2007

The iPhone Threat to Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, Real, BREW, Symbian

Well thought-out list of reasons why Flash might not make it to the iPhone. I really, really don’t want Flash on the iPhone: Existing Flash apps and games won’t play nice with the iPhone’s finger, keyboard and multitouch interface, and I’d rather see new AJAX-based web-apps built.

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July 5, 2007

telekinesis - Google Code

Remote control for your Mac, designed to be accessed by Safari on an iPhone.

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July 3, 2007

So sue me: iPhone without AT&T

DVD Jon hints at how to activate the iPod and wifi features of the iPhone without AT&T ever knowing you exist.

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Ta-da List for iPhone - (37signals)

37 Signals do their first iPhone-friendly development, making up for the lack of To-Do lists on the iPhone.

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July 2, 2007

JoeHewitt.com - Firebug for iPhone

Debug JavaScript pages displayed on your iPhone from the comfort of your PC. Clever stuff.

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June 29, 2007

The AudioFile: Jacking Off the iPhone

Your lovely [RhymesWithNose] (or Shure or Sony or whatever) headphones? Won’t plug into the iPhone (at least without a bunch of hassle). You have to imagine Apple have something up their sleeves here, but it really makes little sense.

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June 28, 2007

WebShell

SSH from an iPhone! AjaxTerm tweaked for the iPhone interface.

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AT&T Internal Apple iPhone document leaked

65 page training PDF. Summary: Go to an Apple Store, not a Cingular one, unless you want to wait for them to faff around offering credit checks and trying to upsell you on Family Plans and accessories. (Sweetest detail: They have custom iPhone carrier bags that they have to place the iPhone into and seal before you leave the store!)

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Apple - iPhone at the Apple Store

Although there have been rumours saying that Apple have got plenty of iPhones available for the grabbin’, this page on their website seems to indicate they’re expecting shortages — It lets you know which stores expect to have iPhones available the following day.

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June 26, 2007

Apple - iPhone - Rate Plans for iPhone

No iPhone premium as some feared — These look to be the same as Cingular’s existing voice-plan-plus-unlimited-data rates (which I’m already paying). Not clear if existing Cingular subscribers have to pay an (undisclosed) activation fee, though.

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June 21, 2007

Apple's New iPhone | The Onion

“When moved from hand to ear, makes Lightsaber sound effects”

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June 20, 2007

Apple - iPhone - YouTube Browser

Apple continue throwing out tasty morsels of iPhone announcements in the run-up to the launch next Friday — This time, a built-in YouTube browser. (Random thought: If Steve Jobs is trying to tell the developer community that Web Apps are a perfectly good way to develop for the iPhone, how come Apple have taken the perfectly good website that is YouTube and created a custom app for it?)

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January 9, 2007

Apple - iPhone

All respect to Apple: this is a beautiful thing. If I win the lottery, I’ll be sure to buy one. Big question for me: How easy is it to write software/widgets to run on the phone?

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This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.