The iPhone uses a proprietary library on Windows and Mac to transfer photos from the iPhone to the computer. Presumably, they’re doing this to prevent playing with the phone’s other contents (files).
Someone has written a replacement driver for Linux which allows access to the photos. It looks like he reverse-engineered the protocol. More details are […]
I have downloaded several applications to my iPhone. These aren’t “critical” or “necessary” applications, but I thought they might be of interest.
Lightsaber — very cool, you get to use a lightsaber from one of the Star Wars movies or you can make your own. Moving your iPhone makes lightsaber sounds.
evernote — I use this […]
I sometimes have fat fingers on my iPhone and end up opening messages instead of deleting them (hey, it looks like a delete swipe to me).
An easy trick, as of one of the 2.x updates, is to hit the “Edit” button in the upper right corner while viewing messages. Then, tap the messages you want […]
Here is an easy way to get rid of email on your iPhone that can’t be sent. (Why would you get unsendable email? Well, in my case it came from having three-year-old twin boys…)
1. Switch to Airplane mode (Settings / Airplane Mode / On)
2. You may have to turn off the fetching of new mail […]
Ever wonder what game ratings really mean?
10 Average
9.5 Below average
9 So awful it’s not even worth the free review copy we got
Allen Wong created a Palm-in-a-book and is now working on a revised version: a solar-powered Palm device. For the book, he stuck a Palm PDA into a notebook, then added an infrared keyboard.
For the solar version, he tore everything apart and is working on making the combination solar-powered. Very cool hacking–I hope he […]
I needed to check our model train track for continuity, for our boys. I didn’t have a multimeter, so I improvised. I used a 9-volt battery, an LED, and a wire. I consider this absolutely basic stuff–something I learned so long ago, I’ve forgotten when I learned it.
I hope that we can teach our […]
We went to Fry’s yesterday and looked at the videos. Fry’s put “The Adventures of Baron von Munchhausen” and “Corpse Bride” into the Family section. While I personally agree with that choice (although they aren’t appropriate for three year olds), I was surprised that a company felt that way as well.
If you are interested in developing for Palm OS, then you probably want the Palm OS Development Suite (now called the Garnet OS Development Suite…the initials mean something, I’m sure…)
After some searching, this appears to be the correct link: http://www.accessdevnet.com/index.php/Garnet-OS-Development-Suite/View-category.html
Some people have developed an iPhone SDK through some serious hacking.
And in February, Apple is supposed to release their iPhone SDK. I’m excited–I am going to port Double Chess to the iPhone when I get a chance.