Wednesday, July 11, 2007

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  • iPhone hackery milestone: custom ringtones

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    The gang on the #iphone-dev IRC channel have not wasted any time getting at the good stuff. With reported access to the iPhone's filesystem, they now can create custom ringtones. Oh, the fun begins...

    Thanks Chris
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  • Found Footage: iPhone blends

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    You might want to have the children go to bed before you watch this video. Those kooky cats at Blendtec, the minds behind 'Will it Blend,' have decided to answer that age old question, 'Will an iPhone blend?'

    Clearly, the iPhone will blend but this is something you have to see for yourself.

    Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
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  • AAPL hits record highs, up 55% over 6 months

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    The charts tell the story: AAPL is feeling the iPhone bump. Even without today's $2 runup on the on-again/off-again iPhone Nano rumors (triggering a busy day: 14% more AAPL trades than usual), the stock is now solidly up 55% year to date, putting Apple's market capitalization as of today's close hovering near $115 billion. Whatever aggravation or gripes one might have with Apple's newest product, it's clear that Wall Street is feeling the iPhone love in a big way.

    Something really interesting might happen this week if the spike continues: Apple, Inc. market value may soon surpass that of the company where Steve & Steve got their start: Hewlett-Packard. HP's market cap is $117B, by no means out of reach considering the circumstances. (Of course, Google's market cap is over $162B... but that's just craziness.)

    Disclaimer: I hold Apple, Inc. stock. Split-adjusted, I bought it at about $13. Never give up -- never surrender.
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  • MacHeist giving away Linkinus

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    Last week I wrote about something brewing over on the MacHeist pages, and this week it looks like the project has come to fruition-- it's called Skunk Works, and in addition to the giveaways they're doing with the MacUpdate promo, they're now giving away software.

    Yes, signing up on that page is supposed to give you a free copy of Linkinus (up to an including 1.1, not including 1.2, so read the fine print), the IRC client we mentioned earlier this year. The app is also now included in the MacHeist version of the MacUpdate bundle (so if you already bought that, save the free copies for someone else), and MacHeist recommends that even if you get it for free, you go ahead and purchase it anyway (to support the developers). Plus, a purchase will clear you until the next major version, not just 1.1.

    Like some of you guys, I'm getting a little tired of all the hype around these Mac software bundles, so I've been trying to cut back on this kind of news. Still, free software is hard to pass up. If you've been looking for a substitute for Colloquy, this might be just what you need at a price you can't pass up.
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  • iPhone gripes

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    Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens are all well and good for Austrian nannies, but we ill-tempered TUAWians have had our fill of iPhone inconveniences. We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any more. Here is our abbreviated list of iPhone quirks that tick us off. We know you've got your list too (as do the 300-odd commenters at Engadget) and we encourage you to add your issues in to the comments.
    • Why isn't iPhone Safari learning to auto-fill my user names?
    • Why can't I start a search in YouTube, pop over to check the weather, come back and find the results of my search? Instead, the search terminates and the search field clears.
    • Why isn't there a front-page address book app?
    • Why can't I get consistent EDGE reception? I live in a major metropolitan area, damn it.
    • Why can't I just get disk access without having to resort to extreme hackery?
    • Why can't I SMS more than one person at a time?
    • Why can't I receive a call while surfing the web like the Sidekick does?
    • Why can't I just edit an outgoing e-mail address without having to go back and type it all in again?
    • Why can't I maintain individual calendars instead of having them all lumped together?
    • Sure, we can meebo, but why is there no built-in iChat?
    • I hate paying thirty bucks a month for a voice plan that I don't use. I wish I could cancel the voice plan and keep the data plan but AT&T says I can't.
    • Where's Flash? I want Adobe to fix the OS X Flash plugin, and then I want it on my iPhone. We admit that the existing Flash for OS X, if moved to the iPhone, would be an unmitigated disaster; it would drain your battery in about 3 minutes while causing the iPhone to burn its way through your pocket, melting the ground beneath you and sinking rapidly into Earth's molten core. One Flash video on my MBP causes Safari to spike to 70% CPU and kicks my fans into overdrive... that sort of unoptimized code on a handheld platform is a recipe for pain.
    • When my screen gets all smudgy, why can't I just clean it on my shirt? I hate carrying around the iPhone wipie-cloth all the time. (Chartier claims his T-shirt works just fine). Chris U gets the best results from t-shirts made of hemp. You can also use shield lens care cloths from Hilco and other photography-quality lens-cleaning cloths.
    • Why does AT&T keep sending me balance updates for my prepaid plan every few minutes, even when I haven't used the phone for anything? When I make a call or text? Fine. Send me an updated balance. But when the iPhone is just sitting there? Puh-lease!
    • Why can't I delete the last-taken photo immediately from the camera interface without having to go to the photos section? That snapshot button is so super-sensitive, I keep taking pictures I didn't mean to.
    • I hate having to navigate over to settings all the time. Why can't I just access the settings for a program (e.g. e-mail) from inside the program itself like I can with Weather and Stocks?
    • The email account UI is positively dreadful. Tap 2/3 times to get into one inbox, then 2/3 times back out, then 2/3 times back into another one is for the birds. I hate the email UI and would love the chance to kick a responsible party in the pants for it.
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  • Adium X hits 1.0.5

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    Adium X, my IM app of choice, has released version 1.0.5-- mostly bugfixes, and no major additions to the interface. A bug which deleted chat transcript indexes has been fixed, as well as a crash that was showing up during text-to-speech. And since libpurple was upgraded to 2.0.2, moving ICQ buddies around will go more smoothly, and as the blog says, users who want to add Tlen (a Polish IM service) support to Adium will now be able to do so.

    Adium also says this is the last major 1.0 release-- the next planned release will be 1.1, and will drop OS X 10.3 support. Optimizing for 10.4 only, they say, will "bring you more of the shiny." Can't wait to see it.

    As usual, you can grab Adium on their site.

    [ Thanks, Geoff! ]
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  • Found Footage: iPhone Dev Camp Hackathon

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    The San Jose Mercury News provides this video of the recent three day iPhone developer camp and hackathon. The Mercury News talked with event organizers and got a peek at some new iPhone-specific applications during this "Inside Silicon Valley" video. It's a pretty long video (almost half an hour!) so if you have buffering problems the way I did, you may want to download the MP4 file directly from the Mercury News site.

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  • TUAW Tip: Hiding the cursor when zoomed

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    RogueAmoeba just linked to Mark Johns' easy little app called Cursorceror. He loves the Ctrl/scroll wheel trick, just as I do (holding Ctrl and using the scroll wheel allows you to zoom in on any part of your desktop-- especially useful for watching Flash movies fullscreen very quickly), and he wanted to get the cursor out of the way quickly, so he wrote Cursorceror to attach hiding the cursor to a hotkey-- make it appear and disappear at will.

    The only problem is that he didn't have to do all of that. Turns out that when you're zoomed in (in most applications, including the major browsers), hitting any key at all will automatically hide the cursor for you. So if all you want to do is watch Flash videos fullscreen, just zoom in, tap a key, and watch your videos cursor-free.

    Johns' wittily-named app didn't completely go to waste though-- while hiding the cursor is easy most of the time, the keystrokes you hit will still be received by whatever program has focus, and so handing off the task to Cursorceror will keep you from making any mistakes while keying. Also, not all programs will apparently let the keystrokes through (I couldn't get the cursor to hide in iTunes or GraphicConverter in my quick tests), so Cursorceror will come in handly if you want instant hiding no matter what app has focus. It will also hide the cursor after a set time limit, which, as far as I know, OS X won't normally do.
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  • iTunes: Free Tuesday

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    Welcome to this week's edition of iTunes: Free Tuesday. Each weeks brings a new collection of free singles and videos from around the world, from Australia to Canada, New Zealand to France. Here's what's new today.

    US Music

    US: 125 Pt. 3 (Connections) by Joell Ortiz featuring Gab Gotcha, Graph, Stimuli & Ras Kass
    Each week, we find a track from an artist or a band who's on the cusp of success and bring it to you, for free, as our Single of the Week. Just like the other famous Ortiz, this Big Papi dreams of big hits. Brooklyn-based MC Joell Ortiz shows that the demise of New York hardcore rap has been greatly exaggerated. "125 Pt. 3" is loaded with guests (Gab Gotcha, Graph, Stimuli, and Rass Kass) blazing the microphone with no hooks, no gimmicks, and no trendy dances - just street-level poetry. Ortiz has been linked with Dr. Dre's Aftermath label and he's about to blow up, so download "125 Pt. 3" now and get familiar.

    US: Estelar by Capitan Melao
    Each week, we find a track from an artist or a band who's on the cusp of success and bring it to you, for free, as our Canción de la Semana. Capitan Melao is the side project of Javier Weyler, who has spent much of his time in the past as drummer for the Brit rock heroes Stereophonics. "Estelar" features sublime vocals courtesy of Natalia Lafourcade and has subtle bossa nova rhythm and bolero-like elegance that stem from Weyler's love of the music he heard growing up in Argentina.

    US: Put a Penny In the Slot byFionn Regan
    Our Discovery Download puts the focus on a different genre each week, offering up a free track from an artist we think is worth your attention. Fionn Regan is an Irish singer/songwriter who has a conversational, melodic slant to his vocals which give him a sound that's somewhere between Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and Sufjan Stevens - sweet, earnest, and slightly wounded. The lyrics to "Put a Penny In the Slot" have all of the ease and grace of Ron Sexsmith's great work. The young singer, who also manages to sing the praises of novelists Paul Auster and Saul Bellow in the track, doesn't overwhelm with his prose. He's surely gifted and we hope you enjoy the tune.

    Continue reading iTunes: Free Tuesday

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