Tuesday, October 2, 2007

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  • iPhone Recognizes Audio Email Attachments

    Dan at UneasySilence points out that if you’ve upgraded your iPhone to the latest version (1.1.1) the email viewer application now supports wav and mp3 files in your email. This is surprising to me that it wasn’t inherently in the iPhone to begin with…

    Dan points out that this is useful if you’re using a voicemail service such as CallWave, but also if you’re a Vonage user like myself where your home voicemails come to you in email/wav format. Of course I’d love to get your feedback as to how well this new functionality works on the iPhone - does it actually play the files? I ask because it didn’t work natively on my Windows Mobile BlackJack until I upgraded it to version 6 of the platform - something about the wav file encoding that the player didn’t recognize… I’d assume Apple wouldn’t fall into the same mistake, but would love to hear verification from iPhone and Vonage users…

    EDIT: According to Chris, although voicemail wav files are recognized on the 1.1.1 iPhone, they aren’t playable. Thanks Chris!

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  • A plea to Steve

    Not that it will be delivered, but I just sent an email to Steve Jobs:

    Steve (or his assistant, secretary, mail reader, etc.),

    I have been a devout Apple fanatic for years. I was just about to give up on Apple when you came back. I used the IIe, Classic, LC, Quadra, Powermac, PowerPC, and now Intel Macbook Pro and iMac.

    My wife and I both have iPhones. I waited in line 10 hours to get them and was still thrilled when you reduced the price of the iPhone to $399 because I was one of the first people to have one. I love the device too… it’s a magnificent breakthrough in technology. I even switched to AT&T months before the iPhone launch (shortly after the MacWorld Keynote) to be ready when it hit.

    HOWEVER… There are many things lacking on the iPhone. No to-do list application, voice notes, sketch pad, games, finder, SSH, text editor, chat, etc. I was excited to hear that it was very easy to develop for the iPhone despite the lack of an SDK on Apple’s part. I was sure the overly-simplistic security on the initial iPhones was intentional, possibly an omen of a forthcoming SDK.

    I also understand your frustration with hackers trying to unlock the iPhone to take to other carriers. I am happy with AT&T, and understand the relationship you have with them. Both of you spent a lot of money, time and resources developing the iPhone and the two go together (for the time being). I completely understand your obligation (both contractual and otherwise) to keep the iPhone carrier-locked.

    But here’s what I DON’T understand. Why, are you going out of your way to thwart third-party software development? The iPhone is a great device, but it can be a REVOLUTIONARY device. Apple can’t possibly release all the applications users will want. Why limit yourselves and your customers by stifling creativity? Hasn’t Apple always been about thinking “different?”

    Please Steve, let the software developers in like you have with OSX. They can make the iPhone what it has the potential to be. Just look at the innovation in AppTapp Installer (Installer.app) and the applications already available. It’s amazing what underground hackers and software developers have done with their spare time! They even got GPS-like location service to work on the iPhone, with no GPS!

    Just imagine what they could do with a full-featured SDK to work with!

    Yours truly,

    Brandon Eley
    beley@mac.com

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  • Are Keyboard Problems Plaguing MacBook Pros?

    After much anticipation, my new MacBook Pro arrived this weekend. Following an evening of migrating files, applications and settings to the new laptop, I was extremely pleased with its speed, responsiveness, and all the little things that make it an excellent Apple laptop. But this morning, when I reached the office, we hit a serious snag. After waking up from sleep, the keyboard and trackpad were completely unresponsive, even after multiple reboots, removing the battery, and hitting just about every key combination I could think of.

    After significant hassle, I attached a USB keyboard and mouse to the laptop, and that’s how we’ve been operating for the last few hours.

    Considering I can sometimes be the quintessential Apple fanboy, this is a very public issue. Looking throughout the Web for a magic key sequence or seance I could provide to wake the keyboard back to life, I stumbled upon a discussion board on Apple’s support site that shows dozens of people with the same, unfathomable issue.

    Some have written, “External USB keyboard and Bluetooth mouse work fine, but the built in keyboard and trackpad are dead,” and others… “Randomly, the keyboard and trackpad go completely dead, and though the computer seems otherwise unaffected, I cannot do anything.”

    It looks like the only solution is to take the laptop to a repair facility pronto, and we can expect the machines to be out of service for a few days at the very least. I want so badly for this to be a user error, so I can laugh at myself later, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen.

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  • Top-10 iPhone Optimized Websites

    The iPhone does a great job of displaying any website with its Safari web browser and high-resolution display. With the easy touch controls on the iPhone, navigating just about any website is a breeze.

    Still, websites developed specifically for the iPhone are optimal because they utilize the screen to the fullest extent, and use less bandwidth (which if you’re on EDGE much, is a necessity).

    Below are my top 10 iPhone optimized websites. These stay in my bookmarks and get visited daily.

    1. Facebook - http://iphone.facebook.com/

      Probably the best iPhone-optimized website I’ve seen, Facebook has most of the features of the regular website, shrunk down and bandwidth-optimized. It’s super easy to navigate and has me using Facebook almost exclusively over that “other” site.

    2. Digg - http://www.digg.com/iphone/

      It’s Digg on your iPhone. It’s fast and very easy to browse. I probably hit this site twice a day to check out what’s new.

    3. Amazon.com - http://www.amazon.com/

      I just discovered Amazon this past week. I was in Staples and wanted to check the price of something, so I hit Amazon.com with my iPhone. To my surprise, they had an iPhone optimized version! It doesn’t have the slick design of other iPhone sites, but is 100% functional and loads fast, which is what I want when I’m standing in a store and need to compare prices.

    4. eBay - http://iphone.ebay.com/

      After I checked Amazon.com, I decided to look for eBay. They too have an iPhone optimized site, and it’s fast! It doesn’t load photos by default, so you get almost instant search results, and can easily load any photos you want by clicking the “Picture” tab.

    5. Google - http://google.com/

      Google Mobile is a great iPhone optimized site, even if it was designed long before the iPhone was released. It loads fast and fills the screen. Just go to google.com and click “mobile” instead of “classic.”

    6. TaDa List - http://tadalist.com/

      One major flaw in the iPhone is the lack of a todo list software package. TaDa list is a fast, simple to-do list that I’ve used many times before. I switched to the more robust Backpack, but use TaDa List while on my iPhone for jotting down quick lists.

    7. Leaflets - http://www.getleaflets.com/

      Leaflets is a great resource for finding iPhone formatted content and websites. From sports to games to weather, you can find it on an inerface very similar to the iPhone’s native applications.

    8. Yahoo Search (configure in preferences)

      My iPhone came setup for Google by default, but I found the Yahoo! search better formatted for my iPhone. The results are similar in most instances, so I use the Yahoo! search.

    9. GoMovies - http://webologistdesign.com/gomovies/demo/

      Get movie times and theater inforamtion nicely formatted and fast. I’ve visited several theater company websites looking for showtimes, and while it’s not a problem, the image-heavy sites are slow to load. I much prefer this optimized site that loads in a fraction of the time.

    10. Your WordPress blog! - http://iwphone.contentrobot.com/

      That’s right, you can have an iPhone optimized blog with no effort on your part (other than uploading a plugin and theme). I’ve tested it with my personal blog and is as simple as it sounds. Just upload the plugin and theme, turn the plugin on and your WordPress blog is optimized for the iPhone. Visitors coming from the iPhone will get the optimized version.

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  • Updates Galore!

    iLife ‘08 users, check for updates! Apple has unleashed a grand total of 9 updates for iLife ‘08. They did sneak in a firmware update for my MacBook Pro as well. Here’s the list:

    Keynote 4.0.1
    Pages 3.0.1
    Numbers 1.0.1
    iDVD 7.0.1
    iMovie 7.1
    GarageBand 4.1
    iPhoto 7.1
    iLife Support 8.1
    iWeb 2.0.2
    MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.4 (I think this is only for Core 2 Duo models)

    I can’t recall the last time I’ve had more than 4 or 5 updates (if ever). Usually they seem to come in spurts. The software folks in Cupertino are clearly busy. Most of the updates are to “improve performance and reliability”.

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  • Hacking the Hackers

    I’ve come to the conclusion that there is a room at 1 Infinite loop few know about. The entrance is guarded by laser beams and ninja trained monkeys. The employees that work in the room are completely self contained and sequestered from the the outside world. They are payed handsomely for this, driven by the RDF, and powered by something mortals don’t comprehend.

    What this department is called, well, that place doesn’t have a name. Its where the antihackers work. Where they surf IRC channels for new iPhone hacking methods, reporting their anticode to the software developers, smiling. In the comments of the code it reads “please put your name here”. The real developer is unknown and disguised forever.

    People, we are being duped. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these hackers are being paid to give up just enough information to allow some iPhone hackage to occur. Then when outsiders release their how-to’s, code examples, or other contributions, the iPhone update is already being installed on the iTunes update servers.

    So to those who have installed the new iPhone update and are ready to hack, enjoy. I mean, after all how do you know this article isn’t coming from 1 Infinite Loop?

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  • Is PowerPC Doomed? Nahhhh
    Power Mac G3

    apple.com, 9 May 1998 [via]

    Noted blogger and podcaster Daniel Eran Dilger writes today at Roughly Drafted on Leopard and the History and Future of Mac OS X on PowerPC.

    For those of you, like our own Stephanie Guertin, who are running on older PPC systems, Dilger lays out why support for the PowerPC isn’t going away anytime soon. With an informative examination of historical Apple products, his article provides a sound argument for G4 and G5 owners to stay calm.

    His article (as well as his blog in general) is worth a read whether you’re panicking about support for that PowerBook you bought just before the MacBook Pro was announced, or you merely want a refresher on the history of Apple’s products and CEOs during the dark ages (the years when Jobs was gone).

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  • Insomnia Film Festival

    Apple Insomnia Film Festival

    Apple has officially announced the 2007 Insomnia Film Festival.

    On Saturday, October 13 at promptly 9:00 a.m. (Eastern Time), Apple will open the floodgates for all high school and college students to create a 3-minute film (using some parameters provided by Apple). The kicker? You have to write, cast, shoot, edit, score, and upload the film in 24 hours.

    The films will then be put up for everyone to vote on. The top 25 from that will be screen by industry pros and each member of the team with the winning film will receive a MacBook Pro, Final Cut Studio 2, Logic Studio, and Shake. Snap!

    You can register now. Teams must consist of 5 people, all of whom must be in high school or attending an accredited college or university.

    [via Daring Fireball]

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