Tag Archives: iPhone

The Hit List Forever

Let me get the cheesy redundant joke done right off the bat: On top of my list of things to get done is to finish Dave Allens Getting Things Done. How droll. What fun.1 On top of the personal hit list of Andy Kim of The Potion Factory I’m willing to bet a few shillings [...]

O’Reilly iPhone app update

A short while ago I wrote about my disappointment with the O’Reilly iPhone apps. The other day I noticed that three of the four titles I originally bought had an update. I’ve finally had time to have a look at them and I have to say that I’m pleasantly surprised. The 1.1 versions are infinitely [...]

Open letter to O’Reilly : Your iPhone apps suck

Update 2: New versions of several of these apps have been released. Things are a lot better. Update:I’ve had feedback on this post from O’Reilly both by email and in the comments. Both Andrew and the other O’Reilly representative I’ve been in contact with seem sincere when they say that these apps will be updated [...]

iPhone + DataCase = Lecture notes bliss

Lately I’ve been teaching a 5 week crash course in ActionScript 3. The first few classes were pretty basic stuff, so ad libbing the whole thing wasn’t too much of a problem. However, as the students got ready for increasingly advanced stuff I had to come up with increasingly advanced projects, and in order to [...]

iPoem

Perpetrating some hackery on my iPhone I stumbled over my custom generated dictionary file. I found a odd sort of pleasure in the fragmented and / or randomly constructed phrases it contained. Since I’ve nothing else to contribute with today, I’ll share it with you. No I have not been drinking. but feels so damn [...]

Fix top level domain list in Mobile Safari

I love my (1.gen thoroughly hax0red) iPhone and one of the nice things I discovered a while ago (I can’t remember if this is a firmware 2.0 only trick so I can’t say exactly when) is this little trick. When you’re typing a URL in Safari you can hold down the .com key and get [...]