Sep 18
Filed under: Cult of Mac, Odds and ends, iPhone
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Laughing Squid posted these yummy, adorable, and prize-winning iPhone cupcakes. The cupcakes, created by Nick and Danielle Bilton, swept the Cupcake Decorating Championship at Ignite NYC II.
I love the phone badge and the timer's tiny details but can't help but feel that the stocks cupcake somehow is missing a bit of white frosting. Also, the calendar date was wrong for the time of the championships, but I suspect that the judges wouldn't notice that.
Congrats to the Biltons!
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Sep 18
Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhone
An iPhone user in Australia was playing around with his camcorder's NightShot mode (which can see through some materials), when he found that behind the rear plastic clamshell is a DataMatrix 2D barcode.
Engadget suspects the barcode is the handset's IMEI and serial numbers.
If you have the ability to see and scan your handset's barcode, let us know what information it contains with a comment below!
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Sep 18
Filed under: Developer, iPhone, iPod touch
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If you're curious about developing for the iPhone, but haven't made the plunge yet, you might want to read Rogue Amoeba programmer Mike Ash's 22-step tale of developing NetAwake, which is available in the App Store.
It's a fascinating story, with a lot of waiting, a lot of rejection, and a lot of "screwing about in Xcode."
"The errors are essentially worthless. I believe I only ever saw Xcode generate one error, over and over and over again, as it encountered a whole bunch of different problems," he wrote.
The app took a month to approve, once it was submitted. Ash says that the people he corresponded with at Apple were "nice about responding to my query" but "spending a month in limbo for a single bug is a very poor tradeoff."
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Sep 18
Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone, Jailbreak/pwnage
We recently got a tip over to this It's Just Poison post about Veency for jailbroken iPhones from Jay "Saurik" Freeman, the author and maintainer of Cydia. Veency provides a VNC remote desktop server for your iPhone, allowing you to connect to the shared screen of your handheld from any VNC client (Apple Remote Desktop, Chicken of the VNC, and more).
I downloaded a copy to my iPhone, rebooted and gave it a whirl to see how well it worked using Chicken of the VNC on my Mac.
From first go, it did what it promised: offering tap-interpretation of my Mac-based mouse clicks as iPhone-sourced finger taps. The current mouse position on the Mac was echoed as a small "x" on the iPhone, so I could always see where the virtual finger was.
Continue reading Veency: VNC Server for iPhone
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Sep 18
RunKeeper ($9.99), new to the App Store, lets iPhone 3G help you keep track of your “runs, hikes and walks,” says John Biggs (nytimes.com). While you’re out, “RunKeeper displays the current pace, distance and time as well as a bar graph of the speed over time.“ Then, it “automatically uploads the data to www.runkeeper.com. Log in there to see a Google map of the route as well as the run’s total distance.”
written by iPhone Fan
Sep 18
Filed under: Humor, Software, Freeware, iPhone
Anyone who is as ancient as me will remember when "dialing" a phone meant putting your finger into a little circular hole in a rotary dial, dragging it to a small metal stop, then pulling your finger out of the hole to dial that number. Rotary dial phones disappeared in the 1970s, but now
MildMannered Industries is bringing back the fun with
Bakelite 1.0 for iPhone.
As the screenshot indicates, Bakelite provides a rotary dial interface for dialing phone numbers. It even has a feature those old dial phones didn't have -- the ability to delete the last number if you mis-dialed it.
Bakelite isn't very practical, but it's fun! The price is right, too. Bakelite is available from the
App Store (click opens iTunes) for free.
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