This is a test post from my iPhone!
The post funtion is not that cool and the app could use a better UI flow. But hey, at least it’s open source, though I couldn’t find the code(they have a post saying they would release it when it goes 1.0, that happened but still no [...]
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iPhone Display Color Temperature, and the Difference Between Builds 5A345 and 5A347 of the iPhone OS
I love how John Gruber chases details this small but which are really meaningful.
(Via Daring Fireball.)
Persuasion, Productivity and Prose: Apple Flips Rogers the Bird A Week Before Canadian iPhone Launch? (Plausible Rumor)
Rumors of an Apple-Rogers(Canadian GSM carrier) break off. I really hope this is true, so that carriers don’t abuse their powers with high voice and data plans, just because they have the iPhone.
(Via Smithereens.)
Free WiFi courtesy of Robert Scoble
This is an assumption and I can’t test is right now but:
Blogsphere readers know that anybody has access to Robert Scoble’s cell phone number. We all know Robert Scoble posts his cell phone regularly on his blog and we know he has an iPhone (Exhibit A, and Exhibit B).
So assuming his number is not a [...]
iPhone: the phone of the people
Since the iPhone was announced people have been criticizing all the different features or lack of and defended contenders like the Blackberry or N95. Apple has followed every single request and obeyed in promptly fixing everything:
-Price too high: cut after just 3 months
-No 3rd party applications: SDK announced shortly after, released in March and apps [...]
Unlike Facebook’s iPhone site, here is one you won’t see in a commercial soon
Playboy.com’s iPhone website just launched. Judging by the screenshot it’s more of a guy’s portal than a pr0n site.
Missing: Sports scores(hopefully Colombian Soccer) and games!
(Via TechCrunch.)
May-June Developer Conferences
Developers conference seem to pop up everywhere during the next couple of months. A multi-tech developer might want to go the the following hot conferences:
Start off on May 28-29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West for Google’s Web Forward:
Two days full of in-depth breakout sessions on the latest web technologies, Fireside Chats with Google engineering teams, [...]
Apple, Please let me in!
Just got this:
Dear Registered iPhone Developer,
Thank you for expressing interest in the iPhone Developer Program. We have received your enrollment request. As this time, the iPhone Developer Program is available to a limited number of developers and we plan to expand during the beta period. We will contact you again regarding your [...]
Horray, No delay: Apple announces WWDC 08 dates
Apple is on track for WWDC 08 in June. No delays this year as had been perviously rumored.
(Via TUAW.)
iPhone’s SDK biggest drawback: no multitasking
There two things that have bugged me from the iPhone SDK announcement:
-No InterfaceBuilder for the iPhone yet (you can still code it, so it’s just an inconvenience)
-Third party apps can’t run in the background.
I love the Mac, because all apps are created equal. But the iPhone(at least for now) will treat third party apps like [...]