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It’s nothing fancy, just the “Hello World!” app that Apple so kindly put in their developer documentation. I even went above and beyond with a custom icon and some fancier text in the app. Now my only problem is that it’s taking forever (over an hour now) to get a Development Provisioning Profile from Apple.
Update: I finally got a DPP and I’ve installed the app on my iPhone. Now to learn some more about developing for the iPhone in Xcode!
An old friend of mine, Ron, responded to one of my Facebook updates by saying “Are you writing some iPhone apps during this time?”. That’s a damn good question. I’ve been doing a lot of reading on Program/Project Management in hopes of landing a PM job with Microsoft, but so far that hasn’t panned out. I’ve been considering expanding my knowledge base beyond that, but didn’t know what to concentrate on. As an avid iPhone user, I can’t believe that Ron had to point out the obvious to me. Well, after this post, I am going to signup for the iPhone SDK and hopefully have my “Hello World” app written in no time.
Thanks Ron! You seem to be the angel of reason on my shoulder.
After much coveting of this unique bluetooth stereo headset, Amazon’s recent price drop has allowed me to purchase it. And I am way impressed.
This is a unique headset. It starts as a standard bluetooth earpiece. 
And for phone calls it does a great job. It has adaptive noise reduction and multipoint technology to connect to multiple phones. 7 hours of talk time and 160 hours of standby.
Where this product shines is its ability to stream audio via the A2DP protocol. When connected to my iPhone 3GS, I can listen to podcasts and music through the single earpiece. This is extremely convenient when you want to keep an open ear to hear your environment.
But it gets better. Attach the secondary earbud, drape the light, cloth cable around the back of your neck and you’ve converted this earpiece into a full stereo headset. There is a fit kit with 3 sizes of earpieces. For me, the medium gels fit great and provide good sound isolation. Since the secondary earbud and cable are so light, you can pop it out temporarily to hear your environment.
While this isn’t a full review, it covers the highlights. Here comes the pros and cons.
Pros:
Cons:
That’s it for now. If you have any questions, leave a comment.
This morning Apple Inc. updated the Mac Mini, iMac, Airport Extreme, and Time Capsule. We’ve all seen the Photoshopped Mac Mini pictures with a billion USB ports but now we know that it has five. The biggest updates for the desktop line are faster graphics cards, faster CPU’s and lower power consumption.
What interests me the most is the enhancements to the Airport Extreme and Time Capsule. Apple has seperated the 802.11g and 802.11n into seperate channels. This will allow each device on the network get the optimal speed without slowing up the network (iPhone at 802.11g and Apple TV at 802.11n). They’ve also added a “guest” network that will provide a password protected, seperate WiFi network that doesn’t see your local network. Very nice touches. At $499, Im seriously considering the 1TB Time Capsule.
Source: Apple
… or what has to change to make the iPhone/iPod Touch a viable platform.
Dasme wrote an interestering article over on Nukoda.com about gaming on the iPhone. Here’s an excerpt:
I like many of you out there with a brand new iPhone 2.0 have been in love with the App Store. I’ve downloaded my fair share of both free and paid games, and have been amazed at the quality of the launch software. Like all things however, it hasn’t been a perfect experience.
I’ve collected my thoughts and gripes into one long post that I’m hoping iPhone/iPod Touch game developers will see and take to heart. While it’s likely that this won’t be seen by many, I want to speak my peace mainly so I can stop all my bitching to friends. Below you’ll find my three top gripes, and my solutions that would make iPhone/iPod Touch gaming a wonderful experience to be had by all… in a perfect world at least.
Read more here
I can’t be the only one having this problem. Here’s the scenario. I listen to my iPhone 3G in my car via a dock that is attached to a cigarette lighter adapter. If I leave it in the car, as soon as I re-start the car, it goes into landscape mode and won’t come out no matter how I twirl it. I am forced to shut-down and restart the iPhone 3G (out of the dock).
If you’ve experienced this problem, let me know. I’m going to go check the discussion forums at Apple and see if this is common or even a known bug.
EDIT: Nothing on this over at the Apple Forums. I’m going to try and recreate this scenario at home with a standard charger and dock. Check back tomorrow for an update.
I’ve been trying to give Apple my money all weekend and all I keep getting is an error that says “The iTunes Store is unable to process purchases at this time. Credit card processesing is temporarily unavailable. You may continue to browse the store. Please try to make your purchase later.”Well, I’ve been trying for over 24 hours with little success. At first I thought it might me a problem with PayPal, so I switched my payment method to a Visa checkcard. That let me make one $3 purchase and then it too gave me the credit card error. I’ve been checking the Apple Discussion Boards and the problem is occuring with all forms of payment, even gift cards.If you’ve been having this problem, chime in with a comment.
While iTunes is not seeing the update yet, it is available as a direct download. Of course, I’m at work right now and can’t install it yet, but here is what I’ve read on the blogospehere so far:
There are also reports that iToner still works. I’ll confirm this later today.
Ambrosia Software has updated iToner to v1.0.3. The new version is now compatible with iPhone firmware v1.1.1. I downloaded the updated software and it works flawlessly.
I’ve got to say that custom ringtones was the feature I missed the most after I updated to iPhone firmware v.1.1.1. Kudos to Abrosia Software. The $15 cost of iToner has proven to be a sound (pun intended) investment.
So, many of us updated our iPhone’s firmware to v1.1.1. A few of us (thank God, not me), bricked our iPhones. And then there are those that stayed on 1.0.2.
I’ve got to say that I do appreciate some of Apple’s enhancements. The double-press of the home button is a time saver. As is double-space = period-space. But what do I miss?
I miss my custom ringtones the most. It was nice to know who was calling based on the MP3’s that I installed using iToner. I was having fun using AppTap, but to tell you the truth, now that it has been a few weeks, there are only a few third-party apps that I can even recall, let alone miss (pardon me if I mis-spell any of them): Summerboard, VoiceMemo, ToDoList, and Navizon.
There may be good news around the corner. The iPhone Dev Team is working hard to jailbreak v1.1.1 and as of today, they’re making progress. But my question to you is: Given all the iPhone bricking that happened with 1.1.1, would you even risk it again?
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