Archive for the ‘apple’ Category.
5th December 2007, 11:17 am
I had to get my iPhone replaced. It was delightfully simple, and I’m extremely pleased with the customer experience the Apple Store is providing.
However, my iphone was asking for a password to my voicemail. Here’s the list of advice people think it might be:
Your entire iphone number
Nope.
Your last four digits of your iphone
Nope.
Your iphone number minus the area code.
Nope.
Try 111111. That’s the AT&T default
Nope.
original…
Log onto your AT&T account at https://www.wireless.att.com/olam/dashboardAction.olamexecute
Click on “Phone/Device”.
Under Phone/Device Support, click on “Reset Voicemail Password”
Click “Submit”
Within a minute or so, you will receive a text message from AT&T with your new voicemail password.
Yep.
Technorati Tags: apple, iphone
17th October 2007, 10:09 am
Third Party Applications on the iPhone
Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February.
…snip…
We think a few months of patience now will be rewarded by many years of great third party applications running on safe and reliable iPhones.
Steve
Time for a real blog, Steve. Seriously. You made a great product to create one in iWeb. You can make Phil’s team in charge of hitting the save button. The tone of the posts you actually sign is completely appropriate for a blog. And I definitely love that you take time to personally address the issues that you know people want to hear you chime in on. Why not go the last extra couple of feet and give the world a Real Steve Jobs RSS feed? (with feedburner stats 
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Technorati Tags: steve jobs, blog
27th September 2007, 11:04 am
Now, I didn’t do anything stupid like try to unlock my phone, so that’s probably why I had absolutely no problem updating my AppTapp’d phone to firmware 1.1.1. The end result I got was a nice clean iphone, albeit without my extra software. I haven’t tried installing apptapp again. I feel like I was brave enough to update without hearing from anyone else how it was going to go down, so… I’ll let someone braver than myself try to reinstall apptapp. The iTunes music store interface is way cool.
Technorati Tags: 1.1.1, firmware 1.1.1, iphone
21st September 2007, 04:38 am
ZOMG, big thank you to Frank Pape for writing a functioning HOWTO on setting up Subversion Server on Mac OS X.
update: wow, subversion is… kind of hard to set up and get your head around without a live human to show you how. I think I’ll like time machine better than this when it’s out. This is just kind of unwieldy for web dev. Still, I’ll give it a shot. This is definitely a problem remembering what the latest and greatest code base is, so it’s worth at least trying it out to see how this can improve my situation. Now if only Filemerge.app would respond to svnX’s will, I think this would be pretty cool… but.. it’s not right now. I’m sure it’s something wrong on my configuration.
update2: ok, yeah. I like subversion. Sleeping on it definitely cemented a few things in my brain for me. I’m sure I’ll discover a few things along the way, but this is definitely the right thing to do, and I think it will be easy enough to roll into a regular workflow.
update3: filemerge is working. Just needed to reboot the fruit.
Technorati Tags: macosx, SVN server, subversion, subversion server, SVN
25th July 2007, 01:41 pm
I’ve been pushing the iPhone through it’s paces all morning, and what I’ve noticed is that when I come back to my mac, I feel like I’m using a supercomputer. And it’s not because the phone feels crippled in any way, it’s because it just feels like a mac. Only when I come back and use my mac, I feel like I’m having the same experience as my iPhone, only a lot more of it. They feel like the same experience, only in different sizes.
Technorati Tags: apple, iphone
23rd January 2007, 06:15 pm
Not that I used to run classic apps on Mac OS X, but… *sniff* Oh well. Time to figure how to make an osx version.
4th December 2006, 10:11 am
when in xcode, you can start typing just about anything and hit escape or f5 to get it to give you a list of suggested things to automatically complete what you started typing.
Once you select one of the items in the list, hit control-/ to go forward, control-shift-/ to go backwards through the list of arguments… handy!
Technorati Tags: apple, bignerdranch, xcode
16th January 2006, 02:42 pm
So much to like in the new iLife 06, garageband getting a ginormous update, holy crap… including the ability to easily record audio (and video stills!) from iChat:
Apple.com
With GarageBand 3 and iChat, you can host your very own talk show as easily as carrying on a friendly chat with a few pals.
So even if today’s guests are in Paris while you’re in Peoria, you can still put on a podcast together.
Just start an audio chat using iChat and hit record. GarageBand simultaneously records the audio from your chat and assigns different tracks to each participant — identified by buddy name and icon — so you can edit everything seamlessly. And if you’re using iSight cameras to conduct a video chat*, GarageBand even captures a real-time still image every time each guest speaks.
See? Instant podcast talk show. And you didn’t even have to dodge a flying chair.
Technorati Tags: apple, garageband, ichat, podcast
21st November 2005, 03:46 pm
Well, as you may know I like to shoot a timelapse video now and then… I’ve been using an earlier version of this iSight tripod mount for about a year, so today I thought I’d share the new and improved version:
It consists of a couple of pieces of hardwood braced at a 90 degree angle… I have one piece of wood with two holes in it (the mounting plate), and then a piece of wood that is 90 degrees to the mounting plate for the iSight bracket to grab on to, and then two triangles (with the corners cut off)…
On the mounting plate, I drilled a hole slightly smaller than the mounting screw on the tripod. The idea was to make the hole small enough for the screw to bite into, and then force it into cutting the mating grooves into the wood. The second hole is for the little pop up doodad to help with alignment. If your tripod doesn’t have this, it probably isn’t making sense, and it’s probably nothing to worry about anyway. Just screw the mounting plate down nice and tight, and you’ll be in good shape.
I got to thinking that if you turn the iSight bracket around the other way, that mould make it easier to adjust the camera if you were recording something like woodworking, or sewing, or what-have-you. I think I’ll probably end up leaving it like this.
Technorati Tags: apple, diy, isight, make, photography, tools, tripod, woodworking
12th October 2005, 06:02 pm
Check out what quicktime gave me enough time to screengrab for eternity.
21st September 2005, 11:42 am
that new bigger iMovie size in your .Mac homepage template appears to be 480×288 … which is not 16×9 aspect ratio… it’s a lot closer to 15 by 9.
if you’re going to resize 640×480 footage to maximize this size, you’d want to resize to 384×288
12th September 2005, 03:42 pm
my coworker's nano:
impossibly small, indeed. Anyone want to buy a slightly dinged 3G iPod? 
7th September 2005, 03:58 pm
um, yeah. Can you please make a lanyard/headphone adapter for my shuffle now? That’s wicked cool.
7th September 2005, 11:25 am
if you’re running “SizzlingKeys”, it will prevent itunes 5 from installing. Open your control panels, disable SizzlingKeys, and the installer can continue.
25th August 2005, 12:57 pm
So, i’ve been downloading a lot of creative commons licensed music from my favorite podcasts/songcasts … does anyone know how to remove the chapter markers from podcasted audio in itunes? The problem here is that when I skip to a new song and I come back to the song I skipped, it starts back up where I skipped from. For talk shows, good. For music, bad. Is there a feature right under my nose that I can’t see? Is there some automator task that will undo this “feature”?
Technorati Tags: apple, applescript, automator, podcast, itunes, songcast
