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password for iphone voicemail

steve cooley — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:17:51 +0000

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.

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Real Steve Jobs Blog please…

steve cooley — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:09:11 +0000

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 developersâ€™ 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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1.1.1 iphone firmware update and apptapp

steve cooley — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:04:13 +0000

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.

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Setting up subversion server on Mac OS X

steve cooley — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:38:21 +0000

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.

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3 hours with the iPhone

steve cooley — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:41:55 +0000

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.

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No more classic apps on Intel Macs

steve cooley — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:15:15 +0000

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.

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xcode: tab through arguments for autocompleted calls

steve cooley — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:11:11 +0000

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!

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Garageband: awesome podcasting tool

steve cooley — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:42:50 +0000

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.

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DIY iSight Tripod Mount

steve cooley — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:46:58 +0000

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.

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Quicktime, the artist

steve cooley — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:02:28 +0000

Check out what quicktime gave me enough time to screengrab for eternity.

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dot mac new “large” movie size

steve cooley — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:42:13 +0000

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

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iPod nano: small, beautiful.

site admin — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:42:11 +0000

my coworker's nano:

impossibly small, indeed. Anyone want to buy a slightly dinged 3G iPod?

Nano

steve cooley — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 23:58:37 +0000

um, yeah. Can you please make a lanyard/headphone adapter for my shuffle now? That’s wicked cool.

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iTunes 5 installer solution

steve cooley — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:25:36 +0000

if you’re running “SizzlingKeys”, it will prevent itunes 5 from installing. Open your control panels, disable SizzlingKeys, and the installer can continue.

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remove chapter markers in itunes?

steve cooley — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:57:47 +0000

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”?

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Henrico iBooks

steve cooley — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:51:29 +0000

Wow, look at the public demand for iBooks in Henrico county! You’d think that would send a message to the school board. :-\ Would people stampede for used dells? Would they actually wet themselves for a dell? Yeah, no, I don’t think so.

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iTunes supports podcasting!

steve cooley — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:16:20 +0000

Wow! I went to the NECC podcasting event last night. It was incredible! There were over 2 times the room capacity, so they had to run the event twice! Photos are here!

So, the great news is that iTunes directly supports RSS XML feeds and will automatically download new content for you. That’s so good. I can’t even begin to tell you how good that is. High five, iTunes team. Ok, now the bug report: They were probably not expecting feeds to contain more than one audio file at a time, which is how my man D is running his podcast, in more of an album/release format with 6-10 songs per post, so only the first audio file is being downloaded. I think there’s probably room for growth here, and this is an excellent step in the absolutely right direction.

anyway, I filed this as radar bug 4165391. I doubt they’ll do anything about it for 4.9. Who knows what’s up their sleeves for 5.0 NOT ME! That’s for sure!

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HOWTO: create a favicon.ico on Mac OS X

steve cooley — Tue, 24 May 2005 19:07:32 +0000

what with all this nice new traffic to my site thanks to the Make: blog, I figured it was high time to do a favicon.ico file for my site. On the mac, this is a snap, thanks to Takeshi Ogihara’s IcoMaker. Head over to his page (assuming it’s a he), and look for the link at the bottom of the page, something like: “IcoMaker Distribution Package, 84KB”. Download it and unpack it.

Grab whatever image you want to use for your favicon.ico file, open it in photoshop, the gimp, or whatever you have (uh… iphoto may work too?).

Reduce the imagesize to 16 pixels by 16 pixels and Save a copy.

(optional: Undo the downsizing, and re-resize the image down to 32 x 32 pixels, and save another copy. Undo the resizing again and re-re-resize the image down to 48×48, and save a third copy)

Open up Takeshi’s excellent program and select “File -> new document”. A small multi-paned window will appear with six small windows.

select “File -> Include Image…” and navigate to where your copy (or copies) are. Choose the 16 x 16 pixel copy. A dialog box will appear giving you the option to reduce the colors down to 16 colors (or just hit “ok” to leave it in as many colors as your image was in, up to 256). Depending on what you chose to do, one of the six small windows will now be populated with your image.

repeat as necessary for the other open slots, depending on how thorough you want your favicon file to be. (I just did the 16×16 @ 16 colors window, and the 32×32 @ 256 colors window.. should be good enough, I figure)

Save the file as “favicon.ico” and drop it in an accessible place for your webserver, most probably at the root level of your webserver’s documents directory. (on the Mac OS X and OS X Server, using stock Apache 1.3, it will be: /Library/Webserver/Documents/ … on apache 2.x, I believe it would be /Library/apache2/htdocs/ … If you’ve come this far, it’s probably time for you to learn where the root documents directory is on your webserver.

the last step is to put the following code in your tag of your web page:

that’s it, folks!

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Community / office bulletin board widget

steve cooley — Tue, 17 May 2005 19:04:43 +0000

We need a widget that would let you subscribe to a set of records for a community, say, for your office building, or your apartment complex, or your city… kind of like craigslist, but on a micro-level, and in a dashboard widget.

For instance:

* drag a microBB widget to the dashboard
* flip it around
* enter the tinyurl for your community’s record set
* flip it back around
-> all the active records pop up on post-its or as a table of records (whatever you like)
-> records expire after n-days (or not? archive?)
-> records can contain contact info and ichat hooks (click to chat about this want-ad)
-> records can be anonymous (gripe box)

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Apple RSS feeds

steve cooley — Mon, 16 May 2005 21:15:04 +0000

Apple RSS feeds now with dashboard widgets, automator actions, and spotlight plugins, woot!

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