Is RealPlayer badware? Why is Twitter so flaky lately? vLite might help shrink Windows Vista in virtual machines (Parallels, VMware Fusion).
I bought and took a look at the FileMaker Bento 1.0 personal data organizer. It has a lot of promise but needs a few bugs cleaned out of the meal to be a bit more palatable.
It took two email complaints, but Apple resolved the problem I had updating a second iPod touch.
As part of a redesign of their real estate Web site, German immobilienscout24.de have added interactive maps based on Microsoft's Virtual Earth technology. Unfortunately, though, Safari users don't seem to be welcome to navigate those maps just yet. Question is, why?
A question came up over the weekend as to download an image off the internet and add it to a UIImage object on the iPhone. The answer is to create an NSData object that grabs the contents of the URL and then initialize the image with that data, as such
Are you driven to distraction by noise? Software solutions promise to help you concentrate, and maybe even lift your mood, by generating ambient noises that mask what bothers you. I've been using one, with pretty good success.
When it comes to the iPhone, phone function comes first. Incoming calls, SMS, and USSD (unstructured supplementary service data, including account balance notifications for prepaid plans) messages will supersede your application. You can program around this by watching for core telephony events and shutting down key processes as needed. The iPhone's core telephony system sends out distributed notifications to warn about these status changes.
Some days I feel sorry for Apple employees. As their market share has grown, their base has changed. I've been in the Apple store four times this week (three times more than I wanted to be there) and the feeling in there has definitely changed in the past year. It must be hard for the store employees to hear the signal over the noise.
Seems like a lot of people can't find the iPod touch January Upgrade. Here's where to find it.
Here's my weekly summary of freeware, Open Source, and free web services for the Mac: TextWrangler 2.3, Pownce out of private beta, Kaltura video collaboration service, and FixMyMovie web service.
