When people complain that the iPad doesn’t have multitasking, a camera, a full-fledged desktop OS, or an exposed filesystem, they’re missing the point. They’re forgetting what came before: a slew of tablets from the likes of HP, Lenovo, Fujitsu, Asus, Toshiba and others. What do all of these existing tablets have?
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Have you heard of the T-Mobile Sidekick?
The Sidekick is now dead.
From what I’m reading, everyone– yes, everyone– who uses a Sidekick was affected by a network outage that began on October 2nd.
Now that my (still awesome) 15″ MacBook Pro is 2 generations behind the latest and greatest, I wonder:
What would be the cheapest way for me to get a new Mac?
Would it be with my ADC student membership? Or would it be with the standard student discount?
I bought my iPhone on the first day it was released. That was June 29, 2007 — well over a year ago. The battery still works well — usually lasting a full day under normal use. But if it’s taken to areas with weak cell coverage, and used extensively for maps, traffic, email, news, and so forth, it can run out pretty quickly. So it’s very nice that the MacBook Pro (and, I believe, any Mac) supports charging via USB when the computer is in sleep mode. On most PCs I’ve used, the USB ports get no power when the computer is asleep.
My latest iPhone/iPod touch app, Whiteboard Lite, is now available in the iTunes App Store.
This semester, I’m a Lab Assistant (also sometimes called a Teaching Assistant or TA) for the new ITP 499 iPhone App Development class here at USC (the University of Southern California). The most well-known iPhone App Dev class done so far was at Stanford University (CS 193P); props to them for posting some of their course materials online.
Tags: Apple, development, iphone, programming, stanford, USC
The iPhone offers good localization support the same way Mac OS X does. For strings, developers use a file called “Localizable.strings”. It’s a bit tricky, though. The syntax of the file is strict; any small error will cause it to stop working without warning. Unfortunately, the compiler (which doesn’t touch the file at all) can’t give any warnings or errors when a mistake is present in the file. So check your Localizable.strings closely.
Tags: development, iphone, ipod touch, localization, programming, sdk
Well, I haven’t blogged in a long time, and now school’s about to start again, so I’d better get to it.
Tags: apps, iphone, programming, websvn
In episode 141 of Security Now!– the latest episode– Steve Gibson highly recommends watching some of the keynotes from RSA Conference 2008. This is a reminder to myself to watch some of them when I have time. Here’s a link: RSA Conference 2008.
Tags: leo laporte, rsa conference, security, steve gibson, twit
I have an external hard drive which is formatted NTFS. Just one of the many hazards of using a Mac is that they do not support NTFS, which is a far superior filesystem to FAT32. Fortunately, there is a program called MacFuse which allows you to use many different things as filesystems, including SSH. Someone at Google wrote a read/write NTFS driver, known as NTFS-3G, which works with MacFuse to allow read/write mounting of NTFS volumes. Exactly what I wanted, so I downloaded and installed MacFuse and NTFS-3G, taking care to get the latest stable versions.
WordPress 2.5 is not compatible with older versions of K2. You’ll know if you have this problem because this error message appears:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_register_sidebar_widget() in /blog/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php on line 31
I had this problem, and found a solution in the WordPress Forums. I wonder why it happens and how the K2 people fixed it. Read the rest of this entry »
