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Five Favorites from Macworld SF 08
“With more than 450 exhibitors at this year’s Macworld Expo, it’s impossible to see it all,” writes Jochen Wolters. “Which is a shame especially because of all those countless small and medium sized companies whose product announcements are often drowned out by the major news from the big players like Apple or Microsoft. Hence, let me point out five products I stumbled over at the 2008 Expo which, in my humblest of opinions, deserve a bit more attention than they have received so far.”
This Week on New O'Reilly Mac: PhoneValet & iPhone
Gordon Meyer writes in PhoneValet & iPhone: Instant Landline Voice Mail:
Mac FFOSS (Freeware/Free & Open Source Software)
Statz: Modify Your Presence Status on Multiple Systems from Your Mac
FFOSS (Freeware/Free & Open Source Software) Wednesday
Give Good Food To Your Mac
Top European developers have banded together to offer a Mac software feast under the headline “Give Good Food to Your Mac” to holiday shoppers over the next ten days. In contrast to other deals in the past, this one offers a steeper discount the more products you choose. A kind of ad hoc bundle deal.
Tips for better Radioshift-ing
I’ve previously written about how I use Radioshift as part of my home automation setup. However, in the last week or so I’ve been using it as a desktop application, as it’s intended, instead.
My paperless office
The 43Folders piece Workflow for the Fujitsu ScanSnap reminds me that I haven’t written about how I’ve been using my ScanSnap S500M. I got it about 5 months ago, and its easily the most useful electronic gizmo purchase of the year. (Since I bought it, the newer S510M has been released.)
NBC Fraks Itself
You know something is up when the story goes from anonymous sources say NBC to end iTunes contract to Apple press release saying “see ya NBC” in the course of a few hours.
Run SpringBoard from the command line
Here’s a nifty little trick. Install my iPhone utilities package. Then cd into /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app. Then issue the following command: restart; ./SpringBoard. This lets you run SpringBoard from the command line and peek at all its NSLog messages as they are issued.
Evil iPhone Tricks: Add Ringtones to your iPhone without Jailbreak
Evil iPhone Tricks: Add Ringtones to your iPhone without jailbreaking
Simple Interactive QuickTime Slideshow
Photographer James Duncan Davidson did a neat experiment with a recent blog, transforming a series of images into a tutorial movie that shows the evolution of a photograph step by step. This format lets the viewer compare images more easily because they’re superimposed.
An Improbable, Yet Successful MacBook Hard Disk Fix
Last week, I got a call from a friend in dire straits: his MacBook would no longer boot and he hadn’t yet made a backup of an important documentary project he was working on as a freelance photographer. When I had a first look at the MacBook, it did start booting, the “progress rotor” did show up, but instead of presenting the OS X welcome screen, an icon appeared after a too-long wait, indicating the disk could not be found. Ouch.
NeoOffice 2.2.1 update
The NeoOffice developers have released version 2.2.1 of their office suite, bringing some new features that should be quite welcome for their users:
iPhone TechTalk Summary
Website RIActant has kindly posted an iPhone tech talk debriefing for anyone who was not able to attend in person. In addition to an organized summary of the talk, they’re making their raw notes available as a PDF download.]]>
iLight
Behold iLight, my latest creation. It turns your $500 or $600 iPhone into a flashlight.
iControl
Via style.com’s gadget blog comes this spiffy new device by Timex: iControl, which is a wristwatch and iPod remote.
iPhone 1.0.2 Update Available, Boosts WiFi?
The second iPhone update was released earlier this week, officially released for undescribed “bug fixes”. There have been reports that the 1.0.2 update improves scrolling in Safari and that it may even boost the phone’s WiFi reception. The update reportedly uses a validation process to wipe out hacked versions which forces hacked phones to get a fresh install. I don’t expect that will be slowing our iPhone hacker friends down much, though.
AT&T adjusts transaction message feedback for iPhone
If you signed up for contract-free iPhone service, you might have noticed some “Your last transaction cost $0.00″ messages. It’s hard not to. Sometimes twenty or thirty of them pile up at a time. As of today, it looks like AT&T has finally switched these useless messages off. It’s still to early to tell if all the last transaction messages are gone or only the free ones–I’m guessing the latter rather than the former. In any case, it’s a nice relief to be done of them. Good riddance.]]>
Bad Thurrott == Good Design
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