Instructables tells us to get the files from the iPhone backup in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/, but “iTunes renames all your files xxxxxxx.mddata. So all you need to do is figure out the original file name extension and you will be able to view the file.” Ugh, isn’t there a better way?
December 17, 2011
Pick Your Phone Like You Pick Your Partner
If there’s anything to gender stereotypes, women like iPhones in the same way they like a man who brings home flowers and puts his nail clippings in the trash without being asked. It’s these small touches that, when combined with other necessary attributes, make them feel confident in the future of the relationship. Men like [...]
December 13, 2011
Which Steady Cam Is Best For A GoPro HD Hero2?
I have a new GoPro HD Hero2, one of the best new video cameras available (if what you like in a video camera is a compact, wide-angle, and waterproof), and I’m looking for a way to steady it for handheld shots. The Steadicam Smoothee is built for iPhones. Their demo video and this comparison of [...]
August 22, 2011
An Interesting Insight Into Mobile Safari On iOS
A post in a Y Combinator discussion thread: Mobile Safari parses websites as a big canvas and then pretends the screen is a window through which you’re looking at the canvas. What you think of as scrolling, the browser thinks of as moving the canvas around (or the window depending on point of view). Because [...]
February 13, 2011
iPhone Camera Details
I have to look this stuff up every time I play with Hugin, the open source panorama stitcher. Thankfully I can find it at Falk Lumo.com: Pixel pitch: 1.75 µm Sensor size: 4.54 x 3.39 mm^2, 5.67 mm diagonal Aspect ratio: 4.02:3 Focal length and aperture: 3.85 mm f/2.8 lens 35mm equivalent crop factor: 7.64 Equivalent [...]
December 20, 2010
Facebook iPhone App Is Happy To Suck In Your Contacts
I discovered a Sync button in the Facebook app for iPhone today: Then I read the privacy notice:
October 11, 2010
Having control be on iPhones and iPads is quite an improvement over those obnoxious remotes.
September 6, 2010
What The Critics Are Missing About The Apple TV
It’s not just the critics, nobody seems to get the story on Apple’s new TV-connected device right. Darrell Etherington at The Apple Blog says it’s a non starter for him, and Ars Technica’s John Siracusa describes it as just the most recent entry in a product line that has been “a persistent loser” for the company. [...]
May 27, 2010
Step By Step: Turn On The iPhone/iPad’s Web Debugging Console
You can’t view a web page’s source, and you can’t Command+F to search for text on the page, but you sure can get a debugging console to see the errors on the page. Here’s how: Find and open the Settings app Select Safari Scroll down to find the Developer option at the bottom Turn on [...]
April 29, 2010
Steve Jobs On Apple vs. Adobe and iPhone vs. Flash
Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash minces no words in its conclusion: Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices, there is an even more important reason we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. We have discussed the downsides of using Flash to [...]
April 8, 2010
iPhone Use Heavy at 7am, Bumps At Lunch, Peaks At 9pm
Via Localytics: iPhone users generate 7% more traffic on the weekend than the average weekday. Saturday traffic ramps quickly from a morning low at 6:00 am to over 90% of peak usage by 11:00 am—and stays near the peak for the rest of the afternoon and evening. By comparison, weekday app usage is more concentrated in [...]
March 16, 2010
Web vs. Native Apps
February 1, 2010
What The Critics Are Missing About Apple’s iPad
It’s doubtful that anybody reading this blog missed the news that Apple finally took the wraps off their much rumored tablet: the iPad. Trouble is, a bunch of folks seem to be upset about the features and specs, or something that made the buzz machine go meh. It’s just a bigger iPhone, complain the privileged [...]
Dude. Seriously. That’s a debug console?
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