Archive for the ‘iPhone’ Category
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TweetDeck iPhone app #fail
All the hype around the TweetDeck iPhone app lately has been kind of bugging me, and the last straw is this… article I read yesterday, frankly it’s bothered me. It’s not up to me to decide what they think is a badass iPhone app, but they include TweetDeck in the list and the only thing they say about it is “obviously”. Obviously what exactly?
Ordinarily I wouldn’t even say anything, TweetDeck is free after all. Aesthetically it’s beautiful, and as an iPhone app in many ways it stands out as brilliant, taking advantage of the state-of-the-art technologies the iPhone offers, -
Will the real Augmented Reality please stand up?
People we gotta come up with a new name for augmented reality. That’s the real next big thing and it’s waaaay dope but it’s name has been hijacked by a flash technology called Papervision3D which has nothing more going for it than a first encounter gimmick factor (I’m not ripping on the papervision technology itself, just when it is used to implement AR). It’s not like I didn’t also fall pray to the sweet song of the papervision sirens myself… during my odyssey towards a new digital reality. But papervision is wicked, tricksy, false. Because of it I feel like
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iPhone App Interactive Ad Banner
I was sitting on the sofa the other night watching the Tigers suck and I came across an interesting ad served up within TwitterFon on the iPhone. Leaving aside the fact that I still use TwitterFon over the much lauded Tweetdeck (it scrolls down to your oldest new tweet which is a truly priceless feature), I noticed the following ad banner:
Apart from it being an automotive ad which is the industry I have been involved in now for a number of years, the peel-behind icon in the top right corner really stuck out. It represents ads by VideoEgg… who -
Video Slideshows With Animoto
Researching for a client recently I came across a neat little service called Animoto. The problem we had was needing a photo gallery that lives on a single page. Not a huge problem in itself and any of these… would work, or numerous others I’ve worked with or built over the years. But the issue here is the CMS we have to work with doesn’t have the ability to upload media, this has to be done separately via FTP, so it’s a messy process and not ideal to leave in the hands of the account team. So I figured
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Microsoft Tag: A Mobile Tagging System
A colleague of mine sent this my way http://www.microsoft.com/tag/. It’s a fairly new beta service that Microsoft is playing around with called Tag. Coincidentally it’s in a similar vain to something I am currently working on, Augmented Reality…, which we’ll be launching later this week. Anyways back to the point, I love it when something that should be complicated is super easy to use, and that’s what I love about this. It took no longer than 10 minutes from receiving the link in an email to having a printout in my hand that launches my blog when my
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iPhone OS 3.0 and what it really means to me
I know that every blogger and their dog is probably posting today about the iPhone OS upgrade, and every avid iPhone user watched it all announced live on the Apple webcast yesterday. Hopefully not everyone did, hopefully some of us were busy celebrating St. Patrick’s day, and even it if wasn’t a holiday yesterday some of us just have more important things to do than follow an announcement for a beta software release. I didn’t watch it live myself I was at lunch with my buddies, but I picked up on the highlights via Twitter #iphone… as they came out
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Screenshots (Printscreen) with the iPhone
I recently posted about my iPhone black screen of death… experience. Well a few days later looking through my camera roll I noticed some weird pictures. In fact when I first noticed them I was confused because the screen appeared as if my iPhone was in charging mode but it wasn’t plugged in, and it took me a couple of ticks to figure out that I was in fact still within my camera roll looking at a picture. The time displayed in the picture was right about when my iPhone had crapped out and I was frantically clicking all the
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How to fix the iPhone black screen of death
So a couple of weeks back I’m in the hospital with my wife who’s in labor and my iPhone freezes up. Of course it does, I’m a British expat in Detroit wanting to keep my family and friends back home up-to-date with the birth, especially my mom in Spain who’s waiting on news of her first grandchild. I could go to my wife’s phone but she doesn’t have the international calling plan, or the numbers of most of my friends and family here or overseas for that matter. Basically the screen went blank, like when it’s in standby mode, but…
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Youtube videos within websites on the Safari iPhone
Launching a site recently that uses Youtube embedded videos, I found the videos didn’t show in the Safari browser on my newly purchased iPhone. This was a shame because the rest of the site worked perfectly (well almost but I’ll get to that in another post), it was like a lil’ cute mini version of the site!