Planning A Jailbreak
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under Geekery, iPhone
Now that it’s a given that I’m buying a 3G iPhone, I need to figure out how to use a jailbroken first gen iPhone to pull traffic data for my TomTom One. It might take a little work tho as Google’s not turning up any solid results.
Anyone on the LazyWeb have any ideas?
P.S. It might be a wise idea to buy .Mac at Amazon (for $69.99) in the next few days if you don’t already have it. That way, when MobileMe replaces .Mac you’ll have saved $30 on your first year of service.
One Step Closer
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under Geekery, Photography, iPhone
So I just stumbled onto Pushr via Installer.app tonight. After playing with it for a few minutes, I’ve gotta say that I feel like I’m getting close to my holy grail as far as Flickr apps go.
Okay, so I can’t select which photos I want to upload or give them titles or tags — so we’re more like 25% of the way there. But what Pushr does do is force everything in my Camera Roll onto Flickr at full resolution. And let me tell you, having the capability to do that is pretty damn sweet. So long as I’m near a WiFi hotspot, I’d much rather do a few quick edits via the web after uploading what I’ve got rather than use iFlickr as a replacement for the Camera app — which forces uploads after taking pictures without any real chance to approve the shot.
Of course, that’s just my personal preference tho…
Two iPhone Apps I’d Like To See
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under Geekery, Lists, iPhone
Like most of the other geeky iPhone owners out there, I’ve been playing with Installer.app lately. While it’s great and all, there are two apps that would make my life complete:
- Flickr Uploader: Yeah, I know I can mail photos to Flickr — but doing it one-by-one is just too damn tedious. Besides, I hate that the built-in mail client shrinks photos down to something “friendly”. I’m not quite sure about anyone else, but being able to check off multiple photos and send full resolution versions of them in a batch while I’m at an event would be optimal for me.
- Last.fm Client: I’ve been wanting to upload my on-the-go listening habits to Last.fm ever since I bought an iPod a few years back. Now that we’ve got an iPod that has always-on internet, why shouldn’t this be possible?
I’m sure that I’m not the only one who would find these applications useful. So who wants to pool together a little money to put a bounty out for them?
Update 1: So it’s not as elegant as I’d like, but iFlickr is a start as far as Flickr uploaders go.
Update 2: I’ve actually had a chance to install the iFlickr package. And after playing with it for a little while, I’ve ended up uninstalling it. Let’s just say it needs plenty of work before I’ll run it again.
In Transit
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under Events, Frazier, Geekery, People, Weblogging, WordCamp, WordPress, iPhone
Heads up, SF peeps! This weekend I’ll be driving up to the Yay Area for WordCamp to rep both DreamHost and Preshrunk in an official capacity.
As it stands, I’m driving up Friday night and crashing out at Frazier’s secret headquarters somewhere in the East Bay. Since I don’t like being part of the problem — or paying for parking — I’ll be taking as much public transit as I possibly can. So it’s handy that I managed to stumble upon these handy iPhone related Muni apps that use NextBus information. Now all I need is a native looking (i.e. pretty) trip planner and I’m all set. So… Does anybody know of one off the top of their heads — or am I stuck using 511.org over EDGE?
Telekinesis
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under Geekery, iPhone
I know VNC has been done on phones and handhelds before, but the folks behind Telekinesis have done an awesome job of getting a remote desktop app onto the iPhone considering its constraints. What’s even more amazing tho, is that they’ve done so without a proper SDK and using Safari as their interface less than a week after the launch.
Flickr user tonx has pulled together a brief but awesome set featuring the software in action on an iBook. It’s definitely worth a look if you’re waffling on installing and playing around with it.
Dramatic Prairie Dog, I Love You
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under Geekery, Video, iPhone
I have all sorts of pretty videos loaded up on my iPhone in case I’m asked to demo it at all — like the Sony Bravia Ball Advert — but I’ve found that the most popular video seems to be the one I’ve got embedded above and gets loaded from my YouTube client. I guess humor wins out over pretty 9 times out of 10.
Bonus Clip: Kill Bill Remix!
