Mac OS X, iPhone & Android Development
Archive for March, 2010
Numeraders 2.0 still coming!
Mar 25th
We have had a few emails about where Numeraders 2.0 is – its on its way!!! Just a few more days/weeks maybe! It may be iPad compatible too….
Get your site iPad ready
Mar 15th
Just because we are big fans of the iPad concept, we HOPE that a lot of you will head down the whole html and jquery style website rather than the Flash site. Why? So we can enjoy your site on any device we choose to use!
We have even come across some sites which blog about how the de-Flash is starting to happen – and then the next week launch their own Flash based site! Funny.
Building a site completely in Flash is not something we understand – using Flash to deliver some of the media content seems like a better idea (and even display an alternative if Flash is not detected). Those sites which use Flash for primary navigation need to be changed. Flash for primary navigation of your site just isn’t a good idea. There are a number of things you can do with other (more compatible) technology.
We look forward to visiting your sites on <whatever we choose>!
JellyVNC tech
Mar 9th
JellyVNC Beta 2 has been out for a couple of days and a few people have asked how to edit their bookmarks since the edit button is not yet working. Easy.
Open your fav text editor (Text Wrangler/BBEdit/TextEdit) and navigate to /Users/<yourname>/Library/Preferences/JellyVNCBookmarks.xml
The structure is quite basic and should be easy to follow. Don’t alter the structure or it will crash JellyVNC on launch. If you have crashing problems and you suspect a corrupt file – delete it. (You will lose your BMs)
iPad ad
Mar 8th
The oscars bring up the unexpected every year – but this year it was Apple who pulled a bit of a surprise. Don’t worry, nothing too scary – just a new iPad ad. It shows the interface of the iPad a bit more and shows it isn’t just a big iPhone – it is the first true Macintosh.
Check it out here
Why would you get an iPad?
Mar 7th
Its been done to death on the internet – the iPad and who would want one? The iPad represents the first real chance of a change in the way we compute. The smartphone showed us how mobile phone can change from those terrible Nokias from the 1990s to something which is always connected and is actually useful.
The iPad may well be the first real Macintosh. In 1984 the Mac was released as a computer for the rest of us – a kind of computing toaster appliance. Trouble is, it has disks, a OS which you had to work with and this keyboard/mouse combo. My mother could use it, but it wasn’t natural. And if you got a system error, you had to know how to diagnose and fix it. Too hard.
The iPhone showed how we can use a small handheld computer with a huge AppStore library. Make the screen bigger and add a few new ways of interacting with content, and you have a new platform. A true Macintosh. No visible OS. No System Errors. No mouse. Just swipe the unlock and you are away.
Of course the geek is going to not like this device, they want to see the bits and bytes, climb into the kernel, hack a bluetooth keyboard into it. Go ahead! But for the user who just wants email, web, Facebook, Twitter, a bit of word processing, update the budget spreadsheet, a few recreational games, an eBook or two – this is it!
JellyVNC b2 for Mac OS X
Mar 6th
A beta of JellyVNC is out for Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard users. This is a simple bookmark manager for Apple’s built in Screen Sharing. The edit button doesn’t work in this build – but everything else does!
Download it here.
iPad out April 3 – in the US…
Mar 6th
Yes, the iPad now has a shipping date. You will be able to preorder it on March 12th, but the shipping won’t happen until April 3rd (for the US) and late April for the rest of the world.
At least we have dates now!