well I’ve had the iPhone 3G for three weeks now, and have added some apps from the app store, some free, some purchased.
I purchased Super Monkey Ball and have only played it a few times. I was curious. Probably the best purchase I made was “Comic Touch” by plasq, it lets me add little comic notes to pics taken with the iPhone camera. VERY cool, especially when you’ve got a baby girl as a subject!
Some free apps I’ve installed include “remote” which lets you control itunes or appletv from your iPhone. “Here I Am” which e-mails a friend your current location for them to see on a google map (brilliant).
Tap Tap Revenge (fun game), Facebook App, Google App, AIM, Wordpress, VNC lite, WritingPad, GarageBuy, Labyrinth, ZIPcodes, Shazam, Paypal, IGN Reviews and AirME.
Lets look at some of those free apps I’ve installed. Facebook App is just excellent and I use it all the time. I can take a photo with the iPhone right inside that app and it instantly uploads it to my Facebook profile. Google App is not bad for finding something near your current location. AIM for chatting with mates (iChat), Wordpress for updating blogs, VNC lite for connecting to my computers remotely which is neat and works really well. WritingPad is just a novelty note-taker with brilliant UI. GarageBuy from the makers of GarageSale is a great eBay client app for bidding/watching/searching. Labyrinth is an amazing game with super smooth controls! ZIPcodes… blah blah, I can’t be bothered writing any more. *sigh* I’m going to go make a tea.
The iPhone is awesome the app store is awesome.. I’m just loving this!
I hacked a friends Apple TV not long ago, a version 1.1 It was going great for a while until it was accidentally updated by the wifey… damn.
So I spent half of yesterday hacking their v2.02 unit. it’s getting a little more complex as Apple works to prevent people from hacking them. I applied much the same technique as I did for my v2 ATV however a little more tweaking was required to get USB working correctly.
In the end after applying my own knowledge to the hack. I ended up using a neat little util that someone has put together to make it just really easy to enable USB.. check it out here
Tags: appletv, hacked, hack, nitoTV, patchstick, ATVfiles, cinemamac
Looks like we’re getting the 3G iPhone in Australia on July 11 2008. Finally an iPhone!
I’ll be getting one
Tags: iphone
My Macbook Pro is over two years old now, it’s a 2Ghz core duo, revision A, as in… the first Macbook made available by Apple!
Sometime down the track Apple did a battery recall, I had a new battery sent to me to replace the existing one. How nice.
Some 184 cycles later and the battery only lasts about 40 mins. I asked my local Apple service centre if I could get a replacement, thinking my chances would be slim. How wrong was I!
Here I am, with a fresh, brand new, Macbook Pro battery! This goes nicely with the new pack I bought off ebay (also brand new) for around $70 AUD. Score, two really fresh batteries 
Just need to take care of the little guys now! hehe. If you have a Rev A Macbook Pro, you might be able to get yourself a new battery (if yours is on it’s way out)… you should at least try!
Tags: MacbookPro, Battery, Apple
I’ve been blogging about the AppleTV a fair bit since I bought one. There’s a lot of information on this site on the subject, however, I’ve decided to move the posts and articles to another of my sites….
www.cinemamac.com
So go get your AppleTV fix over there from now on.. okay? great!
Tags: appletv
I just picked up a new 22″ monitor. I really needed just a bit more than my Macbook Pro’s built in 15″ widescreen display. I’ve been doing a fair bit of web work and photo post-processing lately, so it was probably well due.
I picked up a Samsung 2243BW after doing a little research on displays. I didn’t want to fork out for an Apple display at this stage and I’ve had good luck with Samsung monitor’s in the past.
It cost me $375 AUD, it has a cool stand that lets you rotate the display for portrait work, it’s bright, it’s fast, the controls are good, BUT it looks like crap on my Mac straight out of the box. Talk about in dire need of calibration. I’ve done my best to calibrate this thing by eye using the OS X calibration tools, but it still needs more work. Because of this, I’ve ordered a Pantone Huey Pro calibration device. So much for a cheap monitor. The Huey Pro cost me $181 AUS. Suddenly my cheap display isn’t so cheap! (should have bought an ACD?)
For most things this monitor is great, and doesn’t need careful calibration. For doing my photo work in Aperture however, it badly needs work. My Macbook’s built in panel puts this thing to shame.
In any case, I’m loving the display, I’ve been working on it exclusively (except for my photo’s, until I calibrate it). It’s nice how the Macbook Pro can operate in ‘closed lid mode’. I’ve also got the Apple Wireless Keyboard going, and I picked up a Wireless Might Mouse just yesterday to compliment the keyboard, I like it!
I’ve just finished upgrading all my wordpress sites to the latest version 2.5. It’s nice, I like it a lot. It’s also fast!
One of the things I’ve really been waiting for is better Safari web browser compatibility. Previously, trying to compose a new post with Safari in wordpress with clean line breaks was a real nightmare.
Looks like the guys have come through with the goods because the visual editor just loves Safari!
Well done Wordpress team!
Since updating to ATV 2.0 and re-hacking (see, ATVfiles and NitoTV). I’ve been having a few minor issues.
The biggest issue at the moment is sometimes when using ATVfiles to navigate and play my movies, I loose the sound. A reboot of the ATV is required to get the sound working again. Strange!
If anyone has experienced something like this, let me know. In the meantime I guess I’ll go check the wiki over at http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/
Tags: appletv2.0, atvfiles
The other day my wife’s Macbook Pro decided to spit out one of it’s fans. It wasn’t happy. We decided to stop using it while it was being repaired in case it over heated or something.
Luckily, we have a handful of Mac’s in the house, so I set her up with the Mac Mini and migrated her data from her laptop so she could still play her cards widget, check facebook and email her friends…. you know, important stuff
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Brandon Holland has been cranking out some great plugins lately, including the excellent Skype Plugin. Now he’s at it again with a great Safari webkit plugin, check it out!
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