November 2008
9 posts
iPhone does not have decent offline news reading...
It sounds incredible, but it seems to be true, based on my current and very superficial experiences with two apps, namely APMobile News Network and NY Times.
Here’s the back story:
I spend a lot of time on subways on the weekdays. About an hour a day in total. And since the great city of New York does not yet have mobile coverage in subways, I can’t use anything on the Internet....
jQuery, hammers and nails, and screen scraping
I am currently playing around with jQuery and I am in a mode where jQuery is my hammer and every imaginable web problem looks like a nail to be hammered with jQuery. So I am trying it out on various kinds of web problems, from UI beautification (from widgets like accordions and tabs, to details like rounded corners) to more structural/backendish things.
One thing I just did is very similar to...
Metroid Prime 3 Corruption: a decent...
Another week, another game down. Just finished Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
I played it in the easiest, Normal mode, but I can’t say the beginning was too easy. And spent 24 hours of gameplay on it, judging by the game’s counter. If I factor in also the failed attempts where I got annoyed and quit, I think a more realistic estimate is 30 hours in total since September. In general,...
iPhone software 2.2, emergency calls, and passcode...
iPhone software 2.2 was released today. I don’t yet know what other interesting features it has, but it has a bunch of security updates. And this one in particular caught my eye.
Passcode Lock
CVE-ID: CVE-2008-4228
Available for: iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.1, iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.1
Impact: Emergency calls are not restricted to emergency numbers
Description: ...
Annoying iPhone app update bug
My iPhone has this bug when updating the apps. it drives me crazy. Every time iTunes tries to install an updated app, I see this.
This happens for all the apps. So basically my updates just don’t work. The only way I can update an app is to completely remove it from my iPhone and then reinstall from scratch. Annoying. And it has been like this for more than 6 months now.
UPDATE: this...
Super Mario Galaxy: absolutely brilliant
I finished playing Super Mario Galaxy. It has been named 2007 “game of the year” by many publications. And with a good reason. It is a truly brilliant game and one of the best games so far I have played in my 20-year gaming career. I still think the Civilization is the best, but I’ll give Super Mario Galaxy the second place.
OK, I did not really finish it in the sense of...
Skype 4 beta: functionality, efficiency, and...
I’ll quickly wrap up the series about Skype 4 beta. Previous posts have been about the (non-)disabled message edit box mystery, contact phone number editing, a confusing “email address added to profile” notice, and chat bookmarking and notification changes.
So, I’ve only covered bits and pieces of the software. And as Mike says, there are some other important features...
Skype 4 beta: chat bookmarking and notification...
One of the strongest features of Skype are its text chats. In Skype 4, there are some changes to how chat notifications and bookmarks work. And mostly they are for the better.
When you go to the “Conversations” tab, you immediately see if some of the conversations have new messages to them and how many there are. You also see a “preview” of the actual message texts.
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Skype 4 beta: a confusing "email address added to...
In Skype 4, when I first opened the profile editor, I saw a message: “Note: we have added your email address to your profile.”
To me, this is an example of a message where the words make perfect sense but the sentence as a whole doesn’t. What email did they add? And why? And most importantly, what does this mean to me and why would I care? The “About your...
