Creativity of a Sports Cameraman
A great video of the extensive power in the camera’s and lenses used in television broadcasts as well as some insight as to what is required of a cameraman during a game.
If you haven’t yet heard about Square, do check it out. Square is a small device that is adapted through an iPhone and is used to read credit cards for immediate payment.
For a real look at how the system works, check out Kevin Rose’s walkthrough of a transaction.
Today we’re announcing that the full version of Simplenote is available as a free download for iPhone and iPod touch users worldwide. We’re partnering with the great Fusion ad network to make this possible.
It’s so intuitive for techies to see the good and bad URLs but there’s just no simple set of rules for explaining it.
(Via David Chartier)
Three-pane Hack for Mail.app using Letterbox
Much like the three-pane hack for Yojimbo, Letterbox will provide Mail.app with a wide-screen view. There was a time when I used WideMail to achieve this but due to the lack of support for Snow Leopard I needed to find a solution elsewhere.
To compete with thousands of iPhone apps in the App Store, having a good app icon is not enough. A nicely designed website for the app is very important. A beautiful website helps to drive traffic in and also makes your app stand out from the crowd. This post showcases a gallery of appealing iPhone app sites and common design trends that I see.
Yojimbo should have a widescreen view. This should have been included in the 2.0 update much the same way that Mail.app should have a three-pane view. This was possible with WideMail but no longer works with Snow Leopard.
The hack is simple and just requires a .nib file being replaced.
An update to a post I did a while back showing my desire for an easier way to respond to a text message while in another app. This video demos an app available for jailbroken iPhones.
Easily draft and create wireframes from within your web browser. Your layout can support basically anything desired for drafting a webpage; tables, images, grids, etc. Mockingbird is powered by Cappuccino and thus does not require Flash.
Sync Yojimbo Notes With SimpleNote
Note: All the information below applies very little to you if you have not invested in SimpleNote. If you haven’t bought SimpleNote yet, we have far more to talk about, such as, why? So go to the app store and spend $2 on a great, minimal, notes app that will not just sync into mail.app like Apple’s Notes app.
Preview
The buzz around SimpleNote has been amazing. People are developing ways to sync the minimalistic notes app for iPhone with just about everything. I’ve seen work being done with Evernote, DevonThink, Notational Velocity, and most importantly in my eyes, Yojimbo.
Shortly after Dropbox released their iPhone app, this gem of a blog post was written explaining how to sync photos from your iPhone to Yojimbo using Dropbox. Excellent! But I want more than just photos.
Since BareBones Software have decided that they don’t want to give any real information about a Yojimbo iPhone app, we have to resort to hacks and work arounds to keep our data N’Sync in sync.
Solution
Great, so I can sync my photos but I still have some notes on my iPhone that I want to throw at Yojimbo. While poking around on the ‘Yojimbo Talk’ Google group, I stumbled upon this thread. I read the title, “Simplenote and Yojimbo sync app, – alpha testers?” and perked up. This was what I wanted. After reading through the thread I thought, “Well, why not?” I backed up Yojimbo and my SimpleNote notes and installed this little app. Install complete. I ran the alpha software and it popped up asking for my SimpleNote email address and password. Ok, fine, take my password, have access to my grocery list and my school assignments, whatever.
3 seconds later my notes popped up in a new Yojimbo folder called SimpleNote. There they are, perfectly synced with Yojimbo. Now, in order to sync you do have to run the application, this is a bit of a pain. So you can deal with it or you can make it simpler. I chose simpler. I jumped into Quicksilver and set up a trigger to run ‘SimpleNote Yojimbo Sync’ (what a mouth full). The trigger I chose is CTRL + Y. When pushing this shortcut the app runs and pops up asking me if I want to run a script, hit return, and sync.
This is alpha software and I had a few issues with notes so there are little issues with things not working perfectly but I’m confident this will serve as a solution. My main issues are with deleting notes both in Yojimbo and in SimpleNote on iPhone and then having them reappear during the next sync.
A Litte Extra
If you aren’t using Yojimbo but find it annoying to use a web-interface to get to your SimpleNote notes? Have a look at this post that outlines a way to sync notes with a minimal app called Notational Velocity. I would not recommend this technique for just anyone – although, the directions are laid out quite clearly.
Use Dropbox to Create a Yojimbo iPhone App
Yesterday I read that Dropbox announced their new iPhone app, and it occurred to me that you could set up the Dropbox iPhone app to clip images directly into Yojimbo with very minimal effort. I was so pumped. This was a total game changer.
Insert this terminal command…
defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool YES && killall Dock
Or to go back to the default settings…
defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool NO && killall Dock
(Via Finer Things in Mac and Using Mac)
100 Best Global Brands of 2009
It has been a tough year, but the brands topping the 2009 BusinessWeek/Interbrand list of Best Global Brands have managed to weather the storm admirably. Here, find out more about the strategies of all 100 brands on the list, from Campbell’s, slipping in at No. 100, to this year’s No. 1, Coca-Cola.
First and 20 – A Collection of iPhone Home Screens
First & 20 is a collection of Home screens of some of the best and brightest developers, designers and tech writers.
First and foremost, do you want to know?
Honestly, this number could haunt you, cause you to lose sleep, and more than likely create conflict in your relationships.
Personally, I expected this number to be much larger ($229.38). I am not at all disappointed in myself. Especially do to my crippling habit of lying in bed at night and eccentrically buying apps that I open once, tap through, and delete.
New iTunes Syncing UI (concept)
I am a huge fan of the concept behind a more detailed ability to sync and manage your iPhone through iTunes. Being able to organize apps more efficiently would be wonderful. While I am at it, it would also be a nice touch for iTunes to recognize what version of applications I have on my phone so that it doesn’t say I have 70 whatever-odd updates available.
Mac OS X Netbook Compatibility Chart
Thinking about a netbook? Why not browse with the intent to boot OS X.
Apple says it’s had “pretty interesting ideas” for a Mac netbook, but it’s everyday users who’ve already taken action. Most of the popular netbooks can run OS X, but there are plenty of caveats: non-functioning components which lack drivers, need to be replaced, or which simply can’t be gotten working at all.
PathFinder 5 Back to School Special
Up until August 20th students and teachers can receive a copy of PathFinder for only $25. This is $15 off the original price of $40.
iPhone Messages: Quick Reply
For two weeks now, iPhone software 3.0 has been making it’s way onto the millions of iPhone around the world. Personally, I’ve found the software, coupled with the new iPhone 3GS, a joy to use.
A while back I posted a requested feature that I wanted pertaining to voicemail; the ability to set somewhat of an away message so that calls could be fielded with a response that was relevant to the time of day or a current circumstance. Well, I have another little something that would make life much easier on the iPhone.
Problem
First of all, let’s walk through an example. Let’s say you are playing a game, watching a movie, or just browsing the Twitter on you iPhone. Then, you get a text, “How about dinner at 7?” dinner at 7 is perfect for you so you hit reply, are taken to Messages and type your response, “Great, I’ll be there.” Now, in 3.0 after sending the message, the app you were in relaunches which is nice, but let’s say you were in the middle of a race and have to restart or you had been a few hours deep into tweets from the day and now have to find your spot again. Pain!
Maybe this is the fault of the applications? Maybe they should be designed to save your place when you receive a call or text (some do, not enough). Or maybe, this is limited due to push notification and background process. But let’s just look at a potential solution…
Solution
Here’s what I want – When the alert pops up to inform you of a new text message, there should either be another option in addition to ‘Close’ and ‘Reply’ or ‘Reply’ should invoke an expanded/drop down window (from the little blue notification box) with room for a response. Hit send and you are right back to where you were.
This would save me so much trouble and hassle and would make leaving what I am currently in the process of doing, unnecessary. I could simply respond and go on as I was.
Google Voice Invitation Request
Google Voice, previously GrandCentral has been in private beta for quite some time now. There is now a shed of light for Voice to become public soon. Sign up and be notified as soon as it is available.
Enable Emoji Icon’s For Free
In case you didn’t know or for whatever reason want to know; if you are looking to enable Emoji icons on your iPhone without jailbreaking and without buying an app, it can be done.
Simply go and download an app called “Spell Numbers”(free), enter the number…
91929394.59
Go into Settings > General > Keyboard > International Keyboard > Japanese. Now you shoold see 3 options; Emoji, QWERTY, and Kana. Enable Emoji and you shoold be able to use Emoji icons throughout your iPhone applications.
Notes:
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Initially, the number was 9876543.21. This may have worked under 2.1 and 2.2 versions of the iPhone software but I had no luck on 3.0.
After enabling the Emoji icons you can uninstall “Spell Numbers.”
Yes, this came out a while ago.
Sebastiaan de With offers an in depth look at some of the subtle changes in the new iPhone software, version 3.0.
Arrested Development Documentary
We always find ourselves talking about the show, reciting lines and recalling scenes, which always ends in hysterical laughter. In late August, a large group of our friend were planning a trip to Yosemite. We were the only two that ended up going and we talked about Arrested Development all weekend. From this trip spawned the Arrested Development Documentary Project (this is a working name), an outlet to take our passion for the show and couple it with the countrywide fan base to educate others and make them aware of this TV gem. continue reading…
(via Laughing Squid)
Microsoft Will Help You Buy an iPhone
Bing, a search engine no one uses, is trying to lure users by offering cash incentives. One of those incentives is a 35% discount at the AT&T Online Store, which means you can get a new iPhone 3G S for as low as $130!
Now is your chance, stick it to Microsoft and AT&T in one fell swoop.
iPhone 3.0 Hidden Features (100+)
Any favorites you may have in the old YouTube app can be merged into your YouTube account when you sign in to the new YouTube app.
Now there is a different way to force quit apps. Now you have to hold the sleep/wake button until the red slider appears, then you hold down the home button to quit the app.
When a phone call interrupts you, after the phone call you are taken back to the app you were in before you were interrupted.
And the list goes on and on and doesn’t ever seem to end. But it does.
Some winners include…
iPhone
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MLB at bat, Postage, Topple, and Tweetie
Mac OS X Leopard
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Billings, Boinx TV, Things, and Versions
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