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Why do you need Flash on your iPhone?

by F. E. Torkel on November 4, 2009

People love to complain, and we think half of it is due to laziness. Or incompetence. And with the iPhone, it’s no different. Take MMS for example: thousands claimed it was silly for the iPhone not to support it, but we disagreed. MMS is an outdated technology for which there are plenty of modern-day solutions, [...]

Stand-alone web applications on the iPhone? Yes, please.

by F. E. Torkel on January 16, 2009

With Apple’s market growth, everyone’s talking about what the company will do next. Daniel Eran Dilger makes his own predictions over at Roughly Drafted, and while we’re skeptical as to some of his points, we can’t help but be excited as to their prospects. From Bonjour discovery for mobile Safari (to control a variety of [...]

Blogo needs work.

by F. E. Torkel on January 1, 2009

After reading Apple Gazette’s fairly positive overview of Blogo 1.2, we decided to give the stand-alone blogging application a try. (We tried out ecto and MarsEdit in the past, and ecto still stands as our victor.) From Blogo‘s screenshots, we were hopeful that the application could seriously stand against ecto, as it looks quite polished, [...]

Fixing SummerBoard themes on 1.1.3/1.1.4.

by F. E. Torkel on June 14, 2008

When we recently upgraded our unlocked iPhone to firmware version 1.1.4, we found that the third-party application SummerBoard refused to display any of the themes we downloaded. We had this same problem when we upgraded to 1.1.3 months back, but the third-party patch “SMB Themes Fix” did exactly what it was named. Unfortunately, even after [...]

When a Mac user walked into a room of gamers and started talking games, he was laughed at, beaten, bloodied, and dragged to the nearest ditch to die. Well, he was laughed at, anyway. But times have changed. Not because Apple has really strengthened their Mac lineup to support games (despite Apple’s random announcements over [...]