Archive for the ‘iphone’ Category

5 Things I Hate About the iPhone 3G

Friday, September 12th, 2008

The iPhone is a wonderful gadget, but while there are things we love, there are things we will undoubtedly hate about it. Argh! Where is my charger?!? And why doesn't my old charger work? Power is a real problem with the iPhone 3G.  I find myself charging the unit overnight every day.  ...

5 Things I Love About iPhone 3G

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Style There's one thing that Apple has that the LGs and Nokias of the world don't have, and that's style. As soon as the iPhone 3G arrived, a raft of immitators showed up in it's wake. I won't rehash the reviews others have made, but it's enough to say that the ...

The iPhone as an eBook reader

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

One of the things I was originally disappointed in with the iPhone was its inability to use the vast 16GB of space I had as a mounted disk, as I could previously with my iPod nano. I was still able to browse the web for PDFs, which was pretty cool, ...

Dealing with the iPhone 3G and iTunes 7.7.1 disappearing media bug

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

After being told by a friend of their frustrations with their iPhone 3G and the disappearing media when using iTunes 7.7.1, I myself was hit with the bug.  I think they jinxed me with Schroedinger's iPhone bug:  once I knew about it, I was sure to come across it myself.  ...

My Favorite iPhone Apps

Friday, August 1st, 2008

The Apple App Store is a revolutionary addition to the world of PDAs, phones, and web pads.  Here are my favorite apps I keep on the iPhone.  Note that all of these are free. Pandora vs Last.fm I find Pandora loses connection less when I'm driving, but I like Last.FM's web ...

Wordpress for iPhone

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

I just loaded the Wordpress app onto my iPhone. It's incredible how this device has finally brought about the total connectivity to the online world that we've always been looking for. This free app alone can make the iPhone worth switching to if you live for online communication. ...

MonkeyChow RSS Reader updated for iPhone 3G

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Having grabbed an iPhone 3G on Friday, I spent some time over the past few days making tweaks and changes to what was already done to support the previous model iPhone. Below are the results. As you can see, the iPhone 2.0 firmware now seems to support the ...

MonkeyChow now with iPhone support

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Just added a bunch of code which has been uploaded to svn and rolled up in the latest tarball to add support for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This is the beginning of the use of different style sheets which will lead to preferences for different styles for your ...