Archive for the ‘Hacks’ Category

Linux Gaming.

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Slashdot got this article from MadPenguin.org on why more Linux users aren't gamers. Here, of course, is my wisdom. There are two kinds of Linux users. Political and Technical. The Political Linux user will have long abandoned any technology which hasn't reached his or her standards of political extremism. They'll have removed ...

Distribution of iPhone apps

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

So, there's three categories of applications which can be installed onto the iPhone without Jailbreak. Payfer Apps - you write your application, sign it, give it to Apple and they host it on the App Store and you get 70% of all proceeds. Free Apps - you write the application, sign it, ...

This echoes how I feel about programming

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

It's a bit rude so if you're easily shocked, go here instead.

Navizon Buddy Finder

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Navizon was one of the pioneers of application development for the iPhone and as such I think we're going to see something cool from them come February when the official iPhone SDK is released. The Navizon Buddy Finder is probably one of the coolest ideas I've seen and something I'd be ...

Are people that desperate?

Friday, November 9th, 2007

I blogged over on nimug.org about a shop in Belfast advertising unlocked iPhones in the UK pending the official release today. I can see this being a support nightmare as people get their unlocked phones and run the 1.1.2 update on them as they get home. Boom. iBrick. They'll have voided ...

Just do it.

Monday, October 29th, 2007

% defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES % killall Dock [This is a hint to take away the daft reflections in the Leopard Dock]

Getting down with the Leopard

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

In mere hours now, people all over the world will be cracking open cases of Leopard and drinking deep of the experience. For our part we've been developing using the developer seeds from Apple's Developer Connection and then testing on Tiger for compatibility. Why? There's several reasons: 2 Million Macs sold ...

Unsupported

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

John Gruber of Daringfireball talks about unsupported hacking of the iPhone and the sense of entitlement people have. The point isn’t that you shouldn’t hack, or that you don’t have the right to do whatever you want with something you own. The point is that if you hack, you’re on your ...