There’s a NDA you get to sign when you sign up to become an apple iphone developer. Since I didn’t, I’m breaking nothing.
You are disallowed from writing apps for jailbroken iPhones when you pay the $99 fee. That’s why people who are working on official apps are unable to port them to the jailbroken Installer.app ‘free app store’. Pretty lame of Apple, huh? It’s like forbidding people from creating apps that work on 10.4.
Well, I’d personally just call it a headset or stereo headset like they have for computers, but apparently phone headsets are mono.
A friend was wondering if he could somehow make a modified version of the Logitech Bluetooth Headphone for MP3, which basically allows one to turn a headphone jack into an A2DP jack. If he could use the 3 ring (microphone added) version, and add a mic to the headset, the lack of A2DP wouldn’t matter. (Apparently nokia uses the same prongs?)
But nobody’s done it yet. WTF. Technically the bluetooth headphone for mp3 could be plugged into the Shure iPhone Headset Adapter, but it only gets the job halfway done unless it’s some really great mic.
Meh.
I’m sometimes ashamed to admit that I subscribe to the RSS feed for MacApper. Originally, they highlighted some neat new mac apps. Now they highlight whatever they’re advertising. I could be missing something, sure, but if a free alternative to a product exists you surely won’t find them mentioning that.
Onto the ignorance. I just picked up Firefox 3: A Safari User’s Review by Peter Craddock. He obviously notices the huge back button, and while I thought most mac users read Daring Fireball (and thus would have caught his review, which mentions the small toolbar buttons fix. Peter thinks this is just a ‘problem’ and that it cannot be fixed.
Next he notices the awesomebar, but he really doesn’t. It’s like he just started Firefox 3, let it import his Firefox 2 data, and then wrote a review based upon cursory glances. He calls it “the “recent use & favourites” drop-down menu”, but doesn’t even notice it’s built in search capabilities (it will search your recent history, so if you type ‘dar’ and you went to daring fireball recently, it’ll be ’suggested’, there’s a demo video at the BBC).
On the find bar, which he finds disconcerting, is that it doesn’t work exactly like Safari. I actually agree, I wouldn’t mind some functionality to do this, but then again, I wouldn’t want it to work exactly like Internet Explorer for Windows users. I looked deeper into this expecting that there simply HAD to be a bug asking for Safari 3 (I don’t think this was in Safari 2) type functionality, so I searched for ALL find bar bugs on mac and found nothing even close. So Peter: feel free to file a request for enhancement bug. I filled out some of the boxes for you. (If you have to sign up first, just come back and click my link, it SHOULD work. Let me know the bug number in the comments when you create it!)
I don’t have issues with much of the other stuff except the hatred for Larry UI. It’s for EV, is a major benefit for phishing protection, etc. I guess they could put the ‘welcome’ page on a https site for example purposes. But, go to paypal.com, and you’ll see the certificate issuer and verification that it’s really paypal. Good stuff.
(I ended up taking too long to get this posted, I was going to post it almost immediately after the post I’m reviewing, but had trouble finding the info on he Larry UI. I hate not citing, so I saved a draft then never came back to it. Sorry 
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When Rogue Amoeba kills off an app, they make it free. When Panic kills off an app (Audion), they also make it free. When Spiny software kills off an app, they still charge you the same amount but won’t give you any support. Comictastic, dead since 2006, still costs $15.
Assholes.
I know it because it’s item 4 here (and Justin Dolske’s blog post here), but I can’t figure out who’s in charge of updating it. Guessing Alex Polvi because of this tweet which links to this flickr pic.
Tweet about “chicken” lately? Then you know PopeyesChicken exists, because within hours you’ll receive an @reply letting you know about popeyes certified bonafide chicken. As well as why you should have picked popeyes instead of whichever place you went to.
Hilarious. I’m hoping it’s a parody account, and if it is, I just made a parody of a parody account.
I was looking into implementing this, and I thought long and hard over the technique. If twitturly had an API, it’d be easier. But I could plug right into Summize, I guess. But summize can search hashtags and anyone can really just use summize to watch hashtags, right? So what’s the point of hashtags.org, where you have to follow hashtags to get your tags followed? Why don’t they just use summize? I guess it’s good for private twitter accounts, but it’s not good for tweetback.
Tweetback is a simple idea: pingbacks for twitter. I made a post knowing that it would somehow be found by the people who run the site I referenced, because somehow it always happens on my blog here. Nobody reads this, so I’m sure they’re just using some blog search service. Anyway, they noticed. And they posted a link to my post! That’s nice, but why didn’t I get a pingback? If I link to a blog in wordpress, it pings back that blog automatically, which is awesome (because I’m not a trackback spammer). Why not a service for twitter that will de403 a url (403, i.e. redirection like tinyurl or other shortener services) in your tweets, and then pingback with the direct tweet url?
I could implement it like hashtags, just checking every url to see if it’s a blog, then checking if I could trackback that blog with my tweet URL. OR, I could just post the thing in the open and hope the twitturly guy or someone else implements it.
Just thank me if you start an actual service named ‘tweetback’. I’d love some appreciation. (If you become big, a t-shirt and sticker, too?)
(P.S., this was originally called Twitterback, but I thought tweetback was shorter and good, but either name works)
Thanks for existing, Scheduly! I do wonder how you’ll deal with people where sessions end up running long, though.
It’s existed for a long time. I demonstrate it here.
I have been watching the FriendFeed Invites Room (which is a great service). Apparently there’s a few sites already that do invites. I found one that does Brightkite Invites, there’s another that does Jaiku Invites, and a friend was telling me some site secretly runs their own invites site (I thought it was Jaiku but the bottom text says I’m wrong).
There’s also a site I found on lifehacker that does invites, Invite Share. Via googling, it turns out there’s Mashable Invites, which handles a LOT more sites.
This is kinda scary. There’s all these sites, and most of them have no real end to end verification. I know on inviteshare (I shared a brightkite invite there) that you see a list of e-mails, you can’t copy paste them (which sucks, I had to type it out) and then you say “I sent one to that user”. They have to remember they signed up at inviteshare, and say “I received it!”. This is REALLY crappy. Mashable does the same thing, a list of e-mails and no idea if that request was made recently or a year ago. As I don’t think many users feel terribly obligated to go back and say “I got it”, they may leave their e-mail up on as many of these sites as possible, forever. That’s awful! Especially if you want to get points for giving out invites.
So: I’ve got something in the works that should smash all these sites with awesomeness. Don’t just take a penny.
