The iPhone 2.1 hacking series is going to focus on cracking open the iPhone and using it to learn programming, UNIX and networking. To write this article I’m using a first generation iPhone with a fresh install of the 2.1 firmware and a MacBook Pro.
July 24, 2008
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SideReel – More Online TV
By Levi Senft in MacSideReel is an interesting online TV site, rather than being created by big content and hosting video like hulu.com and fancast.com, SideReel acts more as a wiki linking to episodes you can watch online. SideReel’s site proclaims that it was created to overcome the short comings of standard internet video searches and have a [...]
July 19, 2008
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Avoid Page Rank Dilution With .htaccess
By Levi Senft in WebIf your website is accessible with and without the www subdomain Google will see your site as two different sites. When your home page, http://mydomain.com/ and http://www.mydomain.com/, get indexed as two separate pages their page rank gets diluted because their content is duplicated.
For usability reasons you sill want people to be able to type [...]
March 12, 2008
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iPhone Hello World Using UILabel
By Levi Senft in iPhoneIn this version of my iPhone Hello World app I’m using a UILabel widget to display the text instead of a UITextView. I’m also centering the label.
helloworldAppDelegate.h:
1 //
2 // helloworldAppDelegate.h
3 // helloworld
4 //
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Tags: iPhone
March 12, 2008
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iPhone Hello World
By Levi Senft in iPhoneLast week we finally got the official Apple iPhone SDK. I’ve spent the last few years as a web developer, but ever since I’ve gotten a Mac I’ve wanted to get back to doing some “desktop” application programming. So I’ve messed around with Cocoa a little but haven’t really gotten past the stumbling [...]
Tags: Cocoa Touch, iPhone, Objective C, XCode
March 6, 2008
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Clutch
By Levi Senft in MacAlthough Chicken of the VNC remains my primary means of remote controlling the media mac I’d prefer to use some sort of web interface. This is where Clutch comes in. Clutch is a web based admin for Transmission, my Bittorrent client of choice.
Clutch allows you to view progress and control the torrents Transmission [...]
Tags: Media
March 6, 2008
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Legal Bad TV
By Levi Senft in MediaIn the past few months I’ve checked out a couple of sites offering online television shows and movies. The sites are Fancast and Hulu. Both are in beta and use Flash players displaying limited commercials.
Fancast was launched by Comcast in partnership with Tivo and I’m sure others. It is also provides TV [...]
Tags: Media
March 6, 2008
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Jailbreaking 1.1.4
By Levi Senft in iPhoneJailbreaking the 1.1.4 iPhone firmware is now a breeze. iNdependence will downgrade jailbreak then upgrade your phone in a one step process.
Tags: iPhone
December 30, 2007
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Stop Mobile Safari From Zooming
By Levi Senft in iPhoneA while back I used iPhoney to create an iPhone version of Humaniz Interactive’s website. I stripped out all the flash components and tried to optimize the graphics and text as best I could. Knowing that it may or may not work right on a real iPhone we didn’t release it. Right [...]
Tags: HTML, iPhone, Mobile Safari