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iPhone Screenies

I have my iPhone now for 3 weeks…and I am more and more falling in love with it. I hardly use my iMac anymore at home. All my email checking, browsing and even some commandline work I do with my iPhone. And with iSquint I convert avi’s etc to the iPod compatible mp4 and have great fun watching the wire season 1 now on my iPhone.
But…1 thing I didn’t know was that it’s possible to make screenies of your iphone :)
how?

press the home button and sleep button simultaneously for 1 second and release.

You see the screen flashing, and the screenie has been added to your album roll in the photo.app. And the best thing…it doesn’t have your greasy fingers all over. yay me!

Dashcode

Apple released a public beta of Dashcode to ADC members (including the free accounts). I have to say I am deeply impressed.
It has still some quirks, but it is stable and has stunning features.

I started this week to play around with it and I can assure you it’s fun.
Implementing a Scrollarea gave some problems for me tho.
(I admit, has a lot to do with my JS n00bness…but hey…)

If you you update the content of your scrollarea, don’t forget to refresh it…

example:

if (logstatus == 0) {
		loginhoud = logcall.outputString;
		content.innerHTML = loginhoud;
		document.getElementById("scrollArea").object.refresh();
	}
	else {
		content.innerHTML = "Problem fetching server data...";
	}

I think this is missing in the documentation…(yup, reporting it to Apple as well).

Good ol’ OS 9

Funny.

I was one of the early (I think my 1st installed OS X version was developer release 4) adapters of OS X. And I very rarely thought back of OS 9/8/7/6. All the new thrills of the new OS made you forget about the good things of the classic OS’s.

This blogentry however sumarizes the most missed features of the old classic OS.

I personally miss feature #6. Tabbed folders the most.

New Hardware

New toys…for me…how nice!

@work, 3 weeks ago, the decision was made to get rid of an old iMac 350 (blue, dv).
Hooray! The user of the iMac was given my G4 450, and I was told to buy a new iMac G5.

The fun thing was…there wasn’t an iMac in Stock in the whole Netherlands…I phoned several mac-dealers. Begged to to sell me their show-models, but no luck.
But….there where several who did have the 1.8 Ghz G5 in Stock.
And I got clearence to buy it!
(actually, I prefered the tower over the iMac, because I like my Phillips TFT 19″)

Jeej!

The same evening I rushed to the Apple-dealer to load the very heavy box in my car, together with some additional ram.
The design, the look, the feel…wow…the first days I found myself stroking the shiny aluminium over and over again. The machine is less noisy as my previous G4, and the new graphics card is making Tiger even look better. I know it’s the entry level (since 2 days even EOL in Europe) but boy, compared to my G4 it screams.

And the real fun…6 days later on my birthday, I got an iPod Mini, in gray, because that matched my new G5 so nicely :-D
I did have the 1G 5Gbyte iPod. But that one was showing it’s age. I like the newer OS of the ipod, it has really matured compared to the 1G iPods. And I discovered that podcasts are fun. Listening on the returntrip of work to the Daily Source code has really made the bus less boring.