IPhone

This is a break from my normal postings about technology, but I just needed to rant on this a little. Because as a programmer I understand that bad math happens, but this seems deliberate on AT&T’s part. Let me start out by explaining, I like many other Americans updated to the iPhone 5 on launch day. I found a lot of the expected fees, such as the “One Time Charge for Upgrade” fee of $36.00, which still baffles me because I have to essentially pay for the privileged to being locked in for another 2 years, but I digress. ...

I am pretty new to Objective-C development and iOS development in general, but in my effort to fill small gaps on the internet with useful information, I believe I have found a small area that hasn’t had much love. If you are unfamiliar with iOS development you may have never heard of Three20. Three20 is a framework developed by Facebook and used in the creation of Facebook’s iOS app. It can best be described from their own site: ...

Over the past couple of weeks I have been slowly planning and revamping my iPhone app to address user concerns, bugs, and problems. And as part of the rework I decided to support other platforms, in addition to the iPhone, such as the iPad, Android, and Windows Phone 7. However with this new focus, I had one huge problem, how was I going to learn each new SDK. This problem led me to struggle with if I should develop for each platform natively in its own language and SDK or use a cross platform programming language that would basically put a shim on top of the native SDK. The pros and cons of each approach where the following: ...

LifeHacker has a first look at iTunes 8.0. As of right now iTunes can be downloaded from Apple, but not through Apple Update yet. Doesn’t look as revolutionary as many people have been saying but it seems to be a logical update for Apple. I will update in a little bit if it works with Windows Vista x64, but I imagine given iTunes 7.0 that it will. BEWARE! Everything went find with the iTunes on Windows 64-bit except for the fact that iTunes turned on 1-Click buying for the iTunes store for some reason. If this is not your current setting you probably want to specifically check for this under. Edit - Preference - Store in iTunes. I don’t know if this is a plan for Apple to get extra revenue or if the settings just got reset because of the install of iTunes 8, but I have never had this happen before. Luckily for me I was just buying some of their Free HD Episodes.

I have to preface what I am about to say with a couple of things: I have a first generation iPhone I do not have AT&T or any other GSM network I am using this iPhone as a phone mostly as an iPod I use Verizon Wireless as my cell phone provider I have to say I am pretty impressed with the iPhone interface. Alot of work has been done with the user interface and making the applications very useable. But I have noticed the following problems, that wouldn’t nessisary keep me away from this as a phone, but would make me think twice about how usable it is from my point of view: ...

iTunes 7.7 has been released! Windows Vista x64 I am happy to announce that iTunes 7.7 and Windows Vista x64 work well together. The Apple downloader even chooses the correct 64-bit version of iTunes through every browser that I have tried, so they obviously fixed something where you don’t need to download iTunes through the 64-bit version of IE. No word yet if the iPhone 2.0 or 1.0 will work with the 64-bit version of windows. ...

Today Apple had their big iPhone SDK press release. They opened up the phone and added a bunch of Enterprise features that many small to large corporate customers have been asking for. But they still haven’t implemented the features I am looking for in a smart phone, and until they do, they will not see my money. Microsoft Exchange Direct Push Tethering 3G Network (I currently use Verizon) I know #2 will be coming, if not through Apple somebody else will do it, since Apple has unlocked the iPhone to developers. However #3 is the one that I may have to wait for Verizon to switch to GSM in the distant future. Other than my last 2 requirements I am sold on the iPhone.

This morning I wrote about the problems I had installing the newly released iTunes for Windows Vista Ultimate x64. I just recently found a solution to the problem error that iTunes was giving me when I tried to install it this morning. The error was: iTunes could not be installed because Visual Basic Script (VBScript) is not installed or has been disabled. Make sure VBScript is installed, turn off script blocking in anti-virus and personal firewall software, re-register VBScript, and then install iTunes. ...