Jay Robinson

Tag: iphone

  • Surfin’ Safari Blog – High DPI Web Sites

    Surfin’ Safari Blog – High DPI Web SitesIncredibly insightful article, especially considering it was written before the original iPhone was even announced. Read the whole thing.

  • Area Man Makes iPhone Less Usable For No Good Reason

    Area Man Makes iPhone Less Usable For No Good Reason

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  • Beta 2 has me wishing even more that I didn’t throw it on. How’s your phone since downgrading, kosher?

    To provide some context for this message, Tumblr user “nerdcast” is referring to the iPhone, specifically that OS 4 beta 2 was announced today. I recently downgraded my iPhone from the OS 4 beta back to 3.1.3, the latest public release. I grew tired of OS 4 beta’s junky text messaging and other unexpected behavior.…

  • staff: dowding: What I’d really like is to be able to define my own mobile theme. Killer idea! We just added a hook so you can override the default iPhone layout by adding a Custom Layout page with the url /iphone-theme. Go crazy!

  • Android Tries Harder

    Android Tries Harder “I’m the developer of the Texts From Last Night app for the iPhone. Anyway, I received an e-mail yesterday from someone at Google claiming to be in their Android Advocacy Group. He basically said that he wanted to open a line of communication with me in case I chose to port the…

  • Gizmodo has definitive evidence that they’ve purchased a genuine, stolen, Apple iPhone 4th generation prototype. Rumored to be released in June of this year.

  • Adding insult to injury or FFFFUUUU EDIT: Tumblr user “hwhuo” let me know I’m a big dumb-ass for not registering my iPhone with my iPhone Developer account prior to installing iPhone OS 4 beta. Thankfully, Tumblr user “fucking-awesome” was able to help me out with a link to get things back to normal. Thanks, Tumblr…

  • Current status: Restoring to iPhone OS 3.1.3 after using OS 4.0. Too buggy for me. Find all iPhone and iPod touch OS downloads here.

  • Two quick tips regarding “apple-touch-icon”

    atomicstapler: If you’re making a custom home screen icon for a web site or web app, make the icon 129 pixels square. This will make the icon look good on both the iPhone and iPad screen. (Thanks to Dan Rubin for this.) Also, instead of “apple-touch-icon,” you can use “apple-touch-icon-precomposed” and the ugly gloss won’t…

  • Hmmm. So giving Apple control over the iPhone is bad, but giving Adobe control over rich content on the web is fine. Hmmm. Tom Standage

  • 9-Bits: The Flash Pan

    9-Bits: The Flash Pan Apple is not being evil. This is one company controlling its platform for the sake of its own product. Microsoft does the same thing for XBox, Sony does the same for PlayStation, and Nintendo does the same for Wii. … Mr. 9-Bits himself, David Kaneda, gives his take on the whole…

  • Erroneous Album Art Association® is my least favorite iPod™ feature. Except this one, which is awesome.

  • David and Jacob Waller built a Scrabble-like iPhone app using strictly web technologies: HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3. Read their short write-up about the Golingo app.

  • 4th Generation iPhone

    Based on words I read off of John Gruber’s website, Daring Fireball, I put together a list of features that will likely be in the new iPhone (4th Generation) released this summer: Uses A4-family CPU system-on-a-chip, like iPad 960 × 640 resolution, exactly doubling the current size Second front-facing camera Support for 3rd party multitasking John is…