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My Experience With the iPhone 4 Antenna

So as many of us know, Apple is preparing a press conference "about the iPhone 4". Nobody knows what it is going to be about, but most assume that its going to talk about the antenna design and well publicized issues. Now when I bump into someone (without an iPhone 4) around the water cooler they say "How about that antenna? You having all those problems? heh heh". The thing is, when asked I don't know what to say. Yes I think if I squeeze the phone really hard i can get bars to go down, but only soft of, and only sometimes. I do not have problems with dropped calls at least not any more than I did with other ATT phones.
But what it DOES do, is allow me to make and receive phone calls from the first floor of my house for the first time since the first iPhone and the Motorola Razr. I think the first iphone didn't have as many antenna, sensors, and do-dads to interfere with the good old Edge network, and the Razr, didn't have anything.
Despite being left-handed and therefore ostensible the most afflicted - I'm very happy with the phone. I'm not having any significant problems, and while I don't doubt that people ARE having problems, I'm curious about the actual scale of those problems.

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0 responses   //   Posted almost 3 years ago

iPhone Tilt Shift Photography

Finally got around to purchasing the quite awesome TiltShift Generator for the iPhone, one of a few great photography apps around these days.  Here is a great blog post from photographer Phil Coffman that discusses many of those at length.  
*thanks Reid for the links

Below is the very first shot I've taken, from my roof deck.  Maybe a bit heavy on the saturation adjustment

Here are some shots of the Application itself

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0 responses   //   Posted over 3 years ago

Dropbox iPhone Launched - get it!

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Its out and its awesome. Get a free (2g) drop box account. Dropbox is my personal choice for file synching, collaboration and sharing and the iPhone app takes the it to a new level of usefulness.
Get a free 2 gigabyte dropbox account at the link above and then get the app here itms://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=327630330&mt=8&s=143441

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0 responses   //   Posted over 3 years ago

MSA Remote + VDMX + Ableton Live

via vimeo.com

"MSA Remote is a remote control application for iPhone & iPod Touch that sends OSC messages over the wifi network. This allows you to control any OSC supporting applications such as Max/MSP/Jitter, PureData, Reaktor, VDMX, vvvv, Resolume, Quartz Composer etc."

and also
"You can see MSA Remote controlling a Java fluid simulation at vimeo.com/3975324"

I have nothing to add- these videos speak for themselves. Extremely impressed.

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0 responses   //   Posted over 3 years ago

Quick Screencast of 'Briefs' Out Of The Box


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I just created a quick and dirty screencast of Briefs code in action after pulling it from Github and just running it. We develop iPhone apps for clients at iCrossing and I just think this is a simple (read: elegant) way to demo work without putting in too much up front time (which I'm told equals money).
I don't work on the consulting side anymore but did for a very long time. We always tried to think of useful ways for our creative to show their stuff without having to us in (us = software engineers).

code here: http://github.com/capttaco/Briefs

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0 responses   //   Posted over 3 years ago

Briefs: A Cocoa Touch Framework for Live Wireframes

Test & Validate Your Designs on the iPhone

Briefs is a framework for packaging concept screens & control schemes that run live on the iPhone and iPod Touch. This allows you to experience the feel of your concept without the expense of development.

Each brief is simply a .plist that references images, in formats such as PNG, GIF and JPEG. Since they are image based, it allows anything from scanned paper sketches, to the full blown mockups you created in your favorite image editor. These briefs are loaded into the Briefs application and can be run directly on the device. Briefs can be loaded manually onto the device or pulled dynamically from a briefcast.

Other Uses

There are several creative uses for Briefs. Elevator pitches, notes, and interactive books can all take advantage of the technology in the framework. And using briefcasts, there is a simple avenue for distributing your content to other Briefs users.

Beta source code available today on Github

via giveabrief.com

Great idea and a lot easier for designers to mock up UI for touch apps without having to learning Interface Builder or having to ask a developer to mock up for you.

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0 responses   //   Posted over 3 years ago

iPhone and MMS to Usher in New Era of GOATSE, Rickrolling, and the Archer

Now that the millions of iPhone users in the US will have access to the latest and greatest (2002) MMS technology - I'm officially predicting HERE on this sh*tty BLAHG, a new era of goatse, rickrolling, and the favorite in my circle of friends "The Archer".  Which i will not post here but is a surreal photo of a large man wearing nothing but a leather utility belt and posing with his hunting bow.

The great thing is that your friend or enemy or frenemy, can't stop getting visually assaulted unless they turn off notifications when the phone is locked.

So have at it.  Start sending your nasty grams until we crash AT&T's networks.
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0 responses   //   Posted over 3 years ago

Hi, the End is Nigh?

It was only when i plugged in my iPhone just now that I realized that its Friday - or the day that AT&T exploded .  So far I have 1 bar and I'm on EDGE so everything is working as normal :(

Now to start texting my friends video of me singing kareoke.

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0 responses   //   Posted over 3 years ago