As one of ReadWriteWeb’s iPhone users, I’m always looking for new applications to try out. Some get downloaded for a day and then deleted right away, others slowly inch their way closer to my homescreen. Even rarer are the ones that become actively used on a regular basis. Occasionally, we like to share our findings regarding our favorite new apps. (See, for example, last month’s…
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Weekend Fun: New Apps for Your iPhone
Posted March 19, 2010 Leave a Comment
Power Outlet with Built-in USB Ports
Posted February 13, 2010 Leave a Comment
This is pretty cool. FastMac.com has an AC outlet that has 2 built-in USB ports in addition to the standard three prong power outlet ports.
This is ideal for charging any USB powered device such as iPods, iPhones, iPads, iNads, and any other iThings. That’s a pretty clever idea.
The item is currently waiting on final UL approval and should begin shipping in Q1-2010.
http://store.fastmac.com/product_info.php?products_id=458
Easiest iPhone Jailbreak Ever!
Posted October 24, 2009 Leave a Comment
Finally, a jailbreak for version 3.1.2 of the iPhone firmware exists and it is the easiest jailbreak I’ve seen so far. It took me less than 5 minutes to jailbreak, including the time it took to read the instructions.
Here’s a list of what you will need to jailbreak.
Latest version of iTunes – Download
Blackra1n for Windows – Download
Once you have the items above, follow these steps…
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iSnort
Posted August 11, 2009 Leave a Comment
Can you believe someone actually wrote this app? In order to get this app, you have to jailbreak your iPhone and pay like 8 bucks for the app. I guess the slogan in the Apple commerical is true…”There’s an app for that!!”
Desktop Blogging Client Issues Workaround
Posted December 27, 2008 Leave a Comment
I finally decided to spend a little bit of time and see if I can get the workaround implemented for the issue where the desktop blogging client strips html tags. A visitor to my site left a comment stating that all that needed to be done was copy over a 2.6.32 or older version of the libxml2 library and redo the symbolic links to point…
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I’m an iPhone user now!
Posted December 23, 2008 Leave a Comment
I’ve been a Blackberry user for a long time. I started using them back when the device looked like a pager and only did email (RIM 850) I’ve been very accustomed to doing things the Blackberry way. Over the years, I’ve had all types of Blackberry’s…6200 series, 7200 series, 8700 series, and Curve 8300. The one I had for the longest time was the 8700c…
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DimDim – Open Source Web Conferencing
Posted December 7, 2008 2 Comments
I ran across this pretty cool web conferencing tool called DimDim. They offer a free version that allows up to 20 attendees, and paid versions that allow for up to 1000. They even offer the open source edition that you can download and run on your own server. I tried to sign-up for an account, but for some reason the sign-up page would error out…
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Update on Desktop Blogging Client Issues
Posted November 2, 2008 Leave a Comment
It looks like the issue where desktop blogging clients strip html tags is still an issue. I noticed that there was an update to libxml on Fedora Core 8 and I was hoping it would fix the issue, but unfortunately it does not appear to fix that particular issue. Based on the comments on PHP Bug #45996, it does not appear to have been resolved…
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Desktop Blogging Clients Strip HTML Tags
Posted October 18, 2008 4 Comments
I’ve been running into issues posting blog entries from Windows Live Writer to Jooma and WordPress where the leading angle brackets in the P and A HTML tags were being stripped out. After many google searches, I finally found out what it is. It turns out there is a bug in one of the XML libraries in PHP that makes it silently drop any encoded…
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