From the category archives:

iPhone

AT&T announces MMS, mum on tethering

September 3, 2009

AT&T has announced that MMS is coming on Sept. 25 (via MacWorld):

According to AT&T’s press release, a software update will enable MMS for iPhone 3G and 3GS customers (original iPhone owners are, unfortunately, out of luck with the MMS feature). Besides finally offering a date, AT&T is also clearly trying to quell the seething masses [...]

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When should iPhone boycott end?

August 8, 2009

Steven Frank makes a pertinent observation about his ban against the iPhone and App Store: The problem with my self-imposed iPhone boycott is I’m not sure how I know when it ends.

I said I wasn’t going to return to my iPhone “until there’s a resolution” with the various well-documented app store problems. But what does [...]

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Steven Frank leaves iPhone OS platform

July 31, 2009

Panic developer Steven Frank is mad as hell, and he ain’t taking it anymore:

There’s been no indication that Apple want to do anything to resolve the problems with app store policies that have been laid bare a hundred times over. There’s no indication of anything, as a matter of fact. Nothing. After a year. It’s [...]

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Pogue on cell phone gripes and Congress

July 23, 2009

David Pogue of the NY Times has a few “Cellphone Gripes Worthy of Congress’s Time”:

Above all, though, you’ve got to wonder why, if Congress has time for things like cellphone gripes, it’s barking up this particular tree. Frankly, there are many other, much more whopping things that are broken, unfair and anticompetitive in the [...]

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Amazon kills Delicious Library iPhone app

July 7, 2009

On Twitter today, Wil Shipley (@wilshipley) of Delicious Monster posted this sad news:

Delicious Library for iPhone isn’t coming back as long as we’re using Amazon’s APIs, unless they decide to make an exception to section 4e.

As Brent Simmons said on his link blog: “I think this sucks, by the way.”

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Justice Department to Investigate AT&T-iPhone Exclusivity?

July 7, 2009

Mashable has a piece on the Justice Department’s investigation into AT&T and other wireless carriers who have exclusive agreements with phone makers:

The U.S. Department of Justice may not be happy with this and other exclusivity arrangements, though, and has opened a review of AT&T, Verizon, and some of the other major telecoms. According to a [...]

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Music in the clouds?

July 7, 2009

Kirk McElhearn talks about how we listen to music and a future of unlimited music for subscribers:

The way we listen to music changed when, after decades of coming from needles in grooves, it went digital. Now that digital music is mature, the next step is to disembody it entirely and stick it on central servers [...]

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A Love Triangle: NetNewsWire and Google Reader

March 3, 2009

I’m stuck in a love triangle with two popular RSS readers, and I just can’t figure it out. I love them both but for very different reasons (and at very different times).

On the desktop, I prefer NetNewsWire for a variety of reasons:

Keyboard shortcuts for blog posting, Delicious posting, Twitter posting, etc. Easier keyboard navigation Sorting by date [...]

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Choosing a back-up battery for your iPhone

January 23, 2009

A colleague of mine was sporting a Richard Solo backup battery for his iPhone yesterday. After listening to him rave about it, I was set to buy one.

Then this morning, before I headed to the Solo website, an article from Cult of Mac popped up in my RSS feeds featuring a new backup battery that [...]

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Tweetie 2.1 takes over my iPhone Twittering

January 18, 2009

When I first started with Twitter, I tried a few Twitter apps for the iPhone. I settled on Twitterific, which I do not use on my Macs. (On my Macs, I use Twhirl.)

Twitterific for iPhone is great. I like the app. But it is missing a few things, such as

Not showing direct messages. Not showing [...]

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