Archive for the ‘iPhone’ Category

Remote-Control Your Linux (or other) Computer With Your iPhone

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Mac users have long had a plethora of apps and devices for remotely controlling their computers. A frequent use for this is controlling presentations when presenting to a group, with a laptop connected to a projector. I wanted this functionality for my Linux (Ubuntu) laptop, while using OpenOffice.org's Impress application, but ...

iPhone app development with Linux

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

My employer, Chariot Solutions, held an in-house, week-long iPhone development course, taught by the folks at Big Nerd Ranch. The course was great, we all learned a lot, and several of our folks are working on some apps, including one that they announced recently at JBoss World. 80% or more of our ...

Why I Won’t Be Downloading The CNN iPhone App

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

CNN released it's new iPhone app with a big splash last week. It's a paid app - $1.99 at the App Store. The rub is, it apparently has in-application advertising too. Apparently quite a number of people are just fine with this, but I find it pretty appalling. You can either charge ...

Jailbreaking the iPhone 3G via Linux

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

I recently succumbed to the call of the iPhone. I've had it for about a week, and I like it a lot. All except for the fact that it's tied to Apple's App Store. There's a whole world of third-party apps out there, but they're not available in the App Store. So, I decided ...