IPHONE .. EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SYNC

iPhone iSync: the beginnings of WiFi syncing
Posted Dec 4th 2007 4:15PM by Mat LuFiled under: iTunes, Open Source, iPhone

iPhone iSync is potentially a very interesting application with great promise. It's a GUI implementation of an rsync-based folder synchronization tool that works with WiFi. This means it will sync a folder on your Mac to your iPhone/iPod touch over the wireless network. In the future, this suggests the possibility of iTunes syncing over WiFi... unfortunately, it's not quite there yet.
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The author, francisois, says that he has "reached a breakthrough that has allowed me to synchronize my own iPod Touch over wi-fi with an older version of iTunes," and he is working on getting iTunes 7.5 support but a few obstacles remain. Nonetheless, he eventually plans for syncing music, photos, contacts, and bookmarks over WiFi.Obviously you'll need a jailbroken iPhone to use this. If you have any experience with "shell scripts and ssh and especially iTunes library access," francisois is looking for help. iPhone iSync is a free download from its Google Code page.

IPHONE'S EDGE ....APPLE MAKES EVEN SLOW ..FAST

The iPhone's data connectivity is arguably the one thing that people begrudge. The device experience is fantastic, until you try and browse 'the proper internet' via your mobile network. At this point, most are thinking "Why EDGE, Steve, Why?", and those who chose to plunk down the bills for another phone (N95 anyone?) grin smugly. But this smugness might be short-lived, for the folks at Blackfriars Marketing have stumbled across a German YouTube clip proving that the width of your 'tube' might not be the only deciding factor. In this case, it's the hardware used to process 'the proper internet'.Now you're probably thinking 'huh?' but let's put it this way: the iPhone's connectivity may be slower, but once the data is there, the hardware in the svelte enclosure gets the data in front of you faster than other handsets out there. The other browser in the video coughs and splutters whilst the limited hardware scrambles to show the content.So what does this really tell us that we already know? Yes, the iPhone OS is snappy and suave. Yes, the screen is simply stunning. And yes, desktop-class Mobile Safari means we can see the full internet. And yes, we'd love to see some 3G-love come to the iPhone (this video merely re-inforces that). But the video also reminds us of something that, in the face of iCriticism, gets quickly overlooked: the iPhone clearly isn't a mobile telephone platform. It's a mobile computing platform, and under the hood we've got a lot to be thankful for.

APPLE MULTI-TASKING MULIT-TOUCH GAMING INTERFACE

Apple files patent application for multi-tasking multi-touch gaming interface
Posted by Will on Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 at 5:31 pm under Apple, Technologies, Research, AnnouncementsTagged: apple, application, gaming, interface, mobile, multi touch and patent
We let this one slip through the cracks, but here it is - better late than never.
Playing a mobile game usually means that you’ll have to put all other applications on hold (if not closed-out altogether for the sake of memory usage). The mobile game usually takes priority on most touch-based commands (and directional commands on phones without touchscreens), rendering the cellphone all but useless for anything but playing the game itself. Incoming calls interrupt game-play, and the game must be stopped in order to load a webpage. Well, Apple wants to change all that.
Apple has filed a patent application for a multi-touch gaming interface that allows iPhone and iPod Touch owners to play mobile-games while simultaneously being able to control a secondary application. The application, titled “Techniques for interactive input to portable electronic devices,” outlines a method whereby the user would be able to input touch-based commands on any touch-based device. Depending on where the touch-input is registered, the underlying technology would determine which application the input was intended for. The “Input is directed to the appropriate application based on one or more locations (e.g., points, positions, regions, portions) of the input area effectively identified when input is received (e.g., when input is entered by a person by touching a particular position on a touch screen).”
Furthermore, the inputs’ intentions can be derived from more intuitive motions, like “positional, directional, rotational, pressing and/or pushing type inputs (or movement),” in order to determine which application should process a particular input.
News of the application filing comes just prior to Apple’s expected release of an iPhone SDK. The release of the official SDK should foster a flurry of mobile gaming development on the iPhone, and as such, Apple will want to give mobile gamers more control over their devices’ features.
[Via: Apple Insider]

Should I buy an iPhone

I was asked by a friend of a friend if they should get an iPhone. I as usual said a huge YES!

They had clearly done research and seemed to be aware of all the feature but wanted personal opinion. I was sad to find out that the IHATE has seeped into public opinion. She said she hears a lot of bad things about the iPhone and asked about the speed of the web.

The iPhone backlash is strong.

It was funny, even though she was aware of all the negative stuff out there, she still wanted one.

I believe the halo effect seems to be in full effect within me.

I have to say that I kept my mouth shut about the 3G iPhone rumor next year. After all it still is a rumor.

iphone flash update

After an Adobe Support Engineer was asked when the iPhone and iPod touch would support flash on Mobile Safari, a response concluded that the wrong company was being asked. It doesn’t look like an update with Flash is near, but possibly a member of any of the iPhone dev teams can hack it up.
I personally think that Google bought exclusivity of flash video’s for YouTube on the iPhone, taking away any thoughts of flash for Safari on the iPhone, not allowing you to browse other flash video websites other than YouTube. We’ll have to wait and see how this plays out. There is flash somewhere in the iPhone as it’s running the YouTube app, but not being used for Safari. Hopefully Apple has future updates with the iPhone allowing Flash to run with Safari.

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