15 September 2007 – 10:23 pm
This is very fun, it’s an iPhone smudge and scratch simulator! It even has a cute little cleaning cloth to wipe the fingerprints away. Given the way most consumer-electronics smudge up, someone really needs to come up with a smudge-resistant surface. C’mon nanotechnology, where are you now ‘eh?!
On a slightly more useful note, Gearlog reported a few days ago that Apple aren’t going to be taking a neutral attitude to 3rd party iPhone apps saying “software updates will most likely break” native apps. Or as Engadget put it: Apple aren’t playing Switzerland anymore 
Bugger.
14 September 2007 – 9:49 pm
This is pretty much directed at Rob:
I’ve mirrored my minisite at http://people.arch.usyd.edu.au/~dcos5821/deco1200/minisite1/ it’s been deCMSed (if that is a word). There is a version saved with the SWF and CSS if the spiders break - you can grab that here all in one ZIP file.
You can also grab the Minisite straight off the blog if you want to, but the WordPress may play silly-buggers with the CSS and Flash.
Cheers!
14 September 2007 – 12:51 pm
I hate republishing files from other peoples blogs, but since the original link to it has disappeared, google finds no leads and a few other DECO students want to print one off, I’ve put a copy of the PDF online for your very own iPhone cardboard cutout.
Kudos to the original author, and of course to Apple for designing the darn thing in the first place 
12 September 2007 – 3:06 pm
I’ve quickly whipped up a little example of what you can do with standards-compliant CSS and XHTML. It’s an iPhone interface mockup. It’s not an iPhone simulator, but I intend to use this in some way to use this for some quick lo-fi evaluation.The iPhone mockup can be seen here: http://devslashtux.monproductions.com/static/2007/iphone/.
Oh, and on a useless note, here’s another iPhone video from YouTube:
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/Kr7yxLfiqSo" height="350" width="425" /]
11 September 2007 – 2:24 pm
Sorry for the silence for the last few days, the assignment for DECO1005 has been a pain. I’m grumbling that it took 4 weeks to get the marks from our first assignment - and we ultimately did get it back, the day the next one is due… So loads of fun trying to retrofit comments from the first into the second!
Anyway, thanks to those of you who have filled in my survey! And if you haven’t yet. DO IT NOW! My statistics are slightly skewed towards the 16-25 male bracket. So anyone who doesn’t fall into that category, your opinions are required!
Apart from that, everything is going along swimmingly! Posts will be appearing on a more regular basis as of now! 
6 September 2007 – 4:04 pm
Avast! It’s the Mobishop Survey Questionnaire thing.
If you have 5 minutes for a quick survey, your responses are important to me and I value your opinons! Help me get good marks for my assignment by having real data to base my assumptions on.
The survey is very shiny and it’s available online for your filling-out-pleasure.
I’ve changed the link to a different address, but it’s the same survey. Turns out that Safari on Mac disagrees with LimeSurvey, the FOSS script running the survey. Cheers for those who pointed it out to me.
6 September 2007 – 11:05 am
Crikey!
Considering rumours were flying about new iPods, Apple have really surprised this time by almost totally revamping the iPod line (with the exception of the Shuffle which only gets new colours).
The new line-up is as follows:
- iPod Shuffle (1GB)
- iPod Nano (4GB or 8GB)
- iPod Classic (80GB or 160GB)
- iPod Touch (8GB or 16GB)
- iPhone
The interesting bit in all of this is the iPod Touch which is basically an iPhone without the phone or camera! It’s the cheap peoples iPhone! And we get it here in Austerailia before Xmas. It’s also a “revolutionary internet communications device”, with built-in 802.11B-G WiFi and the mobile Safari browser. So our iPhone apps should also work on iPod touch (although a bit more limited by the wireless coverage).
Photo (lovingly) stolen from Apple.com. Some more useful posts can be found on Technorati’s 
ipod touch pages.
2 September 2007 – 3:58 pm
Since I haven’t visibly done anything for the last week (despite totally re-theming the site, posting assignments for other subjects and fighting off the flu), I’m whacking up a long and rambling post regarding the interfaces of Picasa and iPhoto. Enjoy
As part of developing my Mobishop concept, I’ve decided to take a look at desktop applications that fulfil the same requirements - focussing mainly on the two leading applications, Apple iPhoto for MacOS X and Google Picasa for Windows and Linux. Hopefully, by looking at these applications, I can get some good insights for Mobishop.
Since I don’t have a Mac at home (gasp!) I’m limited to what is available at the uni, so I’ll be looking at iPhoto 6 (part of iLife ‘06). Given Apple’s uncanny ability to totally change software between releases, iPhoto 7 (released a few weeks ago with iLife ‘08 [which is a bit early]) is probably quite different.
I’ve broken this post into a few pages to make it a bit more slow-connection friendly, and to break it into more logical sections.
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I’ve replaced the CSS file for my blog, as my old one had some nasty CSS errors and thus was really awful to modify - and since I’m going to (with permission) to use WordPress as a CMS to run the whole site, editable CSS is really important.
The new theme is the Sandbox Essay style developed by Ian Stewart. Another free & open-source theme. Like my old theme, it is based on the Sandbox XHTML theme. Sandbox provides a semantic, standards-compliant framework which can be flexibly styled with CSS.
It’s a pretty good example of the power of CSS - nothing on the site has changed apart from the CSS file and a few background images (referenced in by CSS).
25 August 2007 – 12:39 pm
More links, this time from the Sydney Morning Herald, who report that 3rd Party developers will eventually gain native access to the iPhone - including EA Games (Need for Speed 700 anyone? Yawn…).
When Apple updated the iTunes software used to activate the iPhone, curious hackers who looked under the hood quickly found lines of software code indicating that games will be eventually run directly on the iPhone rather than in the browser.
Next up for the iPhone … video games?