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iPhone + Meowmania = most expensive cat toy ever

January 2, 2010

A few months ago at Ignite Port­land 7, a few of us on the bal­cony were com­par­ing silly cat-related iPhone apps.  My take­away from that dis­cus­sion was Meow­ma­nia (iTunes link). 
Meow­ma­nia does one and only one thing.  When you touch the screen, a spin­ning cat head appears and meows.  That’s it.  No real point.  Buuuut… […]

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Shortening with YOURLS and Tweetie 2 for iPhone

October 22, 2009

A few months back, around the pos­si­ble demise of the tr.im URL short­en­ing ser­vice, there was a sud­den rise in pop­u­lar­ity with run­ning your own URL short­ener on your own bou­tique URL.  That was when I set up Ninja Me (nja.me) using YOURLS.  At the time, I reverse-engineered the undoc­u­mented API enough to hack Twitter-Tools […]

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iPhone Wallpaper Template

October 17, 2009

I recently updated my iPhone’s wall­pa­per to some­thing a bit more Halloween-y.  Behold:

I like to have my email address on the front screen, but get­ting it to line up has never been easy.  With pre­vi­ous wall­pa­pers, I have just thrown it into the image some­where, but I felt this one would look bet­ter with it […]

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Wikis and notepads and text files, oh my!

October 16, 2009

The other night, @verso tweeted a ques­tion about run­ning a lit­tle wiki on a home file server.  I responded with Tid­dly­Wiki, which is a whole wiki con­tained in a sin­gle HTML file.  It actu­ally may or may not ful­fill her needs, since there are huge con­cur­rency and remote access issues — it’s designed to be […]

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Netninja Mobile, now with sudoku

August 9, 2009

A lit­tle over two years ago, back when the iPhone SDK con­sisted of “here, kid, here’s a text edi­tor, now go away and make your­self a nice lit­tle web page, and quit both­erin’ me,” I quickly hacked together a lit­tle web con­trol panel and called it Phone­marks.  It ran, and con­tin­ues to run in some […]

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My iPhone’s Star Trek SMS tone (a how-to)

May 21, 2009

A while back, I set up a Star Trek ring­tone and SMS beep on my iPhone.  It worked quite well, but not too long after that, I had to reload the iPhone firmware (I believe due to an update from Apple) and lost the SMS tone.  While the ring­tone is triv­ial to re-add via iTunes, […]

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Warning: Pictures of Extreme Cuteness

April 4, 2009

These pho­tos have been rat­tling around my Flickr stream, wait­ing for a blog post.  A few week­ends ago, Kim and I walked to Cre­ston Park and played on the play­ground equip­ment.
The See-Saw:

The Swings:

We also did some MySpace-esque cellphone-camera-in-a-mirror pic­tures before sushi the other night:

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“Watchmen: Justice is Coming” Mini Review

March 7, 2009

My mini-review of “Watch­men: Jus­tice is Com­ing,” the iPhone mul­ti­player RPG, can be com­pressed into just one screenshot:

…although the screen­shot does not prop­erly con­vey the recon­nect time that imme­di­ately fol­lows.
Edit: also…

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The Office Wiki Stored in my iPhone

March 4, 2009

Yester­day, I was look­ing for a way to carry around a local copy of a wiki on my iPhone.  It seems that there are sev­eral apps that let you carry around an offline copy of Wikipedia — in case you are stuck on an air­plane or out of cell­phone range and need to look something […]

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Star Trek iPhone Ringtone

December 4, 2008

I finally got a lit­tle tired of my You Look Nice Today Boop Boop Boop Be-Doop Boop ring­tone and decided to try my hand at mak­ing one from scratch.  Geeks, nerds, and sci-fi read­ers rejoice at my new Star Trek (old series) com­mu­ni­ca­tor ring­tone!  After all, isn’t the iPhone pretty darn close to the ideal […]

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iPhone Volume Peeve

December 2, 2008
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iPhone Home Screens

November 23, 2008

Because all of the cool kids are doing it, here are my iPhone home screens…

Every­day
* PCalc — This is the best iPhone cal­cu­la­tor for com­put­ery peo­ple.
* Google — While voice search is a lit­tle gim­micky, the search tool is awe­some­ness
* Clock — This wakes me up in the morn­ings and lets me know when tea […]

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