In the BBC Sherlock episode “A Scandal in Belgravia,” Irene Adler (a.k.a. The Woman) takes Sherlock’s cellphone and sets a custom ringtone for herself — a moan, to be precise. The ringtone gets used to some effect throughout the episode. And because the world needs more ringtones, I turned it into an iPhone ringtone. There … Continue reading Because the world needs the Sherlock moan ringtone…
Category: iPhone
An HTML5 secure password generator iPhone app
A secure password generator HTML5 “app” for the iPhone and other platforms that runs entirely offline in JavaScript. Once initially loaded from the internet, it can be added to your iPhone’s home screen and will never need a network connection again.
The price-density of gadgets
Wolfram defines density as “the ratio of the amount of matter (mass) to volume.” If you ask me, that’s straight to the point — but perhaps a little boring. You may have heard of this Archimedes fellow. That’s him to the right (that’s not Santa Claus). He drew a bath, got in the water, and … Continue reading The price-density of gadgets
Star Trek SMS tone Redux
One of the more popular posts on my site is My iPhone’s Start Trek SMS tone (a how-to). This delves a bit into the sequence of ssh commands on a jailbroken phone to swap out the default SMS sound with a Star Trek: The Next Generation communicator sound. iOS 5, thankfully, has rendered that post useless. … Continue reading Star Trek SMS tone Redux
100% chance of rain — but do I need an umbrella?
Wherein I detail my continued search for the ultimate iPhone weather app…
My experience with Google’s 2-factor authentication
A walkthrough of enabling, setting up, and using 2-factor authentication on your Google account.
PDX Bus 6.0’s Commuter Bookmarks
There is a free iPhone app that I use all the time called PDX Bus (iTunes link). Portland has not only GPS-enabled public transport with extremely accurate arrival and departure times, they have opened up the data feeds for anyone who wants to request a free developer ID. As such, we have plenty of apps … Continue reading PDX Bus 6.0’s Commuter Bookmarks
Trunk Notes lookups from the desktop
Trunk Notes Overview One of the most useful apps I have discovered for the iPhone is called Trunk Notes. Effectively, it is a “wiki” or series of interlinked notes, that you can carry around in your pocket. I actually don’t use it so much for the interlinking — tagging and search are plenty enough for … Continue reading Trunk Notes lookups from the desktop
The science of optical shoe recognition
This week’s episode of The Big Bang Theory, The Bus Pants Utilization, revolved around the guys coming up with an iPhone app. It sounded cool for certain people in certain situations — it basically amounted to Wolfram Alpha with optical character recognition, so you didn’t have to type in the equations to get them solved. A … Continue reading The science of optical shoe recognition
Markdown, PlainText, Dropbox, and shell scripts
I am a big fan of Dropbox, the automatic folder syncing service that keeps a document folder synchronized across all of your computers and handheld devices. I became a bigger fan when I found iPhone apps like PlainText, which acts as a Dropbox-synchronized notepad. You can write notes on your desktop, then see and update … Continue reading Markdown, PlainText, Dropbox, and shell scripts