Archive for the 'Apple' Category
Monday, January 25th, 2010 by Daniel Gattermann at 23:09h (UTC)
GeoMapLookup, the web app to geolocate IP adresses and domain names, got a new icon and custom map marker. Furthermore GeoMapLookup is now on Twitter with an open ear for feature requests and feedback. The latest tweet will be displayed below the info box on geomaplookup.net.
To update the icon of your iPhone home screen link [...]
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 by Daniel Gattermann at 21:50h (UTC)
Follow the latest Apple news and keynote live coverage on your iPhone. The link collection at http://next.cinnamonthoughts.org/ provides access to iPhone formatted news and rumor sites and will be updated with links to live coverage once they become available.
Please leave link requests to iPhone friendly Apple news sites (i.e. formatted to display nicely on the [...]
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Friday, January 15th, 2010 by Daniel Gattermann at 16:40h (UTC)
GeoMapLookup now uses the new Google Maps API in version 3.
The iPhone version includes a zoomable and pannable mini map while the desktop version benefits from the new technology and a clean and modern looking map.
Try GeoMapLookup at http://geomaplookup.net
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 by Daniel Gattermann at 19:41h (UTC)
The geolocation app to identify the geographical source of an IP address or host name GeoMapLookup got a new mini map for its iPhone version. It is zoomable and cycles through the most important zoom levels (with a nice CSS animation) by simply tapping on the map. The button to open iPhone’s integrated Google Maps [...]
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Sunday, December 20th, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 22:29h (UTC)
As a small gift for christmas, I’ve updated Emojinator with some nice changes:
Added fullscreen mode. To use it, add Emojinator to your home screen: tap “+” in MobileSafari and select “add to Home Screen”.
Replaced “Send to” buttons with text explaining copy and paste.
Removed confirm dialog on Emoji selection to speed things up.
Removed text input field. [...]
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 23:31h (UTC)
Every Safari user on Mac OS X should take a look at ClickToFlash which makes your browsing through the Flash infested World Wide Web pleasant again.
Using ClickToFlash, all of those icky Flash bits that have infected most webpages on the internets are replaced with a nice, smooth gradient and the word “Flash” set in a [...]
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 20:35h (UTC)
Recently I came across Reeder which is a great news reader for the iPhone. It uses Google Reader as a backend so it is easy to sync your feeds across multiple devices and clients (e.g. NetNewsWire on the Mac).
Reeder 1.2—which might get submitted to the app store as early as today—will be quite an update. [...]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 20:16h (UTC)
After the Canon support told me there weren’t Snow Leopard compatible drivers for my color laser printer LBP5050n available yet and they didn’t have a timeframe I found this site at Canon Asia with one month old drivers called CAPT Printer Driver V3.00 for MacOSX.
After installing, cursing and rebooting I could use my printer again. [...]
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 20:40h (UTC)
It always bugged me that whenever I’m deleting an e-mail in Apple’s mail client Mail.app another mail is selected and subsequently marked as read. Cmd + Shift + U became a good friend of mine. (It marks a mail as unread.)
TurePreview is a lightweight Mail.app plugin which gives you all the time you need to [...]
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Monday, April 20th, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 21:40h (UTC)
Today Tweetie for Mac was released and like any other Mac user on Twitter I had to try it on its first day.
I like to assign Twitter clients to all of my six Spaces (Mac OS X’s virtual desktops) and toggle the window using the F5 key. Tweetie for Mac didn’t allow this (bug?):
Of course [...]
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 22:12h (UTC)
My Take on Getting Things Done in the Past
Post-its. Everywhere. Small snippets of paper and an inbox full of reminder mails to myself. It worked for some time but this situation couldn’t last any longer. So I started using iCal’s and Mail’s ability to add and manage tasks. Very basic task management was fine using [...]
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 22:53h (UTC)
GeoMapLookup is a great service capable of geolocating your current IP address or any hostname or IP you enter. The large map with further information about the host comes in handy when you need to know where that blog visitor lives.
Visiting GeoMapLookup from your iPhone or iPod touch gives you an optimized version of the [...]
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 23:11h (UTC)
You can now activate the useful “break mode” in Attendance Countdown if you prefer to add your break time to the calculation. (direct link)
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Friday, March 20th, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 22:02h (UTC)
With Emojinator you can use the popular Japanese Emoji icons without any hacks on iPhone or iPod touch and send colorful mails to your friends!
This fun web app — unlike the native apps no longer available on the iPhone App Store — uses no hacks to enable Emoji: it is completely save.
var uri = [...]
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 18:45h (UTC)
invertr — an iPhone/iPod touch web app which allows you to turn your written text upside down — sends the rotated text not only to iPhone’s Mail and Twitter.com but also to the popular Twitter client Tweetie available on the iPhone App Store.
var uri = ‘http://impde.tradedoubler.com/imp?type(inv)g(17473420)a(1634162)’ + new String (Math.random()).substring (2, 11);
document.write(”);
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 22:27h (UTC)
invertr is an iPhone/iPod touch web app which allows you to turn your written text upside down, send it to your friends and colleagues and enjoy the confused looks on their faces!
You choose whether to send the rotated text to your iPhone’s/iPod touch’s mail application or to Twitter.com to create an amusing tweet. Read more [...]
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 16:13h (UTC)
After one week using Twitter I’ve decided which apps I’ll be using in the future with this micro blogging service:
Safari140 – Twitter extension for Safari with auto-shorten for long URLs and a great shortcut: ^T
I’m using Tweetie as my iPhone Twitter client. It’s just great!
Decided to use Twitterrific and Safari140 on my Mac. I like [...]
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 20:27h (UTC)
When Safari 4 (beta) was officially released yesterday the whole internet noticed that our favourite password-remembering piece of software didn’t work anymore.
Just one day after this outcry by all Apple-loving geeks (and a workaround) 1Password 2.9.9 is here to save the day.
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Friday, January 16th, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 00:25h (UTC)
I’m An Idiot from xkcd
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 by Daniel Gattermann at 00:23h (UTC)
Attendance Countdown was improved once again. It is now possible to edit the template used for sending an e-mail.
To launch Attendance Countdown point your Mobile Safari to this URL:
http://attend.cinnamonthoughts.org.
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