cinnamon thoughts.

iPhone misses copy, cut and paste capabilities. It features the great magnifying glass though, which is the first step to a–in m opinion–great copy and past implementation. The following describes my idea of interacting with text input on the iPhone:
Mark text

Use the magnifying glass to position the cursor on one end of the text to [...]

Apple’s iPhone started a new era of mobile internet usage:
Google on Wednesday said it had seen 50 times more searches on Apple‘s iPhone than any other mobile handset [...]
Financial Times link

I’ve added a 12h (a.m./p.m.) mode to my handy Attendance Countdown. You can now toggle between a 24h and 12h display. Also new is the possibility to toggle between left and elapsed time modes. (direct link)

My first iPhone web app Attendance Countdown is now listed on apple.com:

Direct Attendance Countdown link http://attend.cinnamonthoughts.org/

Today’s iPhone software version 1.1.3 supports a feature called WebClip which lets you add a bookmark icon for a website or iPhone specific web app directly to your home screen. While doing this the iPhone asks the server for an image called apple-touch-icon.png:
84.131.nnn.nnn - - [15/Jan/2008:23:51:59 +0100] “GET /apple-touch-icon.png HTTP/1.1″ 404 226 “-” “CFNetwork/152.4″
The image [...]

The creator of the iChat add-on Chax released a tool to switch your Leopard spaces by moving your mouse to the edge of the screen called Warp. Great for moving windows to a different space.

Apple’s latest Mac OS X incarnation comes bundled with a handy feature called Spaces which is essentially a virtual desktop manager. While being common knowledge that F8 activates spaces for switching and dragging windows between them, the following is little known:

While in the overview mode (F8) you can just press the number of the space [...]

iChat Matte 2.0 removes the gloss from iChat 4.0’s chat bubbles.
Chax is now Leopard compatible and fixes ICQ/HTML bug and thus makes iChat 4.0 usable. Refer to the Chax blog for the latest version.
tags: Chax, iChat, iChat Matte, Leopard

SQL injection anyone?
tags: cartoon, humor, security, SQL injection, xkcd, xkcd 327

Now it’s official:

Less than twelve hours before Apple’s “Mum is no longer the word” event in London T-Mobile Germany seems to have a slip-up on their website — again.
Searching for iPhone (Sep. 17th, 23:25 CEST) reveals T-Mobile’s product database already knows the iPhone is manufactured by Apple. It’s not available yet, of course. If it [...]

You could turn on your speakers and visit Zombo.com, but seriously: why would you want to?
tags: zombo.com

After announcing a (not so) massive price drop from $599 to $399 for the 8GB iPhone Apple posted a new page for the future Wi-Fi Music Store to buy songs on the go. The page shows an iPhone at 9:42 AM with the same time displayed in the clock app’s icon. Other iPhone pictures at [...]

The video below shows first examples of iPhone’s accelerometer used for gaming. This demonstrates — combined with the large multi-touch display — how great the potential for iPhone being a gaming device is. Wii + DS = iPhone games?

Thanks ealf for developing this. YouTube video. Source code.
tags: accelerometer, ealf, game, iPhone, iPhone accelerometer [...]

New elements in HTML 5 — Structure and semantics is an interesting article by Elliotte Rusty Harold on the new elements introduced in HTML 5 which include

section, header, article and aside
nav and footer
video and audio

Running a blog yourself you might have noticed these new tags are exactly what you need to structure your content while [...]