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My Daylite Touch for iPad case study

andy — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:48:06 +0000

I was involved in the Beta testing of Daylite Touch for the iPad and was invited to write a case study describing how my business benefits from using Daylite and Daylite Touch for iPad. Here’s the published case study.

iPhone 3.0 Beta 4 Bluetooth tethering results: Less than 1/3 the speed of USB

andy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:22:32 +0000

So, it’s rather slower – 96kbps.

To test it, i tried the ThinkBroadband speed tester, (that i successfully used to test USB tethering), but it failed to complete the test.

I then tried the Broadband speed tester site and got the above results, as well as a 74kbps upload speed.

When (if!) i find time, i’ll go digging and find out if there’s an obvious reason for this – it’s clearly shouldn’t be bottlenecked by the performance of BlueTooth, as it should run up to 3 Mbit/s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth)

iPhone 3.0 Beta 4 + iTunes 8.2 Pre-release = USB Tethering Active Again :)

andy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:58:36 +0000

Yep, USB tethering died in Betas 2 and 3, but with iTunes 8.2 Pre-release and Beta 4, all is working again and it feels wonderfully fast. Well, it’s only running at 336.58 Kbps, but it feels great! As a note, i think the fix was actually iTunes rather than iPhone Beta 4.

Lovely

Now to test the Bluetooth speeds

Important iPhone Push Notification consideration

andy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:45:32 +0000

A point worth noting by all iPhone developers considering the exciting opportunities of cloud-side iPhone app notifications – how much will it cost you to provide this service?

An important point to consider.

iPhone 3.0 beta 2 tethering how to

andy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:24:31 +0000

In iPhone 3.0 beta 1, tethering didn’t work. In beta 2, it does and it’s really simple to achieve. It does require a quick mod to your iPhone. Here’s what you have to do:

1. Download the o2_uk.ipcc carrier details file. Please note that this is the UK ipcc file. If you’re not on O2 in the UK, search google for your suitable ipcc file.
2. Connect iPhone to PC / Mac and select to restore with the option to select a custom restore package (hold down option on Mac before selecting restore)
3. Select the ipcc file as the restore package. The change of details on the phone takes only a few seconds and doesn’t require an iPhone reboot
4. Go into iPhone Settings app > General > Network > Internet Tethering and enable.
5. Connect iPhone to PC / Mac over USB or bluetooth
6. The PC / Mac will do the rest
7. Done!

Works great (i’m posting via tethering now)

iPhone development: Stage 1: Familiarise self with Objective C

andy — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:07:15 +0000

Thanks apple for this primer:

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/gettingstarted/docs/objectivecprimer.action;jsessionid=EBE50C6510FD05380290B42E0C4E8EC6.worker10

I’ll add comments as i get through this primer.

iCode iPhone Programming Blog

andy — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:48:13 +0000

http://icodeblog.com/

Neat!

Omnifocus – getting more beautiful by the day

andy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:33:43 +0000

I have many notes on my use of OmniFocus on mac and iPhone to GTD but none quite ready to post. But, if you your’re not Getting Things Done or are on a mac and are not using OmniFocus, perhaps you should! It’s lovely!

er, no!

andy — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:34:14 +0000

This post suggests an alternative to MobileMe! Er, we kinda want contact and calendar syncing too please! Moving on…

congratulations iPhone App Store

andy — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:28:08 +0000

What an incredible commercial success! Drop a shopping cart into thousands of chic-geek professionals’ pockets and watch them get bored, go browsing and buy stuff they’ll rarely use! Works for me! I love spending money on games and apps i’ll never get round to using in anger. It all seems so polite, with prices ranging from £0.59 to £5.99 (well, that’s the range i’ve been willing to stretch to so far). I just can’t feel offended with such low prices, even if the app isn’t quite what i need, er, ever!

Well done Apple! A job exceptionally well done.