Entries Categorized as 'Geekery'

iPhone Apps

Date July 13, 2008

Well, about three months ago, I applied for the Apple iPhone Developer Program so I could build a few apps for my iPhone.  Last Friday, I was finally approved.  I’m not sure why it took so long for Apple to open things up, but I’m glad they finally released the finished SDK and let everyone [...]

Ok, so I lied - Back to Mac & WinXP

Date June 17, 2008

Yesterday, I posted about how I was giving up OS X after 3 months of use.  Well, after 24 hours of use, I remembered why I tried to switch to mac to start with…activation.  I’m one of those people that likes to reformat a machine when it’s getting too much crud - after all, as [...]

Thoughts on iPhone 2.0

Date June 15, 2008

I’ve been thinking about whether it will be worth it to pick up an iPhone 2.0 on July 11th.  I’ve had the original iPhone for a while now (I picked it up when they discontinued the 4GB version) and I have mixed feelings about it.  iPhone 1.0 is certainly the best PDA type phone I’ve [...]

First Thoughts on iPhone SDK

Date April 6, 2008

I just spent a few hours working on a small iPhone app using the Beta 2 iPhone SDK and thought I would share my my initial thoughts. Keep in mind that this is the first time I’ve tried programming for OS X period and I spend 99% of my time programming in C# with Microsoft’s [...]

It’s Not the Platform, It’s the Data

Date March 27, 2008

I don’t normally blog about random things I see on the internet, but I ran across an article by John C. Dvorak today (The iPhone Is No Desktop) that really annoyed me enough that I have to do this. John is basically saying that it’s ridiculous that people are using the iPhone as a desktop [...]