Quick Thought on No Flash on iPhone
Thursday, March 6th, 2008So the iPhone is powerful enough to run Spore & Super Monkey Ball but not powerful enough to run Flash or Flex applications? Seems odd to me.
So the iPhone is powerful enough to run Spore & Super Monkey Ball but not powerful enough to run Flash or Flex applications? Seems odd to me.
You gotta love the Mac rumor mill! Gear Live is reporting that Flash on the iPhone is just around the corner and will be available along side Apple’s release of the iPhone SDK near the end of this month. I can’t wait to start hacking some cool Flex apps if and when the Flash Player is made available on the iPhone.
So I just became a full-time Mac user! I have two Apples at home and one at work. I still have a PC, but it gets turned on less than once a month. Even though I have sooooo been drinking Steve Job’s Kool-aid, Laurie McGuinness’ Mac PC Spoofs are really funny. Check them out for a quick laugh!
Paparazzi! is a new tool I’ve added to my MacBook Pro that makes it super easy to make complete screenshots of web pages. Simply drop an url onto the Paparazzi window and get a PNG back. It is important to note that the resulting screenshot is the entire webpage and not only the part of the page that would be viewable within a browser window.
Since receiving my MacBook Pro a few months ago, I’ve been looking for a capable and free archive/unarchive program. The Unarchiver is a great freeware application that handles most common compression formats like zip, gz, rar, 7z and many others. It has great Finder integration which makes it extremely easy to extract files. I would highly recommend this great piece of software as a replacement for the out-of-the-box OSX compression tools.
Apple’s Boot Camp has just been updated to version 1.1. This release offers the following killer features:
Apple is recalling and exchanging batteries in many of the Mac Book Pro’s that were sold between February and May. To find out if your battery is on the list (like mine was) you can visit Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Pro Battery Exchange Program page.
If you’ve bootcamped your new Intel MacBookPro and would like to get the fn keys to work, you should give the Input Remapper a try. Although still in alpa, it does a pretty fine job of enabling those very important laptop keys.
Just in time for my new Mac Book Pro, idiosyncrasies.org has a nice list of applications that will help me Switch from Windows XP to Mac OSX with ease! Add those applications with Parallels and BootCamp, and now there has never been a better time to switch!
If two methods weren’t enough, here is another way to get XP on your Mac. The killer feature with this technique is that both XP and OSX can run at the same time and without virtualization!
