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Azaleas

Matt Thomas — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:48:56 +0000

A very rough first attempt at an iPhone panorama, but I wanted to capture the insane number of azaleas around here before I forgot.

No denying it’s spring

Matt Thomas — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:04:28 +0000

Another Friendly Speed Test

Matt Thomas — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:10:46 +0000

I’ve been looking forward to doing this for a while. Today, I got an iPhone on the Verizon network. Obviously all comparisons between Verizon and AT&T depend entirely upon where you live. And there are some advantages to AT&T’s 3G network. But if you live in the majority of the country where AT&T has no 3G service at all, this is what the comparison looks like. Needless to say, I’ll be canceling my AT&T account as soon as everyone’s aware of my new number.

A Flash Fan’s Review of Flash for Android

Matt Thomas — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:36:28 +0000

Avram Piltch reviews Flash 10.1 for Android:

During these Flash lockups, it was nearly impossible to scroll around the screen and most taps were ignored or followed many seconds later. The only way I found to get your phone back to normal when it’s having a Flash meltdown like this is to hit the back button or the home button to get out of the program and even then the phone takes a second to become responsive again.

Can’t imagine why Apple doesn’t want this on the iPhone.

The Little Things

Matt Thomas — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:36:58 +0000

Once design has jumped from what you do for fun to what you do to keep yourself fed and housed, all the little ways in which we can improve life become annoyingly clear. My obsessive tendencies compel me to keep iPhone cables neatly wrapped and tucked away in drawers, which is massively inconvenient for actually ever connecting it to my computer. But I couldn’t stand the clutter of a loose cable dangling on my desk when it wasn’t in use. This kind of thing usually leads me to say “someone should really make this product,” at which point I usually find out that someone already has.

This particular product is a RadTech ProCable Shortz, one of a line of tiny iPhone & iPod cables that are short, strong, and look like they could’ve (and should’ve) come with the iPhone itself. The 20cm length is exactly enough slack to let me stow my phone on the iMac’s foot, so it doesn’t get whipped around during one of the 50 or so times a day I readjust the position or angle of the computer. It’s exactly as much as you need, and nothing more. Sweet words to a graphic designer.

WordPress for iPhone 1.21

Matt Thomas — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:44:08 +0000

Update: Because this got mistakenly posted to Twitter when I moved my blog over to WordPress.com, I should mention that this is an old post, and WordPress for iPhone 2.1 is the most recent version available. :)

Original: After a slight hiccup with 1.2, I’m proud to point you toward WordPress for iPhone 1.21, a pretty substantial update to our mobile app. I wont run down all the features here, but theres lots of new stuff and we’ve already started planning the next version. Download and enjoy! (Composing a post — like I’m doing now — is about a hundred times easier with the landscape keyboard!)

iPhone OS 3.0

Matt Thomas — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:16:45 +0000

As anyone interested probably knows by now, Apple gave a preview of the new iPhone OS and SDK today, addressing quite a few of the biggest omissions in current iPhone software. From Apple’s annoucement:

With a rich set of over 1,000 new APIs, iPhone SDK for iPhone OS 3.0 beta provides you with an amazing range of technologies to enhance the functionality of your iPhone and iPod touch applications. New APIs also provide support for applications to communicate with hardware accessories attached to iPhone or iPod touch.

The nice part about this, for me, is that I just copied and pasted that quote from Apple’s web site into this post, which I composed using WordPress for iPhone. The future’s gonna be great.