10 August 2007 – 12:22 pm
Create a mobile compatible, image editing tool. Kind of analogous to Photoshop or The GIMP – but for a small screen. Constraints Network Given the limitations (currently) of writing a native iPhone application, the application would be slower/less capable than if it could run natively on the hardware. The largest problem would be the speed [...]
We’re sitting in the sun at the moment out the front of the Wilkinson building, which for the second time this week has no power. Rob’s lecture was very rudely plunged into darkness – after the lights flickering for a while. That was probably a sign of the impending power-failure! Beth suggests the uni install [...]
Somewhat remarkably, the normal WordPress interface mostly works through Opera Mini on my Nokia 6234! Of course, typing this using predictive text on the keypad isn’t all that quick, if i wasn’t on a capped data-plan this would cost as much as an iPhone , the browsing speed on 3g is glacial and the screen [...]
Some of you may have come across Opera Mini before. It’s a free web-browser that will run on any cellphone that has Java support (if you can play mobile games, you probably have Java) which is good news for my trusty Nokia 6234. Although it won’t run on the iPhone. Instead of directly requesting pages [...]
That was a little quicker than I expected, in fact, it’s been online since the 28th of July… It’s nothing more than a simple “Hello World!” application, but since they have already reverse engineered the iPhone’s API someone can make an nice app – and hope Apple doesn’t sue them for doing so
The Fauxto Interface Original photo: The Nightingale at Rotorua The photo after being modified by Fauxto As mentioned in an earlier post, while doing research into the viability of my project I’ve come across a service called Fauxto which implements a basic Photoshop like image editor. Fauxto is made using a Flash 9 based interface [...]
My original idea of making a Web 2.0 image editor (Photoshop-esque) turns out to not be terribly original. In 10 minutes of Google searching I found Pixer and Pixenate which both do server-side image editing. So far though there are no mobile oriented apps but I’m sure there are some available online if I keep [...]
Now for a nice random video of an iPhone being blended (via YouTube)
I’ve already posted the pros of the iPhone (as I very quickly perceived them in relation to our project). But I have the feeling that this post may well end up being rather long as I update it over time to outline things the iPhone can’t do. To get going: You can’t install software natively [...]
For all the hype about the iPhone and it’s good and innovative features, it also has a bunch of features which are really pretty crap. First up though, some of the cool features of the iPhone that I like: Built in 802.11B/G wi-fi Allows data to be pulled over a WLAN instead of over the [...]