Category Archives: Personal

Pickleview 1.0

I’m proud to announce that we’ve just crossed this significant milestone. After weeks of crunching bugs and rolling out update after update, Pickleview is officially a 1.0 release.
What started as a simple itch to scratch has turned into a full-fledged iPhone application, used by true honest-to-goodness people. Really!
The feedback has been nothing short of spectacular. […]

Happiness is…

A quick screenshot from Pickleview’s Mint. If only the world agreed.

Make your Mint iPhone friendly

So, Mint. It works beautifully on iPhone, but having two columns on a 320px wide screen leaves much to be desired. Mint’s preferences has an option to “Enable single-column mode”, but I’d like to keep Mint’s great multi-column view on my desktop Mac. Wouldn’t it be great to have Mint display full multi-columns on browsers, […]

Pickleview

I want to talk a little bit about a side project that’s gleefully taken up most of my free time.
Over the weekend I attended iPhoneDevCamp, a gathering of web geeks from around the globe with one purpose: to create applications for iPhone.
I went into the event with little-to-no expectation of anything happening. It being my […]

A game of Chicken

Shamelessly stolen from iSee:
[Dramatic reenactment]
Adobe: So, you want the flash player on your new phone, eh?
Steve: Yep.
Adobe: OK, that’ll be 5% of retail sales.
Steve: Ah, no.
Adobe: OK, 2.5%, bottom line.
Steve: Look, we can release this device without the Flash player at all.
Adobe: No way, we rule dynamic content on the web–if you want to give […]

Easy punctuation with iPhone

Ok, this is too awesome not to share. You know the annoying way you have to tab into the punctuation layout to type a period? This required no less than three keystrokes (Tab into layout, hit “.”, Tab out (or hit space)).
Save those keystrokes! Just hold down the “.?123″ button, and slide your finger over […]

Fixing a small iPhone annoyance…

After experiencing and thoroughly enjoying the iPhone for the weekend, I’ve found that one of my biggest gripes is that there’s no “Open in New Tab” command, which makes all the sense in the world since there is no right click anywhere in the OS.
Still, one of my favorite hobbies is to peruse Daring Fireball […]

My iPhone Adventure

The first thing I should let you know is that I am posting this from my brand new iPhone.
The second thing I should let you know is that I would do it all over again.
The level of enthusiasm in that line last night was absolutely off the charts. It completely invalidates the notion that Apple […]