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Might as well talk about the iPhone too

Since there’s not getting around the fact that all the talk in the coming days/weeks/months will be all about the iPhone, might as well put in my 2 cents on the matter based on what I’ve read in the internet.

Here’s a press release from Apple

iPhone will feature up to 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback or 24 hours of audio playback.* In addition, iPhone will feature up to 250 hours—more than 10 days—of standby time. Apple also announced that the entire top surface of iPhone, including its stunning 3.5-inch display, has been upgraded from plastic to optical-quality glass to achieve a superior level of scratch resistance and optical clarity.

If this is true, then damn, that’s awesome! The use of glass is a brilliant idea – I just hope it doesn’t make the phone fragile and less resilient to [unwanted] physical impact.

As amazing as these specs sound, there are also some other “feature concerns” the iPhone reportedly has. I’m not sure as to the accuracy of the data on the list below, as it was posted from a Windows Mobile-centric forum. But assuming they are true and not just an attempt at sour-graping, here are my thoughts on the matter.

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XSlimmer



I found this little gem of an app called “XSlimmer”. Here’s what it does according to their website.

Xslimmer determines which code your machine needs and removes the rest. This is achieved by removing the code inside the Universal Binaries that does not fit with your machine’s architecture, a code that never gets executed and just wastes your disk space. In addition, Xslimmer eliminates unwanted application localizations. Normally you only use 1 or 2 of the languages in any app. Keep those and let Xslimmer eliminate the rest, recovering your precious disk space.

It works as advertised as you’ll see in the example images I have below. Read More

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MovableType with MAMP (OS X)

NOTICE
CONTENTS OUTDATED

The MAMP+MT implementation process today differs drastically from the time this tutorial was first posted. I suggest checking the comments for a link of a possible updated tutorial from another user.

I tried installing MovableType locally in my laptops webserver (OSX), but ran into some snags. It turns out that there are non built-in perl modules required for it to access the MySQL database. What made it worse is that I was running MAMP and not the normal Apache webserver bundled with the OS.

I figured I’d write this for those users planning to do the same thing… and of course the ever persistent reason of “for my future reference.” Read More

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OSX default screenshot tweaks

The two Terminal commands that can change the image format and save location for OSX’s default screen capture are:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type image_format defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Full/Path/To/Folder

image_format can be the following as of of my knowledge

  • bmp (Windows Bitmap)
  • gif (Graphic Interchange Format)
  • jp2 (JPEG-2000)
  • jpg (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
  • pdf (Portable Document Format)
  • pict (PICT)
  • png (Portable Network Graphic)
  • psd (Photoshop)
  • sgi (Silicon Graphics Image file format)
  • tga (Targa image file format)
  • tiff (Taggged Image File Format)

To avoid logging out for the changes to take effect, you can enter the command.

killall SystemUIServer

There’s also a preference pane that can do this automatically, but it’s shareware.

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New wallpaper

For some reason, I thought I wanted a new look for my desktop. So I went ahead and did this:

I dunno about you guys, but I really like the simplicity of it, plus the general darkness of the wallpaper is better for the LCD’s lifespan. I put the dock to the right and made the background transparent… and finally set the application arrows to grey instead of black.