PCP Remote is a great little application for initiating Podcast Producer workflows from your iPhone. In the current iteration you can also record audio tracks from the iPhone and use them in workflows as well. Oh, and it can connect to multiple Podcast Producer servers to kick off workflows. Since one workflow can summon another or write data into Final Cut Server, this gives a lot of options for different ways to integrate Podcast Producer and automate a number of items from your iPhone. Great stuff and I for one am really looking forward to the next version as soon as the App Store approves it!
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Prepping for Ski/Snowboard Season?
If you’re addicted to your mobile device, be it an iPod touch or an iPhone, and you’re heading out to the slopes for some fun in the cold sun then consider a few little toys that might help facilitate that cold weather use of your technology. The first is the Burton Audex jacket. I have one of these with the soft switch tech built into the arms and it works exactly as advertised. The only thing I don’t like about it is that I need to keep an older iPod around for the switching to work. But what if you crave using the touch devices without taking off your gloves.…
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Advanced iPhone Development
While it’s not one of my books, my publisher does have a new book coming out right now called iPhone Advanced Projects, which I’ve been perusing and must say that I am pretty darn impressed with. In the publishers words: iPhone Advanced Projects, the third book in our project series, takes on the more advanced aspects of iPhone development. The first generation of iPhone applications has hit the App Store, and now it’s time to optimize performance, streamline the user interface, and make every successful iPhone app that much more sophisticated. Paired with Apress’s bestselling Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK, you’ll have everything you need to create…
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Testing Speed
www.speedtest.net is a nice site that allows you to test the speed of your Internet connection for free. They also have a free companion iPhone app that allows you to test the speed of an Internet connection without actually opening up your laptop.
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Tether Thy iPhone
iPhone Firmware 3.1 is great, unless you want to tether, which the tethering page at Apple will tell ya’ is not supported in the US (it’s not fine print but it’s smallish). The instructions at http://help.benm.at/help.php can get you able to tether in Firmware 3.0 (where it’s also not officially supported) and the video link on the site is also able to downgrade the firmware from 3.1 to 3.0 as you can see here: http://www.benm.at/tutorials/howto-iphone-3g-firmware-3-1-downgrade-os-x
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Stupid Projections – Android vs. iPhone
In 2048 Microsoft will go belly up. Really? How could I make that kind of prediction? I CAN’T!!! Who knows what will happen in all those years? Cell phone technology: 3 years ago, if someone had told you that the Apple iPhone would be such a dominant force in the market, what would you have said? Certainly it’s cool, but you’d of called them a fanboy – and if you hadn’t then you should have. Every single Linux conference I’ve ever been to, there is always a speaker who is extolling the virtues of Linux as an enterprise desktop and talking about how it will replace Windows as the dominant…
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Keynote & iPhone
For those that have not yet used it, the App Store has a little application called Keynote Remote, which can be used to control a slide deck that you’re going through. Once you’ve installed the application on your iPhone simply open it and click on the New Keynote Link… dialog (also in the Settings pane of the app on the iPhone). You’ll see a Passcode. Open Keynote, from the Keynote menu, click Properties, then click on the Remote icon in the Keynote Preferences toolbar. Then click on the check box to Enable iPhone and iPod touch Remotes, click on the remote you will be pairing to your Keynote installation and…
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Making MacWorld Cover Art
Cover creation from Peter Belanger on Vimeo. -Thanks to Max for forwarding this on.
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RSA Makes a Case for iPhone in the Enterprise
Tired of carrying around that RSA SecurID token thingie from 1994, all beige and chewed on routinely by kids and dogs alike? RSA now has an iPhone app for that. Using the SecurID token you can have the exact same functionality using the iPhone that you would otherwise have to use a keychain dongle for. If you’re like me and have been trying to reduce the items you carry on your person for a long time this is a fantastic new option. And in a way, RSA is just helping to make a case for using an iPhone in highly secured Enterprise environments (not that they’re not helping to make…
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iPhone and GroupWise
There is no built-in support for GroupWise on the iPhone. Apple supports a number of other services, but GroupWise has not been high on the priority list and honestly, I don’t know that it would be high on mine either… Having said that, it did pop up on my radar and I was able to find a couple of ways to achieve a good sync. The first is Entourage. You can use Entourage as a conduit to then grab information and sync it with GroupWise. This has a hopefully obvious disadvantage, which is that it does not synchronize wirelessly – you have to cradle sync to get the data onto…