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iPhone 4 – This changes everything. Again.

Oscar — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:14:55 +0000

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Spotify Mobile and Spotify Premium

Oscar — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:00:32 +0000

Spotify Mobile has been out for roughly two weeks now, it’s still in the top ten of the most downloaded free apps in the Swedish app store – currently at number four to be precise. The app has been rated as many times as 1806 at the time of this writing. Quite remarkable.

Spotify Mobile really hit the media (and social sphere) when the story was published. I don’t think there’s a single medium where the story haven’t been posted/dugg/liked/whatever. It spread like a bushfire in a summer breeze throughout Twitter and Digg – they really got everyone excited. Including me.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to build up some “but”-action here; I love Spotify, and I love the app. I have to say though, that what’s really interesting in all of this is to monitor search patterns on both mobile and premium. Premium being Spotify’s (paid) member service which offers no ads, higher sound quality, unlimited travel access, and exclusive access to pre-releases. So why is this interesting? For one, Premium is of course required in order for you to use Spotify Mobile. The second reason is a killer; search volume index for Spotify Premium is actually greater than the volume for Spotify Mobile:

Not only was it greater during the actual release (when the bushfire spread); it spiked higher, it lasted longer, and it has maintained on a higher level. Of course, as the disclaimer indicates “several approximations are used when computing these results”. Still a good indication of what’s happening.

Is Spotify finally making (decent) money?

(Spotify Mobile picture from Press/Images on Spotify.com)

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Some updates to the blog

Oscar — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:34:30 +0000

It’s been a while since Wordpress 2.8 aka. “Baker” was released. Even though I think “Coltrane” was a more fundamental change to the usability and backend of Wordpress, Baker proved to be the perfect excuse to complete some other improvements that have been on my to-do list for ages.

To start things up I’ve implemented disqus for handling comments. It’s an excellent framework that allows users to login using e.g. their Twitter or Facebook identities. As you might recall, I did some ‘ugly hacks’ to enable a Facebook Connect and Twitter Connect earlier. Disqus also has a neat feature called social media reactions which monitors conversions around your posts, so no need to use the backtype plugin or similar to bring the conversation back. I’d also like to reserve some extra kudos to the DISQUS-team, especially Giannii – they’re absolutely fantastic at getting back to you if you have a problem and seem to monitor conversations regarding disqus in every space.

I’ve also finally got around to writing somewhat decent about me and follow me pages as well as mashed up my social presence to a lifestream page by using the excellent wp-lifestream plugin. Following a tip from Andreas Karman (Swedish post), I cleaned up the archives a bit using smart archives reloaded.

And as a bonus to all iPhone users, you now have an iPhone optimized site if you visit this blog in Safari on your iPhone, compliments to wptouch. Rumours also has it that the feed wasn’t working earlier, that’s now solved.

Puh. Maybe it’s finally time to create some content? It’s just that Wordpress is to fun to mess around with.

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I’m the best Flight Control Captain in Dublin!

Oscar — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:26:06 +0000

Many thanks to the Greek for his continued support despite my Flight Control addiction.

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Skype for iPhone – finally here!

Oscar — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:36:26 +0000

by SkypeConversations

Finally released and available in the app store! Unfortunately it keeps crashing whenever I try to make a call, and according to the comments in the official blog post, I’m quite sad to say I don’t seem to be the only one having this problem. Here’s the official press release.

Chat seem to work fine though. Make sure to provide Skype with your feedback!

***

Found a quite good review over at PC World, make sure to read up!

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iPhone Safari doesn’t remember my passwords!

Oscar — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:09:45 +0000

I’ve been annoyed for weeks that my iPhone doesn’t remember my passwords in Safari. I’m not really a frequent flyer of browsing on the iPhone, but I’d like to consider myself a fairly heavy-user of certain applications, e.g. Google Reader. What’s annoyed me is the fact that my iPhone refused to save my password when signing in with my Google account – more specifically, when signing into Reader as I tend to use it quite a lot (not during those ‘great’ meetings, I promise!).

As my iPhone is a 2G (I know) I spent an hour or so yesterday Googling away to find a solution. I finally found it through Rovivor.com, in an old blog post from 04/2008, which makes it even more pathetic to still be on a 2G!

Here’s the ‘tutorial’, I’ve modified it a bit for 2.0* as the previous one was for 1.X, using installer etc. MobileFinder is now available through Cydia.

Here is a 8 step easy to follow solution for your iPhone Safari to save your passwords (remember your login info) as it should be:

1. First, go to Cydia on your iPhone, search for “MobileFinder” and install it.

2. When these are OK, start Mobile Finder, click on the “~” button from upper left.

3. You will see “Library” folder there, click twice and open it.

4. There you will see “Cookies” folder, click once, and when it is selected, click “Modify” button from the center of the bottom menu.

5. You will see a screen LIKE THIS (not exactly this one, this is just another screen shot from Mobile Finder):

Here you should click on all “Read, Write, Exec” buttons until all 9 be blue.

6. Click “Done” and return back the previous screen. Now click on Cookies again to see inside of the folder.

7. In Cookies folder, modify all the files (normally there should be only one named “Cookies.plist”) like step 6, however only making all “Read, Write” blue. It means that there will be 6 blues, not “Exec” buttons.

8. Click “Done” and after restarting Safari, it is now remembering your passwords.

From Rovivor.com. I realize that 99.9% of the population might have solved this already, or that it’s probably working by default on 3G, but whatever – sharing the love anyway!

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Football and Metal Gear Solid for iPhone

Oscar — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:29:36 +0000

It’s another Sunday evening in the mansion, we just saw a crap movie and now it’s on to streaming Ecuador – Brazil via Bet365 to see how Brazil looks these days. They currently do not stand a chance, blame it on the high altitude again perhaps? We’ll see, they’ll probably get into their groove soon.

Anyway, as I was browsing through the app store today, I checked “what’s hot” – something I normally don’t do. To my surprise I noticed that Metal Gear Solid is out for the iPhone. For 4 euro, I’m most certainly going to give it a try and make sure to kick back something that might resemble a review later.

In the meantime, check out the review of the app/game over at Gizmodo.

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iPhone 3.0, summer 2009

Oscar — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:52:34 +0000

Maybe not a surprise because of the buzz surrounding the Keynote, but I still think the amount of changes and improvements to the next generation operating system for the iPhone and iPod touch came as a bit of a surprise. The numbers weren’t that bad either.

Apple’s Marketing Manager for iPhone and iPod, Greg Joswiak kicked off the event by presenting some very impressive snapshot numbers. How about:

There have been 17 million iPhone and 13 million iPod touches sold in the last two years
There are over 30 million devices running the iPhone OS
There are about 50,000 registered application developers, 60 percent of these have never developed for any mobile platform before
The App Store has over 25,000 apps available
The number of downloads from the App Store to date? 800 million (!)

Scott Forstall, Senior VP of iPhone Software Engineering continued to detail some of the features and the over 1,000 new APIs that will become available to developers. Developers can now easily sell additional content directly from within an app, which is likely to be a huge success. If you’re a game developer, users can now purchase additional levels from within your app. Apple will handle all the logistic and take a 30 percent piece of the pie. Not bad. Free apps will however remain free, and will not be able to offer this functionality. Check out some of the other features offered by the new SDK.

A great day for Apple, yet again.

Read what other people write about iPhone 3.0 and the Keynote. Also useful: “Gizmodo’s ‘Everything you need to know about the iPhone 3.0 OS“

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Sorry Alex, TouchGrind record is mine!

Oscar — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:56:01 +0000

Respectfully mine mister.

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Aftonbladet går rätt väg

Oscar — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:37:36 +0000

Läste idag att Aftonbladet har byter för telefoni. Ett jätteavtal över 2 år med TeliaSonera innebär att alla anställda får en iPhone, hela Aftonbladet går således över till 3G kommunikation. Så småningom är det tänkt att samtlig fast telefoni ska kastas ut till förmån för iPhonen. Vackert!

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iPhone 2.1 Firmware

Oscar — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:27:38 +0000

Big day yesterday. I finally got around to updating my iPhone to run the 2.1 Firmware. It was super easy to Jailbreak it with QuickPwn thanks to this excellent tutorial from the guys at iCarified. I was sincerely worried about loosing a lot of data such as contacts and text-threads, but it all turned out great. The only thing that I didn’t succeed in thinking about was the music, as I choose to restore the iPhone before updating, everything disappeared. But this turned out to be a good thing too as I can finally get around to updating and scraping out old songs. There’s always a positive twist to it! I also installed a couple of nifty tools after updating, I’d really like to recommend NemusSync which syncs your Google Calendar with your iCal iPhone calendar.

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Download and install iPhone 2.0 Update, right now!

Oscar — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:45:22 +0000

Wow! So the iPhone 2.0 Firmware has already been leaked. Today both Macrumours.com and Gizmodo.com are reporting on how to download and install the software. Reports also say that this update does not work for all the iPod Touch users out there, sorry. For all the Swedes, 99.se/iPhone did a thread about this just recently as well.

Interesting reading. A couple of people have already updated with success, but I’d say that waiting a couple of days is probably smart in order to see what the exact effects are in terms of Jailbreaking etc. Most importantly, don’t forget to backup!

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iPhone 2.0 for $199? Don’t think so

Oscar — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:32:58 +0000

So it’s finally been revealed what the real price of the iPhone 2.0 will be in Sweden. It seems that with the terms that Telia will be offering (the pricey option, but anyway) the total price will land over 2000 euros. Well done. Related posts:Download and install iPhone 2.0 Update, right now! Wow! So the iPhone [...] Related posts:

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Follow up: Steve Jobs WWDC 08 Keynote (iPhone 2.0) in 60 seconds

Oscar — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:07:43 +0000

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Oscar — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:10:38 +0000

You can follow it, or rather see the results as this came up pretty late over here. It’s as usual I guess, some stuff is pretty impressive, but it’s mainly design and graphics. Some functional upcoming features looks nice as well.

Functional highlights include:

11:07AM PT – “It’s super easy to download these docs and look at them on your iPhone. We’ve also added bulk delete and move, it’s rather handy. And the ability to save images you might get in an email, tap on them and save them to your library. The calc has a scientific mode… we’ve added parental controls. Teenagers might not like this, but that’s the way it has to be.” All the stuff we saw a couple months back.

“Isn’t that fantastic? This is going to be great. In addition… we’ve got a few new features. The first one: contact search. Type in a few chars, instantly find who you’re looking for. Second? Full iWork document support — Pages, Numbers, and of course, Keynote. Great way to look at your iWork docs on the go. And we’ve completed MS Office support: Word, Excel, and now PowerPoint, too.” (From Engadget.com)

The much wanted MobileMe has been presented as well, it seems Apple has finally realized the importance of Cloud Computing. 3G is out in the open! Numbers on how the performance compares to EDGE is presented. Priceguess and report from and for Sweden (AB).

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