Given the difficulties AT&T’s network had coping with the traffic generated by the iPhone, I wonder if it will be able to keep up with the iPad (even after they announced the revamping of their infrastructure)? After all, Google Maps is going to have to draw a lot more tiles to show your copilot the directions as you drive along. Image sizes will be bigger, and so too will App sizes. Anyone know what size the icons are on the iPad?
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Will the iPad crush AT&T’s network?
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010iTablet iPhone iThingy roundup
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010Aside from the usual random speculation about Steve Jobs worldchanging release in a few hours time, there have been a few interesting articles recently, namely
- AT&T may no longer be the exclusive iPhone carrier in the US
- Amazon changing their royalty structure to encourage vendors to price their books at US$9.99, either scared of the new device’s market, or colluding with Apple to provide content for it?
- Google releasing Google voice for the iPhone via a web page rather than as an App Apple would have to approve
- The question of which input method the device will use (will Apple extend the iPhones Voice Control crack the voice recognition problem?), and of course
- the invite to the launch event itself (colour e-ink anyone?)
- 20 things about the hyped iPhone/iTablet/iSlate
- Doonesbury are devoting a week of strips to the launch
- Will this have anything to do with Apple hiring the Yale head of business school to start the Apple University
- Or AMD’s refresh of its low cost processors
- Apple’s stock price currently at US$215.59, up from around US$83 a year ago. Soon to come crashing down after the hype singularity of the launch as analysts realise that even the second coming of the Jesus phone can’t live up to everyone’s expectations. (Hint – follow the old Apple employee’s maxim of ’sell before the keynote’)
I also wonder what the cool feature will be… Mesh networking? Biofeedback? Merging with other nearby devices to form a larger device? Inbuilt projector?
It will also be interesting to see if Apple launches any updates to their 17 inch MacBook Pro as they would probably always have done if they were attending MacWorld this year. Also, I predict an iPhone software update, an iTunes update and a Mac OS X update.
Now, lets sit back and see how wrong we all are…
Debugging Apache2
Thursday, January 15th, 2009If you need to kick off Apache2 in debug mode (so you could for example try to work out why mod_perl is not doing its thing to let you run awstats), you may find this blog entry by Mark Liyanage quite useful.
Free Mac First Person Shooters
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009Westnet ripoff
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008So, I churned to TPG on 1st December, the actual connection was swapped sometime around noon.
Westnet charged me a full December usage. And you need to notify them to close the account (you’d think the fact you can’t connect to it would be sufficient…) Not that they’d answered any of my other e-mails anyway.
I guess the lesson is, make sure your cutover day is the last day of the month? Or does that just mean the new ISP charges you a full month for starting before the 1st of the next month?
Apple pulls “fast” iPhone ad
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008Apple’s iPhone ad touting how fast the iPhone is has been pulled from distribution apparently after a warning from the UK Advertising Standards Authority. It showed an iPhone completing browsing tasks in 29 seconds that took UK’s PC Pro magazine 2 minutes and 21 seconds to replicate.
I note also that most Apple iPhone demos I’ve seen seem to have edited out the need to log into your account on the App store before purchasing anything.
dscacheutil is command of the day
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Having recently changed ISP, my command of the day is
dscacheutil -flushcache
which flushes your machine’s DNS cache to allow you to access your named sites via their new IP addresses once you’ve changed them in the DNS thus making the locally cached IP addresses stale.
Airport commandline utility
Thursday, October 16th, 2008If you need to connect to an airport wireless network from the commandline you could check out the little known airport command line utility.
It’s hidden at
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport
You can use –help for help and -I for signal strength and ID info
Peekaboo – More airport code brokenness
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
iPhone dropped calls – it’s not you, it’s everyone
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Roughlydrafted reports that iPhone dropped calls are due to firmware versions prior to 2.0.2 requiring too much transmit power from the cell. So it isn’t necessarily fixed when you upgrade your phone, the situation improves as everyone else on the cell upgrades as well!
For the technically inclined a commenter linked to this blog on “Power control in UMTS”
