Zac White
Location, Location, Location
A lot has been written about why Apple is keeping locations in a file called ‘consolidated.db’, so I’ll try and keep it brief. My theory: Apple is constantly doing cell triangulation in the background. These locations are stored in ‘consolidated.db’ along with a timestamp. They are used for the significant location change API. I say [...]
WWDC Predictions
It’s a little last minute, but here are my 100% correct predictions. iPhone HD Well, duh. iChat Haven’t heard much about this, but Apple isn’t going to announce a new product with a new feature (front-facing camera) and not come out with software that takes advantage of it. If you think they’ll just have a [...]
What if Adobe generated code?
Wil Shipley had an idea for Adobe: If Adobe were smart, they’d modify their Flash ▶ iPhone code to just output Obj-C source code. Not much Apple could do.” I’m sure Adobe is smart. And that’s why they aren’t getting into a battle they can’t possibly win. Let’s explore a what-if scenario of Adobe going [...]
On iBooks
I have been waiting to buy an eBook reader in anticipation of the iPad, so one of the most interesting apps to me is iBooks. My predictions for iBooks: There will be an iPhone version. You will be able to drop in your own books.
Think of the children!
A couple of people have complained that a more consumer electronics based computing platform would be murder to the subculture that they belong to. From al3x.net: The thing that bothers me most about the iPad is this: if I had an iPad rather than a real computer as a kid, I’d never be a programmer [...]
Getting User Data From a Lite to a Paid App
It’s a common problem now on the App Store. User buys Lite version. User likes lite version. User buys the paid version and loses all of her/his data. Not a very good experience. How can we fix this? UIPasteboard of course! Apple introduced an excellent and oft overlooked addition to the iPhone SDK when it [...]
Site Downtime
My sites are going down for a couple days starting tonight. positronsoftware.com and zacwhite.com are being moved to a different host. Thanks for your patience.
New Site!!
http://thatswh.at/ It’s juvenile and hilarious. My two favorite things. It looks at every tweet on Twitter and finds tweets that tell other people “That’s what she said.” It then finds the tweet that was in response to and puts it on a list. This produces some of the following gems: “my hands smell like meat” [...]
Free Software!!!
I made a little app for my personal use the other day and thought I would share it. It basically keeps a window that is globally accessible through a keyboard command (cmd+shift+m by default). It lets you jot down any notes and use them in any other app. Simi-useful but more importantly…free! Download Memo 1.0
Exciting News
So I’ve put my pet project, Searcher, on Cydia (under Utilities). Searcher is an easy way to search your entire iPhone. SMS, Contacts, Notes, Events, Safari Bookmarks and Safari History are a single tap away. Check out the website for Positron Software to find out more. I will have some more news on OpenClip in [...]