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Ping! Instant Messenger

gumbald — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:03:43 +0000

http://thenextweb.com/2009/09/29/ping-instant-messenger-exclusively-iphone-users/

Seems to work and all that – but does the developer have any kind of presence other than the entry in the App Store?! It seems he does: http://www.pingmessaging.com and @garywkfung

Timestamps seem to be right on the main screen but not inside the conversation. Also, if I buy a new phone, how to I change the username over to it? The one I’ve chosen now seems locked in!

Aha! It does work?

gumbald — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:27:41 +0000

WordPress for iPhone failed me last night. So I couldn’t describe the general frivolity and pandemonium at the pub. I can now describe my breakfast though, it’s lovely. Coco Pops anyone? Not just normal, the Coco Rocks variety.

Tree-cam

gumbald — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:45:29 +0000

I give to you… tree-cam. Watch the leafy wonder develop and gradually cover my car in a sticky sap-like substance. Gripping.

Left: 27th April, right: 8th May.

Scrobbling on the move!

gumbald — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:02:32 +0000

Now that I’ve got myself a Monster iSonitalk (review to come when I’ve tested it properly), I can walk and talk or listen to music, safe in the knowledge that anything I play gets recorded. Which is all that matters really.

Just a shame it’s raining really, spoils the walking pleasure…

Disclaimer: I’m not on the move at the moment, but sat at my desk. I might move later.

Icon-tastic!

gumbald — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:35:43 +0000

For those of you wanting to bookmark me on your iPhone or Touch, there’s now an icon to remember me by…

BootNeuter

gumbald — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:29:00 +0000

iPhone seemed to be dropping my signal every now and then, so I took the opportunity to BootNeuter the BL back to 4.6 after I’d used ZiPhone to unlock it. Not sure if the signal dropping was me imagining things, we’ll see how it goes with the changes made. I used the settings in the screenshot, you can find descriptions at their site here.

Should your iPhone need returning, it’s possible that they could check the bootloader for evidence of being altered, newer phones containing 4.6… ZiPhone downgrades it to 3.9, whereas Pwnage or WinPwn don’t. You might only need to upgrade it therefore if you’ve used ZiPhone.

When BootNeuter’s doing its business, don’t interrupt it obviously! I took the precaution of tapping the screen every so often so that it didn’t go onto standby and lock itself.

Find another experience here. I seem to be getting a few hits from this, please leave a comment to let me know how you got on with it!

Windows: Firefox to iPhone bookmark sync?

gumbald — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:00:59 +0000

Seems tough to say the least. I already use Foxmarks on Windows, Mac and Linux, so that would be great if I could just extend my account to iPhone but it seems impossible at the moment… Then I tried a Firefox extension called SyncMarks, with the intention of exporting Firefox bookmarks to IE, which could in turn be synced to the iPhone. Don’t know whether it objected to Vista, but nothing showed up in my Favorites folder in IE.

So, I fired up IE and just imported bookmarks from Firefox using their wizard, cleaned up the ones I didn’t want and synced them from there. Lots of effort, but I’ve finally found a use for IE: storing bookmarks for my iPhone!

Let me know if you’ve got a better way to do it, please!

Full description of the IE import procedure found here: http://tredosoft.com/node/13

iPhone-tastic!

gumbald — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:19:15 +0000

One hundred and sixty-nine of the Queen’s pounds have got me one. Awesome stuff. New category added appropriately. If I find anything clever out, I’ll put it on here and the-iBlog, thankyou please.