Comment by tk | November 2, 2007 | 12:34 pm

dream requests:

an improved version of iflashcard app.

I don’t think you didn’t write the app but I would love to see some of the features added to it that have been suggested on the google code wiki but no one seems to be developing it.

http://code.google.com/p/iflashcards/

also, palm os 3.0 emmulation to run some palm programs (but that is probably too hard to do)

Comment by spiritflare | November 2, 2007 | 12:37 pm

Some problem with Xlaunch.. i have 1.1.1 and installed Xlaunch. I decided I wanted my icons back to normal, so I chose reset. Now i see that it did restore my default icons. I uninstalled Xlaunch, but now Summerboard and the Installer.app are missing!! I don’t have ssh on my phone, so i can get installer.app back!! I can’t use Ibrickr because it doesn’t support 1.1.1 so i’m kind of stuck now.

Comment by mavrik | November 2, 2007 | 1:33 pm

Hey Erica. Great job with everything. Not sure if you hear this enough, but thanks for everything that you do. I have a 2 part application request/idea. First part is just making the ipod song files available in the alarm. I’d like to be able to use the iphone as a “clock radio”, especially for traveling. Right now, if you setup an alarm under the clock section it just gives you the option to choose a ringtone. I guess I could just make a full song into a ringtone but I wanted to know if it’s possible to make the alarm read your ipod/itunes library on the phone so I can wake up to different songs all the time.
The second part of my request is a little more complicated. I also stream my Sirius radio to my iPhone using uSirius and an Orb account. I’m not sure how familiar you are with it, but you just log into your account on orb.com in Safari and navigate to you preset channels. My question is - is there a way to generate a script to automatically launch the orb website and start playing the station of your choice on the iphone at a certain time (another form of an alarm) I’m not sure how much help I can be but if there’s anything I can do or if you have any questions just let me know. I’d love to help. Thanks Erica.

Comment by julian | November 2, 2007 | 2:06 pm

Thanks for your great work and taking the time to bring us all this apps …GREAT JOB

Thanks

May be you will surprise us with videonotes

thanks..

Comment by jbphill1968 | November 2, 2007 | 2:28 pm

Probably something I am not doing correctly but I am trying to use curl and/or wget to download some html pages for offline viewing in Books. I am going into terminal and doing the following command:

curl www.tuaw.com
or
wget www.tuaw.com

and I am always getting an error message of Host not found or Couldn’t resolve host.

Well here is the real reason why I am doing this…I am on Edge almost entirely and going to tuaw.com or engadget.com in safari over edge is absolutely painful when all I want to do is see what the articles are. Now I know what you are thinking and the answer is to do RSS but the issue is that with the Apple reader there is not enough history for especially engadget plus I would like to have a file that I can browse from Books when I am not online at all.

Can you help me with wget or curl or even better what is the possibility of creating a program that will download user specified web pages at scheduled intervals to go into the Books folder.

Thanks.

Comment by SeBsZ | November 3, 2007 | 5:07 am

WTF is this piece of shit called “Vista” - yay vista for the iphone. Showing a BSOD that hasn’t been in WIndows since ME. WHat a waste of time, both on my and Erica’s part. Utterly useless. I loved Erica before this, didn’t think you would do stuff like this. Yes it’s meant to be a joke.

Comment by dtzWill | November 3, 2007 | 3:24 pm

Hey, fantastic work.

I’m trying to start some development on the iphone, and for obvious reasons your headers documentation is rather useful. Perhaps I’m missing something, but where did you get those headers? Are they publicly available…?

My email is in my profile information, would very much appreciate a response.

Thanks for your time, and keep up the good work.

~Will Dietz

Comment by chunliah | November 3, 2007 | 5:57 pm

Hi, I was wondering if its possible… to use any of the ringtones or send the ringtones to the part on the iphone where you pick which ringtone to use for incoming SMS messages. The ones downloaded on ‘customize’ are very limited… thanks!

Comment by Kevin | November 3, 2007 | 6:01 pm

Wonderful site and great applications!

I was wondering if you would be willing to share the source code of either Pirates or Halloween - I’m trying to write a utility that accesses the camera and I have no idea how to do it.

Comment by Erica Sadun | November 3, 2007 | 10:15 pm

Will: I generated the headers with class-dump. Search around for a post from October. I know I wrote it up when I added the 1.1.1 headers.

Comment by xnaron | November 3, 2007 | 10:19 pm

Hi Erica,

Thanks for porting the unix utils. Any chance of getting v1.10.2 or higher of wget ported? I’ve got an app that needs some new features.

thanks,
Brendin

Comment by qazpan | November 4, 2007 | 12:05 am

Hey erica great job on the apps. Is it possible to get flash player for safari? Thanks.

Comment by Dash-2 | November 4, 2007 | 1:39 am

How is that “Costume” app coming along? (like pirate with themes)

Comment by dallasnights | November 4, 2007 | 6:28 am

Can you develop 2 new apps, one for Video recording and the other VOIP service via our Wifi, these would be killer apps, I do appreciate all your hard work!

Comment by Erica Sadun | November 4, 2007 | 7:27 am

I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for a Flash player right now. sorry!

Comment by Erica Sadun | November 4, 2007 | 7:29 am

The “Costume” app is temporarily shelved. I put out “Halloween” based on Pirate and it wasn’t a huge success.

I wrote a video recorder app a few months ago that was limited to about 1-2 frames per second. I couldn’t get past that roadblock so I just stopped development on that. It’s called “snap2vid” and is in Erica Utilities.

Comment by Henrik | November 4, 2007 | 3:42 pm

Ok Erica… I’ve got a big one here.

I guess this is either mission impossible or… something. But I’d like to be able to sync my google calendar with the calendar in my iPhone… without syncing through iSync or iTunes (win). I’d like it to work just like mail: fetch directly from the goole-calendar site.

I’d be willing to sponsor work like this, if this is something you are interested in.

And I know this is a ‘biggie’ so if you are not interested I understand completely.

Comment by billgrove | November 4, 2007 | 4:35 pm

HAH! Ignore the idiot above. The Vista utility was cute. I’m an avid Windows user, and thought it was hilarious. Obviously created by an avid Mac user.

Bill

Comment by Henrik | November 5, 2007 | 12:56 pm

No one should feel that offended that they need to call someone ‘idiot’. Thus I apologies to billgrove and anyone else that I insulted with my previous post.

I hope you can forgive me.

Comment by dtzWill | November 5, 2007 | 6:28 pm

Thank you Erica for your response. I noticed you created them with class-dump–but as far as I can tell that app isn’t available for Linux or even windows, which is all I have access to. Furthermore it seems the project site for class-dump is down (so any porting attempts would seem to be ended before they started). I tried a few decompilers and such, but none seemed to be especially effective for the purpose of retrieving the headers with such detail. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
~Will

Comment by jbphill1968 | November 5, 2007 | 7:21 pm

xnaron, Do you have wget working from the iPhone terminal? If so can you share how to use it.

Comment by Erica Sadun | November 5, 2007 | 7:39 pm

I compiled up wget in the ported utilities: Just copy http://ericasadun.com/ftp/PortedUtilities/wget into ~/bin (with all the normal “remove noexec”, “set your path” and “make it executable” issues). Then you can just “wget http://ericasadun.com/ftp/whatever“.

If you download software that way, make sure to chmod 755 or +x or whatever.

Comment by jbphill1968 | November 5, 2007 | 8:13 pm

Erica, The weird deal about wget is that I can get it to work for http://www.google.com but almost no other sites including http://www.tuaw.com. I can send you a screen grab or you can try the tuaw one yourself. Thanks in advance you are wonderful. John

Comment by eric.muir | November 7, 2007 | 11:19 pm

Hey this is eric, im a HUGE fan of yours, now I realize its hard to program a new app everyday, but heres an idea that could be fairly easy to make, and I would love to have it! I had it on my treo 650, its basically a fake thumb print scanner. See I would leave the app open and then when I turned my phone on around friends I would press my thumb in the designated “scanner box” and the screen would change colors and a bar would drop from top to bottom and as it passed the scanner area a thumb print showed up, then I remove my thumb, it displays PROCESSING for a sec or 2 and then ACCESS GRANTED, of course all the phone knew was that I touched the screen, but my friends thought I had to scan my thumb to gain access! It was great! I think this would be awesome if instead of the slider when you turn the iphone on, this came up! Or atleast just an app if that’s not possible, either way, atleast think about it!

Thanks!

-ISSN Eric Muir
Chief of Naval Operations- Intelligence Plot PENTAGON

P.S. Heres the link to the “scanner”
http://mytreo.net/downloads/details-302.html

Comment by Erica Sadun | November 8, 2007 | 11:03 am

Thanks for the idea. I’m not sure I have time to develop it.

Comment by job | November 12, 2007 | 4:43 am

Could you recommend a good tutorial on cross compiling C code for the iPhone?

Comment by billgrove | November 12, 2007 | 8:51 pm

Geez, Erica… I ask you for a way to make my iphone a portable storage device, and you let Core beat you to it! Oh, goodness… I thought you were all things iphone? I kid. I’m glad somebody did it, and I’m glad that you’re pushing it! I’m going to delve into it tomorrow and see if I can remember enough of my Linux to make it work.

Thanks again for all the great stuff you do! I’m quite certain “The Steve” has a pretty picture of you taped to the dartboard in his office!

Bill