Erica Sadun
erica at ericasadun.com
Erica Sadun | 6:19 pm | February 8, 2008 | Test Requests, Update, Software, iPod touch, iPhone
Version 0.22 is in the XLaunch folder and now offers an alphabetic index. Let me know how it works for you please.
Erica Sadun | 9:12 pm | February 6, 2008 | Update, Applications, Software, iPod touch, iPhone
Did you miss XLaunch? I did. I kind of like the fact that it lets me find apps alphabetically. My home screens (plural) are getting to be a mess.
No, there’s no squeezing onto button bars or reordering (a surefire way to keep SpringBoard from launching properly, as I found to my testing dismay) but I kept in the double-tap trick and added a new one: badging. You can badge any app and it will last until you reboot or restart SpringBoard.
Version 0.21 is in the XLaunch folder, which has been moved back from the Deprecated folder. And, oh yeah, it should run properly on both the iPhone and iPod
Erica Sadun | 2:57 pm | January 31, 2008 | Feature Requests, Update, Admin, Software
I’m once again updating voice notes to try to make it work more smoothly this time with core telephony, such as phone interruptions. If you’ve got any feature requests, now’s the time to speak up.
Erica Sadun | 11:21 am | | Utilities, Software, iPod touch, iPhone
ClipIt is a GUI-based Web Clip creation tool that I wrote up for TUAW. It’s in the Pumpkin Utilities folder. You can use it for any kind of URL, including itms:// and tel:// as well as http://
Erica Sadun | 10:26 am | January 30, 2008 | Test Requests, Update, Software, iPhone
Good news: It’s updated.
Bad news: You can only use it with .m4a files and it’s slow to load because it has to search for those artists who have m4a music.
Version is 0.32 and it’s available for download now.
Erica Sadun | 7:08 pm | January 27, 2008 | Test Requests, Update, Software
Thanks to Nate True, I believe I have UIctl updated for 1.1.3 and running as media. On his suggestion, I added a setuid(0) to the main() routine of the utility so it could run as root and have access to launchctl. Please give it a try and let me know if it works for you. You’ll find it System folder.
Erica Sadun | 12:09 pm | | Update, Test Requests, Utilities, Software, iPod touch, iPhone
MIM is massively updated and works much better now with quicker results after setting your carrier name. I’ve also added a version called Banner that updates the time string at the top of your iPod or iPhone rather than the carrier name. Same idea, but different part of the screen. You can put more text on the screen with Banner than with MIM.
Both MakeItMine and Banner are availalbe in the Pumpkin Utilities folder.
Erica Sadun | 11:13 am | January 25, 2008 | Update, Admin, Software
I am abandoning work on the following software:
Widgets. It was always a proof of concept and never meant to be anything more. If anyone else wants to pick up work on it, feel free
iPhone Utilities. The iPod touch now has Mail, Maps, Notes, etc. There’s no good reason to maintain a second package. I’ve merged this with Erica Utilities.
Listen. RIP. I loved this program.
PDF Viewer. There is a far better version out there now.
XLaunch. Wiggly jiggly icons make XLaunch unnecessary.
Diagnostics. Again, a proof of concept.
Open URL. WebClips make this an unnecessary utility.
Push2Talk. There is a perfectly good SIP client available now.
Erica Sadun | 10:44 am | | Admin, Update, Utilities, Software, iPod touch, iPhone
I’ve been hard at work all week, upgrading my software to 113. As a consequence of the iTouch’s 113 application support, I’ve decided to merge the Erica Utilities with the Erica iPhone Utilities–one less package to maintain. The new merged utilities start with Erica Utilities 0.60.
Look for 113 versions of my apps in each of this site’s folders. I’m working with Shaun Erickson to package the updated versions into Installer.
If there is something that these last few days taught me it’s that it’s probably easier to write one fabulous great package than to maintain several dozen small ones. Please forgive me if I overlooked your favorite program–an email this morning reminded me about updating Make It Mine, a utility that I had completely overlooked. I’d intended MIM as a silly throw-away and I’m surprised at how many people continue to use and enjoy it.
Erica Sadun | 3:32 pm | January 13, 2008 | Test Requests, Update, Software, iPhone
Quite a lot of changes to Dress Up:
Multi-wardrobe support. After stopping a frame, you can now go back to the wardrobe and add more costumes.
“Dismiss Mode”. You can now switch from move mode (where you move around the costume elements) to dismiss mode (a tap removes costumes). Use this to clean up your picture before snapping it.
Clean picture taking. I now hide the status bar and the navigation bars before snapping pictures.
Snap to Album. By request, you can now snap photos to your album rather than just sending them by email.
Feedback solicited in the comments.