Erica Sadun
erica at ericasadun.com
Erica Sadun | 9:59 am | February 28, 2008 | Update, Utilities, iPod touch, iPhone
I’ve been doing some housekeeping this morning. Erica Utilities is now updated to 1.1.4 with version 0.65. New items include updated versions of snap and autosnap (they won’t mess with iPod playback any more), sbar (statusbar tweaker), apmode (airplane mode), badge (add badges to applications), doSync (force an iTunes sync), teleclip (add telephone web clip), urlclip (ditto but for urls) and an updated xwidg.
Download from the Erica Utilities folder.
Erica Sadun | 4:08 pm | February 19, 2008 | Test Requests, Utilities
I threw pingwifi together to try to create a utility that automatically re-established wifi every n minutes. It’s supposed to run from the command line, e.g. pingwifi 5 &. The number refers to how many minutes to refresh after. Let me know if it works for you. It’s in the test folder.
Erica Sadun | 3:11 pm | February 13, 2008 | Test Requests, Utilities, iPhone
This is a command-line utility that finds your location via google maps (limited to lat & longitude) and autosubmits it to yahoo, and gets back the name of your city and state in return. Yahoo’s database grows. You get more informative help. It’s here
Erica Sadun | 10:17 pm | February 10, 2008 | Utilities, iPhone
By request, apmode allows you to enter and leave Airplane Mode from the command line. Add one more argument to force WiFi on–yes you can have WiFi on during Airplane mode! Apmode is in the individual Erica Utilities folder.
Erica Sadun | 10:13 pm | | Test Requests, Utilities, iPhone
Yahoo!’s ZoneTag allows you to match your location with the local cell towers. I wrote Here I Am to test out my new developer API. If the system does not find you (i.e. if you get nothing or just a country in response), please feel free to submit your location (zip, city, state) of where you actually are, the idea being to build up the location database.
Please don’t be a jerk while using this–only submit your actual location–and go easy on the requests. Yahoo! says it’s still a very beta product.
Read more about ZoneTag here and download your copy of Here I Am! here.
Erica Sadun | 3:02 pm | February 8, 2008 | Test Requests, Utilities, iPod touch, iPhone
These are two upcoming Erica Utilities. Badge badges apps (e.g. badge YouTube Hello) and sbar adds icons to the status bar (run with no arguments to get help). Both are in the individual Erica Utilities folder
Erica Sadun | 11:21 am | January 31, 2008 | 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 | 10:29 am | January 30, 2008 | Test Requests, Update, Utilities, iPod touch, iPhone
On request, here’s urlclip. It’s just like teleclip but is not dedicated to creating telephone-based webclips. Instead it is a general tool that allows you to use any iPhone-legal URL, including http://, tel:// itms:// and so forth.
Like teleclip, it takes two arguments–the name of the clip and the URL. It then builds a WebClip using an incredibly boring white icon–feel free to swap that out for a better one.
It’s now in the individual Erica Utilities folder and I’ll tuck it into a new EU zip sometime soon.
Erica Sadun | 11:58 am | January 28, 2008 | Test Requests, Utilities, iPhone
My new utility teleclip takes two arguments: a name and a phone number. It creates and loads a new webclip using those arguments, e.g. teleclip “Steve Jobs” “408-555-1212″. When tapped, the webclip launches Safari and asks whether you want to continue making the call. I’ve put the utility into the Erica Utilities folder but it’s not yet part of the general distribution.
Erica Sadun | 12:20 pm | January 27, 2008 | Test Requests, Utilities, iPod touch, iPhone
setBanner and setCarrier are command-line versions of Banner.app and MIM.app. Just give them one argument to set the banner or carrier, or no arguments to revert.
appLoad simply makes your Home screen update when you add a new application or WebClip without having to restart SpringBoard. It uses the new on-board Nikita mechanism.
All three utilities are in the Erica Utilities folder although I have not yet updated Erica Utilities to include them.
p.s. There’s also a “restart2″ utility that can restart SpringBoard even when you run it as mobile. I’m not sure how useful that will be in the long run but it’s there.