Awesome post from an Aussie no less which is a non-trivial iPhone application using c# on monotouch.
The thing I love about monotouch is that it lets me leverage my .Net Skills (not just c#, but how the .Net run time works) and marries it to the low-level iPhone development infrastructure. The hardest part about getting into iPhone development for me was Objective-C, and now I don’t need to go there.
Points to note:
- Obviously since interpretation is not allowed on the iPhone the guys at the mono project had to put together monotouch, which statically links the parts of the .net framework needed into each iPhone app.
- Monotouch is a payed for product.
Again, some-what belatedly, the iphone-dev guys have cracked the iphone-3G sim lock, calling the application yellosn0w. At this stage even the latest iphone firmware (2.2) is crackable, and the’ve even made it as easy as running QuickPwn on an upgraded iPhone and then selecting the yellowsn0w application from cydia.
Great work from the iphone-dev guys I say:
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/67797811/dont-eat-yellowsn0w
Again, some-what belatedly, the iphone-dev guys have cracked the iphone-3G sim lock, calling the application yellosn0w. At this stage even the latest iphone firmware (2.2) is crackable, and the’ve even made it as easy as running QuickPwn on an upgraded iPhone and then selecting the yellowsn0W application from cydia.
Great work from the iphone-dev guys I say:
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/67797811/dont-eat-yellowsn0w
According to this post over on the iPhone dev blog, the iPhone has finally been made able to boot Linux.
As seen on the VE blog.
A word of warning though, to get this to work you have to do un-godly things in this day and age like building and parsing your own SOAP requests and responses as well as regenerating the tile pyramid. This is mainly because it’s using the VE web service API. More info on the jump.
So I had been patiently waiting for fring to come to iPhone 3G through cydia a while back and then sorta forgot about it. Now I find out fring has come to the iPhone through the App Store. This is fantastic news and I’ve already installed it on my iPhone.
I was a little hesitant as I’m really only looking for MSN IM capability without having to hand over my IM credentials to a third party, and unfortunately, just like all the other players fring requires you register an account with them and hand over all your other IM credentials.
In this instance though, i caved and provided my MSN IM details, mainly because being able to make VOIP calls of MSN’s protocol is such a usefull feature. Lucky for me I mainly use my MSN IM account for work, so have nothing sensitive stored with the associated passport account.
Title says it all.
Rocked up on Friday to the Apple store expecting an hour of arguing about why the phone was so shit as a phone. Mostly I felt like this because the guy at the Optus store said it would take 2 weeks to get fixed.
Was forced to book an appointment at the “Genius Bar”. Didn’t bode well for the support experience initially, but I made an appointment and came back then.
What I got was an absolute surprise. Went up the tech, explained the problem and he walked away and came back with a new phone, which he swapped for my phone. He then printed a service receipt and I was done and walking out the door with a hopefully better working new iPhone.
So far it seems to drop less calls, which is a good thing, but that may be because I don’t use it as much as I was last week. Also to it’s benefit the 3G internet definitely seems much better than the one I had before.
So my iPhone’s been dropping or scrambling every 3rd or 4th call since I got it. Not a real useful trait in a full time mobile phone. That and the bit about barely getting a 12 hour day out of an all night charge and I was starting to think that maybe my phone was sick.
So today I’m browsing the interwebs and I get this optus page that tells me my prepaid wireless broadband account needs re-charging. WTF? I don’t have a prepaid account.
Anyhow, long-story-short I need to find my proof of purchase and take the phone in for a “repair” tomorrow.
Not happy Jan.
So I tried to update my iPhone software on friday to get better 3G, at the end of the update the machine wouldn’t start again or activate.
Cue 20 minutes of “oh shit”. A restore from the pre-update backup meant a working 2.0.2 iPhone though, but that’s no way for a “polished” system upgrade to work.
So one thing that’s been most disappointing about my recent move to iPhone world has been the lack of decent software tools. It seems that most of the app devs have not had enough time to port their apps over to the 2.0 version of the iPhone OS.
I can’t find a decent multi-protocol IM client in either App Store or other sources that doesn’t require me to give up all my IM credentials to another 3rd party. And in case you didn’t get that part, this means Parlingo and Meebo are out of the question. I’d rather keep my passwords to myself thank you very much.
Update: It looks like fring may be the one. Can’t get it on the iphone 3G yet so will have to wait and see.
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