VNC for iPhone

Found a nice, free VNC tool for iPhone on AppStore. From AppStore, search for Mocha VNC Lite.

iSight always on

Here's the second Apple wierdness I experienced today. I noticed that the little green light next to the camera on my MacBook is always on. After poking around in Activity Monitor a little bit, nothing came to mind as an obvious program that could be using it. I had a thought that a malicious program was watching me. ;) Sorry, not a lot of excitement here unless you get off on dudes reading documentation and writing code. Anyway, that wasn't it. I seemed to fix it by "resetting the SMC". Here's the link from Apple that led me on my merry way.

iPhone won't charge

Here is the first of two wierdnesses I have experienced today. This first one involves my iPhone appearing to not recharge. I plugged it in to a wall jack last night. when I unplugged it, it showed that it was half full. I thought that was a bit odd, so when I got to work I plugged it in again. An hour or so later, it was still half full. So I thought maybe the wall plug thing isn't a good idea so I plugged it into my Mac. A little bit later, still half full. By this point I am getting worried. Oh noes! I have a faulty iPhone. Nah. I just restarted it and it showed that it was full.

Jib Jab

Wow, the new Jib Jab cartoon is gorgeous. How amazing that a crudely animated internet cartoon a couple of years ago turns into a very polished and profitable animation that is sort of an expected feature of current politics.

iPhone Progress

I have had two evenings of great progress on the path to learning iPhone development. After spending several days pouring over a few sample projects from the iPhone Dev Center , particularly NavBar, I decided that I should start writing some code. So, from scratch, I managed to cobble together a little test that builds a TableView with multiple sections.

It's pretty meager; it doesn't really do anything useful. But it did a great deal to help me solidify a lot of concepts. Interface Builder makes a lot more sense, the implementation of MVC is really slick.

After showing this to Ben, he suggested that we put together a SubVersion repository for these little apps. So I downloaded a Mac client called SCPlugin from Tigris' site. It seems to work well. You Fireflies out there can keep up with our learning apps from our SVN server at /projects/iPhone/Playground. Though, after doing that, I poked around a little in XCode and see that the SVN integration isn't too bad there. Here are some pictures of the SVN stuff in XCode:

iPhone Battery Life

Here's a set of hints on how to extend the iPhone battery life. Man, I gotta say that sure does suck down the juice.

New iPhone Purchase

I am standing in line to purchase a new iPhone 3G. This is probably my last email from my Sprint Mogul. It has been a good phone on a great network. I am pretty sure that it knows that it's time has come early. I have never had a problem with it until about a week ago. Now it flakes out several times a day, and kicks off an alarm in the middle of the night that I CANNOT figure out how to turn off. The poor little guy is probably heartbroken. :(

The enthusiasm here is incredible. The line is wrapped nearly around the mall. Every Apple Store employee is here and giving high fives and all that. This feels more like waiting in line for the opening night of Star Wars (Episode I) than waiting in line for a little gadget.