February 2010
9 posts
Why Flash will never come to the iPhone
Flash is a pig and a resource hog. Sure Adobe can make a lot of noise and say that it is “possible” to run flash on the iPhone, but what they won’t talk about is how much it will eat up your processing power and battery life if it’s on there. Apple knows this, and also knows that the world is moving towards standards like HTML5 and other javascript elements on the web...
How to use iChat to chat with people on Facebook
So I use iChat for all of my instant messaging needs… it supports AIM and Google the only two major IM programs that I use, and of course it’s simple and easy to use. The one recent annoyance though is Facebook chat… I hate using the website interface to chat with people on facebook, but there were not other options. As of last week, facebook opened up it’s chat system to...
Best RunKeeper Pro feature? Audio Cues.
I’m pretty competitive, even with just myself (just ask my sports team the Dizzy Llamas!). The biggest piece of the RunKeeper Pro app that keeps me going? The pace audio cue. It’s nice to hear how far I’ve gone and how much time has elapsed (I keep mine set to update me every 5 minutes btw), but every time those audio cues come through my headphones, I am EAGERLY awaiting what...
