Though Apple did not document yet if and how the iPad supports the startup image tag for web applications:
<link rel=”apple-touch-startup-image” href=”/startup.png”>
After some trials and errors I found how to make it work. You just need to make sure that your image is set to size: 1004*768 portrait.
Note that it is 1004 and not 1024. They did the same with the iPhone: 460 instead 480..
Hope you will find this useful.
When I bought my first MAC a week ago, I believed Apple that there is something behind their statement that “Leopard OS is more stable than Windows”. Well… I’m not sure about that..
Here is a small example: if you leave the iPhone simulator open, and try to install any program, it will probably get stuck on the “Preparing” stage… the solution is to close the simulator and reinitiate the install.
If you wonder how you can kill (force close/quit) the installer (or any other program) in a MAC, then it is only a matter of pressing command+option+esc and selecting the program to close.
After buying a prepaid AT&T sim card to be used with my iPhone (mainly for data) while i’m in the US, I realized that AT&T blocks the data connectivity unless you have an iPhone plan on your AT&T account. Though, when placing the same SIM on Android phone, the network data/internet connectivity works.
After reading about it quite a lot, this is an issue many users are facing. Well, I think i have a full working solution for you!
What i think is happening is that the iPhone pulls from AT&T an iPhone specific APN that blocks you if you don’t have a real iPhone plan on your account. So to overcome this you can use Apple Configuration Utility to change the APN manually. You do NOT need to jail break your iPhone.
This is what you need to do to make the data/internet connectivity work on your iPhone with AT&T prepaid sim card. Please note that this is a workaround i found working in my case – i’m not responsible for any negative influence it might have when you use it.. Use it on your own risk!
1. Place your AT&T on your iphone
2. Make sure it finds the network and that you have a data package!
3. Download and install iPhone Configuration Utility from Apple (free) for your PC/MAC
4. Plug your iPhone to your PC/MAC
5. Create a new configuration profile on the iPhone Configuration Utility
6. Go to “advance” and create a new APN by giving it any name you want and any identifier you wish. Type the following in the relevant fields:
APN: wap.cingular
User Name: wap@cingulargprs.com
Password: CINGULAR1
Proxy wireless.cingular.com port: 80
7. Save the profile or click on your iphone name under “devices”
8. Click on “install” button near the configuration profile name you just created
That’s it! now you can disconnect your iphone and your iphone should be able to access the web using the network data connectivity, same as the Android or any other device can do with the same SIM card..
When you’ll want to go back to your old SIM, simply plug again your iPhone to this Configuration Utility, and remove the configuration from the device the same way you install it.
For several months I’m playing with thoughts I have regarding how to integrate my blog with a website that I want to build for myself. Though there is not much content yet to publish, I wanted to have a platform that will allow me to easily publish my future ideas, projects and blog in one centralized place.
After exploring several options, I decided to use WordPress, and today I installed the platform on my hosting service. It took me less than an hour to set it up together with my old posts!
The installation process is an ease. You simply upload a compressed file to the hosting server, unpack it, create and configure a database, and from that point on all you have to do is to open the install page and follow the web based wizard.
Beside blogs management, the platform also allows to add pages, media and more easily and intuitively. It has a built-in blog import mechanism, so it was a matter of seconds to move my old posts at blogger to my new site.
Now I still need to fine tune some areas, but overall I’m really satisfied with the midterm results. I guess that the real test for it will come quite soon when I’ll be ready to publish the new content.
By then, I’ll be hoping that you enjoy the new look & feel 
It was all started after I forgot a few of my closest friends birthdays… I was frustrated that I could not keep track on those dates. facebook birthday reminders were not enough for me since I did not had the will nor the time to look for “today’s birthdays” each time I’m on facebook.
So then I thought, why not having a small application that will sync my friends’ birthday to my Outlook? Then I could keep track on those important dates and also sync it up with my phone!
Yesterday it was the time I decided to take this initiative forward, and developed my first facebook application! Feel free to check it out..
In the coming posts I will elaborate more on the development process and some tricks I learned making this application happen.
Stay tuned
Still on construction…
Come again later!
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