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links for 2009-06-27

2009-06-28T05:03:40Z

HowTo Achieve "Ubuntu-Desktop-Minimal"

(tags: ubuntu minimal)

links for 2009-06-15

2009-06-16T05:02:59Z

Linux Commands - A practical reference

(tags: linux cli reference)
Rosetta Stone for Unix

(tags: unix cli reference cheatsheet)

links for 2009-05-31

2009-06-01T05:01:59Z

Mac OS X Manual Page For nfs.conf(5)

(tags: osx nfs)
Mac OS X Manual Page For netstat(1)

(tags: osx nfs)
Mac OS X Manual Page For mount(8)

(tags: osx nfs)
Mac OS X Manual Page For mount_nfs(8)

(tags: osx nfs)

links for 2009-05-20

2009-05-21T05:02:36Z

Django tip: Caching and two-phased template rendering

(tags: django development tips)

links for 2009-04-12

2009-04-13T05:01:40Z

Pinax

"a platform for rapidly developing websites"

(tags: webdev django social tools programming)
Development virtual machines on OS X using VMWare and Ubuntu

(tags: virtualization vmware ubuntu jeos dev)
Perian

"The Swiss Army knife of QuickTime components"

(tags: mac osx quicktime plugins video)
Miro HD Video Player

"free internet tv and video podcast player"

(tags: video mac osx hd bittorrent)
Virtual Geek: Updated Homebrew ESX Hardware List

(tags: vmware diy hardware)

links for 2009-02-12

2009-02-12T21:13:18Z

Jeffrey’s “Export to Flickr” Lightroom Plugin

(tags: lightroom flickr export plugin)

links for 2009-01-05

2009-01-06T05:01:44Z

Detecting and displaying the information of a logged-in twitter user

(tags: twitter hacking json)

links for 2008-12-05

2008-12-06T05:02:11Z

Google Maps API tricks: Geocoding by Google Spreadsheets

(tags: googlespreadsheets geocoding csv mashup)

iPhone 2.2 Update Image Issue

2008-11-21T16:50:00Z

There's a problem with the iPhone 2.2 update that's giving me serious headaches. My wife and I often take photos with our iPhone cameras and email them to each other. This has always worked well up until the 2.2 update. After installing the update, I noticed that every saved photo on my phone that I had received from her seemed corrupted.

I'll walk you through what I'm seeing now. The following image is a screenshot of the Mail app. The image looks great. It's exactly how I would expect it to look.

If I save this image and then go to the Photos app to view it, I see the blurred image below.

It appears slightly worse if I use it as my wallpaper image.

If I upload the image to a web server, the image appears normally in Mobile Safari. Note that the resolution displayed is 600x800.

Saving that picture and going back to Photos, I see the same result as before.

It looks like the image file has been downsized and then stretched to fit the screen. So I emailed this seemingly bad image from the iPhone back out to my work email. I received the following image.

It's not the 600x800 that we saw above and that I would expect from an iPhone camera image. The resolution is now 90x120. And it's not that the originating iPhone is emailing these photos as thumbnails --- the photos are only being displayed at this resolution. Photos are still emailed at the 600x800 resolution, as seen in the image below, scaled to fit this column.

As a further test to see if I could figure out why this was happening, I opened the original photo above in the excellent app CameraBag. To my surprise, it appeared at full resolution.

So this leads us to the final test. I went to Gmail and saved the photo from the original email that my wife had sent. I then dropped this into an image folder that's synced via iTunes. Once the image makes the trip back to the iPhone in this manner, it is displayed at full resolution. Naturally, it is resized to fit the iPhone's screen, but it is significantly larger than the thumbnail above.

Based on these findings, the following appear to be true:

There seems to be a bug that limits the display of images saved from Mail and Safari.
These images are being stored on the iPhone at full resolution, so this was not an intentional move to save disk space.
Emailing of photos from the iPhone that created them still happens at full resolution, so this was not an intentional move to conserve bandwidth.

This process of emailing photos back and forth has been my way around the lack of MMS on the iPhone. I actually didn't miss MMS at all once the image saving feature was introduced, but this has ruined it for me. What was once a simple, daily function on my iPhone is now something for which I must involve my PC. Honestly, I somehow don't think this was intentional. When you click a button that says "Save Image", you expect to see a saved copy of that image. When a thumbnail is displayed instead, something is broken. I just hope Apple fixes this one soon. I really don't want to wait a few months to get this back.

Update: Via Gruber, Brandon Iain seems to be seeing the same issue:

Also, Takayuki Fukatsu, author of the iPhone app 'Toy Camera', wrote in to let me know that his app is having trouble displaying pics. Based on his experimentation, he is under the impression that the bug is seen when any app attempts to display an image that is 600x800 or 800x600. Brandon's test image above, however, shows that the problem is also present with images that are 640px high.

The Closest Book

2008-11-13T17:07:30Z

Instructions:

Grab the nearest book.
Open it to page 56.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Here's mine:

Following this is information about the document itself.

The book is Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C by Lincoln Stein and Doug MacEachern. [ via ]

links for 2008-11-08

2008-11-09T05:02:06Z

Speak & Spell Texas Instruments simulator

(tags: speak&spell simulator kids retro)
Google Answers: whistling

"How do I whistle with my fingers in my mouth really loudly (or at all)?"

(tags: whistling howto)

links for 2008-11-05

2008-11-06T05:04:15Z

Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets

(tags: mashup howto google pipes maps)
Page Inlink Analyzer

(tags: link analyzer yui jsonp statistics)

links for 2008-11-04

2008-11-05T05:02:44Z

wp-Hyphenate

(tags: wordpress plugins)

links for 2008-10-26

2008-10-27T05:01:33Z

Flip Video Vlog: Codecs and You!

(tags: flip video codec conversion quicktime)

links for 2008-10-24

2008-10-25T06:07:29Z

CSS Browser Selector

"Clever technique to help you on CSS hacks." Get rid of CSS hacks and substitute in a javascript browser sniff.

(tags: javascript css hacks)
Kick Ass Fonts in Ubuntu: 3 Easy Steps

(tags: ubuntu fonts howto)