Author Archives: Erik
Erik Hansen
Dear Steve
I know I’m way late to the game here, but I just watched the video of the Apple event where you announced iPhone OS 4.0. It makes me want multitasking, it makes me want folders, and I was really impressed with the sample ads that you showed for iAd. Regarding iAd: If those things were [...]
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CollectingFaces.com
Have I mentioned yet that www.collectingfaces.com is starting to take form?
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The Adobe/Apple Brouhaha – My Thoughts
Flash CS4 is a bit of dog. I’ve documented a few of those issues. When I first heard that Adobe was adding the ability to create iPhone apps with Flash CS5, I rolled my eyes and thought, “Why are you working to add this major feature, the ability to make shitty iPhone apps, when you [...]
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iPad multitasking *would* be nice
I just got my first real urge for multitasking on the iPad. I was watching a game on the MLB At Bat app, during a commercial break, and I wanted to check my email. Or Twitter. Or RSS. Or look up something on the web. But it takes too long (read: 15-30 seconds) to open [...]
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Getting videos onto the iPad is hit and miss
One of the first things I did when I got my iPad was try to get some of my paid video tutorials onto it. I’ve got a couple of screencasts from Peepcode. I’ve got a screencast series from Pragmatic Programmers. And I’ve got a ton of videos that I’ve downloaded from Lee Brimelow’s goToAndLearn site. [...]
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Why does Parallels insist on handling certain file types?
I noticed that a .jsfl file was suddenly associated with Flash CS4. Not my Mac install of Flash CS4, but the Flash CS4 demo that was installed in Windows Vista running in a Parallels virtual machine. I have no idea how that happened. Next, and more troubling, I noticed that when I run my “Test [...]
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Mercurial and FLAs
I’m starting to play around with Mercurial and wanted to see how well it handled FLA files. Mainly I wanted to know how much the repository would balloon as your revised and committed the FLA. So I did a simple test where I made an FLA, committed, added a big image to it, committed, made [...]
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TaskPaper for iPhone sync bug
I’m liking TaskPaper for iPhone, but have run into a problem with syncing via SimpleText.ws First, a little background: I use Notational Velocity on my Mac. It stores its documents as plain text files in a folder on my hard drive. That folder lives in my Dropbox. That folder is also the folder I use [...]
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The many error messages of MLB.TV