A little while ago, my iPhone stopped responding to headset clicks, and the microphone stopped working. At first, I figured it was due to the headphones themselves — Apple have quite a rep for producing shitty headphones. So I bought some new ones, but these didn’t work either.
I tested with another iPhone, and they worked there, so I decided to take the phone to the shop to have it fixed. Just before I did, I decided to do a quick web search, just in case something turned up. And, lo and behold, something did turn up. As it turns out, the headphone jack apparently has a habit of collecting dust and dirt, and once they get to a substantial amount, some functions stop working.
The fix: turn off the phone, take a paperclip or other thin object, and clean it. This should do the trick.
Clever. Give it an arbitrary width and height, and it will make a neutral GIF in the specified size.
Echofon for Mac is a Twitter client that, as far as I can tell from my brief 10 minute use of it, honours what I asked for in Unread Badge: I can turn off automatic syncing, and I can control what I want notifications of (ie. I want notifications of mentions and direct messages, not the general timeline).
This might very well be the Twitter client I can settle for.
(Via Leo Laporte on MacBreak Weekly.)
One could also consider Steal This Comic from xkcd, which I’ve linked to earlier.
(Via John Gruber.)
Filed for future reference — this seems like an ideal fit for a MacBook.
(Via Andy Ihnatko on MacBreak Weekly.)
An attempt to make seamless fallback different multiple upload options (HTML5, Flash, Gears, Silverlight, and Yahoo BrowserPlus [the last of which I did not know of before I saw this site]).
I think it is a great idea, but the implementation seems lacking at the moment — it certainly didn’t work well in my Safari 4.0.4 with ClickToFlash.
Eric Meyer made a test of how browsers handle an increasing size of text elements (nesting a load of <b> elements with a font-size of 1.04em in an element with a font-size of 10px), and enters a philosophical discussion of whether browsers should display the actually used font-size (that is, the rounded one they use for displaying) or the one they carry with them (unrounded).
I personally think Safari and Opera’s handling is the most correct (the computed value must be the one that the user can actually experience), but I have nothing to back that up with.
I have been a Mac user for five years now, and I still can never remember the different screenshot shortcuts. So this will hopefully help me as a future reference.
Wow. Gorgeous site, and some really great desktop backgrounds among.
AppJet, the engine behind EtherPad, has been acquired by Google.
This means EtherPad will be shut down come March. This approach to this reminds me of something the Drama 2.0 Show <a href=”http://www.drama20show.com/2008/12/03/silicon-valley-the-only-place-where-getting-a-new-job-acquisition/” rel=”nofollow” title=”‘The Only Place Where Getting a New Job = Acquisition'”, about Six Apart’s acquisition of Pownce”>said a year ago, before it became a porn site:
[A]nytime a failed startup is “acquired” and the service is shut down, you don’t have an acquisition. You have a
Silicon Valley signing bonus.
I don’t mean to suggest EtherPad failed (from the reactions this story gets, it would seem this is not the case), but I agree with Drama’s main point: when the acquired company is shut down as part of the agreement, it is not so much acquired, as the founders are hired with sign-on fees.
(Via Jacob Kaplan-Moss)
