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When TiVo worked with Crestron (the home automation company) to provide integration between your DVR and your wall control panels, they actually opened up a door for people to control your TV with just about any computer. All you have to do is telnet into your TiVo via port 31339 and type in some commands. It’s pretty basic now, but the telnet interface means you can easily rig up an iPhone remote app or do some kind of port forwarding to remotely control your TV from outside your home. Why you would want to do that is your business, since we don’t want to tell you how to best spend your time. The complete command list after the jump. [TiVo Community (Instructions) via Zatz Not Funny]
Type IRCODE in caps, followed by any of these commands.
UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT SELECT TIVO LIVETV THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN CHANNELUP CHANNELDOWN RECORD DISPLAY DIRECTV NUM0 NUM1 NUM2 NUM3 NUM4 NUM5 NUM6 NUM7 NUM8 NUM9 ENTER CLEAR PLAY PAUSE SLOW FORWARD REVERSE STANDBY NOWSHOWING REPLAY ADVANCE DELIMITER GUIDE
With this ringtone, I thee complete The folks over at LifeClever have gone where I have not dared to tread. Last August, in a post about the iPone commercials’ soundtrack, I pointed out that the ringtone showcased in the ads is actually—horrors—not available on the iPhone. I went on to muse: I guess if you really…
Last week we posted about AT&T offering free WiFi access for iPhone customers at several of their hotspot locations, including a few Starbucks stores. According to MacRumors, AT&T has disabled this free service. However, since AT&T never made an official announcement of this service, it seems possible that the free service was launched early (possibly for testing). AT&T representatives have declined to comment on the issue.
If you got a glimpse of the free future and have now seen that wireless door slam shut again, let us know.
Using the port of lighttpd on his jailbroken iPhone, Mark Hoekstra of GEEKtechnique offers real-world proof that an iPhone can, indeed, function as a web server. He put up a static page and served 411 unique visitors during the time his server was offline for maintenance. Obviously, that’s not battle-testing for a busier server, and the lack of database queries certainly aided the capacity of the tiny server, but it’s definitely a fun example of the capabilities of a (hacked) iPhone.
Apache has also been ported, along with Python, vim, curl and other tools web servers can make good use of. There’s a good possibility we’ll see similar scenarios as time progresses, especially as the hardware capabilities of the iPhone improve. So, is that a backup web server in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
When TiVo worked with Crestron (the home automation company) to provide integration between your DVR and your wall control panels, they actually opened up a door for people to control your TV with just about any computer. All you have to do is telnet into your TiVo via port 31339 and type in some commands. It’s pretty basic now, but the telnet interface means you can easily rig up an iPhone remote app or do some kind of port forwarding to remotely control your TV from outside your home. Why you would want to do that is your business, since we don’t want to tell you how to best spend your time. The complete command list after the jump. [TiVo Community (Instructions) via Zatz Not Funny]
Type IRCODE in caps, followed by any of these commands.
UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT SELECT TIVO LIVETV THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN CHANNELUP CHANNELDOWN RECORD DISPLAY DIRECTV NUM0 NUM1 NUM2 NUM3 NUM4 NUM5 NUM6 NUM7 NUM8 NUM9 ENTER CLEAR PLAY PAUSE SLOW FORWARD REVERSE STANDBY NOWSHOWING REPLAY ADVANCE DELIMITER GUIDE
Using a car’s AC vents to hold cellphones is an old idea. Using a car’s AC vent to hold an iPhone so you can watch movies/Cover Flow your way through your music is a new idea. DLO’s VentMount seems like an incredibly practical way to keep your iPhone/iPod Touch within short reach, especially in cars (like ours) that don’t have a convenient cupholder location to shove it into. It’s not mindblowing, but it’s $24.99 we’d gladly spend for usability’s sake. [DLO]
The folks at iPhon.fr have got what appear to be two photos of iPhone 2.0 in the wild. It’s in keeping with the other photo we saw of a black iPhone, though the logo appears grey this time, as opposed to the bright white, and the rear of the case seems less rounded.
The only thing we dislike about this shot is how scratched up the rear of the unit appears to be. My own phone is (I assume) older than this model and not nearly as scratched - and I don’t use a case!
Of course, we could be comparing fake photo #1 to fake photo #2 here, so take all of this with a grain of iSalt. We’ll all see the real thing soon enough, and we can look back on Photoshop jobs like this and laugh and laugh.
I’ll be honest and admit to trying this as soon as I saw it. Point Mobile Safari to http://38i.biz/tricorder and view an iPhone-optimized web page that resembles a Star Trek Tricorder.
So, what does it do, you ask? Why, it scans a given area, interprets and displays gathered data and records all findings to isolinear chips.
Actually, it doesn’t do to much. Once you “turn it on” by clicking the power button, you can switch between three functions and view related animations. Every minute or so, a window pops up with a snide remark like, “The Federation is shocked. The Enterprise actually ferried an alien VIP from one place to another without serious incident.” It’s even got a snazzy webclip icon.
Sadly, there are no sounds to accompany the visuals. It might not offer much more than a little entertainment, but one thing is certain … it will definitely help you pick up chicks.
Yeah, yeah, I love the iPhone. At the same time, I haven’t exactly been shy about not using the iPhone as much of a phone. Today I googled across this post at PC Magazine called “Great i, Lousy Phone” that called me out on the issue, saying that I didn’t seem to talk on my iPhone much. It’s a fair cop and I haven’t gone on the record yet except during the TUAW talkcast aftershows. So here are fivesix seven reasons why I don’t actually use the iPhone for calls:
1. It’s the wrong size. I have small hands. Side-to-side, the iPhone is just too wide compared to my Kyocera slider. I can easily hold the slider while doing other things–making dinner, *kof* driving *kof*, attending to children, and so forth. The iPhone has such a large form factor that it’s just not physically possible to leave two or three fingers free for other tasks.
2. It’s uncomfortable. This boils down to one phrase: face sweat. Holding that glass up to your cheek for any length of time is, well, ick.
iTunes movies sold at loss; MBP display stripes; Microsoft and Yahoo Apple is allegedly taking a hit on each iTunes movie sale to spur permanent downloads. Also, owners of recent MacBook Pros are suffering from vertical display stripes on their displays’ backlights, Microsoft and Yahoo may be closing in on a merger d…
Piper Jaffray addresses 15 more ‘unanswered Apple questions’ Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster on Thursday issued a report to clients that analytically addresses 16 more unanswered questions surrounding the Apple story, including some pertaining to the company’s iPhone hardware roadmap and approach to the ent…
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Using a car’s AC vents to hold cellphones is an old idea. Using a car’s AC vent to hold an iPhone so you can watch movies/Cover Flow your way through your music is a new idea. DLO’s VentMount seems like an incredibly practical way to keep your iPhone/iPod Touch within short reach, especially in cars (like ours) that don’t have a convenient cupholder location to shove it into. It’s not mindblowing, but it’s $24.99 we’d gladly spend for usability’s sake. [
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Yeah, yeah, I love the iPhone. At the same time, I haven’t exactly been shy about not using the iPhone as much of a phone. Today I googled across this post at PC Magazine called “