If you see it my way, it really makes sense.
Tuesday night Judy and I met with Rodney to pick up the origami paper we ordered from SF. We decided to meet closer to the southbay and ended up at my brother’s favorite restaurant in San Mateo: Sushi Sam’s. Of course, being Sushi Sam’s neophytes, we end up ordering dinner entrées AND the chef’s special by mistake. Rodney was certainly more prudent as he forewent the entrée. Overeating aside the food and sushi were both pretty good. We should probably head back to Sushi Sam’s in the future.
So with my lack of posting from my helio and my desire to program my phone, I finally broke down and got an iPhone 3g. While the iPhone camera is markedly worse than the Fin camera, the Internet capabilities and the available sdk made this choice pretty easy for me. I’ve already dug in to the sdk and have built a couple test apps to get my hands dirty. As a hobbiest Mac OS X developer, transitioning to iPhone OS was pretty easy. The hardest part for me has been wrestling with the new UIKit classes and the changes to Interface Builder since I last did Mac development. All in all, I’m pretty happy with my overly expensive switch. I’ll probably be playing less TF2 as a result.
Facilities finished building up the new wing of our office this week, meaning my officemates and I get a new office downstairs. I finally get a window! Hopefully now my circadian clock won’t be as messed up. Anyhow, I’m fairly excited that I’ll have a bigger and more comfortable workspace.
Like so many other Cell phone carriers, Helio has encumbered their devices with draconian restrictions in an attempt to steer their (apparently cash hemorrhaging) customers into overpriced proprietary media downloads. The Fin (and many other Helio Kit) are plenty capable of decoding mp3s and playing arbitrary media as a ringtone or other event notification; the fact that you can’t do this out of the box is possibly the greatest annoyance conceived of in the history of cellular technology. Fret not though, the no-custom media restriction can be bypassed by tricking the phone into thinking your custom media is from a source within the network. Specifically, the Fin will allow ringtones to be set as MPEG-4 3gpp videos: videos it thinks are from other camera phones or taken itself. Continue reading ‘Setting Up Helio’s Samsung Fin with Mac OS X (part 2: Creating ringtones)’
So, I guess “The Incredible Hulk” was at least as good as Marvel vs. Capcom 2. And, I guess they are gonna do an Avengers movie.
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