iPhone open application development

Just received the most anticipated book of this year: iPhone open application development from Oreilly by Jonathan A. Zdziarski (Nervegas).

DisplayLink beta drivers for MacOSX

DisplayLink just posted beta drivers for MacOSX on Intel based Macs, so you can use up to four additional displays via your USB2 port. Currently no 2D and 3D (OpenGL) acceleration.

OpenThesaurus

OpenThesaurus is an open source thesaurus for the German language.

Immobilia 08

From 3/28 to 3/30 the Immobilia 08, the real estate fair, takes place in Vienna, Austria.

AppleScript language guide

Apple just published the new version of the AppleScript language guide. The previous release of AppleScript language guide was on May 5, 1999. Updated to describe AppleScript features through Mac OS X v10.5 and AppleScript 2.0.

Village Tronic ViDock Gfx


With the Village Tronic ViDock Gfx you get two additional Dual Link DVI ports for a PC or Mac with an ExpressCard/34 slot. No info yet on availability and pricing.

top 10 ways to get cables under control

Directly from lifehacker: top 10 ways to get cables under control.

KungFu Panda trailer is online

The trailer of the new Dreamworks movie KungFu Panda is now online at the Apple QuickTime website. Starts 6/6 in the US and 7/4 in Austria.

Changing a disk in the Apple Time Capsule

At HardMac there is a nice tutorial on changing a disk in the Apple Time Capsule.

ControllerMate

ControllerMate is a controller programming tool for MacOSX, that allows you to customize the behavior of your HID devices, keyboards, keypads, mice, trackballs, joysticks, gamepads, throttles, among others. Works great with the Logitech 3D Space Navigator, too.

Space Navigator

The Space Navigator from Logitech is a 3D mouse that works with Google Earth and Google Sketch, all for less than 60$.

iCopy, copy and paste for iPhone

With iCopy you can copy and paste text and URLs between web pages. You also have the option of emailing copied text or URLs. Works as a Javascript bookmarklet.

iPhone SDK also works on PowerPC Macs

As reported through iPhone Atlas: the Apple iPhone SDK also works on PowerPC Macs. No idea yet, if you can use MacOSX 10.4, too.

Inflight USB Power Unit

Inflight sells the USB Power Unit for 35$, so you can recharge your USB powered devices with a standard aeroplane passenger seat audio jack.

calendar holiday files

At mozilla.org you find holiday files for nearly all the countries in the world in the common .ics format.

scrollbox.org ebooks

At scrollbox.org you find ebooks that you can download as data: URLs for offline reading on you iPhone.

manybooks.net ebooks

At manybooks.net you find ebooks for offline viewing on mobile devices, including data: URL versions for iPhones.

Extreme Verbier

From 3/14 to 3/23: Extreme Verbier in Switzerland.

data: URL image encoder

The data: URL image encoder web form will allow you to generate a valid data: URL from a file on your computer or from a web site.

Designtion Cell PDF Reader

With Designtion Cell PDF Reader you can read any PDF on your mobile phone.

MIPIM in Cannes

From 3/11 to 3/14 the annual MIPIM, the world´s property market, takes place at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France.

Scosche Universal Bluetooth Receiver Home UBRH

The Scosche Universal Bluetooth Receiver Home UBRH connects to your home stereo (AD2P Streaming in stereo) and allows you to use your iPod/iPhone as a mobile music device with built in (remote) local control, and still hear the sound through your high quality HiFi equipment. For the iPod there is the IPBTT, the iPod Bottom Dock Bluetooth Transmitter, that charges with a special USB cable, whereas for the iPhone there will be the TZ4 transmitter, that gets the power through the dock connector and can be used with the iPhone, too.

Tutankhamun and the World of the Pharaohs

From 3/9 to 9/28 the Tutankhamun and the World of the Pharaohs exhibition takes place at the Ethnological Museum/New Hofburg Palace, Heldenplatz in Vienna, Austria.

Wohnen & Interieur

From 3/8 to 3/16 the annual Wohnen & Interieur takes place at Messe Wien in Vienna, Austria.

Filemark Maker

Filemark Maker is a MacOSX application to generate data: URLs for offline viewing of documents on your iPhone.

official iPhone SDK from Apple

The official Apple iPhone SDK is available now for free. Officially runs only on Intel Macs with MacOSX 10.5. Joining the iPhone developer program, which will provide technical support, code testing and allow distribution through the “App Store” costs $100. App Store will work over both EDGE and WiFi It will also work via iTunes, but wireless will likely be the preferred medium of install. No idea yet about international AppStores. The iPhone 2.0 software update, which allows end-users to run iPhone applications and includes a lot of enterprise-related enhancements, such as support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync to provide secure, over-the-air push email, contacts and calendars as well as remote wipe, and the addition of Cisco IPsec VPN for encrypted access to private corporate networks, will be released as a free update in June. Still no word on select/copy/paste, though.

TrueCrypt

With TrueCrypt you get free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Secrets for MacOSX 10.5

With Secrets for MacOSX 10.5 you can customize many Mac OS settings that are normally hidden or incomplete, without having to use the Terminal application.

telekinesis

With telekinesis a collection of mini web apps running on an iPhone, you can remotely control a Mac running the corresponding "iPhone remote" software.

MoveNPlay client for iPhone

MNPlight is an iPhone application that aims at getting rid of the need for a computer with iTunes. It runs on your iPhone, and is able to modify the iPhone calendar, address book and iPod databases. MNPlight can be of particular interest for Linux users who don't have iTunes, but it can also be used by other users when they want to update their iPhone data when they are away from their iTunes computer.

HistoryDL for iPhone

With HistoryDL you can download files, that you have visited with Mobile Safari on your iPod. Great for getting etexts from Project Gutenberg directly into the eBook folder on your iPhone. Unfortunately it can´t download JPEGs, that are embedded into a webpage, when you don´t know the exact URL. You can install it on the iPhone by adding http://hpcgi3.nifty.com/moyashi/ipodtouch/repository.cgi as a source in the Installer app and install HistoryDL afterwards.