Untropy

A lot has been going on the past few weeks, and that hasn't left much time for writing substantial content here. But, here's an attempt to catch up. I have been working on Cocoa stuff, the project, (some games), and more stuff on the site. This is, of course, in the midst of normal work and life stuff. How much can I get done during my vacation? We'll see. Read more for details.

I *barely* managed to update the site without disaster. There might be some problems over the next few days. We'll see.

Oh, and the project, it is officially ON. Stay tuned.

Google released Google Earth for the iPhone today. After playing around with it a bit, I'm impressed and I'm not alone. For those who like this app on the desktop, you'll find the this one a comforting addition to the app store. In addition to the maps and terrain views, Google also includes a mini browser which is used to load the images and wikipedia icons on the views. Quite handy, since iPhone / iPod Touch apps are single-tasking and you'd have to reload the whole thing after viewing one of those links. But, with android out, why would they release something like this for the iPhone?

True. True.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq8Uc5BFogE

Apple released their quarterly sales data yesterday, and the news was good. To summarize, everything is up. But, let's look at a few more finer details:

• Macs are up 21% unit-wise, and 17% revenue-wise
• iPods (all types) are up 8%, and 3% revenue-wise
• over 6.8 million iPhones were sold in the last quarter

A lot better than some others have predicted. Why? Read more to continue.

I updated the image sections with shots from Shang hai, some other photography, a few ... failures, and some other things. Go check it out; I got the bandwidth to burn.

http://www.untropy.net/pictures/

Very busy day today; I installed a handful of drupal modules to help with my eventual goal of this site. No, it is not done yet. Not even close, really. There is still theming to do, and a few of my projects are not up here yet in any form. So, more work to be done on that front.

So, I installed the update, and set to sync up my iPod Touch. I started getting these errors, saying it could not sync due to some unknown error (#13014). First, I checked the cord, to make sure it was connected properly. That was fine, so then I went to the net to find out what else might be causing problems.

Long story short, I saw many people were also having this problem, and rebooting their computer resolved this issue.

More information:

• Apple Support Forums

I was working on putting some scriptaculous into one of my current projects. Just a simple little bit to hide a box when clicked a link. Nothing special; the code for this would just be one line of code, a bit of CSS and HTML, and that's it. Not as easy as i thought...

Looks like I have a long way to go... (Step 1 completed)

• The iPhone Development Story