Well, if you follow me on Twitter I’m sure you’ll know about my latest purchase, my awesome new iPad 16GB 3G! Everyone who buys one seems to post on their blog about it (if they have one) so I thought I would do the same.

The one thing you don’t hear much chatter about is, in my opinion the extraordinary battery. I’m writing this from the word press ipad app, and I’m currently sitting happy with 71% battery. It’s 5:15pm and I used my iPad on the train to France – 2.5 hours, and used it to take notes for 3 hours, then played with it for the last hour and I charged it once, this morning at about 6am!

I think one thing apple did well if it not be the extraordinary iOS they have built for this device and the apps that developers ares building, but its the care and attention into the details nobody thinks about – like battery life.

Im glad I invested the extra money in the 3G model as its nice to be connected, wherever!

That all I have to say about this exceptional device, so if your thinking about buying one, just go buy one… Now.

PS: WordPress for iPad is an awesome app!!

I could’t help but write a blog post on here! I finally managed to get an Apple Wireless (Bluetooth) Keyboard and with it working so well with my iPhone on iOS4 it’s actually well thought out.

The usual functions like cmd+c/v/x work for cut, copy and paste. Also the cmd+a and enter key work too! The brightness up and down keys actually turn the iPhone brightness up and down and even the music controls work!

It would be nice if Apple provided some kind of external keyboard events so you can tie buttons and code to key combinations like cmd+n and cmd+s for apps, but I doubt that will come.

Anyway, if you have iOS4 and an apple wireless keyboard, pair it up!

Many find it annoying how the curlyness of the iPhone or iPod Touch headphones gets worse as time goes on, some even get to buying new ones just because of this. Here is how to get them straight once again! And it only takes a day or two…

Step 1
Find a suitable location whereby you can attach your headphones in the dangly position.

Step 2
Get two pens (preferably with clippy bits) or even something else you can attach things onto and affix these miniature weight like devices to each earbud of the iPhone or iPod  headphones.

Step 3
Attach the inserty end (headphone jack) to the top of your location whereby you can attach your headphones in the dangly position and confirm to yourself they are hanging straight. There is an iPhone app for this if you fancy it.

Step 4
Go back to your headphones after leaving them untouched for at least 24 hours and then remove the weights.

Step 5
Detach your headphones from the affixed upright dangly position and insert the inserty end into your iPhone, iPad or iPod.

This may seem a joke… but a very helpful lady on the Apple Store Chat told me this, at first I thought she was making fun of me when I asked her how to straighten them and then I tried this…. BAM.

It’s kind of annoying me now, I have no time to work on these ideas and I think they are pretty useful and should be built. If you are bored, or are looking for something cool to do, read on… this is an idea I had and it would be awesome for someone to build it.

What is it?
Basically, it’s not fun nor easy to setup a push notification system for your iphone app to get push notifications from your server. There are complicated tutorials, but they make sense to nobody!

All the user has to do is sign up, and enter their iPhone Developer Center push notification stuff and then they can access the sites API by sending requests that include the data of the push, and their API key.

I haven’t looked deeply into the push notifications API from apple yet but I have a feeling this could work.

If you have any ideas, faults or want to build it, let me know if you are going to and I would love to test it :)

I have decided to join the Yoggrt ad network and get some sexy ads on my blog, and soon on my personal site. You might also see them on some other projects I’m working on outside of school and work.

Hope you enjoy some of the nice stuff they tell you about!

Hey there! :-)

Not really much to say in this post other than,welcome to my new blog!
A few things have changed;

1. I am not longer using FireRift simply because of the integration WordPress offers. I still plan to use the awesome FireRift for other projects that require that kind of CMS!
2. There is a new design, to fit in with the re-design of my portfolio website.
3. There are now two types of posts, white ones (like this one) which are just normal posts and blue ones which represent code posts. These posts are usually centred around some code or the subject of development.
4. Some of my posts will have a little icon of a map in the top right hand corner, these posts are geo-tagged with a location, usually these posts are posted from my iPhone but sometimes I like to set the location of a post using this great plugin.

Hope you enjoy reading my ramblings!