There’s an urban legend that claims you can put most elevators into “express mode,” causing the car to sweep directly to your floor without stopping. Supposedly, all it takes is holding down the “door close” button in combination with the desired floor number (and, perhaps, a slight lack of scruples). Is this fact or fiction? […]
David from uC Hobb writes: I have scrounged up several LCD displays and wanted to use one with the Arduino. At the very least I wanted to test the displays. For future projects with the Arduino having a LCD display could be very handy so for this reason it is a good first project as […]
One of the limitations of the iPhone is that you can’t send a multimedia message over MMS. Fortunately, there is a simple workaround. Most, if not all, cellular providers have an email-to-MMS/SMS gateway that you can use. For example, T-Mobile uses tmomail.net. So, all you need to do to send an MMS to your T-Mobile-using […]
Telekinesis is a bundle of small web apps that you can run on your Mac to give the iPhone remote control. You can use it to stream media files to your iPhone, run scripts remotely, and capture images with the iSight. You can also add your own features by dropping custom PHP applications beneath the […]
David Pogue has a great collection of iPhone keyboard tips on his NY Times weblog: As iPhone Week continues here on Pogue’s Posts, here’s a bunch of cool info about the virtual keyboard that nobody-I mean, not Apple, not the bloggers, not the reviewers-has said anything about. [Update: DOH!! Apple JUST posted a video about […]
The #iphone hackers have posted another breakthrough; they’ve managed to get an iPhone to give up a serial port that lets you send commands that look a lot like the Open Firmware commands you can use with a Mac. Here’s a sampling: command list: help this list script run script at specific address go jump […]
Andru writes – Since the iPhone launched, we have been on the lookout for all the cool web apps that we were sure would begin to show up. We have had quite a few come along, but just a few minutes ago we were able to log in to IRC on our iPhone, and thought […]
