nointrigue.com » iphone http://www.nointrigue.com/blog Enoch Lau's Blog Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:26:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/ Free Tetris iPhone App http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2008/09/16/free-tetris-iphone-app/ http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2008/09/16/free-tetris-iphone-app/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:38:39 +0000 Enoch Lau http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/?p=308 Free Tetris iPhone App, Tris Will Be Removed Soon: so that’s what has happened to it. I honestly can’t see how a claim of copyright would prevent the creation of a Tetris clone, and it’s a poor reflection on the law that the author felt compelled to withdraw it because he cannot afford to defend himself in court.

]]> http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2008/09/16/free-tetris-iphone-app/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/ I’m not impressed http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2008/08/31/im-not-impressed/ http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2008/08/31/im-not-impressed/#comments Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:08:35 +0000 Enoch Lau http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/?p=258 Dead iPod Touch

Dead iPod Touch

Another day, another iPod Touch calamity. While updating one of the installed applications, gremlins attacked and icons no longer appear on my home screen.

I’m not an Apple fan-boy, I have never been, and I am unlikely to convert because my first foray into the world of Apple products has been a largely unhappy journey. iTunes, at least on Windows, is slow and often unresponsive. Backing up my iPod Touch literally takes several hours, and the version 2.0.1 update took four attempts. The music interface, while great for the Latin-alphabet world, is a pain to navigate with Chinese songs and artists. Installing and upgrading applications via the iPod Touch interface is a slow and arduous affair. While there have been some outstanding applications, the majority are uninspired and useless. You also often find two or more applications that do very similar things, but each lacking in various regards, which means you end up keeping all of these applications; the closed model of the iTunes Store discourages, and in fact prevents, modifications and extensions a la open source software.

I could keep going on for quite some time, but I’m sure others have documented the failings of the iPod Touch and the iPhone in more detail. I can overlook some bugs, but wholesale destruction of my data is unforgivable.

]]> http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2008/08/31/im-not-impressed/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/ Human flesh search engine http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2008/08/29/human-flesh-search-engine/ http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2008/08/29/human-flesh-search-engine/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:53:00 +0000 Enoch Lau http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/?p=244 ‘Human flesh search engine’ in hot pursuit of the iPhone girl, proclaims the headline. I was initially quite curious as to why there is a search engine that indexes bits of human flesh on the planet. Update: Tommy suggests that the phrase “human flesh search engine” is a literal translation from the Chinese.

]]> http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2008/08/29/human-flesh-search-engine/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/ iPhone kills birds http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2008/08/08/iphone-kills-birds/ http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/2008/08/08/iphone-kills-birds/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:48:31 +0000 Enoch Lau http://www.nointrigue.com/blog/?p=169 When Daniel plugged his iPhone into his Mac, I thought he had just picked up a budgerigar and strangled it.

Listen for yourself.

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