TUTORIAL: Download any files from inside Safari & other tips
By Werner Ruotsalainen
<p>Werner Ruotsalainen is an iOS and Java programming lecturer who is well-versed in programming, hacking, operating systems, and programming languages. Werner tries to generate unique articles on subjects not widely discussed. Some of his articles are highly technical and are intended for other programmers and coders.</p>
<p>Werner also is interested in photography and videography. He is a frequent contributor to not only mobile and computing publications, but also photo and video forums. He loves swimming, skiing, going to the gym, and using his iPads. English is one of several languages he speaks.</p>
By Werner Ruotsalainen
By Werner Ruotsalainen
By Werner Ruotsalainen
Back in January, I’ve very thoroughly elaborated on the problems of Safari with some pages like THIS and THIS partly caused by the lack of any kind of character size increasing (and, with the Thinkpad thread, the lack of correctly reflowing / breaking long words / URL’s).
Thanks to apple.com forum user ‘ihadmeavision2’, I’ve found a for
By Werner Ruotsalainen
First of all, if you have an iPhone 3G, you don’t need to read further – games are just too slow. The situation is somewhat better on the second-generation iPod Touch because of the faster CPU. Nevertheless, few very-very games run playable on even the 2nd-generation iPod Touch.
If, on the other hand, you have a 3G S and you definitely want to play some titles, you might want to read on.
In order to emulate the Playstation, you’ll need the following:
- If your phone isn’t already jailbroken, jailbreak it
By Werner Ruotsalainen
UPDATE (11/22/2009): the article below has officially been deprecated. Please read http://www.iphonelife.com/node/1370/ instead. This thread remains only as an update catch-up thread as is also explained in Chapter 6 of the new article.
By Werner Ruotsalainen
The iPhone is an ideal platform for listening to online radio stations. In this article, I explain everything you’ll ever need to know about all this. You’ll learn how radio stations can be listened to on even non-jailbroken iPhones, without any hacks to play stations in the background; I also present a very thorough comparison of currently available third-party radio software.
First and foremost, let’s take a closer look at the built-in, out-of-the-box radio support.
1. Built-in capabilities: QuickTime
All versions of the iPhone (and, of course, the iPod Touch – from now on, I refer to all these as “iPhone”), under OS3, already have support for playing back some (not all!) possible radio stream types.
By Werner Ruotsalainen
With the Push support in the iPhone OS 3, the iPhone has become an excellent platform for instant messaging.
By Werner Ruotsalainen
I’ve finished (thoroughly) testing my six A2DP headphones with the new Bluetooth stereo support of iPhone OS 3.0 (OS3 for short), along with their traditional mobile phone headset functionality.
(the stereo headphones, all paired with my iPhone)
By Werner Ruotsalainen
I’ve long been complaining about the lack of any “find in page” functionality in most mobile Web browsers. Now that I’ve played a bit with JavaScript scriptlets, I can proudly present a working solution to this problem.
All you need to do is, independent of the Web browser you use, add the following favorite:
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