If you’ve used Twitter at all you’ve seen the original default profile image that Twitter assigns you when you first join:
Now it looks like along with their home page redesign they have a set of new images. It appears that the colors are randomly assigned:
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A welcome change from the brown!
I’m happy to announce my new side project: Tweets Lounge.
Tweets Lounge is a directory of local neighborhood businesses using Twitter. It’s like a Yelp directory for Twitter.
We’re initially supporting Seattle and the surrounding area, but we plan on expanding to other cities soon. Check out the site: http://tweetslounge.com and follow us at @TweetsLounge.
Apple released an iPhone app for this year’s WWDC. You can download the app from the WWDC attendee site.
The instructions are to download the zip file, drag the app and the provisioning profile to iTunes then sync your phone.
If you’d like to install the WWDC app on a device that isn’t setup for iTunes syncing, then you can use Xcode instead of iTunes. Here are the steps:
1. Download the zip file. Expand it and you’ll see two files: WWDC09.app and a .mobileprovision file.
2. Launch Xcode and open the Organizer (Window -> Organizer)
3. Select your iPhone/iPod Touch in the organizer window.
4. In the Provisoning section click the + under the list of provision files and select the WWDC app’s provision file you downloaded.
5. In the Applications section click the + under the list of Applications and select the WWDC09.app you downloaded.
When Xcode is done, the WWDC09 app will be installed on your device.
When you show web content in a UIWebView, links that open a popup do nothing.
This makes sense. Since UIWebView is an embedded control in your app, there is no logical default for popups.
So how will users view those pages? The solution is to convert all popups to normal links before displaying the web page:
-(void) webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)wv
{
[wv stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"\
links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');\
for (i=0; i<links.length; i++) {\
links[i].target = ‘_self’;\
}”];
}
Update (7/21/09): TweetDeck finally speaks up about this issue, offers the same exact advice as below: http://tweetdecksupport.posterous.com/fixing-the-blank-tweetdeck-problem?
Yesterday I launched TweetDeck to get my Twitter fix and was surprised to see TweetDeck stuck with a blank empty screen:
Searching around I discovered that there are two places where TweetDeck stores it’s data:
Preferences Folder
Adobe AIR Encrypted Local Store (ELS)
I tried moving/deleting the Preferences folder, but that did nothing. I ended up deleting the Adobe AIR ELS folder and leaving the Preferences folder as is. TweetDeck asked me for my Twitter credentials again, but then everything was back to normal, including all of my preferences.
If you are on Windows you can find these folders here (courtesy Christopher Grant):
Peter Boctor is a Seattle based software developer and entrepreneur. Over the past 14 years, Peter has specialized in creating software with a strong focus on elegance and usability.
Peter is currently working on Tweets Lounge a Yelp style directory for local neighborhood businesses using Twitter.
During the day, Peter works at Zumobi where he writes iPhone apps for a living. Some of the iPhone apps Peter created at Zumobi are: The Today Show, Rachel Maddow, Sporting News NFL Some of the apps Peter helped bring to market at Zumobi include: Pepsi Rock Band, MSNBC, FHM and American Idol
Peter