iPhone

MEanderthal: Morph Your Face Into That of an Early Human Ancestor

Last week I wrote about some recent press coverage for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's new website for the Human Origins Program and the related new exhibit in Washington, DC.

Drupalcon SFO Session Proposal & Demo: Developing Apps for iPhone/iPad/Android Using Drupal as Base System

Quick demo of what we are going to discuss
Original session was posted here
With launch of iPad and NexusOne - iPhone/Android application market can't be ignored. Both these technologies has great potential to use our existing web based tools such as drupal. You can totally use drupal to manage/update your iPhone/Android native application.

Build iPhone Compatible Drupal Websites Using iWebkit: Part 3 - final release of iWebkit theme

Finally iWebkit theme for drupal-iPhone websites is production ready. Theme now includes Drupal form theming and 12 different subthemes to suit your color preferences.
From Now on this theme will be maintained on drupal.org as iWebkit project.
Features added since last release are:

  1. Form elements are now themed. All form elements now looks like default iphone forms. This means there is no need to add custom user-login, comments or node add forms for your iphone website, you can directly use drupal default forms and they will be automatically converted into iPhone style form elements.
    • Select list and Checkboxes look like- form-element-1
    • Radio buttons and Text-area look like- form-element-2

Build iPhone Compatible Drupal Websites Using iWebkit: Part 1

The iPhone and iPod touch continue to gain market share of mobile web traffic. According to edibleapple 48% of all smartphone web requests in the US come from iPhones, while Windows and RIM devices together comprised 34% of mobile web requests.
These numbers show that it is becoming increasingly important to have iPhone compatible websites.

iDrupal: Manage Your Drupal Website From iPhone

iDrupal is a project aimed to manage your drupal websites from iPhone / ipod touch. This project is basically designed for three things:

  1. iDrupal module to act as a bridge for communication between your iPhone and drupal website.
  2. iDrupal_ui theme to for your iPhone browser.
  3. And an iPhone application - which is yet to be released in app store.

Synchronized Mail, Contacts, Calendars Across iPhone, Google, Mail.app, iCal.app

I have spent considerable time over the last year or so trying to get my data and systems set up to have email, contacts and calendars available both online and offline on both my main computer, my mobile device and online as a guest user on others computers. All the while keeping my inbox clean from spam and bulk mail, contacts synchronized and access my preferred user-interfaces and applications. I've recently been able to get this pretty close to perfect. In this article I will describe the technologies I use and how I've configured them to achieve this.

Hardware & Software

Email Management Strategy Phase 2: IMAP with Gmail iPhone and Thunderbird

In Developing A Personal Email Management Strategy I discussed the sorting, filtering and processing of the seemingly endless flow of email I receive. Recently, I took the plunge and converted my non work email to IMAP in preparation for converting work email to the same. The goal is to be able to see important direct email on my iPhone without seeing all the list traffic, commercial communications and other solicited bulk email

First, Some HistoryGoogle Aps For Your Domain) for different types email traffic, travel@ for example for when i signed up for travel related services and lists, buy@ for commercial email and receipts after making purchases. This made sorting and filtering the incoming email really easy, just set up a message filter in Thunderbird based on the To: address. But all of these email addresses were just aliases delivering the mail to my primary account. Thus when checking email on the iPhone, sifting through all the solicited bulk email for the personal messages was like finding a needle in a hay stack.

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