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Until Apple releases a fix (possibly in firmware 3.1?), there is a quick and easy fix. Everything is done on your iPhone, you don’t need access to your iTunes library.

1) Remove an app that has incorrect icon (preferably one that has no data stored on your iPhone, so you don’t have to worry about losing data).

2) Download and install the app again from App Store.

3) As the application is being installed, hold the power button and turn off your iPhone!

4) Turn your iPhone back on. You would now notice that all application icons are back to normal. The application you were installing is installed as well.

Hope this tip benefits some people. :)

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The game is called iShoot. I’ve only had my iPhone for a month and funnily enough, this is one of the few apps that I’ve downloaded (got the free version and it’s great).

What I can’t understand is how many people commented on that article abusing Ethan Nicholas (the developer of iShoot). Whether it be abusing him for copying Scorched Earth (which no doubt had similarities to games before it – especially Tank Wars on the Amiga), or people calling him a bad father because he wants to hire a nanny, so many people criticised him.

I say – GOOD ON HIM! :) While all these people bitched and moaned about insignificant things, this guy got off his ass and actually did something useful with his time. Now that he’s reaping the rewards you can see who the jealous people are.

Instead of being jealous, people should find this inspirational. The App Store is by far the best software distribution platform out there today. I certainly cannot remember a distribution platform that makes it so easy for small development teams (even single developers) to be able to touch such a large audience.

Regardless of whether you’re an iPhone developer or a PHP developer or what, Ethan Nicholas’ story is very motivational. The term “Just Do It” comes to mind… sometimes that’s the only difference between the winners and the losers in this world :)

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I just bought a nice companion for my Macbook Air, a lovely ‘envelope’ as seen on TV. :D

The moment I saw this sleeve, I smiled and immediately placed an order. It was designed by an Australian designer: Shuky. (Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with them in any way.)

A few photos of this lovely, creative piece and my Macbook Air.

Two more photos after the break.

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Today I have stumbled across a new application: Sequel Pro. It is a fork of CocoaMySQL just like CocoaMySQL SBG, but unlike the latter, Sequel Pro is actively under development and the latest stable version ( v0.9.2 ) was released on October 21, 2008.

The first thing I noticed is the performance boost. In CocoaMySQL, browsing a table with thousands of records could be a pain thing to do, Sequel Pro has fixed this issue and the performance matches most of other tools.

Interface wise there is not much difference between the two, I suspect the GUI will be refined in the future because there are some minor issues such as missing icons.

One feature I hope they will implement soon, is the ability to reorder table fields, the last thing I want to do is to fire up YourSQL (or PhpMyAdmin) just for reordering some fields.

One annoying bug I’ve discovered shortly after using it, is that the connection window (CMD + N) has some major issues accepting correct passwords. If I create two new connections with the same username, the two usernames are forced to have the same passwords, weird behaviour.

Having said that, Sequel Pro is still a welcoming product that holds a future. The performance increase along warrants the ‘migration’ from CocoaMySQL.

Let’s wait and see how the project goes. :)

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I think this is quite impressive. :)

UPDATE @ 15th April 2008:

Battery ran out completely today, with the following usage data:

Total usage: 10 hours (1h WIFI, 30min calls, the rest were all video playback)
Standby time: 6 days

Impressive! :)

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Even though Apple is kind enough to provide an iPhone emulator for developers, I still think it’s a good idea to get a real one, play with it and be familiar with the user experience.

Hopefully a couple of months from now I am able to put together something useful. ;)

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I had been waiting for this moment for so long. Before I got this new Macbook Pro, I design graphics on my Windows XP desktop (Q6600 + 4GB RAM) and do all development work on my 12″ Powerbook (1.33GHz G4, 768MB RAM), trust me, it was a pain. Even the Windows desktop was playing nasty, Photoshop and Illustrator quit on me constantly despite the fact that I keep my computer clean and organised (and virus-free obviously).

It feels so relieved to be working exclusively on the OS X platform, I think my productivity will increase.

Okay, in the last few days I started looking for phones. I currently use a Sony Ericsson S500i as my primary phone and a Nokia N80 (kinda broken) as backup. They’re both 2G phones, so I was going to buy a 3G phone, either Nokia E65 which is free on a $29 cap plan on Three Australia or Nokia N82 outright on Ebay. I was so sure that one of these phones will become my primary phone for the next few months…

Until I hit ‘apple.com’.

Being extremely busy for the last couple of weeks I rarely watch IT news or forums, it wasn’t until yesterday that I had just noticed the latest Apple keynote on the iPhone roadmap. I watched it, then immediately I logged onto Ebay and started looking for iPhone.

But why? You might ask. Well, to me iPhone was a piece of useless equipment. All 3rd party applications are essentially web applications that work only in Safari. I was really disappointed because iPhone is powered by OS X, not allowing 3rd party developers develop on the system level is just… weak and wasted.

The release of iPhone SDK is like a dream come true to me. Perhaps I overreacted a little bit but I do think ahead, and I believe this will truly push the mobile / portable industry to a whole new level.

Without further delay, I quickly snapped an iPhone on Ebay and it should arrive within the next few days.

I have never done Objective-C before, I have never touched XCode before, heck I have never even done desktop programming before. That won’t stop me from brainstorming ideas though. Hopefully within the next few month some cool applications will be released. Stay tuned. ;)

By the way, I spent all day today installing favourite applications on the Macbook Pro. Here’s a list of some of the applications I use, if you’re interested. :)

• Textmate – This application is the primary reason I migrated to OS X
• Adium – Do I need to explain? ;)
• Adobe Creative Suite 3 – I mainly only use Photoshop and Illustrator, but will get into Flash and ActionScript later on
• Adobe Lightroom – I’m an amateur photographer hey!
• AppZapper – Remove applications with all the trash they leave behind :)
• BetterZip – Nice archiving utility that supports a big list of formats
• Chmox – Some ebooks are only available in CHM format…
• ChronoSync – Where TimeMachine lacks…
• CleanApp – Similar to AppZapper, not as good for removing related junk but has some more features that are quite useful
• CSSEdit – I only ever coded CSS in normal text editors (e.g. Textmate) but now I think I’m going to give CSSEdit a try, to see if it will increase my productivity
• Firefox – With almost 30 plugins installed!
• iShowU – I will be creating some screencasts down the road
• iWork 08 – I love Keynote :)
• Linotype FontExplorer X – Font manager, a must have for designers
• Little Snitch – A firewall, just in case ;)
• MAMP – The essential package for L/M/WAMP developers
• Microsoft Office 2008 – Ah, the evil ;)
• NFOViewer – You know why :)
• QIM – I speak and write Chinese
• Quicksilver – Magic, magic, magic…
• StuffIt Expander – People should stop distributing .sitx files! They are annoying!
• Transmit – FTP
• VMWare Fusion – Windows XP SP2, with some exclusive applications like… Internet Explorer…

If you know some other cool applications, give us a buzz!

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Penryn platform, multi-touch trackpad, doubled VRAM, bigger harddrive and slightly lower price, sounds wonderful. I know I will be ordering one soon before my ADC subscription expires :)

P.S. Right now I do all development work on a very dated 12″ Powerbook with 1.33GHz G4 CPU + 768M RAM despite having my Quad-core + 4G RAM PC desktop.

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