Simple UML Freeware Tool – Violet

Simple and nice to use UML Tool free of charge, see here.

iPhone contacts with big images – bad performance

Hi, a few days ago I was revisiting my contacts in apple’s addressbook. I found some contact where I had no images attached. I opened up iPhoto and dropped the images I wanted to the contact. Afterwards I synchronized my iPhone to get the changes done. Next day my wife called me and the iPhone kind of froze. No more touch events were recognized, sloppy animations, really bad experience. After rebooting 2 times I recognized that the behaviour is tied to the much too big image of the contact of my wife. So be aware if you rework your contacts, that the images you take for a contact would not be too big, if not it is possible that your iphone freezes on phoning the contact because the os is swapping memory. You can evaluate if a image is too big, if you goto edit contacts, select a contact and if it takes a long amount of time to load the contact that’s a hint of an image too big.

iPhone OS 3.0 first review

Hi out there! I was waiting all day here in Austria for Apple to release the new iPhone OS 3.0. 30 Minutes ago iTunes told me that there is a new version for my iPhone 3G available. After downloading the 230 MB of the new image iTunes started to actualize the phone. 15 minutes later and one message “unplug the phone, enter sim pin code and reconnect” later my iPhone was flawlessly running with the new OS. Congratulations Apple. No painpoints there after the upgrade. No errors, all applications are there, all videos all songs, everything perfectly like it was before. First impressions in using the phone did not give me any lacks in responsiveness of the phone or any slowdowns I would have expected like there have been on the iPhone first generation and the OS version 2.0 Update. The new spotlight feature is very usable and the only app where the reaction of the phone (screen) gets a little dogged. I also synchronized to check out if everything works fine and here also everything as we expect it from Apple. So as a final statement after a few minutes of testing around: Congratulations, you did a great job so far as I can judge from here and now.

Add On 2009-06-18

Today I detected that the update erased the settings of the mobile data network settings for UMTS (3G). You have to set the properties new, details for what to set there you can get at your providers homepage! For A1 in Austria, see images below or settings here or directly at A1 homepage.

If you want to enter the information manually see images below or this list:

1. APN: free.a1.net
2. username: ppp@a1plus.at
3. password: ppp
4. MMSC: mmsc.A1.net (OHNE http:// !)
5. MMS-Proxy: 194.48.124.71:8001

(leave the last two fields empty). After having done these changes, restart your iPhone. To get your mobile provider data using profiles which is also possible to use with not jailbreaked iPhones use this site here.  After making all these settings and rebooting the iPhone MMS Button in Messages Application and MMS send possiblity in VoiceNote app where present and working.

(general settings for mobile data screen)

(MMS specific settings for A1)

iPhone Akku immer voll – Batterieanzeige hängt

Bei mir hat sich in den letzten beiden Tagen plötzlich folgender Fehler eingestellt. Die Akkuanzeige vom iPhone steht auf voll und das die ganze Zeit. Ich habe dann recht Batterieintesive Dinge aktiviert wie GPS UMTS WLAN usw. und dachte mir wow, das hält ja ewig. Fehlanzeige. Offensichtlich hängt die Batterieanzeige. Der Akku zeigt voll, das Telefon schaltet sich plötzlich ab wie wenn es ganz leer wäre. Ich habe bei Apple Support angerufen und die haben gemeint ich sollte das Telefon wieder auf die Werksseitigen Einstellungen zurücksetzen, das geht unter iTunes mit Wiederherstellen.

Vorgehensweise:

1. iPhone synchronisieren = Backup
2. iPhone voll aufladen lassen
3. Phone Wiederherstellen –> iTunes –> iPhone –> Wiederherstellen (auf werksseitige Einstellungen zurücksetzen)
4. iPhone nach Installation aktivieren –> iTunes Aktivierung als “Neues iPhone” nicht von Backup, das ist WICHTIG
5. iPhone Synchronisieren –> wieder alles so einstellen wie es war, ja das ist etwas mühsam

schauen ob es dann wieder funktioniert. Apple hat gemeint, das Aktivieren als neues iPhone sei wichtig, da der Fehler oder die Fehler Konstellation warum dieser auftritt im Backup mit verspeichert ist und somit ein restore vom Backup auch den Fehler wiederherstellen könnte. So jetzt hoffe ich nur dass das auch funktioniert, ob poste ich hier als Kommentar, sollte ja innerhalb von ein paar Stunden zu erkennen sein.

ZUSATZ: Yipieiheeee es hat funktioniert, die Batterienanzeige funktioniert wieder, kein “ewiger Akku” mehr. Danke Apple Support Team.

iSquint – convert .flv to .mov

As a user of the firefox downloadhelper plugin and apple user I want to have my videos in mp4, mov or mpeg format. Downloadhelper generates .flv files which have to be converted. iSquint may here be the tool of choice. It is no longer supported and there is no more development on the tool but it works flawless for me. Simply drop files you want to convert for your iPod or iPhone to the list within the gui, press start, that’s it. Download Link.

Blank Screen Screensaver for Leopard

Hi out there I am back again. A few weeks ago I decided to move from linux to mac (ok ok, don’t blame me ). The one thing I am really missing is the functionality of a Blank Screen Screensaver which has been present in 10.4 but is now missing on my new leopard mac. Therefore I created one for all the others I found on the net missing this function to save there screens for a maximum of lifetime. You can download the screensaver file here. Download the file to your desktop, rename it to “Blank Screen.qtz” and move it to “/Library/Screen Savers” on your mac (you need root privileges to do this), then goto your screensaver settings dialog and select “Other” – “Blank Screen”, voila ready.

iPhone A1 APN (Mobiles Datennetz) Einstellungen

Einige iPhone User in Österreich, die das Gerät im A1 Netz betreiben suchen eventuell nach den Zugangsdaten für das Mobile A1 Netz. Die Daten aus dem Screenshot unter “Einstellungen –> Allgmein –> Netzwerk –> Mobiles Datennetzwerk” ändern.

iPhone Firmware Upgrade

Is there anybody out there who has done a firmware upgrade to 2.0 with an iphone 2G from jailbraked 1.1.4 version using ziphone? There are so much rumours about the 2.0 firmware beeing released after hot needling it together, application bugs, resets and so on. Any info there, please comment here, I would appreciate every single input.

Cheap/Free Software for the apple mac user

Cheap software for the mac user:

See the list below of needfull things for the adult mac user. I will also provide a downloadable list including the homepage links for each tool, a little later.

- Wondershare DVD to PSP Converter    works fine
- VPNClient – Cisco new install, works fine
- VLC – Video Player
- StuffIt Expander -  unzip of archives
- Skype – you know that peace of cake
- Route Tracer – visuall traceroute
- Remotedesktopverbindung.app – microsoft remotedesktop for apple
- Openoffice 3.0 – replacing neooffice at my machine, openoffice in mac look and feel
- JellyfiSSH.app – ssh connection manager
- JBidWatcher – ebay bidder
- JAP – Java Anonymous Proxy, anonymous surfing
- iToner – Ringtones for iPhone Transceiver, if you use a official jailbreaked, use garageband
- iStumbler – WiFi Finder
- Google Earth – you know that too
- Fluid – run web applications in own window without browser
- fasterMac.app – mac tuning (better for g4)
- Disk Inventory X.app – visual disk inventory application
- Cyberduck – ftp client
- BitRocket – bittorrent client
- Smultron – good editor
- Skitch – simple imageediting
- macports – specialists only – port linux programs to mac
- porticus – like macports
- freemind – free mindmanager
- Vodafone Mobile Connect – software for vodafones umts card/modem
- Firefox 3.0 – new firefox instead of camino
- xrsync – folder sync tool, backup utility
- PodWorks – shows your songs on your ipod/iphone, you can also download them to disk
- Burn – cool dvd/cd… burn utility, very simple
- Audacity – audio file editor usefull for editing mp3 files or producing your own ringtones
- 7zx- pack or extract 7zip files
- DiffMerge – diff tool for text files/documents
- VirtualBox – Virtualization Software, run windows on a mac or a Linux