bradKELLETT

On Windows, the Firefox installer (quite considerately) won’t override existing non-beta versions of the browser with a beta version (like the recently released Firefox 3.6 betas). Though it doesn’t explicitly say so, Mac OS X users can have a similar behavior, which by the surprised faces I see when  I tell people this, many people [...]

David Walsh recently published a blog post detailing how to detect iPhone and iPod Touch users on your website via the user agent string, and while the concept is fine, I much prefer a slightly different method using regex to do the detection. In PHP: if(preg_match(‘/Apple.*Mobile.*Safari/’, $_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’])  {       header(‘Location: http://yoursite.com/iphone’);     [...]

There has been a fair amount of talk lately about a feature introduced in iPhone firmware 2.0 and above that allows a developer to make a web application, once saved to a user’s iPhone home screen, run in a full-screen mode without the Safari toolbars. AppleInsider wrote about it, with a fantastic demo available on [...]

Schmap.com, a local city guide and travel information provider, is all set to launch a very sexy looking iPhone interface in public beta on Monday. The Schmap iPhone interface encompasses the company’s City Guides and Local Search services, plus a unique feature that auto generates maps when the iPhone is turned sideways. The Schmap guys [...]

After the resounding success of my firmware 1.1.2 guide, I have decided to put together a guide to upgrading an iPhone to firmware 1.1.3, both jailbroken and unlocked for use on any network. This guide involves a lot of steps, but it will ensure that you have the best possible result by the safest means. [...]

I have in no way given Office 2008 a thorough working over so do not take this post as a final conclusion, but after installing the new Mac version of Microsoft’s beast and having a little poke around, I have a few first thoughts. Microsoft Office 2008 is a prime example of Microsoft taking the [...]

Like many, I have been watching the news related to Google, among other’s, announcement of the Android mobile platform and the Open Handset Alliance. Until today’s release of several videos demonstrating the UI and parts of the system itself, there was not a lot of meat to get excited about. Now, I am filled with [...]

After a few weeks of talking about it, I took the plundge and bought a new MacBook Pro. This isn’t my first Mac, but I have been using Windows machines only for a while. This means that the house is totally Mac now, with my better half a dedicated Mac user (iMac 20″ currently). It [...]

I have held off from blogging about the iPhone here much thus far, but I am going to chuck some opinion out there. This is not just about the iPhone though, it is more about how the industry needs to react because of it. Let me say this right off the bad: the iPhone is [...]

To begin, I’m not one to bad mouth convergence. While I have no real use for a music phone, I certainly don’t have a problem with manufacturers combining an audio player and a phone – it does seem like a good match. What I do have a problem with, is the fact that many are [...]