iPhone

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Environmental sensors, iPhones, and Placebook / FourSquare

At a personal level we all want to remain healthy, and keep our kids healthy. We also want the environment in our citites to be as healthy as possible.

Genetics + Lifestyle + Environment = Risks

There is a lot of focus on two parts of the equation, genetics and lifestyle, and over the last few years technology has been providing us with more and more data to better understand the environmental risks for everyday people.

How to view iPhone application data


Here's a quick tutorial on using the SQLite Firefox plugin to view (some of) the data in your iPhone (or iPod touch) applications. Many applications use the standard SQLite library to store their data on the phone, and then back that up on the computer. All you need to read this data is the browser plugin, a bit of patience, and a bit of luck! There are applications that will automate this, but if you're curious about how this works, the following steps are easy enough to follow.

Toronto Public Libraries too: iPod Touch and iPhone Wi-Fi connection at Starbucks for Bell Internet customers

You may have heard that Bell Internet customers can now wirelessly connect to the Internet at Starbucks locations across Canada. Although the Bell website only mentions laptops running Windows, I thought I'd go grab a grande latte and see what the process was to connect with my iPod Touch. It worked, and I could browse the web and connect to the internet with all my applications, too. Here's a set of screen captures walking through the process.

** Update ** Turns out the Toronto Public Libraries are also offering free WiFi which will work on the iPod touch and iPhone as well - take a look at their website for details - and no, you don't need to be a Bell subscriber.

( This is a link to an older technology based blog entry I wrote. )

Quick tutorial on using iUI to create a native looking iPhone or iPod touch web page


I just picked up a new Apple iPod Touch and thought I'd create a version of my photoblog that is optimized for the iPhone and/or iPod Touch. This won't be an actual application available through the App Store, but instead a web page using Joe Hewitt's iUI CSS and JavaScript library.

( This is a link to an older technology based blog entry I wrote. )

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