Brian Minor

A couple weeks ago I set out to try and figure out, how to install the same application twice on the iPhone. The results where slim to none and there was only one site I found that had promise, but every time I tried it the app would crash before it could fully load. So I decided to take the little information I had learned and figure it out on my own. And I am happy to say I had success and have had the same application on the iPhone working for a week with no issues.

Watch the video or follow the step by step directions and if you have any issue getting it to work just let me know what app and I will see what I can do.

Directions

1. Open iTunes
2. Go into the Application section
3. Right click on the application you want to duplicate
4. Select Show in Finder (Show in Explorer on PCs)
5. Right click on the .ipa file and copy it to you desktop (or where every you’d like)
6. Replace the .ipa with .zip – An IPA files is just another type of a .Zip file
7. Un-compress the zip file
8. Open the new folder and Go into the Payload folder
9. Right click on the App and select show package contents (MAC ONLY STEP, Should just be a folder on the Windows)
10. Find the Info.plist files and open it in you favorite editor. (I prefer Plist Editor Pro)
11. Change the “Bundle display” name to whatever you’d like. This is the name that will be displayed on the iPhone (optional step)
12. Change the “Bundle identifier” (I recommend just putting a 2 at the end.)
13. Save the file
14. Open your favorite FTP software and connect into your iPhone/iPod Touch
15. Navigate to the root directory and then into the Application folder
16. Transfer the application into this folder
17. Reboot or Respiring your iPhone/iPod and the application should now be somewhere on your home-screen
18. Open the App and enjoy

If you have any issue please watch the video above.

So last Friday I finally received the much anticipated (at least by me) Magic Mouse in the mail (see unboxing video below) and have been using it everyday since.

The mouse is pretty amazing, I’ve been using the Mighty Mouse for close to two years now and the transition from one to the other was easy and smooth.

Normal everyday use with the mouse is great I don’t have any issues with the scrolling or multi-touch options. Over all I love the mouse. The only issues I’ve had is when I took it home over last weekend and edited a wedding using Final Cut Pro.

The mouse is worthless for using with FCP, the vertical scrolling cause the playhead and all the other controls to go nuts while trying to edit. You basically have to not touch the mouse while the video is playing. My main issues came when using the multi-cam edits in FCP. I use this feature a lot with weddings and it works great, but not with this mouse. any slight vertical scroll and the play head go 5-10 minutes back or forward and you have to relocate your place. But I forced myself to use it thinking I would eventually just get used to it and I really thought I had, till I was finished with the edit. Thats when I notices that a ton of my clips where off by a signal frame. I have no clue exactly how it happened, but I know it had to be the Magic Mouse and that it took forever to correct.

So I’ve taken the mouse to work with me where I rarely, to never use FCP, so the harmony is back and I am loving the mouse. It’s slim, comfortable, and glides easily on the desk. So i would recommend it to other just as long as their not heavy FCP users.

Side note: I’m really hoping to find a way to disable the vertical scrolling just in FCP I think that alone will solve all my issues. So if you know of a way please let me know.

And now, onto the video:

So it took me 3 years and 11 months, but it has finally happened! I was actually able to talk work into buying me a Mac Mini to use as my full time computer!

The Mini is an amazing little device, not the most powerful, but more then enough for coding websites, doing some minor video editing and installing a virtual XP box so I can still troubleshoot all the annoying phone support calls I get.

Most of you know I have been working with the Hackint0sh installer and actually had a decent amount of luck with it, but no matter how much I put into it, my performance always seemed lacking. I am sure if you built your PC with just the right equipment you may actually not even notice.

I have had the Mini for 3 work days now and I just finally got everything I believe I need installed. And the thing is still running like a top. Lets just say I am one happy employee.

Anyways enough about it here is the unboxing if your interested. Sorry for the poor camera work I really need to get one of those tripod things for my iPhone.

Now for all my nerd friends/followers, I know there have been a ton of these already posted on the internet, but I had a few reason why I wanted to still post my own.

1. I am just really excited to have one to unbox (even if it’s works and not my own personal one.)
2. I figure it would give me another post to describe how much I love the Drobo
3. Because I can.

So some of you may be wondering what in the world a DroboPro is:

The easiest way to explain it, is a device that you can put multiple hard drives in that creates one large drive but remove some of the entire storage space for automatically keeping all your files backed up. So a drive or 2 (in the case of the Pro) can go completely bad and all your files are still safe and sound.

So without any further ado here is the DorboPro unboxing…

This has gotta be the best iPhone costume I have ever seen. If only I had the money to make my own.

So Google announced a new project called Google Wave. And I gotta say it looks pretty cool. They classify it as “What email would look like if it were invented today“. I do like the look and feel of it. The built in IM features are pretty slick and it has a lot of potential to go future then even Google could probabaly think up (which is why they made it an open source).

The major drawback is that it does rely highly on HTML 5, which if you ask me is a huge issue, being a web developer for 10+ years now (wow I’m old) one of the first things you learn is that people don’t upgrade their web browser and if you site wont work in their crazy old IE 6  then it’s your fault and not theirs. It’s sad and pathetic, but the number version of IE 6 out there is just ridiculous.

Also keep in mind that HTML 5 isn’t supported in IE7 or Firefox yet either. So far IE8 which is still in Beta, Safari 3 and Chrome will support parts of it and of course as always Opera is way out ahead of the pack with the most support of HTML5

I’m sure eventually Google Wave could grow to be something pretty cool. And it will definitely be something loved among the tech savvy crowd, but by the time the rest of the world catches up I am sure there will be something even better a bigger out. Which they will probably not see until the next cool thing and so on. Will this cycle ever end?

If you missed it and want to hang out a watch the 1.5 hour presentation, I have posted the video below. Also be sure to tell me how wrong or right I am about or what you think about Google Wave.