Erica Sadun
erica at ericasadun.com
Erica Sadun | 2:46 pm | January 3, 2011 | AirFlick
Erica Sadun | 10:39 pm | January 1, 2011 | AirFlick
David Hopson, the author of the unofficial AirVideo Mac Client has added AirFlick support to his app. You can now start streaming an AirVideo movie directly through AirFlick using AirVideo Server transcoding. In related news, AirFlick has a new design and a lot of new features. Please send constructive suggestions on how to improve the user experience. Thanks to Jason Holtslander for the fabulous new icon. And yes, there’s finally Sparkle support.
Erica Sadun | 8:54 am | December 31, 2010 | AirFlick
Transcoding remains the biggest challenge of AirFlick, and the one that’s least in my wheelhouse of expertise. The latest version offers ffmpeg as an embedded alternative and I’m working on adding a File > Open-and-Convert option for non-realtime conversion. If anyone wants to jump forward with a way to task AirVideo Server from Objective C (rather than Ruby), that could be a pretty nice work-around. I’d also be interested in any feedback about VLC or ffmpeg settings, and ways to ensure that the transcoding speed matches playback speed. Just keep in mind that AirVideo Server’s target screen is less than a foot big in either direction and AirFlick’s target screen is typically HDTV.
Erica Sadun | 11:30 am | December 24, 2010 | AirFlick, AirPlayer, Macintosh, Uncategorized
Updates for both apps are regularly being posted. Please make sure you have the latest version before e-mailing me. And if you do e-mail me, please be aware that I’m looking for feedback and bug reports. I’m afraid cannot provide every user with personal support.
Erica Sadun | 11:31 am | December 15, 2010 | Macintosh, AirPlayer, Update, Utilities, iPod touch, iPhone
You can download and try the new build from my Macintosh SW folder
Erica Sadun | 3:44 pm | August 26, 2010 | Test Requests, Utilities
I’ve opened up the APIkit beta, so feel free to download the utility and test it out. Please leave comments about how well it works for you, suggested improvements, etc.Usage is apiscanner path-to-appname.app
Erica Sadun | 1:32 pm | July 13, 2010 | Misc, Macintosh, Utilities
Just posted a little utility that I use for switching between tiff, png, and jpeg screen captures. Thought it might turn out to be useful to others — do let me know in the comments. Cheers!
Erica Sadun | 10:27 am | June 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
Well, weak linking didn’t work as well as I’d hoped with the Draw for iPhone update. The application currently runs only on firmware 4.0 and later. I’m working on getting an update out there, so please be patient.
Erica Sadun | 10:08 am | | Macintosh, Utilities, iPhone
Hey all. I’m getting lots of e-mail requests to help with iPhone 4 units displaying their MakeItMine prefs. You restored from backup and the prefs traveled with that backup — and now you’re worried about bringing in your iPhone 4 to Apple.
So what do you do?
First, you can always restore your iPhone 4 and not restore from backup. That will allow you to bring in your iPhone to a genius bar without having a custom carrier. Alternatively, you can eliminate your com.apple.springboard.plist files from your backup folders. That allows you to restore from backup without bringing along the customization.
If you need to do the latter, download a copy of mdhelper from my Macintosh utilities folder. Run it at the command line as such:
./mdhelper -files com.apple.springboard.plist -list
The output includes “Matched File” listings, e.g.
Matched File: /Users/ericasadun/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/c4473bce90c232de9e1676fd10456b8c13b2029f-20091023-145902/662bc19b13aecef58a7e855d0316e4cf61e2642b.mdinfo
Those are the files you need to delete, that contain the com.apple.springboard.plist entries. Make sure you delete both the mdinfo file and any matching mddata file, which otherwise has the same name but the other extension.
An iPhone 4 jailbreak should be on the way momentarily and that will allow you to run MakeItMine directly.
For those of you who asked for a copy of the program, for self-signing and running, I’m afraid that won’t work for you. An iPhone needs to be jailbroken to be able to modify the com.apple.springboard.plist file, which lives outside the application sandbox. A self-signed standard app cannot update that file.
Good luck all, and let me know how it goes in the comments.
Erica Sadun | 7:14 am | May 26, 2010 | AppStore
Go have at ‘em. Doc Tool provides a handy viewer tool for many kinds of files and an entry point for “Open in” support for apps that offer that kind of app-to-app document transfer. Whiteboard is, well, a digital whiteboard. Both apps provide video out support so now’s a great time to try out your video-out cables with your iPad. An enhanced version of Whiteboard is waiting in Apple review, offering a way to load documents behind the main drawing, e.g. Powerpoint slides that you can draw on.