Techno Babble

Following on from the recent announcement of a deal between Nokia and Microsoft to run Silverlight on its handsets. There are rumours that Microsoft will build a version of Silverlight to work on the iPhone.

Microsoft is aiming to take a share of the RIA market from Adobe Flash and this approach would certainly provide another push. Their aim is to provide Silverlight across all available mobile platforms, not only for Windows based devices.

It is unclear exactly how the proposed pricing plan from Apple would affect downloads of Silverlight to the iPhone would Apple charge for each download of Silverlight from iTunes?

However, this is unlikely to be much of a problem considering they do work together occasionally. This was demonstrated by the recent collaboration between Apple and Microsoft in providing ActiveSync technology for the iPhone that allows e-mail to be pushed directly to Mobile devices from Microsoft’s Exchange Server.

The telekinesis project at Google Code, allows you to access your Mac through a collection of mini web applications, on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Although still a developer prototype, which is intended only as a demo, it is available to download from the project home page at

http://code.google.com/p/telekinesis/

This provides an application iPhone Remote which you install and run on your Mac.

Then you can connect to the installed machine through its name, or IP address, in the Safari web browser on your iPod Touch, or iPhone, as follows:

https://NAME OF YOUR MAC HERE:5010/

and you are presented with a screen display similar to the following

Amongst other applications, as well as being able to see what is happening on your Mac screen (using the screen application) there is also an application which allows you to use the iPod as a remote control for the Mac.

I also came across another useful write-up on this topic at

http://www.sipedia.co.uk/mac/ipodwifistream.php

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The unofficial Apple Weblog

http://www.tuaw.com/

The iPhone Dev Wiki

http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/

Inside the iPhone

http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=200001811

iPhone Framework Documentation updated to version 1.1.2

http://ericasadun.com/iPhoneDocs112/

A number of related articles including

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/07/13/iphone-os-x-architecture-the-mach-kernel-and-ram/

The Apple iPhone dissected

http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3026

A document describing how to create native iPhone applications

www.lucasnewman.com/phonedev.pdf

Discussion about various topics at ajaxian

http://ajaxian.com/by/topic/iphone/

various code samples

http://thebends.org/~allen/iphone/

Files2Phones is an application that allows you to access your desktop PC (or Mac) directly from your iPhone or iPod Touch.

http://www.myf2p.com/

It is not necessary to install anything on the iPhone or iPod Touch, all the functionality is available through the Safari web browser.

The software installs the Files2Phones Access Server on your desktop PC. During installation a web address (for example, yourname.my2fp.com) is created for your computer and this is what you use to access your desktop computer.

You can determine which files and folders are made available and Files2Phones provides multiple security options to protect your data and access to the desktop. Public, Private and Guest areas are available.

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