http://www.fromthefrontend.co.uk Interviews, reviews, tips and news about (x)html, CSS, Graphics, Hacks, Browsers, Tools and of course Webstandards. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:24:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today I was pleased to discover the Wordpress App on the App Store. With six apart having a Typepad App available from App Store launch day Wordpress users had been feeling a little left out. This was especially frustrating as using Wordpress from the iPhone Safari browser was near impossible ... http://www.fromthefrontend.co.uk/2008/08/07/wordpress-app-for-iphone-finally-arrives/ At last! No longer will you be tied to using the standard iPhone headphones to listen to your music while your fantastic headphones remain unused. While the iPhone 3G allows you to use regular headphones to listen to music - if you are interrupted by a call you have to ... http://www.fromthefrontend.co.uk/2008/07/28/iphone-calls-with-your-favourite-headphones/ The BBC have launched their new Music site. It is still in beta but already looks pretty polished. You can find out more about artists that have been played on any of the BBC radio stations. You can see how many times they've been played this week, which radio stations ... http://www.fromthefrontend.co.uk/2008/07/28/bbc-music-beta-launches/ This weekend I spoted the iPhone being used by various celebrity heroes and villains. Seems to be all the rage:Lord Vader still can't get used to working without a stylusSupergirl calls up Superman and complains about him swapping costumes again:Batgirl checks where she parked the Batmobile on google maps:Captain America ... http://www.fromthefrontend.co.uk/2008/07/28/iphone-the-phone-of-choice-for-super-heros-and-villans/ I'd love to say that the quality of Apps on the Apple App store is so superior to those made for jailbroken iPhones that no one would bother jailbreaking anymore. However, this is definitely not the case. While a few of the apps are quite polished a lot are on ... http://www.fromthefrontend.co.uk/2008/07/17/the-app-store-spells-death-to-jailbreaking-the-iphone/ With Mobile me up and running and Push working my iPhone 1 (the 3G just arrived and is syncing) Email is the new SMS/Text message. If your a heavy SMS user and burn through your free texts each month then having your most frequently texted buddies on Mobile me could ... http://www.fromthefrontend.co.uk/2008/07/14/email-its-the-new-sms/ so I've had time to play around with a dozen or so Apps from the iTunes store and scanned through the rest. Is there a giant leap in quality/selection compared to the mostly free Apps on AppTapp? Surprisingly - not really.Since doing a restore and moving to firmware 2.0 I've ... http://www.fromthefrontend.co.uk/2008/07/13/app-store-vs-jailbreak/ wordpress from iPhone using ShoZu test http://www.fromthefrontend.co.uk/2008/07/12/little-design-planet-logo/ Looks like between O2 and DHL they have mis-routed my parcel. It's in Dartford instead of Vauxhall and so I have been told I have to wait until Monday for it. Not impressed.I will be trying to collect from the depo but I won't hold my breath. http://www.fromthefrontend.co.uk/2008/07/11/iphone-disappointment-continues-delivery-fail/ It appears that UK iPhones require a PC to activate so the Apple store ran into trouble on today's launch as all their systems were running on Mac and couldn't activate the phones.LMAO.Full story here http://www.fromthefrontend.co.uk/2008/07/11/apple-store-activation-fail/