I added a link in the blog roll over to my personal blog. I’ve never done much with my weiland.net domain besides using it for email. I’ve always had my resume on it, and in the 90’s there was a landing page and a front to my portfollio, but I took it down several years ago. I was evaluating MangoBlog and decided to push up my bike riding exploits because everyone should follow along my exploits.

Head over to http://www.weiland.net/ and check out the new blog.

Yesterday we were hooking up dynamic loading of fonts, the next item to tackle was having a download manager to add external fonts to so they could be downloaded and ready to be used when the application loads. This download manager I envisioned could be used through out the application to cue up external fonts for downloading and once they are downloaded kick off the next process. Well it looks like someone has done the heavy lifting and created such a library. Arthur Debert has released BulkLoader an AS3 library on Google Code to handle such things.

The library looks good and easy to use, I’ll follow up with a post to our integration of it with our project.

No kidding. In an attempt to replicate first hand the Flash upload bug that is in Leopard 10.5 we attempted to upgrade one of our less used machines. During the installation it stopped and said that the installation couldn’t be performed on the hard drive and to restart the system and try again.

About 10 seconds into the restart the computer would shut off. It did this every time. I tried starting the computer in Firewire device mode and connected the system to another Mac to see what I could see. The internal hard drive didn’t show up at all. Running Disk Utility found it, but couldn’t repair it.

Then next step was to reformat the hard drive and try the install again. This proved to be futile as well. Leopard still couldn’t install to the hard drive. The only course of action now was a new hard drive. This got Leopard installed and the computer back to working.

I was able to reproduce the Flash Upload problem with the Certificate Creator and a clean install of Leopard. Luckily Apple has an update 10.5.1 that fixes this issue along with some others. After updating to to 10.5.1 the upload feature of the Certificate Creator works again.

BACKUP!

I’m pretty happy with my use of Parallels on my 17″ MacBook Pro. I don’t get into Windows that often, however when I do it fills my needs. I do see a lot of people out there that are moving to Fusion, this article on MacWorld discusses the process of moving your Parallels VM to Fusion.

My good friends at Integration New Media (INM) have started a blog, "Its goal is to offer context around
the business impact of emerging technology, rich Internet applications and more.” I’ve worked with INM for many years and used their products in development for 10 years. In case you don’t know INM is the creators of the V12 database xtra and the PDF Xtra. INM also was my vendor of choice for custom xtra development. While at Wasatch Interactive Learning they created our Wasatch Utils Xtra that handled printing, screen capture and saving images to the users hard drive for our Internet courseware.

I look forward to seeing what Vahe and his INM crew have to say on  emerging technology and Rich Internet Applications.

I’d been noticing lately that at times incoming calls on my iPhone were going straight to voicemail. In fact I’ve probably had more calls missed than have rang and I’ve picked up. At first I thought I just wasn’t hearing the ring or feeling the vibration. But the last couple of days made me thing something was up when I was waiting for a call and having the phone in my hand only to not have it ring but get a notification that I had new voicemail!

This morning I did some tests, I called several times and it wasn’t ringing, it would go to voicemail. Even more problematic was the fact that the voicemail I left was not coming through either. It took an hour for the voicemail to show up.

I turned the unit off and on several times to no avail. I took it down to the Apple Store and a genius there did a reboot of it and I was back in ringing business. I’m starting to see reports of iPhone users not being able to receive calls on their iPhone. These reports are saying that if the phone is retrieving data from the Edge network that all calls will go to voicemail.

I’m not sure if this was something I was running into, but now I know if I’m waiting for a call I shouldn’t be pulling data from the Edge network. I’ll keep my eye on it, but if you run into similar issues give your device a restart (hold down the lock/unlock button on top and the Home button for about 10 seconds until the Apple logo displays.

Along with the iPhone developer site from Apple there is a new iPhone developer blog that recently launched, iPhoneDispatch.com. iPhoneDispatch.com is a blog about using and developing on the iPhone written by Gary Rosenzweig. I know Gary from early days in the industry working in Director so I can’t wait to see what comes of his iPhone initiatives.

This wasn’t apparent to me and a google search wasn’t turning up a solution for me. I had a few photos that I’d taken with my iPhone that I wanted to move from the iPhone to my computer. Like I said I wasn’t seeing anything in iTunes for syncing photos from the camera. Google and the iPod manual weren’t turning up any information either. But on a hunch I launched iPhoto and low and behold iPhoto recognized the iPhone camera and there were the images.

I suspect most user might not run into this if they use iPhoto or have not turned off iPhoto to automatically launch when a camera is connected. A few months back I switched from using iPhoto for my digital darkroom workflow. I switched to Adobe Bridge to catalog my photos and turned off the feature in iPhoto to launch when a camera is connected. Here’s a photo from the iPhone, this is Zeb on his 3rd birthday out ice skating, I did size the image down for the web.

One of the iPhone dissapointments, besides the lack of Flash support, is the fact you can’t control your mac with it. I had hoped for the ability to send commands to AppleTV or other Macintoshes via bluetooth. Hopefully that ability will come in the future. For now there is the telekinesis iPhone Remote. The project appears to install a web server that has the ability to interact with the host system in such ways not possible with a traditional Web server.
Features:

• Stream music and videos from your computer ( 0.9.8 ) learn how
• Screen capture with mouse click and basic typing support
• Simple iTunes Remote control
• Browse your files
• Run applescript remotely
• iSight image capture
• Easily create and add more apps

Be sure to check out the security warnings, this might not be for everyone.

We added 8 certificates to the Certificate Creator that cover swimming, diving, football, honor roll and graduation!

• Swimming & Diving Certificates
• Honor Roll 3
• Honor Roll 2
• Celebrate - First Grade Graduation
• Graduation
• Certificate of Graduation
• Football - Certificate of Excellence
• New Clip Art

Log-in or join now to start using these and many more certificates.