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A friend of mine is developing an SMS application called “Luscious SMS“. I use this application not just because he made it but rather because it is a super application to send SMS from your mac.

The advantage over all other SMS applications is that you can send SMS over every service you want. So I use it with the Swisscom plugin to send SMS over my Swisscom youth account. But if there isn’t a plugin for your service you can use the service from treeinspired for 0.10€/SMS (the app has a built-in store) or develop your own plugin with the nice and easy to use “Plugin Designer”. If you chose the latter one you can send SMS over the service of your choise and share the plugin to the community.

Luscious SMS supports also some communication with your Mobile Phone. You can synchronize your SMS from Luscious SMS with the SMS’s on your phone. A disadvantage in this part is the missing support for the iPhone. I wish i could sync the notes from my iPhone with them on Luscious SMS

And finally it convince wit a nice Apple Mail like GUI.

You can get Luscious SMS here: http://www.luscious-sms.net/

Now I’m using the iPhone firmware 1.1.3 for almost three weeks. Now it’s time to write a short blog post about it.

It’s definitely the best update since the iPhone is on the market. It has a much improved stability and it’s much faster then all prior releases. The cover flow does not anymore crash all the times! I’m very happy with the new links in your springboard feature, that’s super! The lyrics feature is pretty good when you are watching podcasts!

The google maps locate me feature is not working very good. Most time it displays a radius of over 20km. But one time it helped me actually finding a location :-). Although i must say i love the paper scrolling effect in the new maps app. Please make more suggestive use of the core animation technology.

So now I’m waiting for the SDK. I have already an idea for an iPhone app but maybe it will take till summer to realize it because I will never have the time to work on it ;-). However I hope i can release an other iPhone tool soon. Be patient!

Recapitulatory i can say the update was absolutely worth it. Till it is so easy to update with ZiPhone (actually it’s even easier then it was on my last blog post) everybody should update!

Yesterday evening I updated to 1.1.3 (with restore over iTunes). After that I used this new tool to activate and jailbreak my iPhone.

1. Boot Windows XP (The mac version doesn’t work)
2. Install iTunes 7.4.2
3. Download the ziphone
4. Execute somthing like ziphone.exe -j -a (i have bootloader 3.9, so unlock (-u) won’t work)
5. Folow the instructions on the screen
6. Use anySim (1.3 for firmware 1.1.3) in Airplane Mode!. Skip that if you have unlocked it already in step 4
7. Enjoy your new 1.1.3 iPhone

So now lets start arrange your icons however you want and locate yourself! In e few day’s I will write about my experience with 1.1.3.

Today I was wondering if it is possible to add support to my WordPress blog. First I got started with google and found this plugin. It needs dvipng which isn’t installed on my web-space. So I searched along for another plugin and found this one which is working great now! The installation is really simple, you need to create three directories and modify a few include paths in PHP files. Provided that you have installed latex, dvips, convert and identify on your web server.
Some examples:

or have a look at my first post with latex formulas in it.

You are on a train, in a meeting or at the auditorium and you would start your mac. Press the power button and then BOOOM… oh i hate this moments! Everyone is looking at you, thats sometimes a bit embarrassing.Now i found a solution: StartupSound.PrefPane from Arcana Research. That’s a really good utility! Thx!

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