Hijinks Inc.

Category: Apple

  • iPhone World Domination

    Here’s a complete list (as of 5/17/08) of all the countries the iPhone is currently sold in/soon to be sold in. Pretty impressive.

    • Australia
    • Austria
    • Belgium
    • Canada
    • Czech Republic
    • Dominican Republic
    • Egypt
    • France
    • Germany
    • Greece
    • Ireland
    • India
    • Italy
    • Jordan
    • Mexico
    • New Zealand
    • Phillippins
    • Poland
    • Portugal
    • Romania
    • Singapore
    • Slovakia
    • South Africa
    • Switzerland
    • Turkey
    • United Kingdom
    • United States of America
    • Various countries in Latin America

    Couple that with the 3G iPhone launch and Apple might actually make their goal of 10m iPhones sold by the end of the year.

  • Terminal Tips: Part 5

    [13] defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES Terminal.app
    This command lets you see the current path of the Finder window you are in. Quite handy if you’re working with a ton of finder windows.

    [14] defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool YES
    Enables Quit in Finder. killall Finder command is required to take effect.

    [15] telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
    Using a simple telnet address your Terminal will connect and play Star Wars Episode IV in its ASCII glory.

  • Terminal Tips: Part 4

    [10] defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YESTerminal.app
    Leopard only. Replaces the 3D dock with a 2D one. Requires killall Dock to take effect.

    [11] defaults write -g NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool TRUE
    This sets the save dialogue to the expanded view as default. Requires restart. Replace TRUE with FALSE to disable.

    [12] sudo chmod 0 /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app
    This command removes the spotlight icon from your menu bar. Type 755 instead of 0 to re-enable it. Requires killall Spotlight command to take effect.

  • Apple Mini-Tablet?

    Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer announced that Apple would be using the relatively new Intel Atom processor in a future iPhone release. The new model reportedly would feature a larger display, correlating with past rumors about a mini-tablet (720×480) device to be coming from Apple.

    English translation:

    As part of an Intel event for the 40th birthday of the semiconductor company at Munich’s BMW World, Germany managing director Hannes Schwaderer confirmed today what has long been a rumor on the Internet: namely, that there is an iPhone with Intel’s new Atom chip. The device is slightly larger than the current version, Schwaderer said. That is not, however, because of the Intel chip, but because of the larger display used in the new iPhone.

    While Schwaderer refers to the device as a larger “version of the iPhone”, it could easily be referring to the rumored mini-tablet device, that some have suggested would be introduced at WWDC.

    If Apple does release any product akin to a tablet or mini-tablet computer, I would buy one in 14.3 seconds flat. Though I might spend a little more time weighing the purchase if the the price is higher than $999, or if the specs are incredibly weak.

  • Terminal Tips: Part 3

    Yay! More terminal commands!Terminal.app

    [7] whois
    It’s a handy way to quickly track down registration/contact information about domain ownership. Simply enter whois domainnamehere.com.

    [8] defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg
    If you use the screen shot function, you may at times want to change the format it stores the images in. Where jpg is in the code you can change it to whatever format you want, png, bmp, gif, etc. You will need to restart for the changes to take effect.

    [9] defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'
    This command creates a new stack in your dock so you can view recently used Applications. A quick killall Dock command is required for the change to take effect.