Hi! I'm Nathan Hoad

I like to draw things and write code

The iphone tag has 7 posts

Now iPhone optimised

I just added support for Mobile Safari (or most other mobile browsers) to my blog. There are two ways you can do this: detect the User-Agent of the browser and do something server side, or, the somewhat more lazy way to do it is to just let the browser itself work it out. I chose the lazy way for now.

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Introducing Not the Word

I'd like to introduce you to my first iPhone game: Not the Word. Not the Word is a brain-bending puzzle game that pits you against your reflexes; The faster you try to go the hard it gets :-P.

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Intro to iPhone-optimising your Rails site

Creating an iPhone optimised version of your web site is fairly straight forward. The setup process is simple and then from there you can be as thorough as you want to be.

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How to: Home screen icon in iPhone web app

Ever wondered how some iPhone web applications manage to get an automatic icon when adding them to Springboard (your home screen)? All you have to do is add this to the <head> of your page:

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Initial iPhone version of my blog

I just put up an iPhone optimised version of this blog at iphone.nathanhoad.net. For this early version I have only included basic post reading but intend on eventually including all of the functionality of the full site.

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How to: Take a screenshot on an iPhone

After having a look around the Internet at some of the reviews for various iPhone applications available I began wondering how they managed to snap screenshots of the apps. I knew it had to be part of the iPhone Operating System because it would need to be available to any application.

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iPhone

I got a brand new 16GB iPhone this afternoon :-D (this message was posted from the iPhone).