iCosta Failed Under SummerBoard
October 31st, 2007
Confirmed.
Now that the function of chinese input support is much more important than a pretty handsome apperance, then I uninstalled SummerBoard.
Of course, iCosta is back.
P.S. I’m in 1.0.2.
Update: iCosta CAN work under SummerBoard as holly pointed at the comment.
An Suggestion to Google Webmaster Tool
October 28th, 2007
Here’s the how the issue comes from.
I find two Not found URLs in Google’s
webmaster tools. And i wanna fix it.
But Google doesn’t tell me which page the error URLs are located in.
Fortunately this site is still young and there’s only 40 articles in it. After three searches in the source of the article pages, I found the error pages and then make them right. The whole process cost me about 5 minutes.
It’s not such a long time, but what if this happened in an aged site, like TechCrunch, which has hundreds of posts and pages? How and how much could the webmaster locate the error pages and fix the issue efficiently?
Well, it’s not a big deal, but we webmasters do benefit from its fix. And i’m sure it’s a win-win to google and website owners as well.
I’ve Got a PR!
October 27th, 2007
Not a high value, but much better than nil, anyway 
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Yes, it’s 2.
Today is Oc.27, 2007. And I’m gonna see when it grows to 3 or 4
Add Your Local Language Dictionary to iPhone
October 25th, 2007
1.You must install weDict first by either iBrickr or Installer.
2.Then download the dictionary in your language from startdict.
For me, I downloaded the oxford-gb dictionary(en - zh_CN) 牛津现代英汉双解词典(click to download). And the file I got is stardict-oxford-gb-2.4.2.tar.bz2.
3.Now unzip the .bz2 file by winrar, which is the one I take, or any other uncompress software you prefer.
Three files extracted: oxford-gb.idx, oxford-gb.ifo,oxford-gb.dict.dz.
4.Re-unzip the .dz file by the freeware 7zip to a .dict one. WinRar can’t do this for you.
5.Copy the .idx and .dict files to iPhone’s /var/root/Library/weDict/ by WinSCP or Putty.
6.Launch weDict and enjoy!
Update: for the most recent weDict version 0.5, in order to make the newly added dictionary work, you have to manually choose the dictionary first(which is not necessary in the previous version).You can get it by checking the following picture out.
One more thing,if you use WinScp to copy the dict files to iPhone, make sure you copy them to the right place, because WinScp’s default folder for iphone is very similar to the right folder. Again, see the picture, please.
Update(Feb 12,2008): If you are in firmware 1.1.3 and weDict can’t work any more, you may check out George’s fix as quoted below. There’s lots of other fixes here.
weDict stores the dictionary index cache in /var/root/Library/weDict, if for some reason this folder was not created (which is my case), apply the following fix:
mkdir /var/mobile/Library/weDict chown mobile /var/mobile/Library/weDict ln -s /var/mobile/Library/weDict /var/root/Library/.
Update(Jul.10,2008): I’ve uploaded the oxford ready-for-iphone dict files here(click to download). Download and unzip it to your local disk, then copy the two dict files to the right folder on the phone. Launch wedict and enjoy.
NativeCn: One More Chinse IME For iPhone
October 23rd, 2007
NativeCn is another chinese input method for iphone. It works only under fw 1.1.1 as said. Most latest build is 1.0.1 beta.
Compared with iCosta which i use in my iphone(1.0.2), NativeCn has more input methods like Traditional Chinese(繁体), Guangdong(粤语) even Japanese.
Installation steps:
1. Download NativeCn_1.01.zip;
2. Extract then copy the folder to iphone’s folder: Applications/
3. Set the execute permission by running:
cd /Applications/NativeCn.app
chmod +x ncn
The installer.app installation is under developing.
Since my ff is 1.0.2 then i haven’t got the chance to take a try on NativeCn yet. And i’m sure i will later, after an upgrade to 1.1.1.
iCosta:The First System-Level Chinese Input Method in iPhone
October 20th, 2007
Yeah! All chinese iphone owners can now enter chinese characters in any iphone applications now! Yes, you get it: a platform IME! COOL,right? :-):-):-)
Oh, I forgot its name: iCosta. And now version is 0.9.
If you use Installer (AppTApp), please launch Safari in iphone to visit here. Then follow the instructions and reboot your iphone;
If you use iBrickr, then download iCosta.pxl and install from your local disk. Don’t forget to reboot your iphone, either.
And the switch between en keyboard and ch is “.124” key. Try it out now! Time to say goodbye to my installed SMS chin apps now with much appreciation
iPhone 1.1.1 Unlocked!
October 16th, 2007
Since AnySIM 1.1 is for virgin iphone 1.1.1 only, I’m waiting for next release with the re-virginizer.
It’s around the corner, i know that
Mp3Tag:Add Album Art Easily for Songs in iPhone
October 14th, 2007
As said,
“Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata (ID3, Vorbis Comments and APE) of common audio formats.”
I love two of its features most:
1. batch edit tag info
Just add the album songs into Mp3Tag then edit as whatever you want. very awesome.
2. get album art from online database like amazon.
since this feature highly depend on your orginal mp3’s orginal tag info which most likely are very few sometimes even wrong, I for now still use google image search to get the picture for the album manually, then set it with the above feature.
Of course, Mp3Tag is free. I love freeware
And sure you can donate to them if you could.
Mobile Firefox
October 12th, 2007
I really love to see this: Firefox Mobile in The Works.
You know why? Because that means the following pictures gonna be true in the near future
iPhone Official Apps? Not For Me.
October 11th, 2007
Not that I dislike iPhone apps, but because it’s said that most of them are web-based. You may know why that below.
Here in Beijing,China, the scenario that i use my iphone goes like this:
On the way to office/home , I use iPhone as an iPod, an eBook Reader and a gaming device. In other words, all the apps i use frequently are native ones. They must be running when iphone is offline.
While in the office or at home, I use it to surf the web, as it designs to be.
But why that? Simple, because the speed of EDGE/GPRS are not so well as it should be.
Anyway, I’m not an iphone ‘official user’, so the ‘offical’ apps are not for me 
