Scott MacHaffie

Here is an easy way to get rid of email on your iPhone that can’t be sent.  (Why would you get unsendable email?  Well, in my case it came from having three-year-old twin boys…)

1.  Switch to Airplane mode (Settings / Airplane Mode / On)

2.  You may have to turn off the fetching of new mail temporarily as well (Settings / Fetch new data / Advanced / / Manual)

3.  Create and send a new message

These steps will force the Outbox to be visible (from the Mail application go to Mailboxes and you will see the Outbox).

4.  Delete the messages you don’t want.

5.  Reverse the changes you made to Settings.

That’s it!

Ever wonder what game ratings really mean?

• 10  Average
• 9.5  Below average
• 9  So awful it’s not even worth the free review copy we got

Allen Wong created a Palm-in-a-book and is now working on a revised version: a solar-powered Palm device. For the book, he stuck a Palm PDA into a notebook, then added an infrared keyboard.

For the solar version, he tore everything apart and is working on making the combination solar-powered. Very cool hacking–I hope he gets it working.

I needed to check our model train track for continuity, for our boys. I didn’t have a multimeter, so I improvised. I used a 9-volt battery, an LED, and a wire. I consider this absolutely basic stuff–something I learned so long ago, I’ve forgotten when I learned it.

I hope that we can teach our boys that they are capable of solving problems.

We went to Fry’s yesterday and looked at the videos.  Fry’s put “The Adventures of Baron von Munchhausen” and “Corpse Bride” into the Family section.  While I personally agree with that choice (although they aren’t appropriate for three year olds), I was surprised that a company felt that way as well.

If you have young children, you may have found that some of the popular sites for TV characters have simple online games.

It looks to me like these games are contracted out to separate companies.  Even within a site, the games have different artwork (for the most part, although the main characters seem to be consistent, so those must be supplied by the main company).

One game had music and sound effects that wouldn’t have been out of place in an 80s arcade game.  Amusingly,  one of the lines by the main character had static in it.  Apparently they hadn’t bothered to clean up their original recording, since digital music won’t introduce static.

If you are interested in developing for Palm OS, then you probably want the Palm OS Development Suite (now called the Garnet OS Development Suite…the initials mean something, I’m sure…)

After some searching, this appears to be the correct link: http://www.accessdevnet.com/index.php/Garnet-OS-Development-Suite/View-category.html

Some people have developed an iPhone SDK through some serious hacking.

And in February, Apple is supposed to release their iPhone SDK. I’m excited–I am going to port Double Chess to the iPhone when I get a chance.