MMS photo upload is really a multi-part email with photo attachment sent from a phone. To receive and process MMS photo on a server, one can either run procmail locally or use a POP/IMAP fetcher.
"Stress-free Incoming E-Mail Processing with Rails" describes how to process incoming email with Rails. MMS2R can then be used to process MMS, stripping out ads and other junk that a network provider (e.g. Sprint) may insert into the message. Sprint even goes a step further and stores the photo on their servers instead of in the message itself.
"Experimental Mobile Gateway" talks about SMS processing in Python and MMS processing to post blogs to LiveJournal.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Monday, July 30, 2007
Caltrain Schedule for Mobile Phones
Go mobile and save some trees and polar bears at the same time! Now you can access Caltrain schedule on your web-enabled cell phones at http://m.iCaltrain.com. It's a simpler version of the iPhone site that should render well on most modern mobile browsers. I've tested it on Palm, Windows Mobile, Nokia, and Samsung phones.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
iCaltrain: Caltrain schedule for iPhone
I released a version of the Caltrain schedule for the iPhone at http://iCaltrain.com using a mix of Python, PHP, and the iUI toolkit.
Friday, July 13, 2007
3 Steps to Activate the iPhone without AT&T Service
This is a step-by-step guide to activate and unlock your iPhone without AT&T service. It will let you use Safari and other iPhone apps (except YouTube) over WiFi.
On July 3rd, DVD Jon published techniques to unlock the iPhone and activate it without AT&T service. It is not SIM unlock so it won't let you use your iPhone on other GSM networks (e.g. T-mobile). On July 10th, PQ DVD streamlined the techniques into a single, one-click Windows app.
Step 1: Install iTunes 7.3.0.54. No other versions of iTunes are currently supported. Apple released v7.3.1.3 on July 11th, so you'll need to find an archived version. At the time of writing, you can find v7.3.0.54 here.
Optional step: Connect your iPhone over USB and verify that it's detected by iTunes, then quit iTunes.
Step 2: Run iPhone Unlock Toolkit, and click the "Unlock iPhone" button. It streamlines the process of patching iTunes, adding an entry for albert.apple.com to your etc/hosts file, and running a local server to respond to the activation request.
Step 3: Disconnect and re-connect your iPhone. iTunes will detect the iPhone, start automatically, and ask you to activate your iPhone. Click "Cancel" and you're done!
On July 3rd, DVD Jon published techniques to unlock the iPhone and activate it without AT&T service. It is not SIM unlock so it won't let you use your iPhone on other GSM networks (e.g. T-mobile). On July 10th, PQ DVD streamlined the techniques into a single, one-click Windows app.
Step 1: Install iTunes 7.3.0.54. No other versions of iTunes are currently supported. Apple released v7.3.1.3 on July 11th, so you'll need to find an archived version. At the time of writing, you can find v7.3.0.54 here.
Optional step: Connect your iPhone over USB and verify that it's detected by iTunes, then quit iTunes.
Step 2: Run iPhone Unlock Toolkit, and click the "Unlock iPhone" button. It streamlines the process of patching iTunes, adding an entry for albert.apple.com to your etc/hosts file, and running a local server to respond to the activation request.
Step 3: Disconnect and re-connect your iPhone. iTunes will detect the iPhone, start automatically, and ask you to activate your iPhone. Click "Cancel" and you're done!
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