Hold the presses, where did this come from? twenty08 has released a beta AIM client for the iPhone. The interface is very snazzy, looking a lot more like iChat than ApolloIM. I’ll have to give it a try tonight and see how it compares. Doesn’t look like it has suspend support like Apollo, wouldn’t it be nice if they combined the best of both worlds here? Use the back-end of Apollo with the pretty face of twenty08’s ‘mobile chat’.
For some reason the builder decided to put a single mirror up in the master bathroom between the two sinks. This might have just been for budget reasons for the project or he envisioned the buyer changing out the mirror anyways.
Well I’ve crooked my neck to the side for the last time, I went to Home Depot and picked up another matching mirror and hung them both over each sink, oh how nice to be washing up in the morning, look up, and see me instead of wall 
The rest of my day was filled with lawn care, cleaning up inside the house a bit. Didn’t get a chance to hang those stinking window treatments in the great room… Oh well, project for another day!
ApolloIM has made some great progress, I can now login, see my buddy list and have a conversation. It stills bombs when I disconnect though. Keep your eyes on this project, with almost 9500 downloads of their previous release, and 4700 in 24hrs for the last release this has to be one of the most popular applications for the iPhone.
The answer to having more than 16 applications has come from the hands of natetrue. A truly easy to use fancy solution. It shows a little yellow spot in the lower right corner of the screen, swiping from the corner towards the center of the screen displays a big dial with all your apps. Slide to the one you want to launch and release.
Now it isn’t perfect, in fact I would take a screenshot for you but it broke the screenshot bin, it just errors out with
screenshot[125:d03] Couldn’t register with bootstrap server unknown error code (0×44f); failing…
125: ABORT: Unable to register “UnknownPurpleApp” port, 1103 unknown error code
Abort trap
Another gripe of mine is all these application installer packaging. I have no problem if one wants to support using their schemes, but don’t only support them. I have no intention of ever using those installer applications. Call me crazy, but if you aren’t comfortable enough with doing a wget …;tar -xvzf …; mv ….; then you shouldn’t be modding your iPhone! And don’t give me the excuse that you are saving time by using their installers. Unless you are a really slow typer you should be able to ssh in and do the dirty work in less than 30 seconds to get an app installed. It isn’t rocket science, but then again if you aren’t that comfortable with linux then maybe those installer apps are just what the doctor ordered for you (just don’t complain when something goes wrong and you have to restore your iPhone to fix the mess). I just don’t see myself ever using them, so please when you release your iPhone app, don’t just make it a pxl package and not give us manual instructions also, pretty please?!
Which brings me to Dock 2.0 pxl. After the jump I’ll show you how to install manually without those pxl installers.
