As a front-end web developer, also a mobile-web developer, the Palm’s new WebOS SDK for Pre sounds very attractive, and I could not wait to create some applications although I am still a iPhone user and haven’t been convinced to switch a service provider.

Then I felt like, I already got this web app, iCuteoverload for iPhone but yeah why not for Pre? So I decide to re-create the same app from scratch. Sure, the existing app is a web app that wrote with JavaScript framework iUI and PHP, does run fine on Pre’s web browser since Pre is based on Webkit browser. However, I wanted to make this app a standalone client with Mojo framework so I needed to code from scratch.

Anyway, here it is, iCO for Palm is now available at PreCentral. The official store is not yet open, so the installing the app may require a bit of geeky skills, but if you happen to be a Pre user and would like to try, follow this tutorial on how to install homebrew apps on Pre for Mac users (And this is for Windows users instruction).

By the way, I keep this app name begins with i, because I already have named so for iPhone and wanted to keep it for consistency. However, in Pre community, this seems to be a pretty bad thing to do. People see me as a clueless Apple fan

Gotta have this picture of iPhone cupcakes here! Can’t resist.
These cupcakes by Nick Bilton and Danielle Bilton, took the 1st prize of The Cupcake Decorating Championship.

See more about the tasty cupcakes at daniellebilton.com

Yay! As a part of “Start Wearing Purple” campaign, Simone Legno has designed the purple Sandy T-shirt for Yahoo! (Yep. Just as most of other Y! tees, this is made by sweat-shop-free American apparel.)

As you can guess by my style, I am actually a fan of the designer and both my Mac and iPhone have Tokidoki wallpapers. (So some guys working for this campaign had tipped off to me about this T-shirt before the launch.)

Also in this campaign movie, he expresses his purple passion!

There were Versace by Nokia, Dolce & Gabbana by Motorola, Prada by LG etc. And now Dior will have its own luxury mobile phone, manufactured by ModeLabs of France, with the high price-tag of $5000! This is like a Vertu price, sans the concierge service…

The Dior phones won’t be available in the US, or even Europe – available only in China and Russia.

OK, I am a sucker for Juicy Couture and I even own

Source: GeekSugar

Where to buy: Nordstrom

OMG, OMG, OMG!!! A Hello Kitty mobile phone charger!!!

The Charger comes with cables that compatible with Nokia, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson major devices, and powered by three AAA batteries.

OK, I am sick of being judged with stereotypes and prejudice, but one thing I know about myself that perfectly fit a typical “Japanese girl” is the Hello Kitty obsession.

I admit that I want one really bad!!!

Source (and the photo):
IntoMobie

I came back from Japan last week and finally I am recovered from jet lag.

Anyway, today, I will hear more details on gPhone announcement later, but I post this pink “yPhone” pic I took during my stay in Japan.

Unfortunatelly, this is not a gPhone-competitor or anything sexy that excites the US mobile users… actually, this is my friend’s phone by Softbank*, equipped with “Y!” button to launch Yahoo! Japan apps.

*Notes: Softbank Corp. owns Vodafone Japan, also its subsidaries includes Yahoo!

Now iCuteoverload is on Apple’s iPhone web app directory, and girliemac.com has gotten new visitors.
Thank you!

Now here it is – iPod Shuffle in pink.
The package is sold at Target, and a potion of the sales will be donated to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The price for this 1GB iPod is $79.

OK, iCuteOverload beta (preview at: girliemac.com/cute on iPhone!) is almost official.

Before handing to Megan, I made another change – converting YouTube Flash embed (that is not supported by iPhone) to YouTube video link to open in iPhone’s YouTube app. Thanks to Isao Yagi, who gave me tips to my regex question on php-user list, I could make this work.

Here’s how the regex code in php looks.

pattern to look for:

$p = ' /<object[\S\s]+?http:\/\/www\.youtube\.com\/v\/([\w\-]+)"[\S\s]+? <\/object>/i ';.

This look for a html object tag that includes YouTube link, and capture the video ID to re-create a new link.
As long as I found, the video ID can contain any alpha-numeric char (\w) and hyphen (\-).
Use /i to make it case-insensitive just in case.

replace string:

$r = ' <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\1"><img src="images/watch_youtube.png" alt="watch!" width="200" height="56"/></a>';

then use preg_replace function to replace the string:

$content = preg_replace($p, $r, $content);


I use an image button link to launch YouTube app.
The captured video ID for Flash is now taken as a query string. This should work fine!

However!!! I just found that NOT all YouTube videos are available for iPhone yet…
So when I try the latest CuteOverload entry, I got this sad message, “Could not load movie”.

According to Apple Support, they will apparently be in sync by the end of the summer.