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Comment on iPhone 4S, Meet The Palm Touchstone Inductive Charger by OkGoDoIt

OkGoDoIt — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:47:00 +0000

Wow, somehow my post is on the first page of Google results for “iphone inductive charger”! Apparently there are a lot of people that really wish the iPhone had the great simple charging solution pioneered by Palm with the Pre and Pixi.

I was excited to post this early work to get my new iPhone 4s charging from my Touchstone, but honestly I don’t have much in the way of electric/circuits experience. Most of my tech expertise is in software, far abstracted from the underlying electronic plumbing. And I realized not long after posting this that even if I were to learn the necessarily skills, it would at best result in a clunky hacked solution, not anywhere near the elegant integrated solution of the Palm phones.

Regardless, after more than half a year with my iPhone, I’m really not enjoying it much. It certainly is great in some ways, but in other ways it falls so short as to be nearly unusable. Android and Windows Phone also have their share of pros and cons, and no current platform is anywhere near perfect. That being said, for my needs, I’m probably going to switch back to Android soon. I’m mainly waiting to see if Google will give me another one for free at this year’s Google I/O, or if I should go back to my old Evo 4G.

If the iPhone was the perfect phone like the Pre used to be, and iOS was the perfect platform like WebOS used to be, I’d definitely keep working on this project to make it even better. But really I don’t see the point. The iPhone isn’t worth this much time and effort on my part, sadly.

For those who would like to continue trying to get the iPhone to charge inductively, this webpage was a great resource for me at the time: http://www.ladyada.net/make/mintyboost/icharge.html

If anyone has any cool implementations to share, let me know, and I’d be happy to post them here. Perhaps I can use my Google ranking to help others find a good solution :-)

Comment on iPhone 4S, Meet The Palm Touchstone Inductive Charger by Joseph Cortez

Joseph Cortez — Mon, 14 May 2012 04:50:00 +0000

Any updates on this? I have a 3rd party back plate on my iphone 4. Replaced the glass. I would like to get my touchstone working with the iphone.

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Burlingame Fitness Training — Fri, 11 May 2012 05:19:00 +0000

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Comment on iPhone 4S, Meet The Palm Touchstone Inductive Charger by Rudra Banerji

Rudra Banerji — Mon, 07 May 2012 22:01:00 +0000

Have any success lately? I just found my old touchstone *sniff* – I’m sure it could use something to do :)

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Comment on A FF007F by any other name by Dori

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Comment on Office 2010 Style Ribbon Toolbar in HTML/CSS/JS by OkGoDoIt

OkGoDoIt — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:16:00 +0000

This is more meant for AJAX web applications, where the page doesn’t reload. Although if that is a requirement in your case, then it can be fairly easily modified to use a querystring or a cookie to retain state.

I’m considering implementing some improvements to this soon, so thanks for the suggestion.

Comment on Office 2010 Style Ribbon Toolbar in HTML/CSS/JS by Scott

Scott — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:24:00 +0000

This demo is USELESS as you do not allow the original tab selected to return on page reload!

Comment on Office 2010 Style Ribbon Toolbar in HTML/CSS/JS by BEST

BEST — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:28:00 +0000

Hey how about loading dynamic div for the ribbon. i was trying but it does not work

Comment on Office 2010 Style Ribbon Toolbar in HTML/CSS/JS by Jim Ade

Jim Ade — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:45:00 +0000

I've been looking at this, and I was able to stack small buttons next to a big one by just enclosing the small ones in an extra div like this: UpdateAccounts Change the account on many licenses View Tasks View current and recent long-running tasks