iOS – Say Hong

Another mobile app notification?!?

Just received a marketing push notification from Uniqlo. 🙁 On a Sunday while I’m doing coding…

Please give me a break, Uniqlo Marketing.

Now you get onto the naughty list – Disabled notifications from Uniqlo.

iOS Apps Notification Deluge!

Man! I’ve been getting so many push notifications from a few iOS apps I have on my phone. Marketers need to increase app usage but the notifications puts me off the brand. The biggest offender of them all is the Fave app.

Fave! Please cut the number of push notifications sent!

HTTPS and Geolocation with web browsers

I’ve starting coding apps to get a javascript geolocation refresher. Switching between OSX and W10 was quite a pain because:

Safari does not support geolocation over HTTP (no idea why http://localhost/ is considered an issue with Safari).
W10 Edge supports geolocation over HTTP.

After some experimenting, I discovered Chrome and Brave both support geolocation over HTTP on OSX. Chrome definitely was doing WiFi triangulation because it could return my exact lat/lng whereas Brave was returning the midtown lat/lng coordinates.

Expand iPhone storage using a OTG storage device

I saw a colleague using an OTG storage device to transfer a zip file from the Android phone to the laptop. Thought that I could find something similar for the iPhone.

Turns out that you can access Photos and Videos on the iPhone only. Made sense because Apple would be providing base filesystem access which is disallowed by the sandbox.

Sandisk OTG iXpand Flash Drive

Default Home fax phone label on iOS

C’mon Apple!