Oct 24

After an internal hackathon, Yahoo! has pushed a new version of Pipes that has a bunch of new features including an iPhone interface.

They have done a really good job at keeping the interface clean, and it turns out that it is a mighty good RSS reader too. A fair few of my pipes are RSS related, so I can read them here in short order.

Oct 22

Mikel Maron hacked the iPhone Maps application to allow him to put in different tiles, in this case those of OpenStreetMap.

He details replacing the sqlitedb and discusses the SQLite schema:

sqlite> .schema
CREATE TABLE images(zoom int, x int, y int, flags int, length int, DATA blob);
CREATE TABLE version(version int);
CREATE INDEX index1 ON images (zoom,x,y,flags);

NOTE: I have no idea about the legality of this hack