Tag Archives: iPhone

Screen Rotation and Browser Scaling

After some test, i have come to realize that browser scaling is just not reliable. Not only does this take up a fair amount of resources, it also has a tendency to cause mobile safari to crash. Having investigated this problem for a while, i have come to the conclusion that having the browser handle scaling, while nice to have, isn’t a good thing to rely on if you have many objects within the page. Continue reading Screen Rotation and Browser Scaling

Changing ports of Wiki2touch

If you are using Air Sharing together with Wiki2touch, there would be a clash in port numbers resulting in the inability to startup Airsharing after wiki2touch is installed. In order to resolve this issue, there is a need to change the port numbers of wiki2touch. To do this, navigate to

/var/stash/Applications.*

Inside, there wouldbe a BossPrefs directory. cd into that, and there is a services directory. There should be a Wiki2Touch file. Open the file using vi and there is a plist file directive inside. edit the plist file to include the following.

<string>-p</string>
<string>8081</string>

This is to be added under the arguments section. before the -v directive. In order browse the wiki2touch, you would then have to use port 8081 instead of 8080. This would however get Air Sharing to play nice with the wikisrvd.