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.