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Continue ReadingImporting Box2D & Chipmunk into XCode
am up to Chapter 13 and I have just finished RE-building my project because of minor details I may have omitted and Id like to share with you all and perhaps get cleared up: 1. Importing folders. When importing folders into Xcode, which Ive had experience with Coreplot, Facebook, twitter apis, json libraries and more recently Box2D and Chipmunk folders, there is a difference between copying and not copying if needed. I thought I understood the difference but Im not sure now. When adding a folder to your project, you add it via the finder first and then via Xcode. Lets take Chipmunk for example: a. You copy your Chipmunk… Read More
Continue ReadingFaulty Damaged iPhone Home Button Not Working
I’ve read many a posts… on many a forums… suggesting many a solutions… none have worked for me: press, hold and circle your finger around it a few times blow compressed air on the button and the pin connector shutdown this or that other applications…or all of them press power button til slide to shutdown, then press and hold the home button to reset it connect the cable and gently press the cable connector upwards…and downwards… all to no avail. and i dont have the option to return it cause its australian so a US store wont take it. I have recently noticed that when it is docked into my… Read More
Continue ReadingBox2D – Cocos2d – ObjC Complex Code Design
I got lost with a few kinks added in C10 and the vector stuff and c++ stuff in Ch11. So Id like to review what is happening by the time we get to the cart that you can move via the accelerometer. 1. Before we only needed to add a cocos2d scene and then a layer to make a screenful of action. With Box2D we must still create a Scene and Layer but we add the C++ format of Class.h & Class.mm instead of just .m. We also added a query callback C++ Class that serves the specific purpose of cycling through all bodies in the [b]box2d world?… Read More
Continue ReadingPower Hungry Devices
Its funny how capitalism leads to consumerism and that it turn, in a free democratic society, is fueled by our “NEED” for more and more services. What this translates to is the fact that we want more and more “things” which we request from our technology. So everyday we come up with things we want our phone to do for us. First, the beeper simply sent us text messages for us to get to a landline and call. Then it allowed us to answer text messages. Soon after came the cellular phone and we didn’t have to go to a landline, we could simply call on the mobile phone. But… Read More
Continue ReadingiOS5 Important Features from 200+ available
I’ve reviewed the latest features on the latest iOS5 on many sites and found over 200 out of which only some are really useful to me. Id like to share the ones I found most important: 1) Swiping a notification will open the relevant app 2) The fact that those notifications are non-obtrusive to YouTube videos 3) Reminder, Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Photo and Doc Integration to iCould because Gmail makes a mess 4) Twitter Integration 5) Open Camera from lock screen although picture taking with the Vol+ button is only for the 4S I think 6) Cropping, Rotating, Organizing and Red-eye removal on pics directly 7) OTA syncing & Delta… Read More
Continue ReadingMy Cover Letter for a Job Application at Apple: You will be missed Steve
I believe the best Cover Letter I can write is based on my love for Apple. I can’t tell you I have ever sat in line for days waiting for a product launch because I don’t have the luxury of living in the US and our “quasi-Apple” stores in Honduras suck to say the least. However, I can say 3 things with great pride: First, that I have been an Apple fan since the Apple IIe, simply because that’s around the time I was born and have recollection. We used to spend summers in San Francisco at my uncle’s house. He worked for United Airlines and had a simple… Read More
Continue ReadingApple: The future of computing
It’s no secret Apple’s MBA is a great form factor; the thinnest computer ever with some nice muscle. Specially now with the i5 processor. The SSD/Optical-less wonder has convinced users that cloud computing is not only the future, but that it’s also actually feasible. For years Mac OSX has been the most stable, user friendly commercial OS which has set the groundwork for the birth of iOS. Along comes iPhone and iPad and they convinced users that iOS is a powerful enough OS to power the future of computers. Add to this mix a great combination of SSD-AlwaysOn, the virtually endless capacity of traditional HDD drives with a splash of… Read More
Continue ReadingSocial Media Underwater…
I love technology…and I love scuba diving…But have you ever thought about how unlucky underwater creatures are? Or will be? Certain dogs already have special collars that tweet or post their location to Facebook. Im sure that eventually social media/web technology will evolve to include such animals into real world social gaming. Many believe web technologies can soon connect humans to many kind of animals in air or on land…How unlucky are their underwater counterparts who simply could not, due to the fact that they live in an electrically conducive medium which automatically discards the possibility of them having electronics? Then again, some electronics such as beacons (radio transmitters) are… Read More
Continue ReadingTwitter, Facebook & Google Plus Integration
Twitter Twitter allows you to update your Twitter timeline by sending an email to a secret address. So go to TwitterMail.com and sign-in with your Twitter account credentials. In the Twittermail tab, find a button to setup your Twittermail account. Now simply, press the button “Set up your twittermail account now”. In this Twitter setup page there is a unique email address which has been assigned to you to send the updates. Now, when you wish to share a post in Twitter from your Google plus profile, just add that email address in the visibility box along with other circle(s) and share the post as usual. To avoid having to… Read More
Continue ReadingAndroid vs iOS
A friend of mine recently send me an email with this link from extremetech.com listing the 5 Android features that leave iOS in the dust. Here are my thoughts in response: 1. Homescreen/widgets. These drain battery life, which is why iOS doesnt have them. I’ve been learning to code in Android and their OS can run as many background services as apps that contain them. This drains battery and consumes bandwidth. iOS’s solution is APNS or push notifications which a server running on the internet can send to the device instead. Its not as fancy as Android, I agree, but ill trade it for battery life anyday. When hardware manufact… Read More
Continue ReadingmyTechFootPrint:(background)
If you’re a coder youll notice by the title of my post that I am! 🙂 Just DropBox-ed my 337MB folder and have some time to kill while it syncs…Unfortunately I took the leap while at my in-laws, who have a slow 2MB connection. This is precisely what this post is about…what is your tech footprint. What I mean is; although I might find myself waiting on a slow connection at the moment, I know better, have better and can do better, but I know im not the cream of the crop. So where do we really stand in today’s tech-life? Ever stop to think, “Man, Ive really come a… Read More
Continue ReadingPointers, Leaks, Memory Management…objC
Ive been coding for about 2 years now and i recently understood something which has helped me a great deal so i wanted to share it with you. First let me just expose my learning path so you can determine if its comparable to yours and decide if this article may be of help or just good for a few laughs 🙂 Little HS and College programming background. Biochem (heavy math and science background). Picked up HTML and ASP on my own with books and online sites. Did that for about 4 years. Picked up iOS at 3.0 and started out using stanfords free online course and made a… Read More
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