Exploring iPhone Graphics Part 2
Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in Software Development, iPhone | 7 Comments »In Part 1 of this series of articles we drew some simple graphic primitives on the iPhone display. In this article we are going to look at how to do some simple animation. The goal of this example is to ...
WikipediaPick: Whiz Kids TV Series
Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Posted in WikipediaPick | No Comments »Whiz Kids I'm not done with these goofy '80s TV shows just yet! Whiz Kids was inspired by the movie WarGames and is about a group of teenage computer hackers that use their skillz to solve crimes. Of course I watched ...
iPhone OS Beta 4 Install Problems
Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Posted in iPhone | 1 Comment »Getting the Beta 4 OS (build 5A258f) for iPhone or iPod Touch onto your device has a glitch and the install will not work. Restoring the OS from the Xcode Organizer will get stuck before the OS in even installed. ...
iPhone Beta 4 Released
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Posted in iPhone | No Comments »Apple has released Beta 4 of the iPhone SDK and the iPhone/iPod Touch OS. The SDK build number is 9M2165 and the OS build number is 5A258f. New in the release is OpenGL ES support to the iPhone Simulator!
WikipediaPick: Automan TV Series
Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in WikipediaPick | No Comments »One of my co-workers and I got into a discussion about sci-fi TV shows from the '80s. Having been a computer nerd growing up in the '80s I didn't miss too many sci-fi shows back then. I remember watching the ...
WikipediaPick: Grok
Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in WikipediaPick | 1 Comment »Grok As first used in the Heinlein novel Stranger in a Strange Land: “Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we ...
Plotting a Sine Wave with the iPhone SDK
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in Software Development, iPhone | 2 Comments »Got the following request from Leo on the Exploring iPhone Graphics Part 1 article: Could you give me a quick primer on how to draw a sinus curve (or similar curve) with the data coming from an array? Here it is: #define PI ...
Site Outage
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »This site will be down some time later this evening. I need to do some re-organization of the directory structure. It'll be obvious when it is down. ;)
YouTubage: iPhone Star Trek Mods
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in YouTubage | No Comments »Another new type of post. YouTubage! Posts about interesting YouTube videos. The iPhone hacking community has done some really cool stuff. Here are some video's demoing iPhone's that have their UI modded to look like Star Trek computer screens.
WikipediaPick: Freethought
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in WikipediaPick | No Comments »I'm going to try something new to get a break from all the coding examples I've been posting. It's simple, I'll pick a Wikipedia topic and post about it. The topic can be anything I feel like. I'll learn something ...