Category: Techie Mumbo Jumbo
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Help Me Re-Name My Latest App!
Just about anyone who’s been in the same room with me for more than 5 minutes over the last few months has likely been accosted by me in an attempt to show off my latest iPhone app: inPictures. The reaction to the app has universally been positive – people think the idea behind the app…
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New Apple Tablet Is Announced! *and the world yawns*
I eagerly watched the so-called Live feeds for the special Apple event today where they announced the iPad. The hype over this device has been huge, and the magical Apple reality distortion field was in full effect at the presentation. The reporters I was following were drooling all over the device, and doing their best…
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How To Write iPhone Apps
More and more frequently I’m approached by folks who are interested in writing apps for the iPhone, and want to know how to get started. Usually these are not other programmers with a few years of experience with other platforms, but rather folks who think it would be neat to get into the whole iPhone…
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How To Make iPhone Vibrate For A Long Time?
I recently began developing a new iPhone application for work that will be used to treat various acupuncture points using sound, vibration and pressure. Sound and pressure are no-brainers, as sound is easily used via the exposed libraries in the iPhone SDK, but vibration is turning out to not be so easy. Apple has only…
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Incredicode Releases Game To Exercise, Not Atrophy Your Brain
For Immediate Release Contact: Kimball Larsen, President, Incredicode, Inc. Email: inpictures@incredicode.com December 10, 2009 Boise, ID, USA: Incredicode, Inc. officially announces the availability of version 1.0 of inPictures for iPhone and iPod Touch users. In stark contrast to many of the current gaming titles in the App Store, inPictures focuses on exercising your brain instead of simply…
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inPictures 1.0 Now Available on iTunes!
In my spare time (er – really late at night) I’ve been writing iPhone apps for fun and possibly for profit. My latest one is a game that centers around visualization and imagination. It’s called inPictures, and is available on iTunes now via this link: Or, you can learn more about the game and see…
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libstdc++.so.5, How We Miss Thee
I have a bit of old code that I wrote in RealBasic a few years back which performs a very critical function for our business at work. This particular chunk of code has been running without incident for several years on an Ubuntu server at work with no problems. Yesterday I made the huge mistake…
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How To Detect iPhone App Version At Runtime?
I’m currently working on an application that will need to know what version of the app is currently running. For instance, when I release version 1.2 of the app, I may need to update files that were left behind by version 1.1, but only do the update one time – the first time version 1.2…
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Change Another User’s Safari Home Page In Snow Leopard
I manage my kids computer accounts using Snow Leopard using Parental Controls, and have worked out a good way to handle updating the list of allowed websites, but have so far been stumped about how to set the homepage for their accounts. See, when you create a brand new account in OS X, and assign…
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Windows 7 – Install and Upgrade Experience
At our office we all use OS X day-to-day, but we do keep a few token Windows machines around for debugging windows builds, taking screenshots for our manuals, producing screencasts, etc. We recently set up a brand new machine that will be dedicated for producing screencasts of our products on windows. When we bought the…