tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33176811949762918942010-07-30T07:00:05.400-07:00Able Pearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10972026256260166617noreply@blogger.comBlogger247125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-88366539674660565892010-07-30T07:00:00.000-07:002010-07-30T07:00:05.407-07:00

Hello and happy Friday.  Today's iPad wallpapers continue our study in Light and Shadow.  Enjoy! (click an image for the full-size wallpaper)

Kevin Bomberryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977425999974745365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-48194897539787434652010-07-30T06:55:00.000-07:002010-07-30T06:55:00.105-07:00

Hello and happy Friday.  Today's iPhone wallpapers continue our study in Light and Shadow.  Enjoy! (click an image for the full-size wallpaper)

Kevin Bomberryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977425999974745365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-10270435352102831482010-07-28T10:00:00.000-07:002010-07-28T10:03:31.857-07:00

We have created a series of tools (sketch and grid paper) for designers and developers to easily layout and design iPhone and iPad apps but when I look at the work that Rex Xu just completed for his product Apps-on Post-it Notes, all I can say is, "Now why didn't we do that." This smart little idea is basically an iPhone screen (with printed bezel) at actual size printed on Post-it Notes.  The

Kevin Bomberryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977425999974745365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-40515683776550473412010-07-28T09:50:00.000-07:002010-07-28T09:50:00.936-07:00

Apple announced its latest update to the Mac Pro line of computers coming August.  The new Mac Pro supports up to 12 cores.  Twelve! So now you can have a 12-core system at up to 2.93GHz and the Intel Xeon processors support Hyper-Threading, which allows two threads to run simultaneously on each core. So, for example, a 12-core Mac Pro presents 24 virtual cores that are recognized by Mac OS X.

Kevin Bomberryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977425999974745365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-37803722689128150612010-07-28T09:40:00.000-07:002010-07-28T09:40:00.336-07:00

Apple announced the coming release of a new super-sized 27-inch LED Cinema Display. After seeing a friends 27-inch iMac, watching movies and television on it as well as working on it, I have to say that i've become a screen size-queen.  It's beautiful.  So, now I can have the 27-inch experience with my 17-inch MacBook Pro.  Thank you Apple.

Kevin Bomberryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977425999974745365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-63054999645541856652010-07-28T09:30:00.000-07:002010-07-28T09:30:00.492-07:00

Apple released a new device targeted for the Mac desktop computers: Magic Trackpad.  For all of us who have the current model of MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook computers know the new trackpad is the mouse of the mobile world, but its better (and worse) than a mouse for various reasons.  So all of you (envious) Mac Pro and iMac users who like the trackpad on the notebooks can now rest easy

Kevin Bomberryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977425999974745365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-57633214074293676372010-07-27T07:00:00.000-07:002010-07-27T10:16:25.733-07:00

Last week we looked at Unicode escape sequences in C string and NSString literal. Today we'll take a quick overview of wide character strings and talk about where they fit into the iOS development. When the C language was developed in the early 1970's, little thought was given to representing non-English languages. By default, most C compilers assumed that both code files and application

Don McCaugheyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673164543469346037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-37521697453062875132010-07-23T23:59:00.000-07:002010-07-24T03:00:40.458-07:00

Hello and happy Friday.  Todays' iPad wallpapers continue the study of light and shadows.  Enjoy. (click an image for the full-size wallpaper)

Kevin Bomberryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977425999974745365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-47579122799022861392010-07-23T23:58:00.000-07:002010-07-24T03:00:53.520-07:00

Hello and happy Friday.  Todays' iPhone wallpapers continue the study of light and shadows.  Enjoy. (click an image for the full-size wallpaper)

Kevin Bomberryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977425999974745365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-7663567400911439332010-07-22T09:40:00.000-07:002010-07-22T09:40:58.497-07:00

If you're trying to make a UIImageView respond to a tap or other gesture and it's being stubborn and just ignoring you, make sure you've set userInteractionEnabled to YES. You can do this programmatically after the UIImageView is created or loaded or in the Attributes Inspector pane in Interface Builder if the UIImageView is defined in a NIB file. Naturally, userInteractionEnabled defaults to

Don McCaugheyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673164543469346037noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-47925284121752480702010-07-20T07:00:00.000-07:002010-07-27T10:17:46.538-07:00

Last week we started looking into C string and NSString literals. Today we'll continue this topic by looking at embedding Unicode characters in literals using Unicode escape sequences. Unicode escape sequences were added to the C language in the TC2 amendment to C99, and to the Objective-C language (for NSString literals) with Mac OS X 10.5. The C99 standard actually refers to these escape

Don McCaugheyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673164543469346037noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-49645529475448551592010-07-19T11:35:00.000-07:002010-07-19T11:35:33.124-07:00

A good blog post by Pierre Lebeaupin that examines the difference between ARMv7, ARM11, Cortex A8 and A4 and looks at some low level characteristics of the ARM processors that power the iPhone and iPad.

Don McCaugheyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673164543469346037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-46034380540759749892010-07-16T13:30:00.000-07:002010-07-16T14:23:54.327-07:00

See Also Last week's iPad FridayHello and happy Friday.  Today's iPad wallpapers are a study in light and shadow, global illumination and ambient occlusion.  Enjoy! (click an image for the full-size wallpaper)

Kevin Bomberryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977425999974745365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-64031966487188536572010-07-16T13:25:00.000-07:002010-07-16T14:23:47.728-07:00

See Also Last week's iPhone FridayHello and happy Friday.  Today's iPhone wallpapers are a study in light and shadow, global illumination and ambient occlusion.  Enjoy! (click an image for the full-size wallpaper)

Kevin Bomberryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977425999974745365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-2434401119390448232010-07-13T07:00:00.000-07:002010-07-27T10:19:01.113-07:00

Last time we started our new topic, strings, by looking at memory organization and character encodings of C strings. Today we'll look at C string and NSString literals. Most programs do string processing, or at least print out a status message or two. It's convenient to define some strings directly in the program's code. Since strings are really just lists of numbers, you could certainly

Don McCaugheyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673164543469346037noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-14501199735187746122010-07-09T15:24:00.000-07:002010-07-09T15:32:10.531-07:00

See Also Last week's iPad FridayHello and happy iPad Friday!  I hope you enjoy today's iPad wallpapers. Cheers! (click an image for the full-size wallpaper)

Kevin Bomberryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977425999974745365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-86230476617071070882010-07-09T15:22:00.000-07:002010-07-09T15:26:15.426-07:00

See Also Last week's iPhone FridayHello and happy iPhone Friday!  I hope you enjoy today's iPhone wallpapers.  Cheers! (click an image for the full-size wallpaper)

Kevin Bomberryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977425999974745365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-37907813491043248372010-07-08T13:40:00.000-07:002010-07-09T10:02:36.065-07:00

The an iPhone developer has posted their initial earnings from hosting Apple's new iAds in their application. According to FastCompany, iAds have gotten an impressive response: iAd's "click-through" rate is something like five times higher, and its effective cost-per-thousand-impressions (ECPM) is around 300 times greater than offered by Android's system. It will be interesting if other

Don McCaugheyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673164543469346037noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-75352449420384716482010-07-08T12:23:00.000-07:002010-07-08T12:23:15.931-07:00

Kevin has just had an article published in Xconomy: A new law is about to go into effect in San Francisco requiring sellers of mobile phones to post the “Specific Absorption Rate” (SAR) levels of the devices. How will conveying this information to consumers affect sales of mobile phones and devices—and which manufactures will feel the burden of this new stigma?Check it out!

Don McCaugheyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673164543469346037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-20007393766482038642010-06-25T15:45:00.000-07:002010-06-25T15:54:39.540-07:00

Photoshop Extended CS3 introduced 3D and marked a milestone in the application’s history.  Photoshop CS5 moves the evolution of 3D forward with many features including a better 3D environment, an easier way to create and apply materials and the highly anticipated Repoussé; which adds a new dimension to Photoshop’s 3D abilities. I was fortunate enough to work with Adobe to create the materials

Kevin Bomberryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977425999974745365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-29524135339086620282010-06-25T06:55:00.000-07:002010-07-09T15:31:52.636-07:00

See Also Last week's iPad FridayHello and happy Friday.  Today's iPad wallpapers were are inspired by reflections.  Enjoy. (click on image for full-size wallpaper)

Kevin Bomberryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977425999974745365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-15520531323019353312010-06-25T06:50:00.000-07:002010-07-09T15:25:54.523-07:00

See Also Last week's iPhone FridayHello and happy Friday.  Today's iPhone wallpapers are getting a small refresh, or rather large refresh.  Starting today all iPhone and iPod touch wallpapers will be 640 x 960 to accommodate the resolution of the new iPhone 4. The pair of wallpapers today are inspired by reflections.  Enjoy. (click on image for full-size wallpaper)

Kevin Bomberryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977425999974745365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-27597987184710249362010-06-24T07:00:00.000-07:002010-06-24T07:00:00.753-07:00

So you waited in line at your local Apple Store and now you're the proud owner of a shiny new black iPhone 4! You synced it with iTunes and marveled at how fast Plants vs Zombies loads. Now what else can you do with it? Check out iOS 4 walkthrough for a complete rundown of what's new and cool in iOS 4, the new version of the iPhone operating system that ships by default on your iPhone 4. The

Don McCaugheyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673164543469346037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-71675842497171027612010-06-21T09:23:00.000-07:002010-06-21T09:23:28.828-07:00

Apple gave developers a peek at the forthcoming Xcode 4 IDE, and AppleInsider has the scoop on the changes and new features. Some of the highlights: A single window IDE Interface Builder is integrated directly into Xcode Improved version control integration The new LLDB debugger Read the full article for all the details.

Don McCaugheyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673164543469346037noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317681194976291894.post-41545995047061980832010-06-18T06:50:00.000-07:002010-06-18T10:42:32.577-07:00

See Also Last week's iPad FridayHello and Happy Friday!  Today's iPad wallpapers are a continuation of last weeks collection.  Enjoy. (click image for full size wallpaper)

Kevin Bomberryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977425999974745365noreply@blogger.com0