I recently found a great sound engine for iPhone applications that is pretty much plug-and-play.
This sound engine was written by Alex Restrepo under a creative commons attribution-share alike licence, so you are free to use it so long as you attribute the code to the author and if you change it and share it you [...]
One of my favourite blogs on the net is Matt Gallagher’s Cocoa with Love. Today I was investigating ways to speed up my workflow in Xcode and I found a great mixed Perl and AppleScript script already written by Matt a couple of years ago.
The script called PropertyFromInstanceVariable had already been added to by a couple [...]
Just downloaded a new app that allows you to create custom Max 5 interfaces on your iPhone or iPod Touch. This looks to me like a great creative tool and the best touch software option on a mobile platform for users of Cycling ’74’s MaxMSP. c74 is integrated with Max 5, so you will need to [...]
I have seen a lot of confusion on the topic of when and why to reference an object using self.myObject versus just plain myObject. It took me a while to understand this myself, and please, if I am mistaken in my explanation, set me right, but here it is as I understand it.
If you reference [...]
There seems to be a lot of interest recently in making apps that use a camera view with an overlay for augmented reality or what some might call pseudo-augmented reality applications (because often these apps just layer an image or data on a camera view). I wasn’t satisfied with the few examples I found on [...]
I have made my iPhone app iWasHere free for a limited time to encourage more users to start creating networks with their friends.
Augment your reality with iWasHere!
iWasHere is a geo-locational social networking message board. iWasHere allows you to create an augmented reality by enabling you to leave a message at a specific location which can [...]
As described at www.json.org, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format that is easy for humans to read and write and easy for machines to parse and generate. The JSON format is one of two things; a list of name/value pairs that can be realized as an object, record, struct, dictionary, hash table, keyed [...]
Augment your reality with iWasHere!
After a long wait my geo-locational social networking message board iPhone app iWasHere is finally available for purchase on the App Store.
iWasHere is a geo-locational social networking message board. iWasHere allows you to create an augmented reality by enabling you to leave a message at a specific location which can then [...]
I am happy to announce that my Pachube feed organizer/viewer application PachubeMon is now available as a free download on the App Store. It was also announced on the Pachube blog on Monday.
Pachube is a web service available at pachube.com that enables you to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings [...]
If you write an app that uses the internet then the Apple Human Interface Guidelines require that you check for a WiFi or Wireless Wide Area Network (cellular) connection and let the user know if they are not available.
The best way I have found to test for this is to make use of the code [...]
