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Tag Archives: Cocoa
UIImage, resolution independence and the iPhone 4′s Retina display
iOS4 caters for the high-resolution Retina display that comes with the iPhone 4 by some rather clever abstraction, that moves away from the concept of ‘pixels’, and instead uses ‘points’, which are resolution-independent. So, when you display an image that’s been prepared for the Retina display, it’s represented with a scale factor of 2, meaning [...]
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Links for February 25th through May 29th
Links for February 25th through May 29th: Implementing iBooks page curling using a conical deformation algorithm Excellent summary of how to implement a convincing page turn animation in OpenGL Multiplottr.com — Plot, save and share multiple locations on your own customized maps. Batch plot multiple addresses gmaps.kaeding.name :: Plot multiple locations on Google Maps Enter [...]
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The Making of Talkie: Multi-interface broadcasting and multicast
Part 2 Talkie is my newest product, a Walkie Talkie for iPhone and Mac. In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about basic broadcasting. This works fine with one network device, but it’s worth discussing how to send through all devices, so you can communicate with others connected via, say, Ethernet and WiFi simultaneously. [...]
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Browsing Core Data databases using F-Script
F-Script's new Core Data browser lets you open up and query any Core Data database, an invaluable debugging tool. Actually opening databases is a lengthy process through. No longer: This Applescript app provides an easy interface to quickly open a Core Data database in F-Script's object browser.
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Easy rounded corners on UITableViewCell image view
Here’s a relatively easy way to achieve rounded corners on the standard image view in a UITableViewCell: cell.imageView.layer.masksToBounds = YES; cell.imageView.layer.cornerRadius = 5.0; Set this up when you create the cell (make sure you #import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h> at the top, of course). It would appear the UIImageView control creates sublayers to display the actual image content, [...]
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The Making of Talkie: Broadcasting
Part 1 Talkie is my newest product, the result of a collaboration with a good designer friend, Tim Churchward, who did the user interface. Talkie is a little different from many of the other walkie talkie applications on the App Store (aside from the fact that much of it was written by me from our [...]
Also tagged Broadcast, Development, iPhone, Mac, networking, Software, Talkie, Talkie-for-Mac, Tutorial 3 Comments
Links for October 25th through January 23rd
Links for October 25th through January 23rd: GPS Visualizer: Draw a map from a GPS data file Batch map plotter using GPS co-ordinates Map multiple locations by address Very well-implemented free batch geocoder; accepts only address data, no GPS co-ordinates, but still excellent for some applications iPhone: Custom font loading Implementing Your Own Cocoa Bindings [...]
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Making UIToolbar and UINavigationBar’s background totally transparent
Technique to make the background of UIToolbar and UINavigationBar transparent, for custom interfaces