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Using custom DNS servers from the iPhone and over Internet Tethering
For those of us the roam around on network connections, OpenDNS and Google Public DNS provide public DNS servers which offer better security than using arbitrary DNS that’s assigned to us when we connect to a network. This means that rather than trusting the assigned DNS server — which could be a malicious third [...]
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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 « Tom [...]
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Error -12986 and you
A customer recently got in touch with me with an odd problem — Talkie for iPhone was going silent on him. After a little diagnosis, it turned out the audio system was throwing up an undocumented error — -12986 — while starting up on his iPod Touch.
Some googling turned up this thread on Stack [...]
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Links for June 3rd through June 18th
Links for June 3rd through June 18th:
Ten logo design tips from the field | Logo Design Love
10 astonishing CSS hacks and techniques
Adaptive CSS-Layouts: New Era In Fluid Layouts? effective techniques to create 100%-functional adaptive CSS-layouts
Wordpress Theme Development Frameworks If you build and develop Wordpress themes often, you will probably be fed up of [...]
Also tagged Design, Development, Links, Web, Wordpress 6 Comments
Links for March 17th through April 24th
Links for March 17th through April 24th:
XSD Schema XML Validator A XSD Schema validator in Java, provides lots of useful information; use it with a schema and an xml instance
Three20 Three20 is a collection of iPhone UI classes, like a photo viewer, and general utilities, like an HTTP disk cache. Three20 is derived from the [...]
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Podcast interview with Dan Grigsby of Mobile Orchard on Loopy’s development
Last Thursday I did an interview with Dan Grigsby from Mobile Orchard; the interview is now online.
Highlights from this interview include:
From UIView to OpenGL: the seven different implementations it took to finalize its unique — and Best App Ever award-nominated — UI.
From audio-queues to Remote IO: the four different architectural approaches he tried before finalizing [...]
Also tagged Cocoa, Design, Development, Loopy, Software 2 Comments
Understanding error codes
Just in case there’s someone else that didn’t know this, when one gets an error code from one of the iPhone/OS X SDKs with no other information available, it can usually be looked up in the MacErrors.h header. Just open a terminal, type:
open -h MacErrors.h
Then do a search for your error code and you’ll [...]
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The Making of Talkie: Broadcasting