Indie+Relief : All Revenue Will Go to Haiti on Jan 20.
In response to the earthquakes in Haiti, Second Gear Software and Garrett Murray have teamed up to create Indie+Relief – a group of iPhone and Mac developers giving to Haiti.
I was a bit late to the game, so I’m not officially listed, but will be participating. All revenue (minus Apple’s cut) from Humidor and MyGarden for [...]
Cheater, Cheater Pumpkin Eater (or “Cheaters Never Win”)
… at least I hope they don’t.
Seriously people, why are you paying for reviews?
Color Me Crazy (or “When a Color Isn’t Just a Color”)
Ever need to use an image as a background, but can’t figure out how? It’s quite simple — colors aren’t always colors:
UIImage *patternImage = [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@”patternImage” ofType:@”png”]];
[myView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithPatternImage: patternImage]];
If I Had a Photograph of You (or “How to Cache Images in CocoaTouch”)
A quick note. Wanting to cache images in an iPhone app? Load the image using:
[UIImage imageNamed:]
if you use:
[UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:]
the image will not be cached.
iPhone / iPod Touch Backup Extractor
This may come as a surprise to some of you, but debugging applications on the iPhone is no picnic. I know, crazy, isn’t it! It’s next to impossible to get the information you need from a customer’s device without building in some method to send the user’s preferences, data, etc. right into your application, which [...]