Archive for March, 2009
BJJ Timer iPhone App
Last night I recieve notice from the app store that they had approved my first submitted application. It took just about 10 days for the process, which wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it could be. I had read on the forums of people waiting months, or just never getting an answer. This program [...]
In: App development, iPhone · Tagged with: BJJ, iPhone, jiu jitsu
Open source sounds
Sometimes I need a short sound clip for a software project – maybe a click when a user selects something, a buzzer or bell when a timer expires, or some special effect for opening and closing documents. Making and recording sounds can be a real time sink, depending on the equipment and software that you [...]
Vector graphics and Clipart
Often I need icons for projects I am working on – graphics to go on buttons and controls. Being a photographer, I have sometimes used a photo, processed it with Gimp or Photoshop until it looks like vector graphics, and then used that. Although it does give the flexibility of being able to use an [...]
In: App development · Tagged with: clipart, graphics, gui, icon, inkscape, vector
iPhone sync with Google Calendar
I had been looking at different iPhone syncing options for my contacts, and it seemed that to do anything with a PC was going to involve using Outlook, which I was reluctant to install. In general, I try to use only open source applications, ones which run under Windows and Linux (and if there is [...]
iPhone tableView
The Table View is widely used in iPhone apps, and ther are many examples of using it on navigation pages in the iPhone SDK example programs. These examples generally show how to add a tableView that fills the screen, or sometimes with a Navigation Bar element at the top. Sometimes, we want to use a [...]