Running presentations using only an iPad
So, you have tens or hundreds of presentations and you would like to present them from your iPad. You could use Keynote for iPad, if your presentations are in Keynote form. But what do you do if...
View ArticleAnnoying bug in Quartz PDFContext font handling
I’ve been battling a PDF-generation problem on iOS for the last couple of days: PDFs generated on iPhone or iPad using the Quartz PDFContext Apple supply cause an error to pop up and then don’t look...
View ArticleiPhone Video Archive Web App
I chucked together a wee bit of code to make playing my archive of videos on my iPhone and iPad more pleasant.
View ArticleGet Objective C Properties Right in Your iPhone Apps
I am writing this post because I see a lot of people getting their properties and accessor methods wrong in code they post to stackoverflow.com; usually it is not the only or most direct cause of the...
View ArticleCheck out what I helped make
We just finished making a newsstand magazine app for Harrods. If you have an iPad you can get the app from the app store, once installed you can download issues manually and/or subscribe (for free) to...
View ArticleSyntax Highlighting Objective-C in WordPress
I have added support for Objective-C to the Auto SyntaxHighlighter plugin for WordPress; it is in the official plugin as of version 2.3.3. Here is some code for the sake of demonstration, based on...
View ArticleSerious Objective-C
There are some challenges to making large and/or complex software with Objective-C. The main thing I miss from other systems is levels of method protection. However, it is quite easy to get the effects...
View ArticleSmart App Banners for WordPress
Safari on iOS 6 has a new feature called Smart App Banners. I wrote a WordPress plugin to make it easy to add these to your WordPress site. You can download wp-smart-app-banners from this link. Once...
View ArticleAndroid
I am literally never asked if it is better to buy an Android tablet or an iPad. Nevertheless I will provide my opinion as though it matters because this is the Internet. It is better to buy an iPad...
View ArticleMicrosoft Surface: First Thoughts
Yesterday we took delivery of a 32Gb Surface with touch cover. It is a strange device in many respects. The natural thing with which to compare it seems to be the 32Gb iPad with smart cover: they are...
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