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One-tap UIImagePickerController (iPhone camera)	Gesture motions for window-and-mouse based interfaces	Boxhead: The Zombie Wars Easter Egg

09 Mar 2010 I've been working on a number of iPhone camera applications. The default photograph functionality seemed kind of awkward to me, and I wanted to have a much simpler process and interface. This is an example of an Xcode project which shows how to load the camera interface with a custom overlaid image, and then wait for a tap anywhere on the screen to take a photo.	10 Feb 2010 Back in early 2007, I designed a method to introduce mouse-based "gestures" into a windowed interface environment. Fast forward to 2010, when the "year of the tablet" might mean the beginning of the end for mouse-based computing...	09 Feb 2010 A month before Christmas, my friends at MEDL Mobile asked me to help put an easter egg (hidden functionality) into their game Boxhead: The Zombie Wars...


Webosaurs iPhone/iPod game launched!	Locating an iPhone in 3D space	Generating iPhone promotional banner ads

09 Feb 2010 Dino Surf is an iPhone/iPod game that I helped design and build for Reel FX. Designed to help cross-promote the Webosaurs MMORPG site, Dino Surf is a game where kids can select one of four dinosaurs and (using the accelerator) "surf" their way through four different difficulty levels within four different environments.	02 Sep 2009 A world of augmented reality possibilities were opened up once the capability to superimpose graphics over the camera display was made available by Apple. One of my initial game ideas required this functionality, but it's been a case of "wait for a tutorial to show how to do this and miss the boat" versus "spend a lot of time working on inventing new functionality instead of doing other things that you really should	11 Aug 2009 I was looking for a different way to promote iPhone applications online (something a little more engaging than the "Available on the iPhone App Store" banner)... To solve this, I wrote a script to dynamically composite and cache images of screens within an iPhone "frame", as well as resize them any way I might need them...


Developing Localized iPhone Applications	Putterball iPhone game launched in App Store	How to change an iPhone App name from XCode

03 Aug 2009 One thing that makes the iPhone so much fun (development-wise) is the ease of localization integration. Unlike website (or most software) development, XCode makes it easy to create and organize all text within an application, send it off to be localized, and then re-integrate and test it.	03 Aug 2009 With 10 levels of gameplay, 3 levels of difficulty (easy, normal, and INSANE!), and localized in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and Japanese, Putterball is a game that requires the iron will of Tiger Woods, the consistency of Ben Hogan, and the practised motion of Jack Nicklaus...	22 Jul 2009 Problem: Changing a project name (or an app name) for a project you're developing in XCode can become a cumbersome task, with random errors showing up and the old name appearing when you least expect it. I've come up with a method that seems to be effective in doing a complete rename and ensuring it "takes"...


EFX Lite iPhone App Launched	EFX Pro Sound Player App Launched	Capturing tracking statistics from an iPhone application

17 Jul 2009 Apple has approved the free version of EFX Pro, called EFX Lite. It has the same functionality as the paid (Pro) version, but only one screen of sound effects.	17 Jun 2009 Impress your friends...annoy your enemies! EFX Pro is a cool sound board that lets you play tons of sound effects. A lot of other sound players just have lists of sound effects -- but EFX Pro is a full sound board that lets you scroll through pages of sound effects, with more to be added in the future!	20 May 2009 Problem: I wanted to collect usage statistics from the users of my iPhone applications. The information Apple collects about free vs paid downloads is interesting, but a little hard to analyze. I wanted to see how much information I could collect, as well as run my own custom queries against a database of statistical information. In order to do this, I set up a MySQL database online, with a PHP script to ente


Contraculate iPhone app launched	Framework for having Multiple Views in an iPhone app	FAKE! You can tell it's Photoshopped...

16 May 2009 Monitor the contractions of your partner (or yourself) with this simple, easy-to-use tool. Simply click the "Add Contraction" button to add the date and time of the contraction. Click the (i) icon ("information") for instructions and to be able to email the log to yourself. Congratulations on having a baby! We're going through this ourselves, and we have a number of apps planned in the future for oursel	06 May 2009 Problem: I needed to create an application base with multiple view controllers, and an easy method for switching between them. I came up with a solution that passes messages via the App Delegate, and has a parent View Controller that manages the sub-views.	30 Apr 2009 How often do you see comments saying an image has been Photoshopped? This was a silly idea, based on the "FRIST!!!11!!1one!" sort of comments on woot.com and geekologie.com. If you set the "FAKE" coffee mug on the mousepad, everyone will be able to tell it's fake...because the shadows are all wrong. It kinda looks like the scene from the movie Never Back Down...okay, I'll stop. You get the idea.


Pinhole iPhone app launched -- for April Fools Day!	Cola Shaker iPhone app launched	Taschen Web Design Icons Books

01 Apr 2009 Pinhole is a game that requires intense concentration (and good eyesight). You move a small pinhole around a screen to reveal a background scene. The goal is to find the moving objects (very small, moving objects). They're hard to find, and they will move away from the hole, so keep at it.How many can you catch before time runs out?	15 Mar 2009 Shake it but don't break it! This virtual "cola can" will encourage you to do what it takes (and practice your shaking skills). See how fast you can make it explode, or pass it around in a group and see who the last person is who gets it as close as possible...without exploding in their hands. Guaranteed not to leave your hands sticky afterwards...	15 Mar 2009 When designing any website, it's good to have something to refer to (whether it's googling competitive sites, voraciously reading Smashing Magazine, or going through PSD Tuts). I tend to prefer going through printed examples to get ideas. I have a library full of design books and web books, but the translation from website to book form leaves a lot to be desired. Also, the sites that are featured tend to be


Getting different Flash movies to talk to (and listen for) each other	Welcome to Pushplay.net!

12 Mar 2009 Problem: You need to have a SWF file do something, based on something else that happened within a different SWF file. Restrictions: Must be Actionscript 2 (for example, because of banner ads, or to support older plug-ins) Why? Well, you might not want your site to be a giant Flash movie (thank you). You might have a small control, and want it to change a different interface or content element. You might ha	25 Feb 2009 This site will be a repository for all things that "go", be they on the web, the iPhone, or any other mobile device. Stay tuned!!

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