So i play around with The Unity Framework a lot, i use it to make games for the IOS, and lately ive been using the Unity remote app that lets you control your game running in the Editor with your iOS device such as an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. The version on the appstore …
Saving and Loading UIImage’s on IOS App :Coding Tips
Here i am going to share some code on how to very easily take a uiimage and then convert it into a .png image and save it in your applications documents directory for access later. Its all pretty straight forward really, and the code should be self explanatory in itself or just see my comments on it 
UIview Rasterization To Save Memory IOS Apps
So This article is about how you can save a lttle bit of memory in your IOS app by rasterizing your UIview. Why? well imagine a situation where you have a 2024 x 1024 image you just loaded from your application bundle
Firefox vs Chrome vs Internet Explorer Battle of the browsers
Just a funny little picture i came across on the internet, showing battle of the browsers. Funny how safari isnt in there i dnt even remember who did it :/ .
Singletons in Objective-C and XCode
So Ive been reading a lot of literature lately on design patterns in xcode, and im going to talk about how to create a singleton. A singleton is a class in which only one instance of it is allowed to exist and provides a global point of access to it, and apple themselves make a …
Impressions-Cell C Data Bundle Promotion
So currently Cell C south Africa is running a data promotion, if you purchase R50 of airtime or more you get 500mb of data and 10mb more for every R10 thereafter. Which sounds great, but you can only get up to 1GB maximum for that week, so don’t dream about buying 10gigs worth of data!! and this free data expires on the Sunday (23:59) of that week you purchased it. This is by far the best deal you will get at the moment, and i have a sim from all the major cellular providers from vodacom to 8ta. I also have a huawei 3g modem that i frequently switch sim’s to get the best data deal for my internet. And i have to admit, my cell c line has been hogging the modem for a good month now. However i just have a few issues with t
Paper Prototyping Iphone Apps
Creating your first Iphone application ca be daunting at first and its difficult to know where to start from. I’ve felt the same way before, and one thing that is essential in any software development project is the idea of prototypes. A prototype is an initial model of some idea. When dealing with Iphone apps , you can go about this in different ways. But for the very first prototype, i find that a paper model is the only way to go. Its much fast
Shinkawa and Solid Snake live art
I’ve always been a fan of Metal Gear Solid, and for anyone who appreciates the artwork in the game, then have a look at the video below. Yoji Shinkawa is the guy behind the games artwork. He has worked on Metal Gear solid games and Zone of the Enders series and he has a powerfull …
A dream,God & 4 hours of line work later
After all the sketches i’ve been sharing i thought i would post a piece of line work i did in late 2009. Like the title it was just a blur in my dream, an interpretation of God in heaven, abstract i know, but i liked it. I might re-post this one day after if i …
A sketch a day-Man with weight
Well one of my new year resolutions for 2011 was to work on my art skills and create a comic book . So keeping true to that im going to start publishing daily sketches, its a good way to track my progress as my skills progress and get some feedback . Here is an image …
Grand Central Dispatch Objective-C Tutorial
Grand Central Dispatch Objective-C Tutorial In this tutorial im going to give you a quick how to on using the grand central dispatch in iPhone programming. This isn’t an introduction to iPhone programming so I won’t go into detail on how to create a new project and linking outlets in interface builder, I assume you …
A Sketch a day
Well one of my new year resolutions for 2011 was to work on my art skills and create a comic book . So keeping true to that im going to start publishing daily sketches, its a good way to track my progress as my skills progress and get some feedback
Technology Ive Never Used-Predictive Text
To some this will come as a shock but ive never used predictive text on my cellphone. I’ve found the tech too slow and ive never had the patience and/or time to add words to the dictionary. Okay so before the backlash let me explain myself. The very first cellphone I ever owned was a …
Tutorial: Sharing your internet over bluetooth
In this post I’m going to show you how you can share your existing internet connection between say your laptop pc and your desktop pc over Bluetooth. Why would you want to do this? Well if you are like me, then you could only have one network point in your home,don’t want to buy an …
Vector Artwork potrait
Here is a piece of vector artwork I did in 2009 as gift to one of my friends. Took me a couple of hours with photoshop cs3 and I was struggling with it as I was working on my HP laptop with the (frustrating) mouse track pad. In hindsight that probably wasn’t the best way …
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