perceptionz.net 2.0 - Because we can

I’ve been messing around lately with custom views and touch events as custom views looks a lot more cooler from a user point of view than the default. Here is a bit of code on how to visualize it in your head (about how it tracks your hand). By the way, it isn’t multi-touch friendly [...]

I haven’t yet perfected this yet or figured out how to create a bookmarklet which works for all browsers (or the main ones), but you can add the following code to your bookmarks (this also works on all iOS devices too!) which will allow you to share links with your facebook network. The code: javascript:s=’/'; [...]

Other than the fact it is also used by Apple themselves, and used by Apple Developers for a long time – I can see another reason why using interface builder is good. The reason – Universal Applications (for iPhone OS).

Well I’m drafting this up on my iPad and let’s just say I’m very much impressed at the device. I’ve had no problems (even stable wifi!) Personally I am going to use it for keeping my CV and portfolio onto the iPad – the ultimate transition from paper. As for the virtual keyboard, in landscape [...]

Just noticed that after a big round of redundancies at my day job the news sure does travel fast.

To summarize:

- Increased website hits
- LinkedIn Profile views from agencies (or companies)

But that is a really good thing….

A little walkthrough of something I’m working on! Currently ironing out a few bugs, maybe some UI tweaks and doing some field testing to see how useful it would be for other people.

I’ve developed apps using interface building and without it. Here’s the rundown of why Interface Builder is good AND why it is not.

Here’s a quick timesaver (thanks to the wonderful people at Google) to stay updated. You could also use this to aggregate any combination of sites with a little “Google-Fu”. Using Google Blog Search, you can create an RSS feed to search terms. As all my blogs sit on the *.perceptionz.net domain, you can simply add [...]

Just found a pretty cool (and geeky) way of querying wikipedia.

Running the command dig +short txt keyword.wp.dg.cx will return a short description as a DNS TXT response with the wikipedia article.

Have been searching the web for how to do it, but I have found a way to make the correct file format from Apple’s push notification documentation and some other sites which show where to replace the file. Anyway here are the steps: Run the following command afconvert -f caff -d ima4 -v  filename_to_convert.ext sms-received1.caf [...]