perceptionz.net 2.0 > Geeking Out

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).

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 [...]

Well progress has been on and off in spurts but have finally integrated the UI (which is a simple UITableView with some custom cells, a settings controller, and a details controller) to a class which grabs the YQL data and converts it to a readable format. Just a little tidying up, adding in some unit [...]

It’s a new financial year now here in AU. Where all the accountants are now breathing a sigh of relief as the last month of hard work in getting to books ready are now over. Anyway, I’ve been going over the new 2009-2010 tax rates and updating the MySalary iPhone app and have noticed all [...]

The main focus for this release is about usability. As far as an iPhone app goes, it should at least keep track of the user’s inputs so that if they respond to a phone call or SMS, the app will remember what buttons was pressed, and also know which screen was being presented. This I [...]