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Category: iPhone

  • Random Funny Technology Videos

    I was surfing the Interweb recently and came across some cool/funny videos that I thought I would share:

    Amazing iPod Trick

    http://www.break.com/index/amazing-ipod-trick-1984104
    This video turns a black iPod into a white iPod.  I’m not sure if I would personally want to try this, but it sure looks cool afterwords.

    Roombas Hack to Play Pac-Man

    http://www.ohgizmo.com/2011/01/11/roombas-playing-pac-man/
    Excellent use of a vacuum and great way to promote it’s cleaning skills by “finding” dirt.

    Image Translating iPhone App

    http://www.techi.com/2010/12/image-translating-iphone-app/
    This is one of the coolest apps ever.  Show a road sign or some picture with words and watch it translate the text in the image for you right on your iPhone!

    Facebok Profile Picture Hack Tutorial

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhvJqGgzmoQ
    The new profile displays pictures from your last album on the top of your profile, watch this video to make it a sequence of photos splitting your features across multiple images.

  • iPhone Apps Randomly Crashing?

    Today at work I was advancing one of our iPhone applications.  It’s a pretty basic application, has a menu which displays some data from the web via XML; all of that fun stuff.

    On occasion, I would try to push a view controller and the application would randomly crash, e.g.:

    [code]
    -(void) showMainMenu {
    [mainNavigationController pushViewController:mainMenuViewController animated:YES];
    }
    [/code] (more…)

  • ActivityIndicator with a UIWebView

    Because you can never be sure how long it will take to retrieve content from a web page and have it displayed on the iPod/iPhone, it’s quite nice to provide the user with an indication that the content is being retrieved.

    The following article provides a nice and easy way to start and stop and animation indicator when the content is being retrieved and has been loaded. (more…)

  • Reset UINavigationController

    The following is a neat little trick to reset your navigation controller when it is integrated with UITabBarController.

    The following code will pop the navigation controller up when the user clicks on your tab bar item.  I’ll begin by showing a bit of code that needs to take place.  It’s going to be a quick overview of this to focus on the main function to reset the navigation controller. (more…)

  • Scroll a UIWebView

    I struggled with this one for quite a while.  I kept searching and searching, all I could find was forums and no one seemed to have an answer!

    Well, if you’re here, don’t worry, I have the answer you have been looking.  Let me show you how to make a UIWebView scrollable for your iPhone application. (more…)