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Tag: iPhone

  • PhoneGap and Jquery Mobile – A Truly Winning Combination

    Any regular readers of jQuery tutorial may have noticed that I finally got around to updating and adding a new book under “My Books” on the right-hand side of the screen.  Yes, I not-so recently published my third book (and second with O’Reilly) earlier this year.

    The book is called 20 Recipes for Programming PhoneGap – Cross-Platform Mobile Development for Android and iPhone.  Throughout this book, I get you up and running quickly using the PhoneGap API along with the Jquery Mobile API to take care of the pesky mobile design issues. On occasion you may get errors like How to check for undefined in JavaScript so hopefully this will help.

    Much like I did when I released my MVC 3.NET book, I provided a free chapter from the book for my readers.  Well here is an excellent recipe sample from my PhoneGap book.  The goal of this recipe is to provide a standard approach to automatically fire (or trigger) a JavaScript function when a PhoneGap page has loaded – either on initial launch or after the user has navigated within the application.

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  • 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];
    }
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