In Part 1 of this series of articles we drew some simple graphic primitives on the iPhone display. In this article we are going to look at how to do some simple animation. The goal of this example is to create a 2D ball that bounces around the iPhone screen. First of all we need [...]
Archive for April, 2008
WikipediaPick: Whiz Kids TV Series
April 24th, 2008 
Richard Whiz Kids I’m not done with these goofy ’80s TV shows just yet! Whiz Kids was inspired by the movie WarGames and is about a group of teenage computer hackers that use their skillz to solve crimes. Of course I watched it back in the day. It starred Matthew Laborteaux. He played Albert on Little [...]
iPhone OS Beta 4 Install Problems
April 24th, 2008 Richard Getting the Beta 4 OS (build 5A258f) for iPhone or iPod Touch onto your device has a glitch and the install will not work. Restoring the OS from the Xcode Organizer will get stuck before the OS in even installed. When the device is rebooted it will appear as a second device with no information [...]
iPhone Beta 4 Released
April 23rd, 2008 Richard Apple has released Beta 4 of the iPhone SDK and the iPhone/iPod Touch OS. The SDK build number is 9M2165 and the OS build number is 5A258f. New in the release is OpenGL ES support to the iPhone Simulator! Share and Enjoy:
WikipediaPick: Automan TV Series
April 21st, 2008 Richard One of my co-workers and I got into a discussion about sci-fi TV shows from the ’80s. Having been a computer nerd growing up in the ’80s I didn’t miss too many sci-fi shows back then. I remember watching the series Automan as a kid. I don’t recall it being the best of shows but [...]
WikipediaPick: Grok
April 18th, 2008 Richard Grok As first used in the Heinlein novel Stranger in a Strange Land: “Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us (because [...]
Plotting a Sine Wave with the iPhone SDK
April 17th, 2008 Richard Got the following request from Leo on the Exploring iPhone Graphics Part 1 article: Could you give me a quick primer on how to draw a sinus curve (or similar curve) with the data coming from an array? Here it is: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 [...]
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Tags: Core Graphics, Graphics, iPhone, SDK, Sine, Software Development 
3 Comments »Site Outage
April 17th, 2008 Richard This site will be down some time later this evening. I need to do some re-organization of the directory structure. It’ll be obvious when it is down. Share and Enjoy:
YouTubage: iPhone Star Trek Mods
April 17th, 2008 Richard Another new type of post. YouTubage! Posts about interesting YouTube videos. The iPhone hacking community has done some really cool stuff. Here are some video’s demoing iPhone’s that have their UI modded to look like Star Trek computer screens. Share and Enjoy:
WikipediaPick: Freethought
April 17th, 2008 Richard I’m going to try something new to get a break from all the coding examples I’ve been posting. It’s simple, I’ll pick a Wikipedia topic and post about it. The topic can be anything I feel like. I’ll learn something and you might also. Freethought Freethought is a philosophical viewpoint that holds that beliefs should [...]
