June 2010
22 posts
First iPhone app, Apple's developer tutorial
If you’ve been following this first iPhone app tutorial by Apple, you’ll notice that after the step where you change your view’s background to purple, there’s a white bar below.
Check the solution @ iPhone Dev SDK forum
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iPhone Simulator
Springboard failed to launch with error -1
Ever had any of that error? Exit the simulator and restart it. It should work.
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle and a lion wakes up.
The gazelle knows that...”
– African Proverb
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Jack Johnson - To The Sea
Bad: It sounds just like every other albums he has made.
Good: For those of us who can’t get enough of his peacefully awesome music, it’s priceless.
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Lenka - Lenka
I’ve found this album by following the trail that started from the background music of the TV commercial for ugly betty. Just gotta say the unusual vocal and the cute song got me hooked.
2 steps to make mainstream music
Make it slutty
Auto-tune
“Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to...”
– C.S. Lewis
He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
by William Butler Yeats
“We are made to feel that at any point, somewhere on the globe, something may...”
– via CITY journal
Confident Dumb People
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1995. A local man, McArthur Wheeler, walks into two banks in the middle of the day and robs them both at gunpoint. Making away with the cash, he is arrested later that evening. Back at the station police sit him down and show him footage from the banks’ security cameras. Wheeler can’t believe it, the cameras had somehow seen through his disguise. He was seen...
