Decided to make some trees using CoreAnimation. Pretty pleased with the results, although animation gets a bit sluggish towards the end. Will probably put up the source at some point.
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iOS Contacts
Apple have now stated that a future version of iOS will require the user to allow apps access to contacts information. I think it’s a good move and was surprised it wasn’t like this in the first place.
Recently there’s been another big story about the almost unrestricted acesss to user’s photos.
Give it a couple of weeks and there’ll be another when everyone realises that Calendar info is up for grabs as well…
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Apple Tweaks Address Book App Policy
Quote from myself about Apple’s policy on contact data and privacy:
>> http://www.mobilemarketingmagazine.co.uk/content/apple-tweaks-address-book-app-policy
(Shame they can’t spell my name right…)
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SOPA Blackout
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA, H.R. 3261) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA, S. 968) are controversial“piracy”bills being debated in the House of Representatives and Senate, respectively. Supporters claim the bills target “rogue” foreign websites that encourage online infringement, but their real effect would be to slow down job-creating tech innovations at home and create devastating new tools for silencing legitimate speech all around the web.
In spite of historic opposition from a diverse coalition including civil liberties and human rights organizations, tech industry leaders, security experts, legal scholars, a bipartisan group of legislators, and many more, the bills are moving quickly through Congress, fueled by massive infusions of cash from big content companies.
US law, but will affect everyone.
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Dirt Planet
Concept art I made for an iOS game. Maybe I’ll make it someday…
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Movember
Movember – raising vital funds and awareness for men’s health.
>>http://www.movember.com/m/1339312
Edit: Thank god it’s gone!!!
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iPhone 5 Predictions
There’s a lot of rumours about what the next generation iPhone will be like, with a lot of people predicting a larger screen. I think this will be very unlikely.
Unlike Android, almost all iOS apps are not designed to be viewed on different screen sizes, we have the luxury of being able to hardcode dimensions knowing they will look correct across all iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches. (Even if you try to write apps like this you run into a lot of problems, it’s not easy.) If Apple increase the screen size most of the apps in the App Store will stop displaying correctly. They could always increase the size and drop the ppi, but then they will no longer be able to call it a ‘Retina’ display.
I would not be surprised if Apple came up with a clever solution I hadn’t even considered. But I’m going to stick with my prediction that screen size will remain the same.
Edit: iPhone 4S is indeed the same, we’ll wait and see what the iPhone 5 is like…
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iPhone 4 is thicker in white
>>iPhone 4 is thicker in white
Turns out the new white iPhone is a tad thicker than the black. So that’s what taken so long, applying all those extra layers of paint.
Edit: No it isn’t!
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iPhone Folder Icons
I’ve been getting back into Angry Birds recently and noticed something that’s starting to annoy me about the iPhone’s folder icons. The icon consists of a 3 x 3 grid showing the 9 icons of the apps inside. When opened however the folders show a 4 x 3 grid holding up to 12 full-sized app icons.
The problem is that the folder icon and it’s contents don’t match up. I’m constantly looking at the icon. seeing Angry Birds in the bottom left and then opening SandSlides instead. I imagine this discrepancy is down to the fact that a 4 x 3 grid wouldn’t fit and that the individual app icons would become too small to recognise, but it is now giving a false representation of the folder’s contents.
A simple solution would be to match the 9 icons on the left of the folder. This would mean that when only a few apps are there some are omitted from the icon, but even now the icon doesn’t show all the apps inside and at least it would be consistent!
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