Category Archives: Technology

iOS 4.1 adds HDR to camera app

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Dan

One thing that piqued my interest from today’s Apple Event was the addition of HDR photography in iOS 4.1, being an iOS developer I grabbed the 4.1 GM and loaded it on to my iPhone 4, see an example of … Continue reading →

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It’s Facetime

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Dan

Early today I received my payment for renting my soul to Optus for another 24 months, a brand spanking new iPhone 4. The phone is gorgeous, everything about it is magic. Now I am coming from an iPhone 3G which … Continue reading →

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Core Blimey

Posted on April 24, 2010 by Dan

Thanks to the magic of salary sacrifice I’ve updated my late 2006 MacBook Pro to a shiny new 17″ Core i7 MacBook Pro. The old machine has served me well these last three years but it has really started to … Continue reading →

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Apple: Customer Service Matters

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Dan

A couple of weeks ago I noticed a crack had developed from the rear corner of the dock connector port on my black iPhone 3G running up the back for about an inch. The crack did not affect the operation … Continue reading →

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An organiser for iPhone Apps….

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Dan

I stumbled across this blog post by Veronica Belmont (@Veronica on Twitter) about an awesome concept for iPhone App organizing. I don’t know about you but I have 5, starting on 6, pages of apps on my iPhone and it’s … Continue reading →

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CodeSign error: a valid provisioning profile is required

Posted on February 9, 2009 by Dan

This is the error message that has been plaguing me for a few days. What triggered it was replacing my provisioning profiles and certificates. Fortunately I found an answer in the following blog post CodeSign error: a valid provisioning profile … Continue reading →

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UITabBarController refusing to rotate

Posted on February 9, 2009 by Dan

I was struggling for some hours on an issue with an App I’m writing for the iPhone. For some reason I could not get any of the views to rotate to landscape, the API docs suggested that this was trivial … Continue reading →

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I thought this was a free country

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Dan

After 38 years of living in what I believed to be a free country you can imagine my outrage when I came across stories about the Rudd government’s latest brainwave Minister welcomes advances in internet filtering technology (Computerworld have a … Continue reading →

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A Sethy-sized Laptop

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Dan

With the last of our tax refund we bought the boys a sub-notebook to play with, the eeepc 4g from Asus. The specs are as follows Display: 7″CPU: 900 MHz Celeron-MVideo: Intel GMA 900OS: LinuxColour: WhiteNetwork: 10/100MB Ethernet & 80211b/g … Continue reading →

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Geocaching, the modern day treasure hunt……

Posted on July 21, 2008 by Dan

Inspired by my Texan colleague and enabled by my recent acquisition of a 3G iPhone I decided to have a crack at Geocaching. For the uninitiated this involves trying to find a hidden cache of goodies based on GPS co-ordinates. … Continue reading →

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