Category Archives: iPod and Apple Platform

How to related to the iPod, iPhone, and Apple platforms.

How to find your resources and how to generally find the directory layout

To find the main download directory for when you are receiving files, put this snippet of code in a test project or your main project at the point of opening: NSArray *pathsForDownloadedFiles = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES); NSString *pathMain = [pathsForDownloadedFiles … Continue reading

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Droid will not assimilate you. Long live iOS.

TechCrunch is reporting that if you’re on iOS there is a 90% chance you have the latest OS version, but get this, if you are using droid, there is only four tenths of one percent chance (yes that’s correct) that … Continue reading

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Free iPod Promo Codes!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone! To celebrate the holidays please enjoy the game Trisaic on us! Here are thirty, yes THIRTY promo codes for this iPod game. This game is appropriate for all ages. When you have used … Continue reading

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Popping up the keyboard on the iPlatform

If you want the virtual keyboard to popup when you display a text field in a view do the following: In your viewDidLoad or if you call any method to do “things” before displaying then the variable that points to … Continue reading

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iPad Universal App

This is for the uninitiated and for posterity. Running XCode 3.2.3. Please NOTE: I had forgotten this. If you update the OS of your iPlatform device (pod/phone/pad) then you MUST update the XCode SDK. Now this makes sense in a … Continue reading

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iPad – The Conqueror

I went to Best Buy and they had the requisite four iPads to touch and feel and play with. Lots of kids/teens/college age. They were all over everything, the macbooks, iPads, everything that was there. It was “an event” for … Continue reading

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Flash on the iPlatform

Yeah yeah yeah, yet another “why Flash isn’t on the iPlatform” article points out some of the spurious points. The author points out “The facts remain, however, that the iPad will run HTML5 video inline today (and iPhone OS 4 … Continue reading

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Gruber is not completely correct about Apple’s policy change

This post was sent to me about Gruber’s analysis of the new Apple policy (3.3.1) that stated that developers were not allowed to use third party development tools that could target multiple mobile phone platforms. We were looking into these … Continue reading

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iPad – uh yeah great name

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NO JOY. An OS 3.0 upgrade story

Went to the iTunes store to upgrade one of my iPods to the OS 3.0 SDK to see if we can monetize the crap out of it. Hey, I’ve BEEN BUSY, so shutup. Anyway, No joy. An UNKNOWN ERROR occurred … Continue reading

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HOLY CRAP BATMAN SNOW LEOPARD’S GOT ME

As the “Ultimate End-User” I could remark…but I upgraded the blog theme and it wiped our customizations…Yea it was in the manual.

What the HECK are these programmers thinking? Or unthinking?

NOTE: Tom’s swearing was SELF removed, twas not I. Thank you for saving me the effort Mr. Know It All.

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Create an iPhone app splash screen

1-Create a .png file with Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, Gimp, or any of the graphic programs out there. 2-Name it Default.png. 3-Add it to the Resources tab of your Xcode project. This will add this splash screen automatically to your … Continue reading

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Codesigning Kumite #92,232

Real world example. I’m updating our Lite version of Trisaic to reintroduce to the app store. In Xcode but of course. Choose distribution. Select trisaiclite under the “targets” Download article as PDF

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Codesign error number 5,202,203,023. Frustrated but undaunted.

The AppID in the Dev Central is setup with a specific application id code. Ex. hc124g12.com.joroto.agauge My app had the product name ${PRODUCT_NAME} as aGauge. The capital ‘G’ was the problem. Do you see it? Yep neither did I, Download … Continue reading

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Replacing graphics files in XCode

I wanted to replace some graphics files under my resources in the Xcode environment. They are currently symlinks. I wanted them to be actual files in order to zip up and send to other developers. I thought an inexperienced user … Continue reading

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aGauge now available for iPhone & iPod

aGauge is now available for the iPod and iPhone! Test your accelerometer with this utility. Super Cool! aGauge WEB SITE Or visit the Joroto iTunes Store: Download article as PDF

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iPod/iPhone “No provisioned device” error in XCode

In the Organizer in XCode you notice that your iPlatform device (iPod/iPhone) is not recognized as a provisioned device. The little “light” is not green. However iTunes can sync with it and give it a great big kiss. Cause: I … Continue reading

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Joroto, Inc Releases Trisaic for the iPod and iPhone

Today Joroto announced the release Trisaic, a puzzle game for Apple’s portable devices, the iPod and iPhone. The game board for Trisaic is full of pairs of adjacent triangles that the player must match. The player selects the objects and … Continue reading

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