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IPhone Development Update #1

Peter Geddis — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:39:32 +0000

Almost 400 pages into the great Beginning Iphone Development 3 book, turns out iphone development is alittle more tricky then one might assume! Making steady progress through the topics however and by the end of the month i’ll have covered all the topics required to make an app using the various features, on reason for the slow pace is the difficulty in learning the rather large low-level chunks of code in a new coding style that achieve small goals such as allowing data persistence or access to various folders resources are stored in

I’ve come up with a few solid ideas of what to attempt, need to finalize these details but until then i’m just going to continue creating a few small apps to practice with, next practice app is going graphical with usage of the intriguing Quartz and OpenGL sdk/packages and hopefully Apple have made it simple to do stuff

I mean if all goes well the app ideas may be revisualized in a more funkier graphical look then those overused navigation and tab controller bars

Keep your ears tuned for more updates soon!

One different turn in history, Moving sidewalks instead of trains

Peter Geddis — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:37:54 +0000

Could less corporate greed at the turn of the century have provided us with a crazy world of moving sidewalks stretching through cities?! Probably not but still its an interesting concept that lead to the creation of the classic escalators of today, the original models were greatly different from these however with rings of platforms instead of a single stretch travelling round at different speeds allowing a passenger to get used to each rings faster speed. Surprisingly 12 million people tried these devices with a 0 fatality or accident rate!!

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10 Reasons to Politely Decline a Web Design Gig

Peter Geddis — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:15:42 +0000

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Turkmenistan tries soviet-esq desert to lake transformation

Peter Geddis — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:59:58 +0000

A lake covering 770 square miles and filled with 130bn cubic metres of water…….in the center of a desert??

Turk is continuing with a plan to pump billions of litres of water out into the desert to form a man-made lake, this plan could take upwards of 15 years to complete and will no doubt be met with fierce opposition from powerful opposition such as oh…the sun perhaps??

Usually the reason a desert exists is because all the water already got fried out, I can just imagine that as they pump water in its gonna be evaporating pretty darn fast

Anyway good luck to them for trying something newsworthy if alittle crazy, if they just sort out all the other problems such as the difficulty in getting a visa to enter the country and the fact that foreign journalists are currently banned (never a good sign!)…….

To conclude, if in two decades your looking for a nice relaxing desert boating experience minus the camels check this place out….but dont forget you’ll be running 2-to-1 odds on gettin arrested and beheaded for speeding in that paddle boat

Science is turning into a miracle factory – Graphene

Peter Geddis — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:41:28 +0000

In the last few years science really has being outdoing itself in developing some seriously cool new wundertoys to play with. Firstly and most-vauntly (it IS a word I assure you, no need to check) carbon nanotubes came about thrilling us all with the possibilities of space elevators and cars that could drive through police blockades, another would be the ‘cloaking device’ allowing for current 2D invisibility

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— VLC 1.0.0 RELEASE! —

Peter Geddis — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:41:37 +0000

Well done vlc team for the official release of your player software! -round of applause-

I never thought I’d see the day when vlc player would climb out of its beta hole, but here it is
I’m actually downloading and installing right now so fingers crossed they’ve updated some parts to make this smoother then ever on windows 7 – (the unsupported anywhere windows)

Exciting times ahead

Bleeding Billboards you say?

Peter Geddis — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:45:29 +0000

Main article showing quite a stunning image/vid on a new billboard……that bleeds when it rains? Indeed!

While the imagery used definately stands out and isn’t exactly what a bus of nuns would approve of, one thing it definately achieves is to freak drivers into behaving on a stretch of road renowned for its high death toll on holidays!

New death toll post-billboard? 0% baby!

Order now and receive a free bleeds-when-sunny sign for the aspiring blood fanatics among you

xkcd – Game Theory

Peter Geddis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:19:44 +0000

Hypno image = excellent

Peter Geddis — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:48:47 +0000

Hypnotic excellence, yet another fun and colorful picture that shows what happens when you give free realm to Internet geeks with a passion for math/styrograph : D

Apple strikes again, app blocking to the max

Peter Geddis — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:18:38 +0000

yes