Adding Machine HD Update

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Ken

The update for Adding Machine HD is in the  App Store now. It fixes a bug that came with iOS 5.  In testing, sometimes upgrading the app alone is enough to fix the bug. In other instances you will need to delete the app and then reinstall. To delete the app you hold the icon for several seconds. All your icons will begin to wiggle and a black “X” will appear. Tap the icon you want to delete. After reinstalling tap a button to upgrade, Apple keeps records of what you have purchased and should not charge you.

Sorry for the inconvenance and sorry it took so long to fix, it was a real mystery for a long time.

Ken

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Adding Machine HD Update

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Ken

Submitted an update to Adding Machine HD today. It looks like turning off the iAds was causing the paid version to crash. Because of the way the app was originally built the ads exist at the start and are turned off if you’ve paid. Now we only load the ad system if you have not paid.

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Apple TV Prediction

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Ken

Walter Isaacson quoted Steve saying he had “finally cracked it” in reference to television. This is my guess of what Apple TV will become:

  1. A superior processor that includes at least one core for graphic processing
  2. Stereoscopic camera like the Xbox Kinect
  3. Stereo Microphone for Siri
  4. iOS gestures will be read by the stereoscopic cameras
  5. A full iOS interface layer based on Siri and spacial gestures
  6. Apps and Safari

It may include a channel tuner and with that a web service for channel selection or maybe just a Siri channel search engine. Airplay,  iTunes and iCloud all will be extended and enhanced.

What it won’t be is a physical television set because your actual screen will still be good for several iterations of Apple TV before Ultra HD hits the scene.

Look for the announcement at WWDC 2012 with product shipping by Fall.

 

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Updates

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Ken

The updates for Icon Dial and Adding Machine HD have been approved and are available on iTunes.

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Now for something completely different…

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Ken

Just saw this:

JP Auclair Street Segment (from All.I.Can.) from Sherpas Cinema on Vimeo.

Very fun!

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Updates for iOS 5

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Ken

It turns out iOS 5 caused problems for IconDial and AddingMachine HD. The bugs have been found and squashed! Look for the updated in a little over a week.

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Charlie Rose interviews Zuckerberg and Sandberg

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Ken

Definitely a worthwhile interview for anyone interested in the direction of the internet and social media in general.

Mark Zuckerberg and Charlie Rose

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11981

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Photons to Bits and Beyond: The Science & Technology of Digital

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Ken

Eric Fossum’s (the father of CMOS) talk at Yale. Not only for the tech but its implications and his perspective on invention.

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Affiliate Programs

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Ken

I recently joined LinkShare as the first step in participating in Apple’s affiliate program. Now you can buy stuff through me and I get a cut! Woo-hoo, a big 5%! So, go buy yourself some country music! iTunes, App Store, iBookstore, and Mac App Store While your at it buy an App! Ken Torimaru

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Objective-C++

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Ken

The Apple line for what do when combining Objective-C and C++ is to change the file extensions from .m to .mm. But in Apple examples they never seem to do this! Instead, in the Build Settings under “LLVM GCC  4.2 – Language” subheading “Compile Sources As” they choose the setting “Objective-C++”.  This seems to work much better, I added some working C++ from an Apple example and got a ton of errors, changing the file extensions to .mm I got less errors but still no build. Changing to “Objective-C++” and putting the file extension back to .m I got an error free build but 14 warnings. Better but still no prize.

This is intended mostly as a note to myself, but if it helps someone else great!

As an added note: The Warnings don’t show up on the Apple Example because they just turned them off! Also in Build Settings under “LLVM GCC 4.2 Warning” subheading “Missing Function Prototypes” they changed the default to “No”. So much for the general rule that “Warning” should be treated as “Errors”!

 

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