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How to create a compass in iPhone

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 10 Jan 2012 | 8 Comments | Tags: CABasicAnimation,CLLocationManager,compass,core animation,didUpdateHeading,direction,location manager,startUpdatingHeading | 
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A Happy New Year! I hope everyone enjoy this winter season. I want you to remember another new year holiday, which is in Chinese calendar, coming in a few weeks. We will update our Chinese Astrology and Feng Shui App with a bunch of features, such as a compass to show direction on the screen. According to our partner, Eco-Med LLC which is Feng Shui guru company, ancient Chinese people have developed complex schema to determine the layout of rooms / furnitures depend on your "lucky" direction. In 21st century, the iPhone in your pocket contains a small device, it's called magnetrometer, helps you to solve...




Android Development: Passing Data Between Activities

Posted by: gavi | Date: 03 Jan 2012 | 2 Comments | Tags: activity,android development,data passing | 
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Every thing you do in android is an instance of Activity class. The back button (mostly implemented in hardware - now also on software - Example Galaxy Tab 10.1 and ICS) allows to unload current activity and go back to previous one. Lets say you are building a game and would like to pass data between your menu screen and the game screen. You show a bunch of options to the user in the menu screen and you have to pass the appropriate paramater to the Game Screen. Lets call our Activities GameActivity and MenuActivity Loading a different GameActivity from MenuActivity: First thing you need...




Android Development: Using SoundPool instead of MediaPlayer

Posted by: gavi | Date: 02 Jan 2012 | 1 Comment | Tags: android,MediaPlayer,SoundPool | 
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I wanted to launch a simple app for Kindle Fire to test the Amazon market place for Android Apps. You can download the app here. I chose one of our simplest sounds apps for Christmas. Here is a screenshot of the same. The top buttons play the background music and the individual icons on the shelf play simple sounds. My first struggle was with the layout and making it work with various other android devices. I will write an another post for that. But with regards to playing the actual sound files there were problems also. There are 2 ways of playing sounds. 1. MediaPlayer...




Core Image Framework in IOS 5.0

Posted by: soe | Date: 31 Dec 2011 | 0 Comment | Tags: coreimage,iphone | 
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With the new ios 5 comes new frameworks. Today we are going to investigate one of the new framework: Core Image Framework. Core Image framework contains built in image filters to manipulate images and videos. The framework includes basic image filters like Sepia tone and Monochrome to advance image operations like face detection. One of the main advantage of the Core Image Framework is it's ability to be able to use both CPU and GPU power, and the result is very fast image processing. The framework can even support the real time processing of video frames. There are 3 main components in Core Image...




My adventures with the Sparrow framework

Posted by: ken | Date: 31 Dec 2011 | 1 Comment | Tags: apple,game development,ios,iPad,iphone,mac,mac os x,objective-c,sparrow | 
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I had been looking into 2D game development frameworks when one of my friends suggested the Sparrow framework. Having struggled with OpenGLES in the past, I was eager to find a higher-level framework that would allow me to produce some working concepts without writing mountains of code just to render a basic shape on the screen. I found Sparrow extremely easy to learn and if you have prior 2D or 3D game development experience, it should be even easier to pick up. To get started, download the latest package from: http://www.sparrow-framework.org/download/ This package comes with the Sparrow...




IntelliJ brings back my interest in Android

Posted by: gavi | Date: 30 Dec 2011 | 1 Comment | Tags: andorid,development,ide | 
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Eclipse sucks! Sorry to all Eclipse lovers, I just hate developing in Eclipse. Coming from Visual Studio and XCode, I just felt that eclipse was not responsive enough for Android development. I started my research for a good alternative. I even contemplated building everything manually using TextMate. But I think I finally found some good Android development tool that does not suck. Its IntelliJ IDEA and I use their free community edition. IDEA can open your eclipse projects and works seamlessly with Android emulator. Downloading: Download IntelliJ IDEA community edition from http://www.jetbrains.com...




ASP.NET Page Methods and jQuery

Posted by: bozena | Date: 30 Dec 2011 | 1 Comment | Tags: asp.net,json,pagemethod | 
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ASP.NET has a very nice architecture to pack all backend AJAX methods and jQuery in the same ASPX file. Lets say you have a simple Page Method like below. You need to include the "System.Web.Services" and declare your method as WebMethod. [WebMethod] public static int Sum(int a, int b) { return a + b; } Make sure your page method is static The JQuery way of calling this function would be something similar to this. $(document).ready(function () { $("#btnSum").click(function () { $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "Default.aspx/Sum", data:...




Integrating ShareKit + ASIHTTPRequest for TwitPic

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 27 Dec 2011 | 1 Comment | Tags: image,oauth,twitpic,twitter | 
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ShareKit (2.0 is here) is a nice SNS library to make your iPhone development life easy. Dropping the folder int your project and enable share in a few lines of codes. I've been using TwitPic for twitter user to share their image but ShareKit uses img.ly as default. TwitPic is better for me in terms of supported formats and the simplicity; however, the recent OAuth things make so complicated. I'm not sure OAuth really contributing more secure authentication and I'm not sure SNS needs that high-level security system (people just upset after Obama's account hacked?). Anyway, I miss TwitPic's simple...




Frosty Camera iPhone App for this Winter Season

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 16 Nov 2011 | 0 Comment | 
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Winter is here! Let's forget about the Global Warming, and enjoy the snowy Holidays with our newly released Frosty Camera App. Frosty Camera Free lets you take frosty photos of your family, friends and even yourself. Apply our special photo effects and frosty frames in Real Time.Watch as Frosty Camera transforms the world around you into ICE AGE. Tired of taking the same old normal pictures? Transform yourself into frozen snowman. Create super frosty photos in Real Time and share them with families and friends. Choose from 9 unique icy frames to style your photos and share with your favorite...




Geoweb summit 2011

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 11 Nov 2011 | 2 Comments | Tags: Geo,geography,gis,lbs,location,web | 
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We just came back from Geoweb Summit 2011 in Brooklyn. The event was energetic, and we are glad to attend the meaningful panel discussions on both technology and business strategy. As a GIS Analyst / Developer, I always ask myself the following question: "What is the next generation of legacy desktop GIS systems?" I like NY City's mashup approach to provide an answer to my question. One of the panelist, Colin Reilly, is from the New York DoITT and he leads campaigns like New York Big Apps. This is an important movement since only the government and big organizations used to exclusively handle...




Scary Camera – Our new iPhone App Released!

Posted by: ken | Date: 20 Oct 2011 | 1 Comment | Tags: camera,effect,filter,ghost,Halloween,image,monster,photo,picture,spooky,zombie | 
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Get ready for a scary Halloween! Scary Camera FREE lets you take spooky photos of your family, friends and even yourself. Apply our special photo effects and scary frames in Real Time. Watch as Scary Camera transforms the world around you into a real life horror show. Show off your creativity with our special photo effects and make your own haunted photos. Scare all of your friends this Halloween! Tired of taking the same old normal pictures? Add something scary to it in Real Time. Make your pictures look like they came out of the grundge movie. Choose from over 20 different horror frames...




New Version of iRetroPhone Available – The Original And Favorite Rotary Dialer

Posted by: gavi | Date: 13 Sep 2011 | 2 Comments | Tags: apple,iphone,iRetroPhone,rotary dialer | 
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Kiichi started playing around with the iPhone SDK back in March of 2008 and we needed an idea for our very first native iPhone application. Our good friend Chris League mentioned in a conversation that one of his students said how the old rotary dialer phones were much more reliable than cell phones of today. The idea immediately clicked that we needed to build a Rotary dialer app for iPhone and it should be available on Day 1 of the App store Launch. We achieved that. iRetroPhone was born and it was reviewed by NYTimes back in 2008. Since then we only made minor changes. We moved on to other...




Geo Measure – App To Measure Areas And Distances For iPhone/iPad

Posted by: gavi | Date: 25 Jul 2011 | 9 Comments | Tags: area,distance,Geo,iPad,iphone app,measurement,tool,utility | 
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Have you ever wondered "How much acreage is that farm?" or "What is the distance between your house and subway station?". Are you curious to find out who has the most property in your neighborhood? We have an app for that. We are pleased to announce the launch of our new app for iOS devices. This is a great tool for anyone who wants to find geographical areas or distances. Use the app for finding distances between far away places or just calculate the bike path before you actually attempt it. This app is universal, it means the same binary will run on both iPhone and iPad. Here...




OS X Lion Review – 3 things I love / hate

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 22 Jul 2011 | 1 Comment | Tags: lion | 
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Mac OS X Lion (Version 10.7) is out , and according to Apple 1 Millions Lions are downloaded in the first day. There are plenty of reviews about pros and cons of the new OS. Here are my quick review on 3 things I love / Hate about the Lion. 1. Air Drop Finally easy to share files between macs. Even though not a replacement for your Dropbox, it is definitely a good start. pros: easy to share, no set up or configuration, auto discovery cons: no support to share over network yet, no group sharing 2. New Gestures pros: easy to switch between applications, better experiences...




iSeismometer “On The Fly” Released. Try this without Downloading An App.

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 05 Jul 2011 | 0 Comment | 
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Click to try iSeismometer (m.iseismometer.com). Enjoy! We created iSeismometer Web version which does not require you to download app from App Store. This is very simple version of our iSeismometer but it animate motions on your phone. Good news? It does works on iPad, Android, and Firefox on MacBook. Compatibility Chart: iPhone 4Good iPad2Good Galaxy Tab 10.1Good Mac FirefoxWorking - Missing one value Mac ChromeDoes not crush but no animation Mac SafariNot working




iSeismometer appeared on BBC

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 25 Jun 2011 | 2 Comments | Tags: bbc,classroom,education,interview,iPad,iSeismometer,project | 
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Our app, iSeismometer, to show slight motion on your iPhone / iPad was on BBC! They came to shoot a classroom at Long Island University because the app which I developed in the Earth Science classroom was used as one of the lab exercise. Our University distributed 6,000 iPads so far and it will be 10,000 by the next year. My team lead the development of the entire distribution system and the university app on it. Dr. Kennelly introduced about iSeismometer and one of lab exercise in a Earth Science classroom. My interview was not used but I'm happy that he mention about my app and me in his comments. That...




ObjectGraph Contributes to JMSA Japan Relief Fund

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 22 Apr 2011 | 0 Comment | Tags: contribution,donation,japan relief fund,jmsa,medical,social service | 
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Dear Everyone, ObjectGraph is glad to announce that we contributed $3,000 to JMSA Japan Relief Fund. Right after the earthquake in Japan, we made all of our medical apps free, including #1 in the ranking, "Japanese Medicine Search" and then, we were looking for an medical organization to send our proceeds since one of our focus is in medical fields. Last week, Yumi, who is a founder of StudioYumi, introduced us to JMSA (Japan Medical Society of America) through her husband Yoshi. 100% of proceeds go to local hospitals. Thank You




How to Use Gummy Bear to Build Anti-Gravity Quarters Stack

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 01 Apr 2011 | 2 Comments | Tags: April 1 | 
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Serge Glikshtein, who is our new ObjectGraph Fellowship in gravitational physics, discovered some significant effects of gummy bear on solid materials like metal surface. If you have quoters in your pocket, please try this amazing trick for your friends. Learn DIY tips from Dr. Glikshtein: Stack 56 coins like a picture below using gummy bears. Step 1: Prepare coins and gummy bears We recommend the cheapest gummy bear from CVS pharmacy. Their average price is around $1.79 (2 for $3.00). Quarters should be cleaned and polished. Step 2: Rub coins with gummy bears After polishing...




Japanese Earthquake Relief Funds

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 14 Mar 2011 | 0 Comment | Tags: earthquake,funds,japan,relief | 
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Save The Children American Red Cross Causes Red Cross Salvation Army International Medical Corps Doctors Without Borders Global Giving Explore.org are donating $1 for every Like on Facebook By SMS Text JAPAN or 20222 to donate – Save The Children Text REDCROSS or 90999 to make $10 donation by text message – Red Cross Text QUAKE or 80888 to donate $10 – Salvation Army Text MED or 80888 to donate $10 – International Medical Corps Text JAPAN or 50555 to donate $10 – Global Giving Text WAVE to 50555 to donate $10 – World Relief Text TSUNAMI to 50555...




東北地方太平洋沖地震関係のリンクなど Japanese Quake Person Finder

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 12 Mar 2011 | 1 Comment | Tags: earthquake,リンク,地震,安否確認,災害,緊急用ダイヤル | 
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Japan Earthquake And Tsunami Relief Fund http://j.mp/ikiwaz Groupon Donation http://j.mp/grIHsX Google Crisis Response http://www.google.co.jp/intl/ja/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html 緊急用ダイヤル: 171 + 1 + 自宅の電話番号(市外局番からダイヤル)で伝言吹きこみ 171 + 2 + 自宅の電話番号(市外局番からダイヤル)で伝言再生




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