Since the iPhone 3GS, you could tap on any part of the image in the Camera app to lock focus and exposure. The exposure and focus however shifts as you recompose your image. New in iOS5, you can finally lock focus and exposure on a spot and keep it locked even as you recompose the [...]
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Locking focus and exposure on iOS5′s camera
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Starting Objective-C for iOS development
Some people have been curious as to what are the resources that I’ve used to pick up Objective-C in a relatively short amount of time (about 3 months, including the time taken to develop and ship the first release of Due in September 2010). There are two books have been indispensable in my learning that [...]
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Tips on Designing for the iPad from the Omni Group
This video by Omni Group on Designing Graceful, Gracious Interfaces for iPad is now sitting alongside the WWDC 2010 videos that I’ve downloaded and kept for reference.
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Shuffle a playlist in iTunes and save the order for burning onto CD
How to shuffle a playlist in iTunes and save the play order for burning onto a CD, for times when you need to rely on a CD player with no shuffling capability.
One step forward for Camera+, ten steps backwards for photography
Today, tap tap tap announced version 2.2 of their popular iPhone camera app: Our main, new feature in this version is something we call Clarity, which, in a nutshell, is our response to Apple’s HDR It’s suppose to help turn photos taken under terrible lighting into slightly useable ones. In short, another step towards photography [...]
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Rules for computing happiness
Alex Payne’s Rules for Computing Happiness: Use as little software as possible. Use software that does one thing well. Do not use software that does many things poorly…
Posting to Twitter is like throwing valuable things into a junk drawer…
Justin Williams on the Twitter’s Great Migration: Hopefully those new product offerings include giving me full access to the 15,290 tweets I have written since joining the service five years ago. That data silo is one of the major reasons I am so gunshy of posting content I care about to Twitter anymore. At least [...]
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Bragging about stuff that doesn’t matter
Joshua Topolsky for Engadget: In a post-PC world, the experience of the product is central and significant above all else. It’s not the RAM or CPU speed, screen resolution or number of ports which dictate whether a product is valuable; it becomes purely about the experience of using the device. Ever notice it’s always the [...]
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Numbers and Opt+Arrow Keys
If there’s a set of keyboard shortcuts you absolutely must know, it is the Command (⌘) + Arrow Keys and the Option (⌥) + Arrow Keys. They are bread and butter when it comes to writing and editing long documents on the Mac, because they allow you to move your text insertion point (caret) around [...]
The new iMac 27″ display
This is the 27″ iMac display. Check out how little adjustment is needed out of box and the gamut.
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