Mobile Phone History (Updated)
So, I was recently thinking which mobile phones I used in my past and it seems that there are quite a lot already. So I made a cute list for you. You can see the list in the full article, or just click ‘more’. Read This Article
Post package disappearing (and showing up again)
My daughters birthday is coming up, she is turning 7 on January 7th. A great day for her and a time for us to start finding and buying gifts for her. For my wife this is a time of stress and worry. Everything needs to be arranged, from presents to a cake with candles.
Well, finding the presents did not cost us a lot of time. A new bag for school, some stuff for her new room and the touchscreen of her Nintendo DS was broken, so replacing that would also be an awesome present. After looking around on the internet, I (suffering from this again) decided it would be better to just order a new Nintendo 3DS. Her being a girl and all we looked where we could find the pink version, which were hard to find this close to the holidays. After a search we found one at a webshop, that actually had one in stock, YAY!
Some useful MacOSX tools
Here I will list the the most useful Mac OSX tools I currently use. Read This Article
Async downloading of data
My post about using a NSURLConnection in a different thread has been read a lot. I made this post almost 3 years ago and I would like to show you how I would solve it nowadays. In the last 3 years I have learned a lot and the cocoa-touch framework evolved too. Read This Article
Illume
Illume is not just a beautiful flashlight application for your iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, but it offers a little more.
You can also use Illume to send morse code messages. Just switch to the ‘morse mode’ and type in your message and hit the play button.
Illume is available in the AppStore, click on the button below to download it!
What will be in v1.1:
Receiving morse messages using the camera of the iPhone
A circle progressbar
For a small application I wanted to write, I wanted to make a progressbar that is a circle instead of a normal horizontal bar. I wanted to press a button, which is just a normal image and then have a circle go around it, showing the progress.
Like you can see above in the image, it just looks awesome!
GoedBewaard.nl
GoedBewaard.nl is a web application allowing you to store receipts, photos and other crucial information about your purchases. This way you make sure that when you need to claim warranty or need to talk to your insurance you got all the information you need.
Are you a developer?
If you are a developer and you got a blog, let me know!
I am always looking for blogs to exchange links. I will put it up on my blogroll and maybe link to interesting articles.
You can post them here or just email them to me @ wim@wim.me.
Loving the specs, always!
I’ll admit it, right here, right now: I love looking at specifications of products. I love comparing them, figuring out what is best to buy. This has it’s advantages, because you always know what you buy, but it makes the decision process a lot longer too.
For example my TV. When I bought it I knew exactly what it looked like. The front, sides AND the back. I had skipped through the device manual to see if certain stuff was possible and it had everything I was looking for.
Localize your UIViews (the easy way)
Since I started working on a big international project for the iPhone, I came two most used ways to localize the iPhone application. With localize I mean that just the texts throughout the application are just translated to the language that the user has set to default on his phone.
First option was to create ALL Xibs in all languages and give the controls all the right texts, right in the Interface Builder. This sounds and IS a lot of work (right Stefan? 
). Second option was when the view was instantiated, just give all the labels, buttons, etc all the right texts in the right languages. This can be quite a hassle and for some more complex controls it is just annoying to translate every text in there. Read This Article