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Coming out on April 15th (yes tax day) on funnyordie.com, iSteve starring Justin Long is attempting to be the first movie about Steve Jobs out after his death. According to the article, they wrote the script in 3 days and shot it in 5 days. I’m curious to see how much of it will be humorous, as Steve wasn’t a very funny guy :) Another interesting point is that it’s an hour long movie, which for funnyordie.com is extremely long as they tend to concentrate on short comedy web videos. Mark it on your calendars and let’s hope it good!
Original Article: http://news.yahoo.com/isteve-aims-not-best-1st-steve-jobs-biopic-003907260–abc-news-tech.html
Working on a project in phonegap and had to figure out how to stop the auto correct feature of IOS from affecting certain types of HTML input fields that really didn’t need auto-correction such as “First Name”.
Stackoverflow came through again in this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6461101/how-can-i-prevent-keyboard-autocompletion-in-mobilesafari-uiwebview
All I had to do is put autocorrect=”off” in the element to stop the auto correct. Thanks to Patrick for finding this!
<input type="text" id="your-field" autocorrect="off" />
The NSDateFormatter is probably one of the most used objects I use daily in iOS development. However, I’ve always had a problem remembering and locating the proper format strings. I stumbled across a great blog post awhile back which lists out the different date formatting strings to pass into the NSDateFormatter. I’m not sure if it contains all the possible format strings, but I’ve never had to look anywhere else.
http://www.alexcurylo.com/blog/2009/01/29/nsdateformatter-formatting/
It’s summer time so whether you’re heading to the beach or hosting a bbq, one thing is certain – the weather is unpredictable and prior planning is a must. Local Wisdom Labs’ stylish iOS and Android friendly weather app is the perfect tool for organizing your summer itinerary, and our friends at eWEEK.com seem to agree. Weatherwise was just featured as one of eWEEK.com’s Top iPhone Apps to Kick Off the 2012 Summer Season. Here’s what they had to say:
Forget boring old Doppler scans and uninviting forecasts. This app features animated personas and moving landscapes to give your weather report some personality.
Weatherwise featured on eWEEK
Weatherwise was recently mentioned on Mashable as one of the top 15 iPhone Weather Apps. Download it for FREE on iTunes or Google Play. Also, stay tuned for 2 new themes coming soon! A sneak peek can be seen on the official Weatherwise Facebook page. Click here to check out “Cliff”.
Weatherwise Featured on Gizmodo.com
Last week after we were interviewed with the Google development team, Weatherwise was featured on Gizmodo.com as the app of the week.
It’s hard to make weather interesting. But this app puts the usual data into a pretty package, with handsome skins and animation.
Thank you Gizmodo, we just marked “Get mentioned on Gizmodo.com” off our life to-do list!
Our team ran across some odd issues with custom CSS fonts in the safari browser on the iPad and iPhone. Some of the curvy letters (such as G, C and S) would show up as a thinner font weight then the rest of the letters. We tried various CSS fixes only to come up empty handed. We were using the standard font-face CSS:
@font-face { font-family:FontName; src:url('Font.otf'); }
After much frustration, we finally found a solution that turned this:
Into this:
What did we do? Simple! Convert the .OTF font to a .TTF font. There are various free converters online that will do this for you, just look up font converter.
One thing I did notice is that TTF may not look as nice on the desktop browser so, like we did, you may want to target based on desktop or mobile CSS.
I am proud to announce that Weatherwise and Photomash received honorable mentions in the annual Best App Ever Awards for 2011 in the following categories for Android devices:
Weatherwise: Best Weather App, Best Visual Design
Photomash: Best Photo Editing App
In its fourth year, 148Apps bestows the Best App Ever Awards to promote apps that are “truly the best, not just the best-selling,” as chosen by 148Apps readers.
At Local Wisdom, we strive to deliver great design utilizing the latest technology. Weatherwise and Photomash are certainly testaments to that mission. If you haven’t had the chance to download Photomash, visit the iTunes App Store or the Android Marketplace. The Weatherwise app for iOS and Android can be found there as well.
This link was shared internally a while back by Tim Jaeger. If you’re looking for a lightweight javascript framework for mobile, here’s zepto.js.
Source:http://zeptojs.com/
Zepto.js is a minimalist JavaScript framework for modern web browsers*, with a jQuery-compatible syntax.
The goal: a 5-10k library that handles most basic drudge work with a nice API so you can concentrate on getting stuff done.
Zepto’s primary focus is on mobile devices, where small file sizes and tapping into the latest browser features matter most for fast loading and optimal runtime performance.
*Zepto supports Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Opera and any mobile WebKit-based browser, including iOS Mobile Safari, Android browser, HP webOS browser, Blackberry Tablet OS browser and others. Zepto does not support Internet Explorer.
Kim stopped by my desk, recorded me and then chucked a Missile at me through the Action Movie FX mobile app (Itunes link) . Great stuff, enjoy:
One of the toughest obstacles when debugging your code is not being able to update it live on your browser and see what is going on when it is going on. If you are a developer, you most likely heard of the life saving tool called Firebug – a plugin for Firefox (and Chrome also has a Lite version) where you can inspect, debug and change code on the fly. But did you know that you can use firebug on your iPad and iPhone? Martin Kool shares his technique for using a javascript bookmarklet to open Firebug right on your Safari browser. I believe that web development debugging for the iPad just got easier.
Here is how you do it (from martinkool.com):
- Surf to this page on your iPad or iPhone and bookmark it
- Rename the bookmark to “Firebug”. As you can see, the URL is uneditable right now
- Tap on this textarea
- Tap it again, choose “Select All” followed by “Copy”
- Edit the Firebug bookmarklet, remove the URL and paste the bookmarklet
Choose “Done” (on the virtual keyboard) and you’re all set
Opening the bookmarklet on any webpage should bring up the familiar plugin at the bottom of your screen.
Check out the original post from Martin Kool
