A New Years view from Work

Happy New Years to all y'all

Year end hike - Cal Poly Cow Corral

Here's a first version of one of my hikes built on the iPhone with MotionX, uploaded into Google Maps, and displayed on the blog! More tweeking to come. Happy New Years everyone!

Weekapaug - 26 Knowles Avenue

A Before and After shot of Weekapaug.  We'll miss you!



App downloads & online signup tips

Good article with advice

More cool projects

3D visualization of works of man

Scientific projects we can get involved with

Barcode of Life Bird Project

Google Earth embedded!!

next step - embed hikes

Another view of the 'Debarker'

My new office

Great time lapse video example

I love the way the slow motion is used with the time lapse.


Landscapes: Volume One from Dustin Farrell on Vimeo.

Low Earth Flyover

A great real video flyover by the ISS. 

Good Driving Article

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/09/12/cars.waste.fuel.wired/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7saving gas the Prius way

Lost Empire Trail - Henry Cowell Park

Apps I've coded

The following links & icons are for apps I've coded for the nice folks at Blue Lotus;

 iZen Desk HD

  http://itunes.apple.com/br/app/izen-desk-hd/id428809619?mt=8

This is an upgraded version of the Sexy Car Clock and includes a Json weather widget with CLLocation and a 4 day weather forecast.

Sexy Car Clock HD

  http://itunes.apple.com/sn/app/sexy-car-clock-hd/id425078257?mt=8

This iPad app is a 'slideshow' app with 100 JPEGs that can be scrolled across the screen.  It includes a series of widgets on it's toolbar that allows iTunes build a custom playlist, view the time and also vary the slideshow parameters of time & type of transition.





Tomato Trouble

Tomato Trouble is an animated children's book using Cocos2D and a variety of 3rd party animation tools including SpriteHelper & LevelHelper.  I did troubleshooting on some of the Xcode and also helped to detail the animation by layering physics onto various sprite.

Pixeet is Back! - new 360 panos available - My Patio

Importing & geolocating photos into Google Earth

Here are some tips & tricks for importing photos into your KML tours;
To add a photo;
In Google Earth press ADD - PHOTO
then BROWSE for your photo
To adjust view & details;

Iraq / Afganistan Casualty Counters

This is a sobering reminder of the cost of our terrible mistake over there, and should be a warning for all future thoughts of meddling in other's affairs.  The website is AntiWar.com, and  their link;
http://antiwar.com/casualties/

Here's another important link for visualizing the impact of casualties from CNN;
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/war.casualties/

UIImagePicker - Photo metadata

The keys for this dictionary are listed in the info dictionary (%@, info) within the UIImagePicker Delegate;

2011-08-02 19:20:21.489 HandMirror[762:707] The metadata is {
    UIImagePickerControllerMediaMetadata =     {
        DPIHeight = 72;
        DPIWidth = 72;
        Orientation = 6;
        "{Exif}" =         {
            ColorSpace = 1;
            DateTimeDigitized = "2011:08:02 19:20:18";
            DateTimeOriginal = "2011:08:02 19:20:18";
            PixelXDimension = 480;
            PixelYDimension = 640;
        };
        "{TIFF}" =         {
            DateTime = "2011:08:02 19:20:18";
            Make = Apple;
            Model = "iPad 2";
            Software = "4.3.3";
            XResolution = 72;
            YResolution = 72;
        };
    };
    UIImagePickerControllerMediaType = "public.image";
    UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage = "";

Where is the location data?

Dalai Lama

Google Campus over 1948 aerial survey

 2011

 

1948

github - Git Real?

So more technology makes for better people, OK so I give;

Facebook API Installation

Facebooks instructions for getting hooked up to their git hub;

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/mobile/

Github repository = git clone git://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk.git

 

Popover's & their delegate for iPads

The following code is a simple implementation of a popover using a separate view controller & xib file.  First the instantiation & display code;
    InfoViewController *popoverView = [[InfoViewController alloc] init];
    popoverView.delegate = self; 
// Creates the popoverController object
    infoPopover = [[UIPopoverController alloc] initWithContentViewController:popoverView];
    [infoPopover setDelegate:self];
    [infoPopover presentPopoverFromRect:CGRectMake(512, 200, 10, -30) inView:self.view permittedArrowDirections:0 animated:NO];
    [infoPopover setPopoverContentSize:CGSizeMake(400, 500)];

and then instructions;
in PopoverViewController
the .xib file

• in the view change the status bar = None, so that you can resize the screen
• add controls as you like

the .h file:

• add IBOutlet IBActions to match the xib file
• connect them to the xib objects
• add delegate protocol & method definitions at the bottom of the file
• add the delegate property using assign & id

.m file:

• synthesize & release the popover controls

In the delegate 
the .h file

• add the conforms to
• add a UIPopoverController property use assign for the property
• Add an IBAction show button to display the popover

the .m file

• Add the delegate's methods

See ZenDesk for a nice implementation