A blog about things that interest me.
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Power, heat, and screens
I the last week since the launch of the iPad, there has been a lot of noise about consumer reports‘ report on the iPad being too hot. It appears they are quickly revising their story. As an owner of all three generations of the iPad, I can say I have not experienced the heat problem.…
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Book review – “learn iPhone and iPad cocos2d Game Development”
Learn-cocos2d.com is the online home of the book “Learn iPhone and iPad cocos2d Game Programming” by Steffen Itterheim. This book is designed to help the beginning game programmer understand the cocos2d game library, which is a cross platform library that is targeted at 2d games. Steffen does a great job of introducing you to the…
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Review of new iPad
I hadn’t planned on doing reviews of hardware on this site, but here we go, I’ve been using a new iPad for almost a week now, and the screen in incredible, but that is not the thing that I am enjoying the most. LTE support is amazing! My old iPad was a 3G device and…
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Apple’s cash and your app
Today Apple will announce what it is going to do with $100b in cash. Yes that’s right 100,000,000,000 in cash!! As app developers we have contributed a lot to that war chest. That doesn’t mean that apple will reduce it fees, or reduce the cost of the devices, no they will probably announce a dividend.…
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Android ice cream sandwich
Yesterday, as I went thru my rss feeds, I saw the list of devices getting the update for ice cream sandwich – here. This notice got me thinking, how much will ice cream sandwich impact game development on android. I do not have an android device, but the adoption of android is taking off. Enterprises…