Auto generate speech files
Building the new version of Dark Nova required me to generate a lot of audio (aiff) files containing speech for varios commands and events. You can use the Mac’s built-in “say” command to do this...
View ArticleMessage to Apple:
Dear Apple, iTunes sucks. It has always sucked. It sucks even more now that I have to use it regularly in order to use my iPhone and iPad. It has to be updated at least twice a month. It’s cumbersome...
View ArticleIpad Review –hmmm…
With a lot of prodding from my buddy Scott, I broke down and bought a 16gb iPad. Part of the motivation is that we want to port Dark Nova to iPad. Also, I’m going on a trip and the idea of having...
View ArticleiTunes broke my iPad -or- More Reasons Why I Hate iTunes
I’ve had an iPad for over a week. I’m enjoying it. I always avoid iTunes on all of my devices. But… I had a need to sync the iPad to load some photos. iTunes was, in theory, the “easiest” way to do...
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Thoughts on piracy…
Things come full circle. Here’s the game I developed, Dark Nova on a Warez board. I just found this while searching for our android code repo… a simple link on how you can download and install my game...
View ArticleiPhone 4 vs. Android
The forums are wild with this topic. I read a few of the posts. Interesting arguments. It’s great to see the frenzy that a rivalry brings. It’s great to see the passion of the Android community. We are...
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My Newest App
Text your friends a Happy New Year message at exactly Midnight on New Year’s Eve, AUTOMATICALLY! It’s Easy: *Select Friends To SMS Text (unlimited) *Enter your Message and hit go! OMG! HNY!! will run...
View ArticleTHE VACCINATION CONUNDRUM
There’s a lot of press out there about child vaccinations these days. Typically, the autism/vaccination link and the scandal around it is the favorite topic. As a new father I have a new interest and...
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Application Identifier Entitlement Not Formatted Correctly
Got this error? Here’s how to fix it when deleting and re-creating entitlements.plist DOES NOT WORK! Short version; add the values manually. I added this to my entitlements.plist and it worked:...
View ArticleHow To Create a Windows 7 or 8 Flash Drive for USB based boot and install...
Long time no blog but I had to go through this recently and thought I might save others some hassle… This method DOES NOT involve unetbootin which will not work (as of build 581) despite what you read...
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