Category Archives: Miscellany

Stuff, musings and nothing in particular.

An interesting week

Posted on February 17, 2011 by diziet

I think I’ve made around 5 abortive attempts to submit my app now, that’s no reflection on the quality of the app store or the submissions process but on where my brain has been focused. Purely on the development of … Continue reading →

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Updated.

Posted on January 13, 2011 by diziet

WordPress/Akismet & Slickr Flickr updated to latest versions.

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Exporting your digital comics from Comics.app on iPhone

Posted on January 13, 2011 by diziet

*Post originally contained information on how to backup your comics, redacted at the request of Comixology’s CEO.* Digital comics are a great thing, and I’m slowly amassing a reasonable library of them through the fantastic Comics.app (Comixology) on the iPhone/iPad. … Continue reading →

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Taking advantage of the ebay free listings weekend.

Posted on January 9, 2011 by diziet

So… free listings on ebay. It’s an experiment. I’ve listed some of these items in the past and they haven’t sold. I was kind of glad they didn’t as I listed them all at £0.99 and I’d probably have lost … Continue reading →

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Some quick math about the app store.

Posted on October 22, 2010 by diziet

If we image the following, slightly unrealistic, scenario: 1) That I’d like to recoup the cost of my Mac. 2) That I’d like to recoup the cost of the developer program for 1 year. 3) That I’d like to draw, … Continue reading →

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Should have read the Gamekit docs.

Posted on October 19, 2010 by diziet

Damnit. Got everything working and then got errors during the first tests: 2010-10-19 18:34:14.969 Cooking Companion[1369:207] AGPSessionBroadcast failed (801c0001) It would appear that I’m limited to 95kB. Sadly I am trying to send: (gdb) print (NSUInteger)[data length] $4 = 387339 … Continue reading →

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So… overclocking.

Posted on October 14, 2010 by diziet

My main system is a Q6600 with 4GB of 400Mhz DDR2 (e.g. 800Mhz). This is slightly overclocked to 2.64Ghz (lit. 2637.7Mhz) and 439.6Mhz for the RAM. It used to be higher but I think I burnt out the ram and … Continue reading →

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Delicious Library and Me

Posted on October 5, 2010 by diziet

I’ve been cataloguing a lot of stuff that I have with a view to selling it. Having got the new mac I checked to see if my code for delicious library still worked, which it did. Since then I’ve realised … Continue reading →

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Updating to the iPad err update.

Posted on October 5, 2010 by diziet

So all the code is now in place and functionally it should be the same as the iPhone version now, yet I discover that somewhere along the line I broke the code to actually add ingredients. I had to go … Continue reading →

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I’m still here. A smorgasbord of stuff.

Posted on September 30, 2010 by diziet

It’s been a while since I posted anything so this is a bit of a mish mash update. The holiday in Madeira was excellent. In particular the Monte Palace gardens which included an excellent exhibition of minerals, I bought the … Continue reading →

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