I got a Drobo!

I have entered into a relationship with a new piece of high tech equipment, Drobo. Drobo is a self proclaimed “Data Robot”. In technical terms its a ASD (Attached storage device) running a custom version of RAID 5. When coupled with a DroboShare, it becomes a NAS (network attached storage) device.
In non tech terms, its [...]

follow up to my iPad predictions

So Apple has announced the iPad. This is a follow up to the predictions  I posted last week.
Things I was right about:

Apple will announce a tablet device
new version of the iPhone OS, 3.2.2
iPad will run on the iPhone OS
iPad will run iPhone applications
The iPad will have a 10 inch screen (9.7 inches is close enough)
16, [...]

iPhone OS 4.0 / iSlate Predictions

How To detect an internet connection with the iPhone SDK

There are several ways to problematically detect if an iPhone has an internet connection, but most of them cant tell you how the iPhone is connected to the internet.
Apple has sample code to accomplish just this task. The Reachability class is not shipped with the SDK, but is part of a sample project of the [...]

iPhone MMS, a love / hate story

Today AT&T unlocked MMS (multi media) messaging on the iPhone. Most of the world had had MMS messaging for YEARS now on their iPhone, but due to AT&T’s restrictions and fear of the data crushing their network they have limited the number of people that you can message at a single time to 10. This [...]

RotoPhoto, my first iPhone app

WOW, here I am about to release my second iPhone app, and I realized that I haven’t blogged about my first iPhone app!
“RotoPhoto” is my first iPhone app. It’s a simple tool that allows you to rotate the orientation of a photo taken with the iPhone. The internal sensors of the iPhone are designed to [...]

I upgraded my mac!

A few months ago I bought a Mac mini so I could start to develop iPhone applications. I must say that I am growing to be more of a Mac user then I thought i would be. I purposly bought a cheap Mac to get started with, but I’m starting to regret it. One of [...]

Video Blog #2

First Video Blog Entry

iPhone + AIM + push notification = Happy Josh Highland

I got my real start in programming making “progies”, back when MaGuS and fungii ruled the scene (only a fist full of people will know who I am talking about), circa 1995. I have and always will have a soft spot in my heart for AOL instant messaging. I don’t use the AOL service anymore, [...]

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