RotoPhoto, my first iPhone app
August 18, 2009 by Josh Highland
Filed under Josh's Rambling, iPhone, mac, software
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 [...]
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 [...]
Internet Explorer 6 must die!
July 21, 2009 by Josh Highland
Filed under internet, software, web 2.0, windows
As a professional web developer I have the authority to say this, Internet Explorer is a pain in the ass to support. IE 6 is the browser that shipped with Windows XP, so it was pretty wide spread. Every year on the web is like 10 years in any other industry. This makes IE 6 [...]
iPhone + AIM + push notification = Happy Josh Highland
June 22, 2009 by Josh Highland
Filed under iPhone, interviews, software
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, [...]
Controlling Twitter SMS notifications through code
It’s not secret my current favorite tech toys are my iPhone and Twitter. I follow several hundred people of interest, and regularly use TwitterFon Pro, TweetDeck and Twitter.com to keep up with them all. For an elite group of people I follow on twitter I choose to have their updates pushed to me via SMS [...]
Info on the new iPhone has leaked
May 13, 2009 by Josh Highland
Filed under hardware, iPhone, mac
I have been keeping my ears open for rumors about the new iPhone. Earlier this week, the above image was leaked onto a mac rumors website from a chinese source. The image above shows a new iPhone model number “MB717LL” with 32GB of Storage. If the poster’s claims are to be believed, the new iPhone [...]
How the notPopular.com podcast is made
April 13, 2009 by Josh Highland
Filed under Josh's Rambling, hardware, internet, software, tutorials, wordpress
Some of you blog reading people might know that I have a fairly well known podcast called the “notPop podcast”, that centers around music news and the activities of my site, notPopular.com. for almost 2 years now @xFLORIDAx and I have been churning these podcasts out and having a lot of fun doing it. From [...]
phpBB admin password manual reset
March 31, 2009 by Josh Highland
Filed under MySQL, hacks, internet, php, semi-legal, software, tutorials
Today I ran into a situation where I had forgotten the password to my development instance of phpBB 3. I was stuck in a situation were I needed to reset the password. I had full admin access to the database, so changing it there wouldn’t be the problem. The real problem is that phpBB uses [...]
no place like home (and end keys) on a mac
I never noticed how often I use the “home” and “end” keys when I type until they were taken away from me. I am a programmer by trade, and as a result, I type code all day long. On a PC the end key will take you to the end of a line, and the [...]
I got a mac
March 16, 2009 by Josh Highland
Filed under Josh's Rambling, hardware, iPhone, mac
As part of my 2009 new years resolutions, I’m going to write an iPhone application and launch it this year. I realized that the first quarter of the year is almost over and I haven’t made any progress on this. The biggest hurdle was the development platform. I’ve tried to install Mac OS X onto [...]