Zynga pirate Tiny Tower
Zynga, as always, have stolen another game to call their own. After failing to acquire the small indie studio of 3, they decided that if can't beat them, steal their games join them.
I suppose being a company of 2700+, ideas are hard to come by.
Scammers are stealing my ideas
Last year I wrote a satirical piece about a single mom inventing cold fusion and defying the laws of physics.
Well apparently the same online scam artists have thought it was a great idea, and are now selling plans for a zero point energy device.
If you want to read the trash they've wrote this time, a Google of the Hojo Motor will surely bring it up. It is only a matter of time now before they start selling off pieces of dinosaur DNA claiming that you too can grow your own Jurassic Park, and Zoo Keepers don't want you to know about this.
Wikipedia Blackout of 2012
Historians in the future will one day look back on this day, and realise that the 18th January 2012, was the most productive day in human history.
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest
I got told about this brilliant bit of code recently. It is a magic eye. Supposedly it will compile with a GCC compiler, I was unable to get it to in Visual Studio.
More similar code is on the official IO CCC website.
Even heroes fail sometimes
1000 Heroz HD
For a "HD" game, the graphics are really crap on the iPad 2. And no antialiasing, shame on you RedLynx.
iPhone Orientation
Earlier I wanted to test my engine with autorotation for when an iOS device's orientation changes. I spent a fair bit of time trying to work out why, sure that I had written some code somewhere to stop it from triggering.
After creating another app and still haven't the same problem, I was about to report it as a bug when the answer dawned on me, I had the orientation lock on.
It would be nice if you could do it on an application basis as well as a global one, since I only turn it on because photos get orientated incorrectly.
The contents of my "Useless" app folder: Stocks, Weather, Contacts, Calculator, Voice Memos, Compass, Reminders. If only you could turn off the default apps as well.
On another note, I've added a page next to website for iOS specific links.