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- July 4th, 2009
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omillar has posted a new entry on: Ord's Blog
iPhone call forwarding indicator
Ever since I started using my iPhone, I wished it had a call forwarding indicator. I typically give out my cell number as my main number when meeting people, and then forward the iPhone to wherever I…
- June 21st, 2009
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omillar has posted a new entry on: Ord's Blog
Riding with the iPhone
I’m on a motorcycle trip this week, and left all technology behind… Except the iPhone. It gives me the chance to get away without having to lug along a laptop and plan my trip around wifi…
- June 12th, 2009
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omillar has posted a new entry on: Ord's Blog
Local Solr
For searching at our Open Business Information Directory project we have been using a Solr server. Based on the Apache Lucene library, it consistenly works well for the type of searches we need to d…
- June 9th, 2009
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omillar has posted a new entry on: Ord's Blog
What’s right, now?
I recently heard that a study has shown that wikipedia was more accurate that Britanica as an encyclopedia. I don’t know the details of the study, but to me the important question is how do we d…
- June 8th, 2009
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omillar has posted a new entry on: Ord's Blog
Life without laptop
I am on the road at a conference as I write this. Normally, I don’t leave home without a laptop - but since I was travelling by motorcycle and space is at a premium I left the notebook at home.…
- March 24th, 2009
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omillar has posted a new entry on: Ord's Blog
BJJ Timer iPhone App
Last night I recieve notice from the app store that they had approved my first submitted application. It took just about 10 days for the process, which wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it cou…
- March 21st, 2009
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omillar has posted a new entry on: Ord's Blog
Open source sounds
Sometimes I need a short sound clip for a software project - maybe a click when a user selects something, a buzzer or bell when a timer expires, or some special effect for opening and closing document…
- March 16th, 2009
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omillar has posted a new entry on: Ord's Blog
Vector graphics and Clipart
Often I need icons for projects I am working on - graphics to go on buttons and controls. Being a photographer, I have sometimes used a photo, processed it with Gimp or Photoshop until it looks like…
- March 8th, 2009
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omillar has posted a new entry on: Ord's Blog
iPhone sync with Google Calendar
I had been looking at different iPhone syncing options for my contacts, and it seemed that to do anything with a PC was going to involve using Outlook, which I was reluctant to install. In general, I…
- March 2nd, 2009
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omillar has posted a new entry on: Ord's Blog
iPhone tableView
The Table View is widely used in iPhone apps, and ther are many examples of using it on navigation pages in the iPhone SDK example programs. These examples generally show how to add a tableView that…
- February 27th, 2009
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omillar has posted a new entry on: Ord's Blog
Learning iPhone development
Starting to develop on the iPhone is surprisingly straightforward. Having previously developped on the palm platform, I expected the SDK to be similar in complexity and learning time. I was happy…
- February 24th, 2009
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omillar has posted a new entry on: Ord's Blog
Geocoding in PHP with Microsoft’s API
Yesterday I looked at using the Google Map API to geocode some addresses - today I examined the same using Microsoft’s API. The Microsoft API is somewhat more complicated to use, as it is a SOAP…
