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Working with UIPasteboard - Images and text

rtrahan April 2, 2013 Apple, Dev, iOS No Comments

UIPasteboard is a built-in API that allows you to copy items to the pasteboard in iOS.  A user then taps the blinking cursor into any field where text and images are allowed and “pastes” the contents currently in the pasteboard. Since this function can be very helpful, here is a simple tutorial on the ways to

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Retro Comeback App Icon Design

bmoodie December 24, 2012 Apple, Art, Design, iOS, Media No Comments

In my efforts to find inspiration for a recent icon design project, I spent some time looking through dribbble for ideas. I started noticing some icon design trends that seem to making a comeback, one of which was retro icons. Many of the icons I found were aimed at reproducing antique appliances and devices and

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iOS 6 get it at 12:00PM Central 1:00 PM Eastern

rtrahan September 19, 2012 Apple, Facebook, iOS, Review, Twitter No Comments

iOS 6 is coming your way. Like it or not.Honestly I’ve had a few weeks of playing with it, and the facebook and twitter updates are great. Apple’s own maps application is nice to look at but it does lack the intense amount of  data that the previous google bred app had. Turn by turn

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The iPhone we want!... (but aren't getting)

rtrahan September 12, 2012 Apple, iOS No Comments

When the first iPhone came out in 2007 it was truly revolutionary and “Magical”. The very least we could say about it is that it changed everyones perception of what a phone could do.  But here we are 5 years later, on the brink of another iPhone launch event (the first one since Steve Jobs

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Someone realized this Apple banner is stretched out icons...uhhh, WOW

rtrahan September 10, 2012 Apple, Art No Comments

The fact that someone put enough time into observing this banner to figure that it is stretched out icons is incredible. Guys we really need to do something else with our time. Just imagine what we could accomplish if we put that kind of brain power to use in other fields. 

Amazon Instant Video Released for iPad

rtrahan August 5, 2012 Amazon, Apple, iOS No Comments

Amazon is getting real with this new app for the iPad. And at $79 a  year its cheaper than Netflix.   Features – Stream thousands of titles available from Prime Instant Video at no additional cost with a Prime membership, or watch over 120,000 videos available from the Amazon Instant Video store – Download purchased

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Siri IS Useful. (Kind of)

rtrahan July 18, 2012 Apple No Comments

Recently I stayed at an apartment in downtown Houston Texas. I’ve been to Houston several times, as most of my family lives there, but I am not very familiar with it. Siri, a feature on my iPhone that i have not really used much accept to impress people who haven’t seen it yet, on iOS

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Is LEAP Motion's gesture recognition dongle the future?

rtrahan May 22, 2012 Apple, Future, OSX No Comments

Yes and no. If you have been on any tech blog the last few days you have heard about the new leap gesture recognition device that allows you to control your computer with gestures but with out actually touching the screen. Check out the video. Yes it is an impressive video, and they do show

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Mountain Lion, its nice (really nice) but is it enough?

rtrahan March 22, 2012 Apple, OSX No Comments

I downloaded the developer preview of Mountain Lion, apple’s forth coming OSX update, and it is really nice. Some of the major features include; 1)Messages(available right now for anyone with Lion as a beta): is a great app that syncs your iMessages across all your devices iPhone iPad and mac. and “it just works” as

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