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We are SO extremely proud of John Collins, aka “The Paper Airplane Guy”, on his latest victory of breaking the Guinness World’s Record for longest paper airplane flight at 226 feet, 10 inches.  This blasts past the old record of 207 feet 4 inches.  John has been working hard at perfecting the plane and finding the right …

So you’re an early adopter, good for you, although many times it can bite ya in the behind. Xcode is a fickle mistress and the latest release of Xcode 4.3 is no exception. If you’re like me and you’ve got it installed and are cranking happily coding and debugging, you might have run into a …

When I get off my lazy butt, I’ll add these to the resources page, but for now here are a list of great resources courtesy of http://www.vfr.org/ Blogs/Websites Cocoa with Love iDev Recipes Cocoanetics [iOS developer:tips]; Icons/Graphics Glyphish Icons Etc. WebTreats Etc. Icon Archive OpenClipArt PSD Graphics Code/Libraries Google Data APIs Objective-C Client Library SDURLCache …

We’re super excited! We’ve poured a lot of love, sweat, and tears into this new release. We really wanted to make it look beautiful and I think we pulled it off. This is a major overhaul of our wildly popular Paper Airplane Guy’s Starter Kit. We’ve changed the tutorials to high quality videos and added …

Just a quick entry to remind people that XCode 4.2 is a beta product and consequently there are certain behaviors that aren’t supported, including creating an ipa file archive. When you attempt to create the .ipa, you will get a “file or directory not found” error.

We have an ongoing conversation about the best way to manage our code-base and repository in Git and have found the best solution is by using this branching structure: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ You can help enforce this practice through good discipline and by using Git-Flow. If you’re on a Mac you can use MacPorts or Homebrew. There’s …

So here’s a story of marketing might versus a prevailing trend. Apple is bucking against the trend to move everything to the cloud and I mean everything. Popular cloud implementation moves not just data to the cloud but also functionality. From Google docs for authoring to Pandora for music consumption. You don’t just put stuff …

This is just a short post based on my anecdotal experience with the wireless connection strength with my Macbook Pro 17″. The connection strength drops off dramatically if you have the display lid closed vs open. This is especially apparent if you are at an extended range from your wireless router. I experienced drop-offs equivalent …

This should be titled, “oh XCode 4 why do you spite me so?”. What have I done to deserve being smote by XCode? I ran into an couple issues with the latest version of XCode 4 when I tried to duplicate an existing target that was linked against a bunch of 3rd party libraries. One …

We had users reporting that the video playback wouldn’t work on their iPhones and iPods. With a testers help we found out, that the video playback in our Tricktionary iPhone app didn’t work on some iPod Touches and iPhones with 4.1 firmware (and probably older). The issue seemed also to be related to the hardware …