Category Archives: Technology

Compile Protobuf for iOS

For a project I’m doing at work, that I hope will eventually be open source, I needed to have protobuf compiled for iOS. A colleague of mine showed me how it had been compiled on iOS 4, using these scripts, … Continue reading

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My build setup

Tomorrow I begin work at Trifork! There I’ll be doing iOS development, so before I begin I thought I’d like to share a bit about how I do my development now. First of all, I use GitHub and Beanstalk for … Continue reading

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In defense of Dart

Ok, everyone, let’s all calm down. There’s been so many blog posts and podcast debates all over the net about what’s wrong with Dart. The only problem with Dart, the way I see it, is that Google is too good … Continue reading

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The buying a computer experience

My inlaws’ computer hard drive died the other day, so I offered to help them buy a new Windows computer at the local shop. The specs were easy: Windows, Core i5, 4GB RAM and ~500GB drive. Going in, I expected … Continue reading

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Minus points for the 2011 iMac

Some of you might have thought that I’m perhaps a bit too happy about the iMac, and of course too cheap to get a Mac Pro. (Yes, I’m just as excited as anyone to see what the new Pro will … Continue reading

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Replacing iMac 2011 memory

Back when the new iMacs were released in may 2011 I ordered one with 4GB RAM, expecting to replace them with 32GB. However, getting four 8GB blocks turned out to be incredibly hard, and very expensive, so I settled for … Continue reading

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32GB RAM for new Mid-2011 iMacs

So today they released the new iMac. Still no reviews so I have no clue whether I was right or wrong about the chipset. So I’ve started looking into another pet topic of mine: RAM. I really would like these … Continue reading

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Intel Z68 chipset for the iMac that’ll be released tuesday May 3rd?

Fair warning: This is speculation on my part Fact 1: The Intel desktop chipset Z68 will be released in a week or two to the general public. Fact 2: Apple cares about user experience Fact 3: Intel has given Apple … Continue reading

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SQLite for the iOS SDK, two years later

It’s been two years since I first wrote on using SQLite for iPhone SDK. Since then, iOS has come a long way, especially when it comes to storing data. But still, much remains the same. For instance, FMDB is still … Continue reading

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BOSE Companion 5 Review

I’ve been looking for a great-looking and great-sounding speaker system for my Mac. And just so we’re clear: great-sounding is for classical music, and I expect equal or better than my Celestion/NAD system I bought for ~10.000 NOK when I … Continue reading

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IRIScan 2 review

A while back I bought an IRIScan 2, a little scanner that could be laying in the kitchen drawer to scan incoming bills. It’s not a very fast scanner, it doesn’t have battery for very many pages, but for incoming … Continue reading

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libpd for iOS with Cyclone support, sample project

I mentioned libpd for iOS a while ago, and now I found that it’s ready to be played with. But as soon as I wanted to play with spectral analysis, I started missing tools, so trying to get cartopol~ and … Continue reading

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PureData on iPhone

Wow, the libpd guys make it possible to put Pure Data patches in your iPhone app. I’m definitely going to make an app based on this, if nothing more then just for the heck of it. Time to brush up … Continue reading

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Well Tempered price rise

As announced in the end of january, the price for Well Tempered has increased, and will continue to do so for the next couple of months. If you want it at a reduced price, be sure to get it now … Continue reading

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Well Tempered Status

I’m working on a couple of updates for Well Tempered, both for adding more temperaments and for refining the UI after a couple of users have been so kind as to provide useful suggestions. That’s great, I love that kind … Continue reading

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synthPond

While checking out other OSC applications than pOSCa and OSCar in the AppStore I came across Synthpond lite that looks really cool. Just thought I’d let you know

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Three little iPhone apps

Good fun: today I submitted three little iPhone apps for review, hopefully they’ll be up in the AppStore within long. The first is Well Tempered, my tuning application, that’ll be for sale. It’s for tuning early music instruments such as … Continue reading

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Supercollider and bubble game

Here is a nice link to Patrick using the bubble game to create OSC signals that will generate sound in SuperCollider. Soon, he can use pOSCa and OSCar as well

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Objective C for Max 5

I bought my upgrade of Max 5 yesterday, and I’m of course eagerly waiting for my license code. Trying to put Objective-C and Cocoa into all that I do, I found Rémy Muller’s blogpost about writing Objective-C externals for Max. … Continue reading

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No CoverFlow for shared iTunes libraries

I’m not a frequent user of CoverFlow, but now that I wanted to use it on my shared iTunes library in my living room from the Windows iTunes client I noticed that I cannot select neither CoverFlow nor in an … Continue reading

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