January 2012
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Top 10 Posts of 2011
Based on the Google Analytics result, here are my top ten posts of 2011:
UIDickBar, An Awful Idea
MapKit annotation drag and drop with callout info update
Setup git-flow on Mac OS X Lion
MapKitDragAndDrop 3
Jailbreak with PDF FlateDecode filter
Note about MapKitDragAndDrop 3.2
Drawing round badge view in UITableViewCell using CGPath and CGContextSetBlendMode
New iOS UI Component:...
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October 2011
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September 2011
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WatchUnprecedented View of Supersonic Jets from Young Stars
A long jet of material has burst out of a dark cloud of gas and dust that hides a newly formed star. The blue, fan-shaped region on the left is the edge of a cavity illuminated by the fledgling star. A massive clump of jet material collides with upstream gas, creating the white bow-shaped shock wave on the right.
August 2011
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Letter from Steve Jobs →
To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.
I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.
As far as my...
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Trees Species Around the Mothership™
According to Apple’s landscaping plan from cupertino.org, total 6,000 trees will be planted in the new campus, includes:
Primary Trees
Valley Oak (Quercus Lobata)
Native Green Oak (Quercus agrifolia)
Secondary Trees
Olive Trees (Olea europaea)
Atlas Cedar (Cedrus atlantica)
Deciduous Magnoila (Magnolia dodecapetala)
Japanese Maples (Acer palmatum)
Jeffrey Pine (Pinus jeffreyi)...
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“Browsers have now reached the maturity of 1950s American cars. They more or less...”
– Slashdot: The Next FireFox UI
Comment by @Animates
July 2011
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New MacBook Air CPU Spec Comparison →
If you check the Google spreadsheet above, you will found there’s almost no different between 1.7Ghz i5 and 1.8Ghz i7 except the clock speed and L3 cache size, so why bother spending extra $100 on that?
I think I will go for 1.7Ghz i5 version if I decided to buy 13” MacBook Air.
But, if you’re interested in 11” model, I would suggest you pay that $150 and upgrade to...
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“Right now fan fiction is still the cultural equivalent of dark matter:...”
– The Boy Who Lived Forever
Lev Grossman, July 07, 2011
Time
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Another Open Source App on GitHub
As planned, I pushed my FrostyPlace app to GitHub this afternoon.
15 Minutes of Fame
FrostyPlace is a RSS/Forum reader for iOS, designed for frostyplace.com. It’s one of my very first apps on App Store, and later got its 15 minutes of fame on 2009 (thanks to @iJustine). After being silent for a long time, the version 2.0 appeared on App Store eight months ago, and users are happy with it,...
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“YOU MAY CANCEL YOUR PURCHASE WITHIN SEVEN (7) DAYS FROM THE DATE OF DELIVERY AND...”
– iTunes Store Taiwan, Term of Sale, Updated.
Previous on the news.
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June 2011
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QR+Emoji To Be Discontinued This Summer
On August 14th, QR+Emoji will be end-of-life and removed from AppStore completely.
QR+Emoji is the only app on AppStore that could generate QR Code with Emoji icon. If you want to keep this app, better get it now before it’s too late.
The Decision
One consideration, time. I don’t have enough time to keep developing for the next major update of QR+Emoji, especially when I will...
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iOS Wireless Profiling on Instruments
Make sure iOS device is connected to your Mac through USB cable.
Launch Instruments, hold option key and click “Choose Target”, pick wireless one.
Disconnect USB cable.
This tip is available for iOS 3+ devices, extremely useful for wireless network tracing and profiling.
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May 2011
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Taiwanese Food Court is Coming to Los Angeles →
According to the news:
Meanwhile, CBRE is planning to set up a specialty store in Los Angeles that will feature delicacies from Taiwan and promote Taiwanese culture in the U.S. city.
The specialty food court, scheduled to get off the ground later this year, is expected to accommodate 20-30 Taiwanese restaurants, such as Dingtaifung dumpling house and Shin Yeh Taiwanese cuisine.
Other...
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Setup git-flow on Mac OS X Lion
git-flow is a branching model to keep your git repository in shape, and the author @nvie also released it as git extensions, so that you can easily convert your git repository into git-flow branch structure and keep maintained (with ease).
Below are the steps I setup git-flow on my Mac OS X Lion:
MacPorts and bash-completion
Install Xcode
Install MacPorts
Install bash-completion
%...
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The School Song
Last night, while surfing the web, I accidentally found a 2010 Japanese high school movie called 書道ガールズ!! わたしたちの甲子園 (Shodo Girls!! Watashi-tachi no Koushien). It’s a story about youths (mostly high school girls), high school life, calligraphy club, and how they saved their declining club by performing calligraphy with pop music.
And what interested me the most, is the school song (more...
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April 2011
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A Tumblr Template Experience
For the past few weeks, I spent most of time designing and creating a Tumblr template for my friends’ website, called “CLEAN education.” It’s a NPO in Irvine that teaches kids and youths about the science behind climate change. Please follow them!
A Blog Not Like a Blog
During the design stage, we decided to use Tumblr as new official website, but we don’t want...
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Peter Carey on Oscar and Lucinda
Guardian Book...
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Speaking of Facebook's Open Compute Project
Tumblr should take a look, really,
Anonymous asked: Did you take down iosdevelopers.tumblr.com on purpose? Would be sad!
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March 2011
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