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Entries for October, 2008

How-To: Resolve _CGRectZero Errors developing for iPhone

If you are getting compile time errors regarding _CGRectZero in the UITableViewController, it’s probably because you don’t have the Core Graphic Framework included in your project.  To resolve this problem, try the following steps: In your project, expand the “Targets” section Double click on the name of your application A window will popup.  Click the [...]

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How-To: Rotate video with Quicktime Pro

Common mistake – you take a video with your mobile phone or digital camera, and you hold it horizontally.  Looks great until you take it home and open it up on your computer and you have to spend the entire video watching it with your head tilted 45 degrees. How to fix this?  You’ll need [...]

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How-To: Convert PDF to KeyNote

We had a nice big set of pages in a PDF which we wanted to convert into a KeyNote presentation.  Thankfully, this process is really easy due to Melissa O’Neill’s PDF to Keynote application.  Simply load it up, give it the PDF, tell it where to save the KeyNote file – and you’re done!  Thanks [...]

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