If your iPhone App icon isn’t appearing on your phone, but works fine on the simulator, it may be a problem with the way you’ve saved your Icon.png file: I had this problem, until I chose to “show” the extension of the Icon.png file when I saved it from within Preview. Once I’d done this, [...]
One of my favorite applications for the iPhone, Fairfax Radio News, is currently being featured by Apple in the New section of the App Store in Australia: Fairfax Radio News provides the latest national 3 minute radio news bulletin (for Australia) direct to your iPhone – and it’s updated 24/7. Very handy when you are on [...]
The CFA Bushfire map that I developed last weekend to help people find where the CFA incidents were occuring during Victoria’s worst ever bushfires has been updated, and is now more iPhone friendly. Browse to here on your iPhone: http://blog.evandavey.com/firemap/ And you will now be able to more easily search and use the map on [...]
Common problem, need to apply nice HTML formatting for a section of your page, but want the UIWebView not to appear as a big white box – only the content of the UIWebView to appear. How to do it? myWebView.opaque = NO; myWebView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]; [myWebView loadHTMLString: @"<html><body style='background-color: transparent'> Content Here</body></html>" baseURL:nil]; The above [...]
UPDATE: Google is now tracking this information in a gadget. You can view here: http://blog.evandavey.com/firemap/google.php You can view the map I built (with historical incidents and wind direction) here: http://blog.evandavey.com/firemap/ You can view metropolitan incidents at the MFB site here: http://www.mfb.vic.gov.au/Incidents/Major-Incidents-Map.html Original Post: I know a lot of people who could’t find an easy way [...]