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Entries for April, 2010

How To: iPhone SDK – Play and Record Audio concurrently

Unfortunately, it’s quite a fiddly process to record audio and play it back at the same time on the iPhone.  By default, the sound output is very quiet from the iPhone’s speaker when you are recording sound.  So how do we fix this? First, setup your audio session to record audio: NSURL *url = [NSURL [...]

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WSP Digital

WSP Digital, who provide a range of products and services, from the world leading EIATRACK service through to advanced iPhone development, launched their new website yesterday: Taking inspiration from origami in it’s design, look and feel, the website is a nice example of the power of WordPress to produce effective platforms to inform customers of your services.

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Facebook Connect Mobile: XML Schema Error on Mobile Devices

If you’re getting an XML error when you’re using Facebook Connect to post to a users stream using the function: $facebook->render_prompt_feed_url() Then ensure the following: You don’t have any double quotes in your attachment You don’t have any ampersands in your return URL For some reason the content is being placed in a hidden field [...]

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New iPhone: Torch, Flash and Front/Rear cameras?

After the recent release to developers of iPhone SDK 4.0, the inevitable scramble to review the new APIs has been on in earnest.  One of the first things noticed were the following new AVCaptureDevice class properties: AVCaptureDevice – isFlashMode Supported AVCaptureDevice – isTorchMode Supported AVCaptureDevice – position (Front or Rear) These new properties relating to the iPhone SDK [...]

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Product Ecology: LCA and Compliance meet usability

WSP Digital today released Product Ecology, a new web based sustainability tool providing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Compliance support. Aimed at product designers, industrial designers, product developers, engineers, environmental managers and brand owners the tool provides three key features: Compliance Navigator – a compliance guidance tool, covering EU RoHS, EU Batteries and EPEAT [...]

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