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Objective C – correctly scaling button & background images 29 Oct 2011 | 03:16 am
I often find a need to scale buttons and background graphics to the correct size, but leave the edges at the same scale. So taking the button in Fig 1, if you simply scale it normally it looks like Fi...
DSLR Off Camera Flash Study 26 Jan 2011 | 05:41 am
The object of this little exercise is to assess the various different lighting techniques and setups that I could use when taking portrait photos. I tried a few different combinations of the 3 light s...
Extract metadata from Apple IPA files 12 Oct 2010 | 05:37 am
The resources and code for Apple iDevice Apps are all contained in a single .ipa file. I needed to find out who was the Apple account that purchased a particular Apple store app. This information is s...
Britannia 1682 – What fool would build a ship that’s sure to sink 9 Oct 2010 | 09:59 pm
The first time people see a dockyard model, they almost invariably comment, that it’s going to sink, and it surely would as the planking towards the bottom half of the ship are entirely missing, but t...
Spider Attack – Mad Squid iPhone Game 29 Jun 2010 | 01:47 am
I recently got a pre-release version of the new Mad Squid iPhone game called Spider Attack, and so thought I write a quick review. It’s 1953, the US Army have been conducting secret experiments with m...
Quick dirty fix to speed up qmail for bulk mailings 20 Jan 2010 | 03:24 am
We were getting around 2 mails per second with qmail for a bulk emailing, which was not fast enough and rather than try and patch qmail to fix a bunch of problems, we chose to put the qmail queue on ...
How much disk space is “all” the music 22 Sep 2009 | 01:17 am
I wanted to know how much disk space all the music ever released would take up and couldnt find an approximation, so I put together this to give me a ball park figure. If you add up all the abums on h...
F100 Technical Fault on Meile W3824WPS Washing machine 18 Jul 2009 | 06:12 pm
I’ve got a Miele W3824WPS washing machine, and I accidentally forgot to close the drain door at the bottom of the washing machine when doing a regular clean. This triggered an error “Technical F100″ ...
SQLite V3 with PHP – sample script 21 May 2009 | 02:47 am
SQLite [http://www.sqlite.org] is a very handy tool, essentially it creates a database in a file. SQLite V3 should be installed automatically with PHP5. I find SQLite very handy when I want to make st...
An easy way to use GNU Screen over SSH 15 May 2009 | 08:16 am
GNU Screen is a free terminal multiplexer developed by the GNU Project since at least 1995. It allows a user to access multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote ter...
