Author Archives: Sergio Moura

Sunset wallpaper

This week I’ve adapted one of my 3D works from 2004 into an iPhone wallpaper. It’s a simple sunset image made in 3D Studio Max. Hope you like it! You can check the original artwork here: http://kalel3006.deviantart.com/art/Sunset-12212741

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Learning Cocoa

So… Are you an experienced programmer and is moving to Cocoa? For either MacOS X or iPhone OS, the Cocoa Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for Developers book from the Pragmatic Bookshelf is a great addition to your library. It’s a great deal, wich i’ve just finished reading. The eBook costs $22.00 (US Dollars). It assumes [...]

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Wallpaper of the week (+ iPhone space wallpaper collection)

This week, the featured wallpaper is a Space wallpaper As a bonus, I’m providing a small collection of beautiful space-related iPhone wallpapers for you.

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Custom drawing UITableViewCell for iPhone

I’m currently developing an iPhone application for interfacing with bit.ly and uiop.me sites. These sites provide resources for shortening urls and provide clicks and tweets statistics. For a better display of information, I was researching on how to do some custom table cell drawing using Interface Builder, and I found out that not many people [...]

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iPhone weekly wallpaper

Hello! Every monday we’ll be featuring an iPhone Wallpaper. This week’s featured wallpaper is: This work was found here. It’s a beautiful abstract green wallpaper. Check out the website for more beautiful abstract iPhone wallpapers

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Learning to Search (+SQLite queries)

Hello, Today I’m starting to write tutorials for iPhone, starting with a simple thing that took me a while to learn. How to make simple searches for iPhone and display it promptly in the search result? All the commands and screenshots below were taken on a MacOS X 10.6.2 with XCode 3.2.1 and iPhoneOS SDK [...]

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Convert EUC-JP to UTF-8 in Python

So… I study Japanese. I was searching for a way to convert some EUC-JP encoded files to the UTF-8 (now standard in most OSes), and I found myself stuck with no tools to do so. Searching the web, I’ve found many language functions to convert lines, strings or chunk of bytes from one encoding to [...]

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Free Blogging Icons

The website Web Icon Set has just released a collection of free blogging icons entitled “Cute Blogging Icon Set” They are free for both personal and professional use and is provided in 128, 64, 48 and 32 pixel sizes. As the site says, we cannot host the files elsewhere for download, so, be sure to [...]

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Currency Converter

Check out the online currency converter for MacOS X. It was developed on Snow Leopard and targeted to Snow Leopard users. You can choose to work online or offline. When online, the program fetches the conversion rate from the internet and used for your conversions.

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Icon design: Download

I’ve just created a simple download icon in svg format, so it can be scaled to any size. This work is released under creative commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, so you can use in your work (free or commecial) as long as you give us credit.

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