http://www.appleiphonetech.com Best iphone reviews Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:01:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is just one possible configuration - one of the simpler ones, actually, as it is only using point rendering and simple gravity - no textures, no wind, no transparency, etc. I call this configuration "fountain", and it's can be created in one line of code: ParticleEmitter3D *fountain = [ParticleEmitter3D ... http://www.appleiphonetech.com/another-opengl-particle-system-teaser.html Okay, in the last installment, we talked about lights, how to set them up and what attributes they have. We also talked about the three components of light, diffuse, ambient, and specular. If you're not completely clear on those, you might want to review, as those components are used heavily ... http://www.appleiphonetech.com/opengl-es-from-the-ground-up-part-5-living-in-a-material-world.html For whatever reason, Amazon's Kindle has never really appealed to me. Though I read a fair amount, and am not opposed to the idea of an e-reader, I've just never had any techno-lust for it. It's not because of the DRM, though I'd rather they didn't have it. It's just ... http://www.appleiphonetech.com/the-nook.html I used to use Quicken and Quickbooks. For reasons that I won't go into, I will no longer use products from Intuit. And, honestly, my bank's online banking is great - does everything I need in terms of managing my accounts. Except, for one thing: it can't write checks. I've ... http://www.appleiphonetech.com/a-freebie.html Over at MacRumors.com, Arnold Kim posted that App Store rejections are now being labelled as being "UNDER NON-DISCLOSURE", presumably to stem the negative press that Apple's been getting over their arbitrary and anti-competitive App Store rejections lately. I hope it's an untrue, unfounded rumor. While I understand Apple wanting to keep ... http://www.appleiphonetech.com/smells-funny.html Today, Rogue Amoeba announced they were giving up on iPhone development. It's definitely not a good thing to have a second high-profile developer publicly leave the platform in a little over twenty-four hours. Clearly, Apple has a public relations issue to deal with. The blog post in which this was announced ... http://www.appleiphonetech.com/rogue-amoeba.html I have made a minor update to the Wavefront OBJ Loader and released it on Google Code. You can find its new homepage right here. The UV texture mapping is still wonky - I haven't had time to look at that. After profiling, I realized I could save quite a bit ... http://www.appleiphonetech.com/wavefront-obj-loader-open-sourced-to-google-code.html The dot notation discussion has taken far more of my time lately than it was wise for me to spend. I've said pretty much all that I need to say on the topic at this point. I don't care if you use it, just don't tell me I'm wrong for ... http://www.appleiphonetech.com/my-last-word-on-dot-notation.html I was recently referred by a tweet to this article on Kotaku about a supposed new refund policy that Apple's going to "force" us developers to sign. The short article is intentionally incendiary. It's designed to get us angry. But, folks, it's just a rumor. Save your energy; don't get mad ... http://www.appleiphonetech.com/rumor-mill.html http://www.appleiphonetech.com/iphone-026-by-anonymous.html