Wednesday, February 28, 2018

How to add Video Processing within your iOS App.

Geppy Parziale of Invasive Code provides an excellent tutorial on using Camera Video input with iOS & Metal.

https://www.invasivecode.com/weblog/metal-video-processing-ios-tvos/

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

The Bad News: the Reversal of Net Neutrality is scheduled on April 23

The Good news: Not much, this will be terrible for the Internet, allowing IP providers to provided best service to content that pays the most. One possible hope: the 20+ States who have filed suit against this ruling.


http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/22/technology/fcc-net-neutrality-date/index.html

Monday, February 26, 2018

$500 Million for a Virtual PO Box service anyone?

Steve Jobs once predicted Apple's iCloud would burry DropBox.  Where is iCloud? Of course, he thought Applelink would bury AOL, where are either of those?


http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/23/technology/dropbox-ipo/index.html

Sunday, February 25, 2018

Google did not break law in firing employee who wrote anti-women memo.

Mr. Damore’s memo was "so harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive" that it is not protected by federal labor laws. Having read portions of his rant, I have to agree.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-16/google-firing-of-damore-was-legal-u-s-labor-panel-lawyer-said

Saturday, February 24, 2018

Not All Siri are Equal (Mac vs iOS vs Watch vs AppleTV vs Homepad).

If you have more than 1 Apple device and use Siri, this article will lessen your confusion of what can do what.

https://www.macworld.com/article/3257605/ios/siri-vs-siri.html

Friday, February 23, 2018

Chameleon provides color management for iOS Development.


Keean Rush of RayWenderlich tutorial on using Chameleon. The SDK provides the tools to generate perfect color scheme for your app. I especially like the tools to match any image/photograph.


https://www.raywenderlich.com/179287/using-chameleon-framework-ios

Github for Chameleon: https://github.com/ViccAlexander/Chameleon

Thursday, February 22, 2018

Wired magazines explanation of why Augmented Reality is the next big things for gaming.

I post a lot about VR & AR because I think (1) it is fun, (2) it's time has come from technical side and (3) other people are talking about it.

https://www.wired.com/story/ar-toys-the-future-of-play/