iPhone users able to build a shinier world, one turd at a time

Chris Danielson — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:27:16 +0000

This blog usually focuses on software development, but I can’t resist sharing this with all of you out there. Have a good laugh!

MaxPowerSoft Puts a New Polish on an Old Adage: You Actually Can Polish a Turd

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‘Polish It‘ now available at the iPhone App Store

SAN DIEGO, CA (May 24, 2010) – MaxPowerSoft (www.maxpowersoft.com) today announced the release of Polish It, an iPhone application designed to facilitate “a shinier world, one turd at a time”. Available for $0.99 at Apple’s iPhone App Store, ‘Polish It’ is both a literal and cute/comedic take on the old and well-known phrase “You can’t polish a turd”. Your goal is simple: Choose a turd you like, and polish it! Utilize the touchscreen and your finger for polishing, tilt the phone to maneuver, and snap a photo at anytime to share.

“We wanted to reach out and give frustrated workers, students, and really all curious people in general, the powerful ability to truly polish a turd,” says Nic Danielson, Director of Marketing. “MaxPowerSoft has created an innovative new technology that allows one to therapeutically accomplish the task of polishing turds in the palm of your hand, no matter where you are, and on a whim to boot – most importantly, it can be done without the need for any sanitization processes. There really is nothing else like it in the market, or the world for that matter.”

Features of Polish It include:

Objects rendered in full 3D.
Choose from over 10 objects to polish.
Simple controls: Touch to polish, Tilt phone to maneuver.
Snap a photo and send to your friends.
More features to come.

Pricing and Availability:

Polish It is available for $0.99 at the iPhone App Store:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/polish-it/id345199287?mt=8

Apple iPhone Web Kit with Activity Indicator

Chris Danielson — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:38:43 +0000

Welcome to the club of searching for an overly simple UIWebView a.k.a. WebKit example! In this example, I’ll show you simply how to hand code a quick UIWebView into your program as well as to add a UIActivityIndicatorView a.k.a. an activity indicator. Without jabbing Apple too hard here, the documentation is pretty bad and that is why it’s nice to have an example just shown to you as-is. I hope this example helps shine a light on the situation for anyone wanting to implement a nice and quick Apple iPhone WebKit solution.

^?View Code OBJC

 
#import 
 
@interface FirstViewController : UIViewController 
{
	UIWebView *myWebView;
	UIActivityIndicatorView *activityIndicator;	
}

^?View Code OBJC

/*
Inside the @implementation FirstViewController ... 
*/
- (void)viewDidLoad { //We have a NIB file in play here, so I dropped the loadView here.  Just make sure that your loadView is not getting called twice!
    [super viewDidLoad];
    [self loadView];
}
 
- (void)loadView {
	UIView *contentView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame]];
	self.view = contentView;	
 
	CGRect webFrame = [[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame];
	webFrame.origin.y = 0.0f;
	myWebView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:webFrame];
	myWebView.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
	myWebView.scalesPageToFit = YES;
	myWebView.autoresizingMask = (UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight);
	myWebView.delegate = self;
	[self.view addSubview: myWebView];
	[myWebView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.maxpowersoft.com/"]]];
 
	activityIndicator = [[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc]initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleGray];
	activityIndicator.frame = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 40.0, 40.0);
	activityIndicator.center = self.view.center;
	[self.view addSubview: activityIndicator];
}
 
- (void)dealloc {
	[activityIndicator release];
	[myWebView release];
        [super dealloc];
}
 
#pragma mark WEBVIEW Methods
 
- (void)webViewDidStartLoad:(UIWebView *)webView
{
	// starting the load, show the activity indicator in the status bar
	[UIApplication sharedApplication].networkActivityIndicatorVisible = YES;
	[activityIndicator startAnimating];
}
 
- (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView
{
	// finished loading, hide the activity indicator in the status bar
	[UIApplication sharedApplication].networkActivityIndicatorVisible = NO;
	[activityIndicator stopAnimating];
}
 
- (void)webView:(UIWebView *)webView didFailLoadWithError:(NSError *)error
{
	// load error, hide the activity indicator in the status bar
	[UIApplication sharedApplication].networkActivityIndicatorVisible = NO;
 
	// report the error inside the webview
	NSString* errorString = [NSString stringWithFormat:
							 @"

Error

Your request %@",
							 error.localizedDescription];
	[myWebView loadHTMLString:errorString baseURL:nil];
}

That is all there is to it. It’s really simple as you can see. Feel free to copy and paste accordingly.

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iPhone users able to build a shinier world, one turd at a time

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