OMG Texting Dictionary

If you want to be a part of the contemporary pop-culture and send your SMS or Tweet the shortest and the most stylish way, you should definitely get acquainted with the OMG Texting Dictionary app. It represents a companion app to author Shawn Marie Edgington’s new text message pop-culture book in this years Academy Award Swag bags, “Read Between the Lines: A Humorous Guide to Texting with Simplicity and Style”.

The app offers thousands of text abbreviations for creating shorter and smarter messages. It will also help you to guess what your friend is writing about when using a texting terminology. You can even choose the most distinguishable term and share them with others on Facebook or Twitter.

 OMG Texting Dictionary is so cute that it's going to be included in this year's Academy Awards SWAG bags. Thus all the celeb Tweeter followers will have a good chance to understand their idols' new stylish  statements.

The application has been developed and designed by Clever Twist, a popular mobile development shop out of Atlanta, Georgia.  It is compatible with iPhone and ipod touch and requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.

The OMG Texting Dictionary costs $ 0.99 and you can download it directly from the iTunes App Store in the Social Networking category.

Animation Correction

The earlier code I posted in the entry on implementing a wait alert and the follow-up entry that applied the technique to the Tic-Tac-Toe game both contained a mistake. The animation keyframes were specified as seconds, and should have been specified as clamped floats (floats with a value from 0.0 to 1.0).

Here are the corrected keyframe values for the bounce animation:

    animation.keyTimes = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:
                      [NSNumber numberWithFloat:0.0],
                      [NSNumber numberWithFloat:0.6],
                      [NSNumber numberWithFloat:0.8],
                      [NSNumber numberWithFloat:1.0], 
                      nil];

I will update both projects as soon as I can. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Apple sues HTC claiming 20 patent infringements

Apple sues smartphone maker company - HTC alleging 20 different patent infringements related to the iPhone's user interface, architecture and hardware. The violated patents include touch and gesture features, finger-swipe unlocking mechanisms, power conservation, touch-screen scrolling and accelerometer capabilities.

According to the Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the Company is not going to sit and watch how the competitors steal their patented inventions. Competition is healthy until competitors create their own products.

With this purpose Apple submitted the complaints to the US International Trade Commission and the US District Court in Delaware. The list of complaints includes such handsets as the Nexus One, Touch Pro, Touch Diamond, Touch Pro2, Tilt II, Pure, Imagio, Dream / G1, myTouch 3G, Hero, HD2, and Droid Eris.

Apple sued Nokia for similar reasons. All that leaves us wondering what are eventually the genuine purposes of Apple . But it seems like the company is definitely going through without compromises.