Monday, July 20, 2009

iWikiPhone Brings a User-built iPhone App Network

Recently, I've been contacted by Luca di Cesare, the creator of iWikiPhone. In a nutshell, iWikiPhone is a social network for iPhone users. At iWikiPhone everyone is able to talk about iPhone, post application reviews, share experience, insert videos and so on. iWikiPhone is built around true Wiki spirit.

If you want to become more productive with your iPhone and enjoy your wonder device in even better and richer ways, I highly recommend using iWikiPhone. The service is free and open to everyone.

Finally, I'd like to note that that Luca Di Cesare is an Electronic Engineer and online sales and management consultant. He has been awarded third place among the best start-up participants at the TechGarage2009 Users Choice Awards.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Fixed & Improved Blender Export Script

The Blender Objective-C Export Script script has been updated to fix some problems, and to use interleaved data structures. There's a sample project, complete with a (cheap & dirty) texture, the source Blender project and the UV template for the ship.



It's intended to be used with my my OpenGL ES Xcode Template, as it uses data structures that are declared in OpenGLCommon.h.

This version also gives you the code you need to use to draw it, except for loading and binding the texture, although you can see from the sample project that doing that is easy if you use the OpenGLTexture2D class included with the project.

Note:The Texture2D class doesn't currently deal with the y-axis inversion problem, so flip your textures vertically before exporting.

A Little Ego Boost for a Friday

As I write this, the new edition of our book holds the #1 spot, and the old edition holds the #2 spot in the Mobile Devices category on Amazon: