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Use Grouped Table Background Stripes on Any UIView

Add this snippet to your iPhone project to give the background those familiar vertical stripes seen with grouped tables sections.

self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor groupTableViewBackgroundColor];

UIView with Stripes

UIView with Stripes

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Reset the Feeds!

Between Twitter, Facebook, and the dozens of websites churning out content that I don’t have time to read, I finally faced the reality that I’m not going to catch up. Sure, there might be some valuable article buried in my news reader, but at some point you have to call it what it is and mark them all as read.

feeds

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Work

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Final Straw for PowerPC

A little late to post about Adobe’s Lightroom 3 Beta, as it’s been available for weeks now, but since I had already downloaded and installed it on my Macbook, I forgot to look into compatibility with my tower at home.

As it turns out, Lightroom 3 will not support PowerPC which, for me, means I’m left out for this upgrade. I do all of my photo processing on a dual 2.7ghz G5 which happens to be plenty fast enough for the task, but is running off the wrong chipset. It’s truly a shame that a perfectly good $3000 tower isn’t capable of running new software. What’s worse is that I can only get about $600 on ebay if I were to try to sell it.

Adobe Lightroom Beta 3 has the following requirements for Mac:

Mac OS

  • Intel based processor
  • Mac OS X v10.5 or 10.6
  • 2GB of RAM
  • 1GB of available hard-disk space
  • 1,024×768 display

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Macworld cover, start to finish

Cover creation from Peter Belanger on Vimeo.

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I chose the iPhone over the SLR

At this point, I’m not sure I’m surprised at this, but I took more photos with my iPhone last week on vacation than I did with my Canon. I think the convenience of having it always in my pocket and the ability to switch to video played a big role. Another factor was that it didn’t draw a whole lot of attention when I used it like the other camera would have.

Overall, I’m happy with results and I don’t quite regret not having the crisper, larger images since I have a handful of decent videos instead.

Posted in photography.


Make your wedding entrance rock

Having photographed many, many weddings, I’ve had the chance to see a lot of wedding entrances. I’ve never seen anything like this though. A lot of couples will get inventive for their introduction at their reception, but most tend to stick to tradition for the ceremony, especially if theirs is held at a church.

I think what’s great about this video and the way the wedding party entered is that they immediately brought the level of enthusiasm and fun right through the roof. Nothing makes a wedding more memorable (especially for someone like me who has been to dozens) than getting your friends and family involved as much as possible – even the ones that might not like to dance.

http://www.break.com/index/jill-and-kevins-unexpected-wedding-entrance.html

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AT&T charging $9.99/month for turn-by-turn

It looks like AT&T has finally cashed in on turn-by-turn for the iphone by creating an app (itunes link) for the device that links to a monthly subscription charge for AT&T users.

att-app

The app is free, but requires a $9.99 monthly commitment.

Posted in Misc.


Bookmarklet: Collapse all Fieldsets in Drupal Module Page

Why do I need it?

This is a quick and easy way to clear the clutter on your Modules page in Drupal. One of the sites I’ve recently worked on easily had over 30 modules that were grouped in 10-12 fieldsets on the modules page in Drupal. When developing, sometimes you need to toggle modules and finding them in the mess can be difficult. (Of course, you can always just search the page. I’m too lazy.)

This bookmarklet lets you click one link, provided you’ve added it to your browser’s toolbar and quickly clean up the clutter the page.

Give me what I came for!

If you already know what a bookmarklet is and know how to use one, I’ll get right to it.

javascript:function collapseEm(){$(’.collapsible’).addClass(’collapsed’);}collapseEm();

How to use it

Easy. Copy the code, create a new bookmark and paste it in. When you click your new bookmark, the fieldsets should collapse.

It isn’t working for me

First, it requires jQuery, which should already be installed with Drupal. If for some reason you don’t have that, it won’t work.

Second, I use it in Firefox on the Mac. Let me know what browser you’re using if it doesn’t work.

There’s really nothing to it

I know. It isn’t complicated and you probably could have thought of it yourself. Hopefully it saves someone some time who wouldn’t have or couldn’t have.

Posted in Development, Drupal, jQuery.


Home Page Guy

I have to pass this one along for all of you web developers out there. I know my co-workers got a good chuckle out of it.

Auto Tuning from Casey Donahue on Vimeo.

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