Hi all! Just a note to say that if you’re fortunate enough to be attending the awesome /dev/world/2010 then you should stop by and hear some of us speak! Jon and Paris, as well as a few other friends and colleagues of, and at, Secret Lab are presenting the following talks: Failure Is Not An [...]
So, what’s happening for the rest of 2010? Jon and I are hard at work wrapping up the author reviews (the final stage of proof reading) for our book, iPhone and iPad Game Development for Dummies – it’s so close to being done and that we can practically taste the day off that we’ll get! [...]
Hi everyone! After a busy month of teaching iPhone, iPad and Game Development and Design in Hobart, Brisbane and Melbourne, Jon and I are back in San Francisco/Silicon Valley to catch up with our clients here, as well as attend Apple’s annual developer love-in, WWDC 2010. If anyone else is in the area and would [...]
I just cut my Telstra 3G SIM down to size and tried it in a 3G iPad. Result: perfect 3G connection. All it took was a pair of nail clippers. Great news for Australian (and other countries where there is no 3G iPad or 3G iPad plans/micro-SIM yet!) Paris Buttfield-Addison Production Lead
Looks like there’s a rather nasty compatibility issue in iWork for iPad. When you export a PDF from Pages and try and open it up in Adobe Reader on a PC, you get this: What’s happening is that iWork’s PDF generation appears to be embedding fonts that Adobe Reader doesn’t know how to parse, and [...]
In which Secret Lab waits for an iPad and learns secrets from Scott Forstall The iPad has had some interesting effects on the geek community at large. The majority of us love it, and a rather vocal minority hate it. They hate it for a variety of reasons – some because of a perceived lack [...]