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[iPhone] How to View iPhone Screen on the Computer

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Here are the Steps to View iPhone Screen on to the Computer Install a Package called Veency from Cydia on the iPhone Now Download VNC Viewer from the internet  In the VNC Server Settings box input the ip Address through which the iPhone connects with the Wifi, found in the blue Arrow in the Wifi Section of the iPhone Screen, accept all the security settings and your phone will be viewable on the computer.

[Mac / OS X] Mountain Lion: Mac users should pounce on its greatest feature

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The real prize in Mountain Lion is the integration of iCloud storage for documents. Photo: Apple Whatever Lion did to my MacBook Pro to turn it into a dog, Mountain Lion has undone with a feline grace. Gone are the lagging issues with software, the horror of Safari freezes and the spinning beach ball in permanent residence. Instead, it’s all nippy performance, smoother web browsing and, well, the odd appearance of the beach ball - but at least it isn’t omnipresent. Other Mountain Lion improvements include the rather nifty notifications panel and iOS-integrated apps. However, the real prize in Mountain Lion, the missing link that has bothered me and many others for some time is the integration of iCloud storage for documents. Some describe Mountain Lion as a minor upgrade to OS X but the integration of web-based storage across the Mac and iOS platform is the feature that acts as a Babel fish - or Rosetta Stone if, shame on you, you don’t know your Douglas...

[Tablets] Predicting how tablets will evolve by 2015

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Tablets have finally made it through the struggles of childhood and are now entering their rambunctious teenage years. We’ve weeded out the “me too” products and are left with three major players in the tablet market: Apple, Google, and a resurgent Microsoft. The products from the former two are reaching a state of maturity, where they can reliably serve enterprise computing functions, while Microsoft is gearing up for a major push into the market it once owned. With the market maturing, how might tablets evolve and be serving the enterprise in the coming three years? Personalized, schizophrenic Just as mobile phones and laptops have increasingly become tools of personal expression, tablets have continued the trend. This has created a difficult task for CIOs, who are now asked to allow any and all devices into the corporate network while simultaneously maintaining security. I believe users will win out in terms of bringing their personal tablets to work, but we’ll in...

[SmartPhones] Mobile computing and the demise of the desktop

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Apple’s earnings, which were recently released, had an interesting subtext beneath numbers that generally disappointed investors. As Apple’s flagship iPhone and iPad sales had another brisk quarter, Macintosh sales slowed, and desktops fell 13%. With the iPad eclipsing overall Mac sales, is the tablet finally poised to banish the desktop to the annals of technology history? The dawn of the specialized processor One of the major factors that might spell the end of the desktop as we know it has been the rise of specialized processors. In the traditional end-user computing market, upgrading processing power was largely a question of adding more transistors. Need more number crunching, video processing, or data manipulation power? Add more transistors. Computer graphics largely led the transition of specialized processors in the end-user space, with everyone from gamers to graphics professionals quickly discovering that a commodity video expansion card, optimized for mo...

[iPhone Tutorial] Create your own iPhone Stopwatch App

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Let’s take our existing Clock App we created during our previous tutorials and turn it into a stopwatch. It will look similar to the standard iPhone Clock implementation. Open the ViewController.xib file and move rgw label closer to the top to make a little room for a Start/Stop button at the bottom. Now drag a new button over, change the text to “START”, and size it so it is about the width of the label. Switch to the Sizing inspector and change the Autosizing to stick to the bottom edge of the view. The button and Autosizing should look like Figure A . Figure A Bring up the assistant editor as you did in the previous article so that an action can be added when the button gets tapped. Draw a connection by holding down the control key while dragging from the button to below the label property and release. This time you need to change the connection type to Action, set the name to “onButton” and change the Type to UIButton. Make sure the popup looks like Figure B be...

[iPhone Tutorial] Create your own Apple iPhone Clock App

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In this post, we will make an iPhone Clock App which displays the current time on the screen. This is a continuation from our first Hello World App. Open up the previous Hello project and I’ll show you how to get programmatic access to the label so that the text can be modified within our ViewController class. In order to do this you will need to connect the label in interface builder to a property of the ViewController class. Say goodbye Open ViewControler.xib and use the toolbar to show the assistant editor. ( Figure A ) Figure A The secondary editor is displayed next to the ViewController interface and should automatically open the header file for the ViewController class. Hold down the control key and then click and drag from the label to inside the view controller header file as shown in Figure B . Figure B Once the arrow reaches inside the interface definition you can let go to receive an Outlet connection popup. Set the name of the control to “l...

[iPhone] Tutorial - Create a Hello World iPhone app

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Create a Hello World iPhone app For my first iOS tutorial, I will describe how to create the typical Hello World application for iPhone, which we will build on in future posts. I assume you have an Intel-based Mac with Xcode installed. 1. Launch Xcode and create a new project by clicking the Create A New Xcode Project button on the splash screen ( Figure A ). Or, if you dismissed the splash screen, you can select File | New | Project from the menu. Select Single View Application from the list of templates. Figure A 2. Verify that all of these options are set in the next dialog box ( Figure B ) - if you don’t, you will have problems following this tutorial: Product Name is Hello. Device Family is set to iPhone. Use Storyboards is not selected. Use Automatic Reference Counting is selected. Figure B The project will be created and set up with specific files based on these initial settings. 3. Click Next and pick a location to store the project. Xcode will cre...