Gadget Techie

While working on Hillegass’ book Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition). I made this small app. It is called Speak Line and it basically speaks whatever you type in the text field. It is very entertaining.
The book shows you how to do it with the default voice but I could not stop there. [...]

Today I was programming in Xcode and realized that every time I ran my programs, I would get these weird messages in the debugger console. They didn’t break anything or cause the program to end prematurely but it made the compile and run process take longer and flooded the console with the weird message “unable [...]

When deciding how to go about learning Objective-C and Cocoa Touch for the iPhone, I came up with various methods. My first method was to read online tutorials from various sites. I soon learned that this was not the way to go. Most tutorials are quick and dirty and as such don’t really go in [...]

I have officially purchased a Macbook Pro 15″
The specs are as follows:

Intel Core 2 Duo – 2.53GHz
4GB of 1066MHZ RAM
320GB Hard Drive @ 7200RPM
Nvidia Geforce 9400M

I must say that this machine is VERY well made. It feel extremely sturdy while still maintaining the beauty that Apple products are notorious for.
Last night, after downloading Xcode [...]

I have not updated this blog in a while and decided that now is a good time to do so.
I am planning on learning Objective-C (Apple’s programming language) and creating an iPhone app. I still do not have an idea of the app I want to create. I just know that I want to make [...]