jerakeen.org

iiinteresting, a hosted iPhone push service. might solve the scaling things I was worried about..

http://www.httpush.com/

O2 have an image-compressing transproxy on their 3G connections. I don’t actually care about this. But it’s nice to know how I might turn it off anyway.

http://www.edandersen.com/2008/07/13/iphone-o2-fix-the-im...

How to use one-time-pads to log into linux machines remotely. Clever stuff, if a little more paranoid than I really need right now.

http://www.rho.cc/1Key/pam_opie_Setup.php

Python utility to export albums, events, and smart albums from iPhoto, and sync caption data, keywords, etc, into the EXIF tags of the jpeg. It lets me escape from iPhoto, essentially. Very nice.

https://sites.google.com/site/iphotoexport/Home

Two python unicode strings in different normalization formats aren’t considered identical by the Python interpreter (pre 3000, anyway. Don’t know about post). This is annoying. At least there’s a core language module for converting strings between normalized forms.

http://docs.python.org/library/unicodedata.html

MacOS binary packages for exiftool.

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

Wow. Batshit V8-based server-side JavaScript environment. Can be used to write web servers, but also just about anything else. Also, has a totally hardcode ‘nothing blocks, ever’ philosophy that means that just about everything happens in closure-based callbacks, letting you write a single-threaded web server that can deal with many incoming connections at once.

http://tinyclouds.org/node

A mac system preferences pane that lets you arbitrarily limit bandwidth to particular ports/hosts. Useful for iPhone development, anyway. I believe it’s just a GUI wrapper around the mac system packet filter / firewall layer, ipfw.

http://mschrag.github.com/

Nice presentation on building simple game boards using CALayer and draw delegates, so you can use Core Animation and other high-level libraries to move things around. Doubt it would be useful for writing Quake, but that’s not really me anyway.

http://www.benzado.com/deskjockey/

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GeekGameBoard is a small Objective-C framework for implementing the user interface of a board or card game. Many games can be implemented in less than 150 lines of code. For my future reference - this blog entry is 12 months old, presumably the iPhone version of this might be finished now.

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http://mooseyard.com/Jens/2008/03/geekgameboard-getting-c...