iOS Developer Programs

I was just checking the iOS Developer Program and prices. I think I’ll wait until I have some app ready before I give them $100 as it is annual charge.

Got my iPhone 4 (finally)

Ever since iPhone first came out I've been thinking about getting one, but could never justify the price. Everything that I could do in iPhone, I could do in my Nokia phone (which costs less than half of what iPhone costs).

Well, Nokia got old, scratched and broken so the time came to get a new phone. And this time I went with the trend and got an iPhone 4. I'm hopping it will replace my camera and flip so I don't have to bring them when I go out and about. Also no need for my iPod touch any more. I can put all my music in the iPhone and my kindle books too.

So yeah, I installed a bunch of useful apps and I think I barely scratched the surface. It is mind-blowing how many apps are in the App store.

I'm planing to do a run-down of all apps I find useful in a week or two. Hopefully I will soon write my own app to go in that list too. The biggest problem will be to develop something new, because anything you can think of, it's there... and it is usually free.

Cool Snow Leopard features I did not know about

Found these video podcasts accidentally today and they were a big revelation for me. How come these things don't reach us Windows people? I really think some features on OSX are way ahead of Windows and I don't think enough people know about it, which is why I thought I best spread the word.

Automation in Snow Leopard:
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mov/pixelcorps.cachefly.net/mbkv_235_540p_h264.mov

Automation in Snow Leopard (part 2):
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mov/pixelcorps.cachefly.net/mbkv_236_540p_h264.mov

Automation in Snow Leopard (part 3):
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mov/pixelcorps.cachefly.net/mbkv_237_540p_h264.mov

Key Remap for MacBook

I've been searching the net for days to find a solution for a keyboard problem I have on my MacBook.

Basically, for an unknown reason to me, the Caps Lock key is bound to Left arrow key and no matter which one of these two I press, I get both functions: Caps Lock changes ON/OFF and cursor moves to the left.

Similar, for Ctrl key and number 8 key, but not quite the same. When I press either of these two, I get only Ctrl function. This means I don't have number 8 or * in my keyboard. To say the least it's been very annoying and I just couldn't find any solution anywhere.

Today after repeated searching I stumbled upon this application KeyRemap4MacBook (http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/index.html). First thing I'm going to do when I get home is install it and see what happens. I hope it will pick up the two sets of bonded keys and give me an option to either remove it or overwrite with a new setting. Fingers crossed...

Addictive Speed Run in DiRT 3

So far I think these challenge game modes, like speed runs, are the only improvement form Dirt 2. I spent some two hours last night to nail this speed run for a platinum medal. You can make uploads direct to youtube but they are fairly low quality, take ages to prepare and upload and the maximum clip length is 30 seconds. I had  to upload two clips to youtube for this one, download them from youtube and put the together in Windows Movie Maker before uploading it as one clip. I definitely need to get a capture device.