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Only up to 8 nodes per session (at least, at the moment), according to the docs and this post: http://lightyearsoftware.com/2014/03/multipeer-connectivity-...

There's this iOS app that generates very similar images, but with some interactivity. https://itunes.apple.com/app/rgb-petri/id423126001?mt=8

Sweet, I attended a talk about this this spring in our university. The one big question was about the enormous energy density in these cubes. It must some way or another get into them, which seemed quite impossible to do. But, I for one hope this leads to some big leaps in performance that were previously not within reach for the foreseeable future.

There is also XRay Editor (http://mireus.com/xrayeditor/) that comes with an Xcode plugin to relatively easily convert the changes you made into code. It also has an overlay feature to be able to adapt to a mockup.

Then there's http://hierarchydetective.com/ which is OSS, still pretty rough. It support a few different hierarchies like UIKit, CALayer, cocos2d and can supposedly be easily expanded for more view hierarchy types.

Spark Inspector and Reveal are pretty similar at the moment. SI does notification tracking and also live UI updates (and rotating the 3D view in the client by device movement ;) ).

PonyDebugger is the only one that includes network traffic analysis.

I did a talk about these and more at CocoaHeads Dresden this week. Tough it hasn't been recorded and the slides are currently in German. I will translate them and post the link later.

you missed to multiply by 2h. 86400 frames equal only 1h.

It's case sensitive and has related problems in finding words. Entering all lowercase letters recommended.

While I'm sure it was a fun exercise to build it and there will most likely even be "helper apps" appearing on the App Store soon, I frown upon these. Letterpress will lose a lot of its fun once cheating takes over.

For some reason this app seems to miss a lot of its advertised functionality in Germany, or maybe just on my phone. The image search results aren't displayed in a scrolling slideshow at all, instead each result links to the desktop version of a typical image search result, showing the preview and information in a sidebar and the embedding web page on the left.

Yes, the voice recognition is very fast, but then again, most questions only work in English, no chance to get anything useful in German or other languages. That's not really competition to Siri in this department.

On an iOS device with retina display it's awfully blurry, probably just not rendering to a big enough canvas.

While stitching together the original images to a higher resolution panorama (https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2Y0xU4gYdrLd1BFNXJiT1JacUE - 50MB, 31K pixels wide, do not open the image in the browser, but download it, you've been warned.) I noticed a very clear difference in brightness between the left and the right end of it (the ends meet in the middle of the image, since I was recreating the angle that NASA chose).

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2Y0xU4gYdrLUU5iMEMzSUdYUzg

Looks to me like changes in weather during the time the pictures where taken.

You're right, so I went ahead and recreated the panorama with the source images. Output file is much clearer at 31,792 x 5,683 (~50MB).

You can find it here: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2Y0xU4gYdrLd1BFNXJiT1JacUE (Use File --> Download, beware of opening this file inside the browser…)

Edit: Was wrong link.

Also: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/ doesn't load thumbnails but the full sized images… (is this 1994?)

Not to belittle the achievement, but what's up with the HUGE white stripes above and below the panoramic image? Makes browsing the image a bigger hassle than necessary and adds quite some MB in size. 11.5 MB for the full resolution image vs. 8.2 MB without the stripes (in PS saving at best JPEG quality) or 4.8 MB (at second best quality setting).

Thank you! The lower part isn't really a good fit, but the upper part is nice to look at.

Thanks, and yes, it does roll off one's tongue :)

The algorithm is actually a lot quicker to act. Once an hour would be quite useless in many cases (especially power loss).

I also have made great use of this great menu of cocoa controls. Thanks for creating it and keeping it up! I do occasionally wonder about the name "controls" for this kind of components. But it seems to be how most people refer to them.

I'm quite amazed that this is even possible to do, as it needs recent satellite imagery both from after they allegedly hiked there and from shortly before, to be able to make comparisons.

Is there some place where one can check the recency of all the available sources of satellite imagery from all over the world?

I'd say it may even be contributing to accessibility, precisely because of the use of CSS to achieve a desired look instead of falling back to imagery. This allows to disable styles or rather allows screenreaders to still work their way through every bit of information.

But yes, for visual readability its quite the horror. So better apply it sparingly.

Tablets are not rated by EPEAT.

Bigger yet, http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA15689.jpg (23096x7981 at 13.7 MB)

Ugh, the need to delete the corrupt version and then install the good version also gets rid of all user data. What a mess.

Of course, this could be fixed by slightly increasing the version number or some other way to let iOS know that the good version is to be installed as an update over the broken one.

Ugh, sounds like the wrong way to do things.

Shouldn't they rather work on preventing the bloat and creeping in of toolbars and unwanted stuff? I shouldn't have to reset a profile just like I shouldn't have to reinstall an OS just to make it go "like on the very first day".

These things should not 'age' or need maintenance. Everyone hates to do maintenance and in this digital environment it could be gone forever, but instead it's not. As if it were a thing that had to be emulated to 'feel right at home'. Yuck.

This magazine, while made with good intentions, really hurts my eyes. The colors clash, and on many pages its even hard to read the text at all. It's like 1995 web design.

Here's hoping for a better issue #2.

I just tested this at home with a few different light sources, and yes, it does lock all three - focus, aperture, white balance. But all in the one spot you tap-held.

Afaik, all the apps that have a two-spot way of selecting focus and aperture/white balance are faking it somewhat, since there is no official API to control the camera that way. Of course, most of the time the results are quite ok.

The usual method using just the built-in camera.app would be to first lock on to some spot thats both in the right distance and has the right brightness to achieve the correct look, and then just frame the scene by moving the iPhone in the recording position.

But I don't know how often I wished for more flexible ways to setup the camera manually :p

I'd like to add that it's possible to lock focus and exposure (not sure if also white balance) by tapping and holding on any spot in the "viewfinder".

Also, see the full frame in the internal camera.app, just double tap the screen and it will zoom out of the cropped mode. (while still only using a middle part of the sensor, though, apparently to allow for the anti-shake to function).