Makes No Sense At All » Uncategorized http://www.katoemba.net/makesnosenseatall Interesting things to share around software development, music and what else comes to mind Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:09:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 RitMeester / MasterDrive 1.2.5 available for download http://www.katoemba.net/makesnosenseatall/2011/08/03/ritmeester-masterdrive-1-2-5-available-for-download/ http://www.katoemba.net/makesnosenseatall/2011/08/03/ritmeester-masterdrive-1-2-5-available-for-download/#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:36:39 +0000 Berrie http://www.katoemba.net/makesnosenseatall/2011/08/03/ritmeester-masterdrive-1-2-5-available-for-download/ Version 1.2.5 of RitMeester / MasterDrive has been released. This is a bugfix release that solves a problem that a file couldn’t be saved after a fuel refill was deleted.

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Since a few days MPoD & MPaD v1.5.3 are available from the AppStore. Release notes for MPoD:

  • Feature: Extensibility via http-commands for play/stop/speakers.
  • Feature: Cover art retrieval via Discogs.
  • Feature: Song search now also looks at composer, performer and comment tags.
  • Feature: Improved help screen explaining all MPoD features.
  • UI Change: Play/pause buttons combined into one.
  • UI Change: Hide/show control buttons on playlist view through two-finger swipe down/up.
  • Bugfix: Properly present ‘play all’ in search results (related to iPad bugfix).
  • Bugfix: Fix lastfm support for mpd 0.16.

And for MPaD:

  • Feature: Extensibility via http-commands for play/stop/speakers.
  • Feature: Cover art retrieval via Discogs.
  • Feature: Support on-the-go mode (play stream directly on the iPad).
  • Feature: Choose artist info from last.fm or allmusic.
  • Feature: Song search now also looks at composer, performer and comment tags.
  • Feature: Improved help screen explaining all MPaD features.
  • UI Change: Play/pause buttons combined into one.
  • UI Change: Improved display of cover art.
  • UI Change: Hide/show cover art on playlist view through two-finger swipe down/up.
  • UI Change: Show bitrate after tap on cover art.
  • Bugfix: Fix crash that occurs when searching in the Artist view.
  • Bugfix: Cancel button for search now always active.
  • Bugfix: Fix lastfm support for mpd 0.16.


Note: there is a problem with the two-finger swipe down/up on iOS 4.3 that was not detected during testing. This will be resolved in the next release.

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This week I started testing with mopidy, a mpd-compliant server that lets you play music from Spotify. I’ve been working with Stein Magnus Jodal, the developer, to remove some of the rough edges, and it’s coming along nicely. A new release should be available in the coming weeks.

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A new version (1.1) of TeamTweet is available in the AppStore.

New in this version:

  • Added handball
  • Added korfbal (only in the Dutch version)
  • Added more events and event details for soccer
  • Player names are now editable
  • It is now possible to specify a #hashtag per contest which will be included in all tweets.
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By the way, this is a flash movie (Jing is the only proper free screencast solution I could find) so you can’t view it on your iPad.

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Unfortunately 2 serious issues with MPoD v1.5 were not been during my testing, and as a result some people saw the application crashing when activating the artist tab, the album tab, or when changing between connections. The fix for this problem is now available from the AppStore.

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Since today MPoD v1.5 is available from the AppStore. I started working on it a month ago, and I’ve been able to complete the following list of features/bugfixes/changes:

  • Feature: Volume indicator on playlist view.
  • Feature: Background operation under iOS 4.
  • Feature: Bonjour discovery in connection list view.
  • Feature: Improved icons for repeat and shuffle.
  • Feature: High quality icons for retina display.
  • Feature: Show year with album title (if available).
  • Feature: Search albums by year.
  • Feature: Search in song view includes search on artist and album tags.
  • Feature: last.fm streaming.
  • Feature: Faster startup.
  • Feature: Genre tab with list of albums per genre.
  • Bugfix: Cover art fix for special characters in album/artist.
  • UI Change: Volume indicator bar split into 20 sections rather then 10.
  • UI Change: Replaced Play button on album/artist view with ‘Play all’ entry on artist and album lists.
  • UI Change: Moved replace/add mode button from album/artist/song view to Now Playing button box.
  • UI Change: Moved artist info button to coverview button popup.
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It’s been quiet here for quite some time, and one of the reasons for that is that I’ve working on a new iPhone application, which is now available from the AppStore: TeamTweet.

TeamTweet is an iPhone application that makes it possible for anyone to create live reports from sports events, so that fans, family and friends can follow what’s going on, wherever they are. It does this by combining a specialized user-interface for sports-events with the power of Twitter.

When you have installed TeamTweet on your iPhone, you start by setting up a Twitter account on http://twitter.com for the team for which you want to create reports. Next you setup the team in TeamTweet, add the teams players, and attach the twitter account to the team. You’re then set to go.

Prior to the match you create it in TeamTweet, which will send out a first tweet with the name and date of the event. The match appears in the list of planned contests, on the day you start the contest in TeamTweet and you enter relevant events as they occur. Events are specific per sport, currently the following sports are available in TeamTweet:

  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • (American) Football
  • Hockey
  • Running
  • Soccer

Events can be either time related (for example start of period, end of match) or about things that happen (for example goal, yellow card). TeamTweet always presents the list of events that are relevant for the current state of the match, and with a few clicks you specify what exactly happened. Examples are which player scored a goal or the reason why a player got sent off. TeamTweet takes care of the timing and score.
The events show up in the live match report and are immediately sent to the Twitter account of the team, so that all followers can get the updates within seconds.

TeamTweet maintains a full history of match reports, and you can send out match reports by e-mail. This provides you all the key information when you want to create a full match report afterwards.

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a) find out how to do it and
b) get it working.

The animation should combine movement (from the location of the clicked image to the location where the popup is shown), scaling (from the image size to the popup size) and rotation (for a nice effect). Google searches delivered bits and pieces, the best sample I found was MFFlip from Mike Lee. This didn’t include scaling and movement like I wanted it, so I added this and then packed it up nicely into a single class ViewFlipper with a single factory method that takes 2 views as parameters and does all the calculations and animation. The ViewFlipper class can be included without further dependencies into any project, except that you need to include the QuartzCore framework.

I’ve created a little sample iPad program around it that you can download here. I’ve put some documentation in the code that describes the what goes on inside. I hope this is useful for others who are struggling with this too.

Note: initially I kept having trouble with all of the examples I found, it turned out this was caused by the fact that I had one view with 3 subviews: a UITableView covering the entire view, the imageView and popupView (which were shown above the UITableView). I managed to solve this by moving the imageView and popupView onto a view of its own. I gave this extra view a transparent background, so that the underlying UITableView was still visible. This extra view also has the advantage that you can catch touch events on it which you can use to popdown the popup.

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