My Topic is the Development of the Mac, iPhone and iPod Touch. Both the iPhone and iPod Touch are programmed the same way, using a language called cocoa. To write in cocoa, you need the iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit. The Mac is written in a similar way. In the next version of Mac OS X, 10.6 or Snow Leopard, the Finder will be written in Cocoa.
To develop my topic, I have used many sites like Macrumors and WikiHow. On Macrumors, I am commenting on the most current posts everyday. On WikiHow, I have edited many articles and written one or two. Both of these sites have helped me gather research about my topic.
I am hoping in the future to learn to write in Cocoa and possibly Java. One of my friends and I have currently been teaching ourselves how to write in Ruby (for both Mac and Windows) using an online tutorial. I think that this is one of the easiest languages to learn for a developer.
My work with this has been successful so far. I am hoping to do a lot with this in the future (possibly take a programming class at Lovett in the future years).
This are links to my two surveys:
Survey for all People
Survey for iPhone and iPod Touch Developers
The process of creating the surveys and reviewing the results is very easy. To create a survey, you have the option of making multiple choice questions, yes-no questions, short answer questions, and ratings. To view a survey, you can view by respondent or view in graphs, that show the percentage of people who responded one way or the other.
I did get the results that I hoped for. I was hoping to get feedback from developers and from people that have either a Mac, iPhone or iPod Touch. Most people had one of these above and most people though that they are easier to use than computers running Windows and other smartphones.
If I could change the survey, I would add more that has to do with programming overall instead of only focussing on the iPhone and iPod Touch programming. I have decided to make another survey that is about the topic of programming of computers and iPhones.
Current survey Results:
Mac, iPhone, and iPod Touch Survey for All People 57
Mac, iPhone, and iPod Touch Survey for Developers 1
Programming 5
Update- New Survey: http://www.quia.com/sv/244796.html
I have made both a podcast and a wikihow article showing how to use Spaces on Mac OS X 10.5.
WikiHow article
Podcast- on the server
So far, I have done a lot with WikiHow to work on my project. I have edited many pages and written an article. I have also kept up-to-date with news sites.
My article has to do with how to use the App Store on an iPhone or iPod Touch. It shows the steps of how to function in the App Store, download an application, and then use it.
I have edited many articles that relate to the iPhone or iPod Touch. Some articles include how to Listen to an iPod, Convert DVD Movies to iPhone using Daniusoft software, Get an iPhone, Decide between an iPhone or iPod Touch, Fix a broken headphone jack for a 5th Generation iPod, 30GB or 60Gb, and many more.
I have been watching news sites sites like MacRumors, Macworld, MacNN, and how stuff works using the RSS feeds in my Mail application.
I hope to be able to make my overall project relating to this topic or something similar.
Last week we worked with iCal, Google Calendar, Text messaging, Google Earth, and Polleverywhere.com.
We got iCal subscribe to Google Calendar so it would be able to see what events we sheduled for each day in Google Calendar. I worked viewing events on iCal from Google Calendar, but you could not create events in iCal and have them go to Google Calendar. We also worked with sending our scheduled events for the day to our phones through a text message.
We setup Google Calendar to send a text message to our phones every morning showing what events we had planned for that day. On your phone, if you want to see what events are planned for the next day, you can reply “Nday” to a previous message and it will send you the events.
We worked with Google Earth. We created a blog and put a picture and text as a post. Then we switched to html style and copied all of the writing and picture. We then went into Google Earth and pasted the html as a new pin.
Also, we looked at Polleverywhere.com. You can create an online Poll and make it into a graph. To vote, you send a text to 41411 and put in a certain code for one of the choices that you are voting for.
This is My New Blog.
In class we have learned how to set up calendars. We have set iCal to subscribe to Google Calendar. This means that iCal can see the Google Calendar as a read only format, so you cannot add events to the calendar and have Google Calendar receive these events. There is a third-party software that will let you do this. We are going to look at that and see if it will work.
We have also learned how to have google calendar send text messages. You can choose to have it send texts about the events for the current day, the following day, or just your next scheduled event, if you have many events for that day.
Later this week, we are also going to work with Google Earth.
The New Nike + iPod is now available for iPod Touch and iPod Nano. It is a great way to measure your time, the distance that you have run, your pace, calories burned, and other things.
It works by putting a chip in the bottom of your shoe, and having your iPod wirelessly receive signals from the chip. Your iPod will give you all of the information and compare it to the goal that you set on your iPod. Later, when you connect your iPod to your computer, you can sync all of the information to nikeplus.com. It will store all of your exercise information and create a chart to show if you are improving.
In the Article that I read, It tells all of the negatives about the Nike + iPod kit. One thing that is bad about this kit, is it does not use the new features of the iPod Nano and iPod Touch. Both of these iPod’s now have the accelerometer in them, or the sensor that can measure movement and the direction of gravity. This is exactly what the chip you put in your shoe does. The argument is that this kit has no point and the iPods could calculate this information without it, like the Wii Remote. Another negative of this kit is why doesn’t it use the internet features of the iPod Touch. It could sync your information to nikeplus.com whenever you connect to WiFi instead of needing to connect to a computer.
Google Android is a company within google that has been out for many years. They have just now come up with an operating system and phone that will support all of google’s web applications like gmail, calendar, docs, reader, earth, maps, and many more.
Its release date is rumored to be November 10th of this year. It is expected to be a big competitor with the iPhone in particular, because the iPhone has some of the same google apps that will be in the Android.
For more info look at this article: http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/18/android-phone-is-approved-by-fcc-nov-10-the-apparent-release-date/
The Eye tracker is an exercise to show what parts of a website attracts the eye.
This is the exercise: Interactive Quiz
This article tells a little more about what attracts the human eye: The Best of Eyetrack III: What We Saw When We Looked Through Their Eyes
After I did this exercise many times, I started to memorize where the hotspots were on the website.
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