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I’ve been battling a PDF-generation problem on iOS for the last couple of days: PDFs generated on iPhone or iPad using the Quartz PDFContext Apple supply cause an error to pop up and then don’t look right in Adobe Reader. I had presumed it to be a problem in my code, but have now found that Pages, Numbers and Keynote on iPad have exactly the same issue. Continue reading Annoying bug in Quartz PDFContext font handling I watched the Grand Prix this afternoon, and was totally unsurprised to read this evening that Ferrari had been penalised for using team orders to affect the result of the race. I was, however, surprised that the penalty is so low. Continue reading Team orders Like many recreational golfers I have generally been using the cheapest golf balls I can find. Cheapest I could find in Tesco today are 67p per ball. Last year I decided to see if there was any benefit to me in using a more expensive ball, so I bought a dozen of the upper-mid-priced Nike One Vapor[sic] and a dozen of the high-priced Nike One Tour D balls. Continue reading Golf balls So, you have tens or hundreds of presentations and you would like to present them from your iPad. You could use Keynote for iPad, if your presentations are in Keynote form. But what do you do if they’re in PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Freelance, StarOffice, Symphony or LaTeX? Continue reading Running presentations using only an iPad My company’s first apps, StrawberryCat Who Am I? and StrawberryCat Random Password Generator, are now available on the iTunes App Store. I hope you find them useful. My business iPad arrived last Thursday, and I spent the first few days absorbing the feel of the built-in apps and thinking about how to alter my existing iPhone apps so that they fit in with the iPad idioms. Continue reading Porting apps to iPad I have changed my OS X Address Book plugin for Gravatars to handle mixed-case email addresses. I have also given it a more permanent home at this page. Just a quick note to update you all on the Black Horse situation. I have started legal proceedings by sending form N1 to Winchester County Court: N1 Claim Form: Phil Vs Black Horse Ltd. The court case has so far cost me £150.66 plus my time. The hot topic in politics today is the hung parliament and the possibility that the Liberal Democrats may secure electoral reform of one of both houses of parliament in exchange for supporting the Conservatives on their Queen’s Speech and Budget. Here are my thoughts on what a more democratic Britain would look like. Continue reading Electoral reform Those of you who were my colleagues at IBM have hopefully noticed that I left last week. I am now running a mobile applications development business. Continue reading New venture |
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