Entries from January 2008

iPhone update 1.1.3 – Released

Date January 15, 2008

Just seconds ago Apple released the long awaited update to the iPhone.  It’s about a 162mb download but well worth the wait.  Check out apple.com for a video of all of the new features.  There are a few cool features, but the GPS positioning is the most exciting for me.  Here are the features I [...]

Silverlight how to: Frame-by-Frame Animation

Date January 9, 2008

For the past few weeks, Terralever has been developing our second game using the Silverlight framework. Our first, Zero Gravity was a great success and highlighted the power that Silverlight can bring to casual gaming development. For years, Terralever has been developing games in Flash and is very fortunate to have some incredible flash interactive [...]

IMAP Gmail on iPhone

Date January 7, 2008

Over the holiday my wife was so kind as to use her hard earned Holiday bonus and buy me an iPhone. For the last two years I have had my trusty old Sprint Treo connected directly to my companies Exchange and personal POP3 server. Now that I have made the first step in switching to [...]

Google Apps for Domain Email

Date January 7, 2008

For those of you in hibernation for the last few years, Google is taking over the world, one free service after another.  This weekend I decided to break ties with Godaddy’s crappy email hosting (5 accounts, 1 GB storage, $20 year) and switch to Google Apps.   My reasons were quite simple, Free is Free and [...]