The Whizzo Blog

Whizzo goes old school

On our recent trip to California Extreme, I managed to convince my two friends, Dave and Mark, to ~~pimp~~ promote Whizzo by wearing some prototype t-shirts I had printed. Here's a pic of the three of us (after a long day of gaming) in front of some...

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Posted on Jul 27, 2010

inScribe is coming...

No, we haven't taken a vacation. We've been judiciously hard at work creating out first iPad application. inScribe is a note-taking application with a keen focus on usability and intuitiveness. If you've been unhappy with other note-taking apps on...

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Posted on Jun 7, 2010

Preserving alpha when creating a UIImage from OpenGL ES

There's a lot of example code floating around out there demonstrating how to create a UIKit UIImage object from an OpenGL ES view. Most of the examples I've seen fail to take into consideration the alpha information coming from OpenGL.

I won't get...

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Posted on May 18, 2010

App Store Reviews

I've read quite a few reviews on the app store and received quite a few for Whizzo's apps. The quality of the reviews vary wildly and it's really a shame that there is no way for a developer to respond to reviews and/or somehow contact a reviewer to...

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Posted on Mar 22, 2010

iPhone vs. Nexus One

Having been an iPhone user for a couple of years now, my acquisition of a Nexus One at the GDC conference gave me an excellent opportunity to compare the latest Apple and Google offerings in the mobile space. I put my SIM card into the Nexus One and...

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Posted on Mar 12, 2010