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Text to Speech Tools

Daniel Kivatinos — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 02:13:03 +0000

When trying to learn something new it is important to have the right tools. One of the tools is to have a really good speech to text tool. You can learn twice as fast if reading and hearing the words spoken to you at the same time.

For the web.
WebAnywhere

For the iPhone:
Speak it!

Simply The Best Office Setup

Daniel Kivatinos — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:05:57 +0000

This is the setup I use and recommend to everyone.

Macbook Pro 13 Inch
+
Logitech M505
+
The Official Skype Freetalk Everyman Headset
+
iPhone 4
+
iPad

Whiteyboard

You can’t go wrong.

Google Voice + PhoneBooth + Skype + MagicJack + an iPhone

Daniel Kivatinos — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:30:36 +0000

This is the phone setup the I think is most flexible.

Having google voice is very very powerful. Having a fixed phone number tied to a number of hand held devices is great.
Because of google voice I was able to tie all of my phones into one places, my google voice number.

So when I am on the road, having Skype is great, calling customers.
(The 5115 everyman is the best headset on the market that works with Skype.)

These are the services I use for my phone setup, I think they are very very valuable

Configuring Skype with google voice is a bit tricky, you need to do the following:

I set skype to forward back to my Google number if I’m not on Skype, it works great, I disabled Skype voicemail so if I decline a call it goes to google voicemail and now with this change if my laptop is off and Skype is not running it still forwards to google voicemail.

This is the site that had the fix information.

The services that I use for VoIP are the following:
MagicJack

I found that there are a few

http://www.phonebooth.com/

Mac, iPad, iPhone, iOS Development

Daniel Kivatinos — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:08:26 +0000

First things first, run these commands on a lion machine:
–SEE ALL LION FOLDERS–
chflags nohidden ~/Library/
chflags nohidden /Library/

–SHOW ALL FILES IN FINDER WINDOW–
write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool true
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

–SHOW — Hard Drive not visible Mac OSx0–
If you open the Terminal (located in Applications/Utilities) and run ls /Volumes

One thing everyone should be able to have, is a link to Xcode, Interface Builder and the mac simulator.
This is where they all are:
/Developer/Applications/Xcode.app /Developer/Applications/Interface Builder.app /Developer/Applications/Instruments.app /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications

First things first, get this xcode class from Stanford called iPhone Application Programming (Spring 2009) in iTunes U.

There are some other amazing iPhone/iPad courses from Stanford, you can find them here:
http://itunes.stanford.edu/.
Check out iPhone Application Development (Winter 2010).

Some great fast commands for Xcode development are:

Great step by step on the process of putting your app in the app store.

Switch between code:
[option key] 1 [option key] 2

Indenting code:
[option key] ] [option key] [

Switching code:
[option key] [command key] [up key]

Some great plugins are:

iPhone Enterprise Information

Any good videos I find on Objective C Programming for the iPhone and iPad I’ll post up here.

This guy has some great vids:
Tutorial 1
Tutorial 2
Tutorial 3
Tutorial 4
Tutorial 5

A great example split view controller:
MGSplitViewController for iPad

Sending an executable:

If you want to zip up your executable for an app you will:
[your name]/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/4.2/Applications/[folders to delete]

Clear out everything in this folder.
Build and Run your project.
In simulator close all open apps, even the ones running in the background.
Go back into [your name]/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/4.2/Applications/[zip up the folder created]
Zip up your project and that is it!
Put into any other computer as an executable.

Building a splash screen.
iPad splash screens.

Info on IBAction and IBOutlet
IBAction for methods
IBOutlet for objects or instance variables

App review code

iPhone, iPod Touch Software, Config and Applications

Daniel Kivatinos — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:04:16 +0000

Before doing anything I would recommend that you sync your iphone with google contacts and calender, this is how you would do this:
Google Sync: Set Up Your iPhone or iPod Touch

The best windows software for accessing your iphone is i-funbox, try it, it’s free! (I use it to remove videos from cycorder, just going to the directory: root/var/Media/videos)

Comparison of iPod Managers…there is more then just iTunes!

Below is the list of iPhone applications I have tested out on an iPhone, I recommend most of the programs listed.

Please note that if you want to install some of the jail broken apps below, please go check out this youtube video first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDDEN3zfQOg.

Web Searching Tools

News

Newsstand – Great for RSS feeds
NYTimes – New York Times

Weather
Weatherbug – Great for weather

Maps
Google Earth – Great google map software
iTrans NYC – Great if you live in NYC

Find a Store, Bar…
YPmoble – Yellow Pages
Yelp – Reviews of merchants close to you
FF Finder – If you need fast food…fast
Urbanspoon – Resturant reviews
Where – Need a starbucks? Look here
SloshSpot – Need to grab a drink? Look here

TV & Video
What’s On? – A tv guide
MxTube – Download and play youtube videos anytime(from Cydia) *
cycorder – Record video (from Cydia) *

Sleeping Tools
Night Stand – Clock plugin
Clock 3D – Clock plugin
Ambiance – Helps me relax, best relaxing noise around
White Noise – Helps me relax

Management Tools
Mint.com – Money managment, everyone should use this
Todo – Time managment
Weightbot – Weight manager
FastFoodCal – Calorie counter

Social
LinkedIn – Networking with profesionals
Facebook – Networking with friends
Tweetie – Networking Twitter application, this is one of my favs
BeejiveIM – Instant messaging, there may be better ones out there
WordPress – Blogging with wordpress

Calculators
Tip – Tip calculator
CheckPlease – Tip calculator

Buying Stuff
eBay
Amazon.com
Deliveries – Track a delivery

Networking Tools
WinAdmin – Remote desktop
iSSH – Secure terminal
Terminal (from Cydia) *
OpenSSH (from Cydia) *
modem (from Cydia) *

Radio
WonderRadio – iPhone radio, this is the best one out of all of them, if you get one this one is it
Tuner – iPhone radio, this one is just ok
Radio – iPhone radio
AOLRadio – iPhone radio
Stitcher – iPhone radio
Pandora – iPhone music
Last.fm – iPhone music
finetune – iPhone music

Music Tools
Shazam – iPhone music determiner
Remote – Play your iTunes from your iPhone

Games
Fieldrunners – Game
Zombies – Game
Centipede – Game
psx4iphone – Play playstation games (from Cydia) *
NES – Play any NES games(from Cydia) *
Macman (from Cydia) *

Fun, Not Really Useful
iChoose – Flip a coin
Koi Pond – Koi fish
Spawn – Cool Screensaver like game
Dice – Role dice
Alpha Tips – Dating help for men

Math
PCalc – Alternate calculator
GraphCalc
Quick Graph
MissingCalc
Triangulator
Math Tricks

Additional Tools
Spanish – Learn spanish
Spell Check – Spell check anything
Txtpedia – Need to know what something means in txting speak, this is where to go
Clinometer – Leveler for construction
Flashlight – Flashlight if you need one
Gas Cubby – Ok tool for car, I don’t recommend it to most people
Conversions – Good for conversions
mSecure – Password manager
Intelliscreen – One of my favs this lets you config your locked screen with information like weather (from Cydia) *

Recorders
HappyTalk – Recorder
Voxie – Recorder
SpeakEasy – Recorder

Install & Backup Programs
AppBackup – Backup iPhone data (from Cydia) *
AptBackup – Backup iPhone data (from Cydia) *
Cydia – Installer for hacked programs, look on youtube for how to install, VERY IMPORTANT *
Installer – Installer for hacked programs, look on youtube for how to install *

* Cydia is a jail broken app installer that you get when you jail break your phone.

There are a ton of apps that I haven’t listed, the list keeps growing and growing!