How to make your UITableView scroll fast? The iPhone’s GPU struggles to render blended views. Here, Tweetie’s Loren Brichter explains how Tweetie’s UITableView scrolls smoothly on iPhone. He uses a custom drawn UITableViewCell that “pre-renders” the whole thing… The blog entry is here… http://blog.atebits.com/2008/12/fast-scrolling-in-tweetie-with-uitableview/ If it’s slow, try it’s...

StationAlarm is an intelligent alarm system that is designed to let you sleep in the MRT without fearing to wake up at the right stations. All you have to do is to set your current station and the destination station. Your route is automatically computed and StationAlarm rings an alarm to wake up at the right station(s). Right station(s) means, if there is a interchange, where you have to change trains, StationAlarm can automatically wake...

I think I nearly forgot what “restarting” a PC means…My Mac switches on “instantly”, (faster than a TV perhaps?) which M$ promised with Vista which is a different story altogether. So, I wanted to download a tool that could let me know the uptime of my mac. Searching for that, I found that there was a built in command line program that does it. So I typed “uptime” on the terminal and this is what I...

On of the most facinating, useful and equally powerful feature of Leopard, is Time Machine. I’ve been using Mac for over 3 months now and Time Machine for about 2 months. With this background, let me explain my usage rates. I had a lot of data in my PC. Close to 200 GB of data, which I migrated to my mac when I bought it. Took me about 2 days (or more?), and after a month or so, I purchased a new 1TB Western Digital hard drive for 179...

People always hate when things don’t work as they expect. This doesn’t have to apply for software products. You bang your TV, when it suddenly turns black and white. You shake your remote when it doesn’t work even though you know that the battery is dead. Usability is a great area. As a Usability expert, myself,, I always poke into applications and check whether it’s “easy to use”. One such example was my...