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Leap Motion – Tell me your ideas

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Leap Motion is a company that started with the vision of making the interaction between humans and computers better and more natural. They believe in achieving that using a sensor device that detects your hands.

About half a year ago, I showed my interest as a developer to make applications using their device. As of yesterday, I have received the device, which you can see in the video below.

I want to develop great applications, but I have very few ideas. What kind of applications would you like to see using this technology? Please tell me your ideas in the comment field below.

https://www.leapmotion.com

Box2D Test iOS Application

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So I started learning some Box2D to improve my skills in game programming. Box2D is a physics engine written in C++. Many games use a graphics engine but not a physics engine. The graphics engine usually accelerates the GPU graphics, but what makes movements look realistic is the physics engine.

Because Box2D is written in C++, you cannot simply use it in your iOS project, but thanks to Objective-C++ support, you can change your file extensions to .mm and then simply use C++ in your Objective-C project.

In this example, I’m not using a graphics engine, only Box2D and basic UIKit elements (UIView). The next step would be to do a similar example using a graphics engine like Cocos2D.

Source code: https://github.com/dimme/Box2DTest

Euro 2012 Greece iPhone App

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For the past 2 weeks, I have been making an iPhone application for Greece’s team in the UEFA EURO 2012 championship. Right after the 1-1 against Poland, Apple has now released my application to the public.

I was hoping for them to be a little faster but better late than never. This is version 1.0, and if you are interested in Greece or want a live score application for Euro 2012 in greek, you can download it from here for free:

Download Link

Here are some screenshots of the first version. Version 1.1 will be submitted shortly and will contain more live information about the games and teams.

iPad 2

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Call me whatever you want, yesterday I got an iPad 2. I had to wait in a queue for 1 hour, but it was not my intention. I first thought the iPads were starting selling when the stores open in the morning, but this was not the case. They started selling at 17:00, and as I got there by 16:00, I had the chance to get one, and so I did.

Now the plan is to port my application, iHugo, to the iPad as well.

Here comes a sample HD video I shot and edited on the iPad:

Old post requests

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Hello people.

I got many requests from you to upload old content to this website because many dead links are lying out there (e.g., here and here). The old content is gone because my old server crashed, and it didn’t want to start. After a couple of years, though, the hard drive worked for 30 minutes. That was enough to restore my content.

I will put back here the projects I had done and try to create some schematics too. I will create a proper HTTP 301 redirect from the old URLs to the new URLs as well.

So long!