Archive for the ‘Tutorials’ Category

iPhone Tutorial: Sliders

Today, we will examining sliders. The UISlider will change the value of a a UILabel, or text. First, let’s start by creating a new view-based application project. For this tutorial, I will name it “Slider.” In SliderViewController.h After implementation Add the following… IBOutlet UISlider *mainSlider; IBOutlet UILabel *mainLabel; …Below brace and before @end, add this… [...]

Using the Quick Selection tool in PhotoShop

When your just starting out in photoshop just selecting things in photoshop can be very hard to figure out. But thats what here for so lets just start off small and introduce you to one tool at a time. This time we are going to look at the Quick Selection Tool.

How to add Facebook chat to iChat

Facebook has its own chat at the bottom of all the pages that you visit when your logged into their site. This is really handy when you want to talk to a person quickly. But what if you dont wanna keep a window or tab open for Facebook to chat? You can set up iChat [...]

Utilizing Gradients: Making a Pencil

To make a simple pencil in illustrator one may think to just use different shapes with different colors. While this is effective, without proper use of gradients you may get this “blah” kind of pencil with no real depth. To start off we’re goin to use some simple shapes but if you don’t want to [...]

Beginning C++: Tutorial 1

Welcome to the beginning C++ programming tutorials. In this series you will learn how to get started programming in C++. C++ is a very large programming language. Many people go crazy thinking they need to know EVERYTHING! Please, do not think you need to know every single line of code in c++. You might go crazy. [...]

Installing Admob into your iPhone apps

When I was trying to install ads in to one of my iPhone apps it was pretty hard to try and do, but I finally got it so I thought I would share with you guys how I did it. You can do it two ways; programmatically or through Interface Builder. I did this through [...]

Methods, and instances in Objective-C. (Part 2)

In our last objective-c tutorial we tackled the @interface section; this tutorial we are going to tackle the @implementation section. This part of the a program is where you tell the complier what we wrote in the @interface section mean. (To see the whole tutorial on that click here.) For example in our @interface section [...]

Making “googly” eyes

When creating that crazy looking vector image of a dog, cat, or even a person you will always need a pair of eyes to make the animal look good. I mean that is where we look first anyways right? So in this tutorial I am going to show you how to make a googly looking [...]