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[16 Oct 2011 | View Comments | ]
How to Turn Off Siri on IOS 5

Trying to turn off Siri has been a big hassle all morning.  It’s been very hard to use my iPhone with Siri repeating every step in the background.
What do you do to disable Siri Voice?
Very simply, click on the bottom part of the home button three times and this should turn off the voice.
Have fun!

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[24 May 2010 | View Comments | ]
Keep track of Shale Gas Plays with the New Oil & Gas News Ticker

The Oil & Gas News Ticker:
Keep track of the latest oil & gas news using a real-time, windows based desktop news & media ticker. The news ticker scrolls customized and filtered industry information across a user’s desktop and displays summary information, images, podcasts, and video in a drop-down window at the click of a mouse.
The Oil & Gas News Ticker captures, filters, aggregates, and delivers information to consumers, employees and partners from anywhere on the Internet or inside your company.
The News Ticker …

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[5 Nov 2009 | View Comments | ]
Speed iPhone Development With iPhone Templates

What exactly is an iPhone template?  An iPhone template is aggregation of code and media that perform a set of functions.  For example, say I wanted to create a news reader application like the NYTimes iPhone Application and really didn’t know where to start.  For one, you could download the RSS reader iPhone template from sites like iphonetemplates.com and instantly have a working application that just requires slight modfications.  All you have to do is provide your custom news source and layout that best fits your news channels and you …

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[3 Nov 2009 | View Comments | ]
iPhone Code Signing Process

When I envisioned developing my first iPhone application a few months ago, it never occurred to me that the toughest part during the entire product life-cycle would be getting the app packaged or “provisioned” for Apple to review. My thoughts were always on design, development, and testing and never on provisioning. Boy, was I in for a rude awakening.
It took about a week to get it packaged after going through the security process and the special binary packaging Apple expects.
In other words, trying to get the iPhone application …

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[2 Nov 2009 | View Comments | ]

I thought developing an iPhone application in 6 weeks was going to be tough.  Well, I was wrong.  The tedious process of getting the code compiled to binary and submitted to Apple took the crown.  While performing the final distribution step and testing on an actual device, the  compiler kept displaying the following error.

Undefined symbols:

“_OBJC_CLASS_$_TTActivityLabel”, referenced from:
__objc_classrefs__DATA@0 in BlackFridayAppDelegate.o

I had no idea what this was, but was determined to resolve the issue.
I spent countless hours trying to determine the issue and finally figured out the problem.  We …