Oh, my god!
I can’t believe it! But it’s true. CNN confirmed it. He was only 50!
Oh, my god!
I can’t believe it! But it’s true. CNN confirmed it. He was only 50!
It’s still a rumor, but I think it’s closing to the truth now.
Here is the report: From China News.
The Original News from Router.
Few days ago, I wrote a post on which is the best audio format we should choose when developing an iPhone app. The conclusion is using IMA4, it’s the best choice if you want to record audio on the device.
Today, I was trying to use the System Sound service to play a short audio and in order to save the spaces, I chose the “AAC” format to encode my sound effects. I just thought it’s would be capable for a system sound and didn’t searched the documentation for which format is suit for System Sound. Everything went fine in the simulator. But, when I load the app into the device, and, BOOM~~, it failed to play the sound effect! My first reaction was somewhere programmatic mistake in my code, and after a careful review, I thought the reason could be the format. So I changed the format back to IMA4, and this time, it went well!
Apparently, System sound did not support AAC format, and I could not find the appropriate document where described it. Apple just pushes us to use IMA4 and other linear PCM format to reduce the CPU and power consume. Yeah, I understand that, but please, place such kind of important information some where we can find it easily! The API documentation could be a good place.
If I am the director of the documentation team, I would promote such information and place it in a notable place! Damn it.
Because if you using AAC for recording or System Sound, it works fine on the simulator, but will be failed on the device! If the device does not support AAC for recording and System Sound, please disable it on the simulator!
The conclusion is if you want to playback a song or something like this, you can choose AAC as your primary format for it is well supported by hardware codec, but only for this purpose please. If you want to record audio or play system sound effect, please choose IMA4, it’s is the second best format for iPhone.
“AAC” is a good compressed format, but it’s also has its cost.
My app is still not online now, because I have to fix some autorotation problems. Before today, I really didn’t know how to enable autorotation when my app is combined with UITabBarController and UINavigationController and my own views. After doing a little search, The solution is I need to enable autorotation for every view controller that will be presented in the UITabBarController.
Let’s assume we have a UITabBarController, theTabBarController and 3 UINavigationController named A, B, C. We need to set all the three controllers(A, B, C) to return YES in this method:
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
// Return YES for supported orientations
return YES;
}
OK, now your tab bar and navigation bar and your views will be automatically rotated.
It’s really embarrassed to write down this post. But I still decided to write this.
First look at these pictures a few days ago. It was captures from news.sina.com.cn you still can find this Ad today(June 9th, 17:41 GTM+9:00), which is one of the most biggest portal site in China, SINA is like Yahoo! in USA for it is in China.
Look at the LPhone Ad in the middle of the page. Please note, it is called LPhone.
Look at those icons!
The man in the picture is He Lin(何灵) He Jiong(何炅)【Updated 2009-06-18, thanks to Xuan】, who is a host of an entertainment program of Hunan TV. Shame on you He Lin! You are a public people, be aware of your image!
As I mentioned before, the name of the phone is LPhone, you know why? Because the lower-case “l” is just like “i” if you do not familiar with English letters, that most Chinese people do, it will be misinterpreted as iPhone.
But, Hey,
lPhone ≠ iPhone
Nowadays, in China, my homeland, nobody is encouraged to do innovation, because it’s high risk, strong technology background required, long return circle. So, people would love to do some “suicide” jobs like copy iPhone and named to LPhone, lPhone, whatever it is, that’s what the word C2C’s new meaning is, Copy 2 China. Because the requirement is there people just want to make some fast money, almost nobody is thinking about how to build a respectable company! Even some young people want to do it, there is no such environment in China! You do the innovation, you choose to kill yourself. What a SHAME!
Although, there are hi-tech campuses everywhere in the main cities of China, and there are many buildings named “Innovation Building”, but, that’s just the name. Innovation is dead in China, every business man knows that well!
If you see this post, please understand, I love my country and I’m still a Chinese. But how could a few people change the whole nation? Especially, some poor guy like me. All I can do is, expose these thieves, robbers and curse them!
Shame on you, SINA.com.cn, You have the power, you have the influence, you should take more responsibility on stopping such things. Not only for money!.
Shame on you, LPhone! I curse you!
Yesterday, technically, today, June 8th, is the iPhone Day! WWDC was opened about 14H ago, and almost all the main IT news channel are full of iPhone, We really need to celebrate it, 8th June, the iPhone Day.
OK, Let me tell you what’s my interest in iPhone Day.
Damn it, I like iPhone!
It’s really incredible! My wife brought this popcorn to me after launch, I thought it was bought at first, but she laught and told me, she made it! What a wonderful popcorn! It’s much better than what we ate in Disney Resort Tokyo, and it’s almost the best popcorn I had ever ate!
Thank you, Trinity, you are awesome!
PS: The apple is also sweet!
Professor Michael Vesch presented an introduction from the anthropological angel last year. It’s awesome! God, I missed so many YouTube phenomenon! I swear I will participate YouTube more often, and put myself into this World Wild Community!
I found this originally from Johnny Chung Lee’s blog, this guy is also awesome, check his web site for Wiimote Projects and Natal! God, he is a member behind Natal! I wish I could meet him someday in the feature!
Here is Prof. Michael Vesch’s Presents:
It’s a typical Japanese gift. Although, chopsticks is wildly used in Asia, but Japanese do push chopsticks to a remarkable level in everyday life. They use chopsticks as gifts, and they developed a strict theory of chopsticks manner, which is much more strict then Chinese or other Asia countries. For example, in almost every Japanese family, every member of the family has his/her own fixed chopsticks and bowl. I did not see any other countries in Asia has such a manner.
A typical Japanese chopsticks[From Wikipedia]
Meotobashi, some kind of gift chopsticks, is wildly used as present to new couples when they get married. It’s usually placed in a beautiful box with 2 pairs of chopsticks. Same color, same design, some of them have the same length, and some have a shorter pair for woman. Means husband and wife will always, yes, they mean this life, eat the meal by this pair of chopsticks together.
2 typical Meotobashi from taketoro.co.jp
If you want to have some Japanese gifts for your friends, especially for a couple, you can take this choice, and explain this to them, I am pretty sure they will be happy with this.
