Daily Archives: August 23, 2011

You rarely get a second chance in the App world, so don’t bother releasing Apps that aren’t revolutionary. In reality many Apps don’t make life any easier for the user, nor do they provide anything innovative.

One of the most exciting developments over the last couple of years for web design has been the ability to include custom font choices. We can finally spice up designs without having to create images out of text. But what are the pros & cons of web font technologies and where do we still need to advance with the technology.

Bridging images in a UIImage into other API’s such as OpenCV can be painful, however there is 1 format that every image processing library understands, and that is the format of “raw”, where each pixel is represented as an unsigned byte in an array. Unless you are dealing with video formats, which can use YUV,

Autofill makes it easy to access regularly visited sites that require a password. When you go back you see your username and password conveniently filled in for you, and because the password is stared out nobody can get this, right? Wrong. If somebody opens up the autofilled page they can very easily use Javascript to reveal the contents of the password field to them.

So you’ve come up with a great new business idea. Your (insert: widget, website, app) has never been done before, everyone will be using it, your market is the whole world blah blah blah. WRONG.