I was having some issue customizing the look and behavior of the default SeekBar so I tried writing a custom one. Here’s the result, hope it’s useful and interesting: My approach is to create a Layout consisting of two ImageViews: a “slider bar” and a “slider thumb” images. Then, in the onDraw function, I draw […]

UISlider can be skinned to produce output like these: There are three sections that you can change: The bar portion on the left side of the thumb, using setMinimumTrackImage:UIImage The bar portion on the right side of the thumb, using setMaximumTrackImage:UIImage The thumb, using setThumbImage:UIImage For the UIImage, you will most likely need to stretch […]

One of the things that I played around several years ago was the GD library, which allows image manipulations and creations on the server-side. I have always want to automate repetitive things such as creating glossy-icons for web-pages.  Basically I want to automate the process of converting: From this To this: I wasn’t sure if […]

Glossy Icons Creator
August 13, 2011

Convert your icons into glossy version, instantly! Javascript must be enabled in your browser to use this tool. Please upload one image only at a time, JPG, PNG and GIF are supported. For best result, use square images. To save the result, right-click on the image and do “Save As” (rename the php extension with […]

iPhone Photo Transfer This freeware can be downloaded from http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/36028/iphone-photo-transfer.  Despite the name, it works on iPod touch as well.  You’ll on the page saying the product has been discontinued, so get it while you can.  The interface is polished and the interface is intuitive.   It’s the best one I found so far.   […]