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A few people complained that EniRemote would not work properly. Please be aware that you have to set up the App before you can use it. In order to connect to your Dreambox, EniRemote needs the IP and credentials.

You have to use the Settings application on your iPad and select EniRemote on the left side to enter that information:

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EniRemote for iPad has been released in Apple’s AppStore!

Right now it is not available in all countries yet, but it will be released in all countries. The App is free for a limited time.

If you have an iPad and a Dreambox running with the Gemini Image, be sure to check it out.

Here is the link for the US AppStore:

http://itunes.apple.com/app/eniremote/id386161917?mt=8#

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Finally, I am able to announce my first iPad project written in Objective-C and Xcode, written in association with DeveloperExperts, LLC. One can hardly believe how hard-felt the “finally” is. I have been programming since 1988 and Objective-C has been the toughest programming language yet. My biggest issue was getting used to the strange way how memory allocation and deallocation is handled. It might be me, but it took quite… Continue reading

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Today, I wanted to display a time-value of 9 minutes and 3 seconds like this: 09:03

Thus, I typed this snippet into my Objective-C code:

labelTimer.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%2d:%2d", minutes, seconds ];
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This did not yield the result I wanted. The numbers were padded with spaces, not zeros. Sadly, Apple left out the options for the different format specifiers like f, d, @ ... completely. You… Continue reading

If you have ever written code in Java or .NET, you will truly learn to appreciate the garbage collection, i.e. objects that are no longer referenced are being freed from memory. Automatically no less.

A lot of people do not like it for reasons of their own and I do not want to get into those.

What I do want to discuss is that in an environment in… Continue reading

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