Pointless Programmers Blog

To start out with you are going to need a few things. You need to have a base knowledge of PHP, and a web host that allows you to upload files. For my app, I used my own web host, but I am sure there are some free hosts that will allow you to do that somewhere out there. Well, lets get started.

First, you are going to need your cell phones email address, which you can find here.

Next, copy and paste this code into your favorite text editor.

Now put your phone’s email address inside the quotes in this line:

$to="your phones email address here";


Once you have done that save the file as “whateveryouwant.php.” If you plan on using a free hosting service, you may have to try a few different services before you find one that will work, if you do, please leave a comment with a link.

So now upload that script to your web host and try it out. I used a short ringtone as something try out to make sure it worked.

Once you are sure it works, download Mozilla’s Prism. Once that is downloaded and installed, put the URL to your script int the URL box and finish setting everything up. If you need extra help, see Chris Pirillo’s Video about Prism.

Now that has been done, to give it a nice finish, I went online and found a nice picture of the phone I have, cropped the picture so it is just the phone and finished up.

Now you are done, you may now send any file to your phone from your computer.
~Jeremy

P.S. If you are running Mac OS X, you may use Fluid instead of Prism.

My good buddy Alex showed me this gem. This is a complete coverflow class inside an NSTableView. Here is the download.

I was trying to install an app one of my other computers (running Ubuntu 8.10). The only format you could download it in was .bundle. I have never installed a .bundle app, but after some google-ing and putting bits and pieces together, I now know how to install a .bundle, and you will too.

First you need the required packages:
sudo aptitude install build-essential linux-kernel-headers linux-kernel-devel

Then you need to make it executable by using chmod:
chmod +x ./AppNameHere

Then finally:
gksudo bash ./AppNameHere

Hi again, in this tutorial, i will be showing you how to take the eyes in your portrait photos from this:

to this

First you are going to need to get out your Dodge Tool and choose a soft brush that is big enough to take up the entire iris (colored part plus the black pupil in the center) and click a couple times. This will make your eye brighter so the colors pop out more.

The next step will require you to make a new transparent layer on top of your photo. Once that is done select the brush tool and select a solid brush that will cover the iris. Now you need to select a color, you can choose a pretty much any color you want, but it will need to be darker than what you want it to be in the photo. You will see why in a minute. So now click on the iris and it will be that color, now the new layer part comes in handy, make that layer’s blending Overlay. Now it should look like it blends a bit better, to finish, put the opacity around 70% depending on how bright you made the eyes and what color you chose.

For those of you that care, yes, that is me in the pictures.

Sure, you can drag and drop a button onto your windows using IB, but they do not look nice, nor is that as much fun as doing it from scratch.

Using the loadView method we will load fancy background by loading a nice image. But first we need to declare some variables.  In the viewController.h file we need to set up our contentView.
UIImageView *contentView;

Now in our viewController.m file we will set up our window inside the loadView method.

contentView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame]];
[contentView setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"image.jpg"]];
[contentView setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];
self.view = contentView;
[contentView release];