Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997) was an American rapper. He was popularly known as Biggie Smalls (after a character in the 1975 film Let’s Do It Again), Big Poppa and The Black Frank White (after the main character of the 1990 film King of New York), but primarily by […]
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Happy Birthday, Juliette!!
Today, March 9, is the birthday of french actress, Juliette Binoche. Unfamiliar with her work? Check out one of her films from the Media Services Home Use Collection. Window of Saint-Pierre — HU DVD 269 The Night is Young — HU DVD 435 Caché — HU DVD 2063 Three Colors, Blue — HU DVD 2137 […]
Continue readingInteractive Media: iPhone App Development, Step 4
This is the last step. You had a great idea and used what you learned about X-Code and Objective-C to build it. You’ve tested it extensively on the iPhone Simulator (one of the components of the iOS SDK) and now it’s time to test it on an actual device. Why, you might ask? There are […]
Continue readingInteractive Media: iPhone App Development, Step 3
So now that you know how to work with XCode and how to program in Objective-C. What’s next? Next you need to come up with a viable idea for an app. And that begs the question, how do you know if your idea is viable? That’s a tough question to answer. There are currently 350,000 […]
Continue readingInteractive Media: iPhone App Development, Step 2.5
Having trouble with Objective-C? Yeah, so did I. Objective-C is a programming language developed by Apple for use in programming for the MacOS and iOS platforms. As you may have guessed, it’s based on C. You might find it helpful to take a few minutes to learn a bit about the C programming language. You […]
Continue readingStart predicting next year’s winners…
Here are some of the leading contenders in the next hopeful Academy Award Winners. Which one is most likely to win? http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/awards/2011/03/poll-what-will-win-best-picture-at-the-next-oscars.html
Continue readingInteractive Media: iPhone App Development, Step 2
Ok, so now you’re an Apple Developer and you’ve got the SDK installed. Great. At least it was until you opened one of the applications in the SDK and realized you had no idea what to do next. Here’s what you can do next: learn how to use the iOS SDK to make iPhone apps. […]
Continue readingInteractive Media: iPhone App Development, Step 1
So you want to build an iPhone app… Do you have an idea? Something people can’t possibly live without? Well, this is a good place to start. In this series of posts (iPhone App Development), I’ll go through all the major steps of how to develop your iPhone application. All this information also applies to […]
Continue readingInteractive Media: An Introduction
Over the past few years the amount of interactive media available has increased exponentially. Video games were only the beginning. Then there were smart phones which began supporting a HUGE variety of applications. Now a myriad of other media areas are beginning to break into interactivity. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp recently released an iPad application […]
Continue readingRemembering Professor Emeritus Arnost Lustig
Read one of the many recent articles on Arnost Lustig:Prague Post, NY Daily News, ABC News, Variety The following Memorandum was sent to the AU Community by Phyllis Peres, Interim Dean of Academic Affairs yesterday, March 2, 2011. I regret to inform you of the death of Arnost Lustig, professor emeritus of literature, who passed […]
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