Tag Archives: Apple

iPhone: libxml2 & RELAX NG validation

Having a validating parser in place can reduce the required code to parse XML a lot – you know very well what you actually get. As mentioned in my last post about RELAX NG & trang, I prefer RELAX NG over W3C XML Schema – which doesn’t matter anyway because Apple’s suggested XML parser doesn’t [...]

Markerloses Mocap

Heise schreibt heute wieder mal was zum Thema: Apple will Bewegungserkennung als Nutzerschnittstelle patentieren lassen. Wer sich für die Patentschrift interessiert, kann sich mit diesem bash-Script (benutzt wget und Imagemagick) ein PDF bauen:

Apple Patent Application “Swipe Gestures for Touch Screen Keyboards “

E.g. golem reports a new patent application concerning touch screens. As the US patent office website does only provide somewhat hard to handle TIFFs, I provided a bash script to download and convert them into one single pdf: Download and pdfify US Patent Application 20080316183.