While playing around with the final 2.0 I noticed that lots of apps appear to be doing network activity that don’t really have a network component, so I fired up a packet sniffer, dropped the phone into Airplane mode, and then enabled the wireless to force all network traffic out a router that I could sniff.
Some interesting surprises about Epocrates Rx.
As much as I love the idea of MobileMe, this nightmare is why I will never use it.
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Second part of walking through the WanderingPolygon screen saver to understand how to make screensavers work across multiple monitors in a cooperative manner.
The WanderingPloygon.[h,m] source represents the state of the drawing, composed of the current color, the vertices of the polygon, and the current velocity vector of each vertices expressed as an x and y delta to apply for each frame of the animation.
This post is for those developers who want to have a better understanding of how to write screen savers that smoothly flow between two or more monitors.
One of the things I find disappointing about OSX screensavers is that 95% of them don’t treat dual or triple monitor setups as one large area. Instead they will either draw on the main screen only, or just run a separate instance for each monitor. This makes it look like I have two or three separate computers instead of one large workspace.
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