PsychoCat’s Diary

Vertical Text on iOS 5

2011-11-17T16:53:00.001+09:00

I tried layout with vertical text on iOS 5. At that time I saw a buggy behavior. It seemed that paragraphs are begun a new line in association with CTFrameRef’s width, not height. CTFrame’s height was ignored. SO I tested to apply the CGRect’s height value to the CGRect’s width. The following figure was the result:

I feel maybe this trouble is a bug. If it is not bug, please would anyone tell me a correct code.

What’s Thinking about Note Applications

2011-11-13T12:10:00.002+09:00

I’m regurly using two application on iPad, Noteshelf and UPAD, as a hand-writing note. Noteshelf’s writing sence is very good and user interface’s design is good too. but don’t have a function of text-entry mode. UPAD’s text-entry mode is good useful but the writing sence is a bit bad.

I’m reguraly using two application, SideBooks and UPAD, to read PDF files. SideBooks quickly draws smooth text; after zooming, to move display range to all directional is available by smooth inertial scroll and the view is clear. But SideBooks don’t have a function of writing annotations whereas UPAD has the function. However unfortunately the view UPAD drew is a bit rough.

A primary tool is Noteshelf to write hand-writing note. The secondary is UPAD.
A primary tool is SideBooks to read PDF. The secondary is UPAD.

I think UPAD is a great application; UPAD is able to write hand-writing note and able to read PDF and has text-entry mode. All that is left is to up those function’s quality. So I expect UPAD to do those. That’s what’s thinking about note applications.

Noteshelf http://itunes.apple.com/app/noteshelf/id392188745
SideBooks http://itunes.apple.com/app/sidebooks/id409777225
UPAD http://itunes.apple.com/app/upad/id401643317

Happy New Year in 2011!

2011-01-01T22:18:00.002+09:00

Updating for the first time in one year :-p Ahhh. I intend to write my blog constantly this year.

I went jogging with Runkeeper Pro. The try was second. A distance I jogged today was 1.4 km because I couldn't jog even 2.8 km and did walking before when I tried it.

Today I remained jogging from the beginning to the ending but other Joggers seem to jog double the distance without compunction. My goal is a far.

Incidentally, when I was seventeen years old, I was able to run 1500m in four minuets and fifty seconds. There was also a time I jogged 15km.

Happy New Year in 2010 to You

2010-01-01T09:16:00.011+09:00

I wish this year will be the happiest and best for you.

This is my first iPhone Art that I drew with Brushes application. 迎春(geisyun) is a word that would be written with frequency on New Year’s greeting card. Some people of Japanese have a habit of sending the greeting card to friends, family and co-workers at the office at New Year’s Holidays. It’s called nengajo. But in recent years, such persons who send the card tend towards decrease.

My Impression of OmmWriter

2009-12-13T09:51:00.006+09:00

I’m writhing this blog using OmmWriter that hides several extraneous objects on desktop from my eyes and makes me concentrate to writing. There are any other similar softwares like this: for example WriteRoom. There are also softwares including this function. They are MacJournal, Scrivener. Great while ago, I had used to write my blog with MacJournal, and recently WriteRoom.

OmmWriter has very beautiful and brisk looks, though the background picture is snowy landscape scene with cloudy. There is not so much as a ray of sunlight. But this is what I think it’s important. This picture is good balance as background one for run on writing. And some background music also are cozy sound. I came to prefer this OmmWriter more than others.

By the way, creating atmosphere for writing is fantastic, but there are some function not enough to control the application for me.

OmmWriter doesn’t have a function to automatically open a document that I was editing the last time.
It is not able to use “Show Spelling and Grammar” menu’s window.
After using Spaces function of OS X, the full screen mode of OmmWriter is been canceled.
I want OmmWriter to keep full screen mode when I look at an another application’s window. After looking the another application’s window, I want to return to a text field on OmmWriter with clicking its the full screen background. I don’t want to see except the application I specified.

I'm afraid that WriteRoom is more user-friendly than OmmWriter. I felt so impression after writing this today’s diary.

Now I’m Eyeing Programs on TV

2009-12-09T23:20:00.007+09:00

I like foreign dramas. Let me list their programs today.
Now I’m eyeing programs on television:

ER
Dr. House
CSI: Las Vegas, Miami, New York
Cold Case
Boston Regal
Shark

I’m waiting to start again from the first episode:

Grey’s Anatomy

I watched the first season but its sequels hasn’t been broadcast in Japan:

The Unit

I have come not to be able to watch them because of stopping the engagement with a satellite TV broadcaster:

Monk
The Closer
Two and a Half Men

I feel sad that the broadcasting of programs had ended already:

Dharma & Greg
Friends

It seems that CSI: Miami are spin-off drama from Las Vegas but they require us how to enjoy of quite difference type. I think that Miami is comedy show in a way ^.^ I love CSI: Miami. Brenda Leigh Johnson of The Closer is very cute! I want to watch it again. Dharma and everyone of Friends always made me happy. At the last, about Boston Regal, in the screen, I want Chris Pine to whisper "James T. Kirk" into somebody lady ear with flirtatious grin many a time.

I Will Start Researching IDML Again!

2009-12-05T17:42:00.005+09:00

I intended to research into IDML in this year. But I couldn’t keep doing it after some volunteers including myself finished making IDMLWiki to publish documents that was translated into Japanese from English of Adobe’s documents. I have never anything as for the rest of it.

In the beginning I think that I have to know what Adobe's sample code are doing, though the sample ones are Java. I can’t make a program using Java, but I have to do that because there certainly are a lot of prompts there for accessing. It’s downright uncomfortable. Probably selecting Java as sample code’s language is for sharing between Mac OS X and Windows.

Regretting and Thanking

2009-12-03T12:13:00.008+09:00

December has come already. It maybe premature to do self-examination but I’m going to do it.

In this year, I hadn’t updated even one entry to my this blog since 4th July. It passed four months quickly. I wanted to write once a month at least, but it’s too late now for regret. This year is just ending. My goal of last year was to write a hundred entries combined “Cross the Sea.” The result of this year seems to be far inferior to one of last year. Even if I break a leg since now, I can never attain the goal. But I’ll forget so that, and break a leg from now :-)

Changing the subject, I’m going to write about what I felt good in this year. There are two things.

My having bought an iPhone 3GS was the most happiness.
An amazing experience was that I spoke of developing auto layout system to an audience of about hundred.

Every day with my iPhone, I’m listening to music, reading my email and novels, browsing web pages, searching dictionaries, writing notes and blog, taking pictures, watching the weather report, and playing games, and all that. All these things is available on an iPhone. How wonderful iPhone is! iPhone is SF of twenty years ago. I’m glad that I got an iPhone after waiting for two years since it was released.

At a seminar I spoke , I had yet other subjects of having to talk, nevertheless my time ran out. I couldn’t control the allocation of time. I felt deeply regret. But after days of the seminar, I found positive impressions on some blogs that were written by some people heard my speech. I was relieved by reading them. I thank all who have expressed their reading on my speaking contents. And special thanks to @YUJI_id for giving me the treasured experience.

The First Year Since Coming Dante at My Home

2009-07-03T23:51:00.005+09:00

Today was 3th, July. Even one year ago, Dante came at my home. Before Dante had been called as Helvetica. At first, his name was Newt. The next name was Knute. He has a lot of his names.

Newt -> Knute -> Helvetica -> Bungo -> Pete -> Chibicho -> Dante

Now his name is Dante. In the future, to change from Dante to another different name is never again, perhaps...

His odd-eyes also have been going to be an attractive color but for the matter he has eye mucus at every moment.

Ringtones

2009-06-30T23:28:00.003+09:00

I made several ringtones on my iPhone. One of them was “Separate ways” of Journey. This song was ripped from the CD. After setting a start time and an end time on the ripped data of my iTunes, changed the data to ACC file. The time length must not be over 40 seconds. And to rewrite ‘.m4a’ of the extension to ‘.m4r’, made a finder show the newly file using command + R. Then change the extension of the file. Lastly do drag-and-drop the file into a ringtones field on iTunes. I succeed in making ringtones files by this method.

But I couldn’t make ringtone files from some songs I purchased via the iTunes store. I wanted “Baba O'Riley” of The Who. Under normal, only them are supposed to make ringtones. There is also a command to make ringtones on iTunes. An action of necessity is only to select the menu. Why had I failures in the straightforward way?

A iPhone 3GS

2009-06-29T22:15:00.003+09:00

I got a iPhone 3GS that was the first iPhone for me. My iPhone is 16GB model and white color. A iPod touch of 16GB I had used until now left half free space. So I thought 16GB model was enough space. I don’t have a habit of taking pictures in everyday life, but the iPhone has a camera that is easy to use. So maybe, are going to run out of space. I am having a little of anxiety.

Now, what I’m listening to on my new iPhone is “Dear Friend” of Akina Nakamori. Ten years ago, I had heard this song just one time on TV. I haven’t known the title and lyrics to this song, have rememberd only the melody. I had wanted to listen again for a long time and looked for the song many times. Last Sunday, I found it on iTunes store. The melody makes me feeling happy.

Roses Bloomed

2009-05-09T23:50:00.008+09:00

My wife started collecting some roses and decorating an entrance of our home with them a year ago. Some of them have begun to bloom from a few days ago but I couldn’t take a picture of them because it kept on raining until yesterday.

This morning, I have taken a picture in the left side. It seems that branchs of their roses are small amounts. But this year is the first challenge year. I know that she have groomed them every day to exterminate harmful insects and to protect from disease. Thus I’m pleased with the result of her effort.

The right picture was taken at 11th May.

Goodby And Welcome

2009-04-19T09:45:00.003+09:00

Thank You, Guys Attended the IDMLWiki Project

2009-03-17T00:07:00.006+09:00

I had been busy for about a month because of preparing for a new website; it’s the IDMLWiki. The Adobe Systems Inc. doesn’t provide some documents about IDML for Japanese. They are all English documents, therefore we have to translate them. So, we ourselves are translating and writing the text translated in there.

The wiki started with three members. I was worry that there would be nobody to attend the project. But after publishing, we anew got seven members. Thank you, guys!! I’m glad everybody join us.

But still, about half year passed since InDesign CS4 was released, nevertheless I wonder why the amount of IDML’s information, article and notice in even the Internet are very few.

A Trial Run of The Insight

2009-02-08T10:13:00.003+09:00

Yesterday I went to a car dealer Honda to look at the Insight and trial run of it.

I was surprised that the engine of Insight stopped whenever I stopped the car cause of red signal at any intersection; the speed of rotation become zero. But when again the car began to run, it’s very smooth. And I started with other cars have a gasoline engine, nevertheless I didn’t have any stress.

I intend buying the INSIGHT as next my car. I had had a Quint Integra of first generation twenty years ago. In fact, I prefer Honda to Toyota.

An iMac or MacBook

2009-01-26T23:48:00.003+09:00

I’m using APPLE FW800 G4-1.25GHz*2(DUAL) at home. This machine makes too much noise. I’m startled by the calm living room when I shut down the Mac. I have been using this Mac for about six years. So momentarily I’ll repurchase a new Mac.

But I can't make up my mind to buy which is better an iMac or MacBook. I want a MacBook at heart but examine it with a clear head and it’s needless for me. Because I have never used a Mac at except my home and my work. It means I don’t have a chance to use it as a mobile machine. Of course a MacBook is able to be used anywhere in my house. But in the first place, to carry a private computer in the work is under the ban. I have nowhere to go with my Mac.

I’m not attached G4 but very very well pleased with a cinema display. I think that I’ll use it in the future. Then had I better purchase a MacBook and Mini DisplayPort Adapter, hadn’t I?

I can’t decide which to purchase an iMac or MacBook.

I Have Had Two Staff Members

2009-01-10T22:55:00.007+09:00

I had been gone through some times of change of workflow: from FileMaker Pro to MySQL, from plugins made in third party to self-developed system, from QuarkXPress to InDesign, from InDesign Tag to XML. For a long time I had made programs and been doing maintenance of auto publishing system on my own. But I have had two staff members.

One of them, she had been learning AppleScript, Perl, Ruby language since before. A few years ago, when I read a program source she wrote, I was very very frightened because she never used even only one subroutine. In spite of such skill, she finally has had enough skill to support my job. Now She is able to make a application using Ruby on Rails. I think she is a digger. I want to also catch on Cappuccino early.

Another one of them, he joined my company about a half year ago. There was a time I wrote about him on this blog in 2007. It’s this entry. At that time, he interviewed also other companies and my company wasn’t chosen by him. But last year he applied for my company again! I was pleasure to heard that he liked Perl. Now he became a Mac user.

I think we will start cooperation working. That's why I’m making a reference of libraries I made, on MediaWiki on my work. But I don’t quite finish this job.

What Should I Do?

2009-01-08T22:25:00.001+09:00

Happy new year!

Aleady one week passed since a new year had come, but this entry is the first entry nevertheless. Programming subjects were two entries in my Second Blog. My entries consisted mostly of programming subject since before. All of them are going to be written there. Lessening of my entries on this blog is no mystery.

What should I do?

Well, I think I’ll list some paperbacks I bought and write those impressions.

The Eighty Seventh Entry

2008-12-31T15:39:00.003+09:00

Today’s diary is the seventy ninth entry in this year. There are eight days diaries on Cross the Sea that started from December. Amount of my diary entries in English became eighty seven days. I regretted I didn’t attain my goal of three digits in the space of a year. There is lack of thirteen days.

It is only necessary to write entries twice per week to reach three digits but it’s hard. I fully realized I didn’t have enough knowledge, especially I lacks instantaneous force. Next year I wonder if I’ll achieve the same goal as this year.

Benjamin Button

2008-12-22T18:21:00.008+09:00

I was interested in a movie “Benjamin Button.” I came to read the original and found the book in Amazon. This book is a short story, has only sixty-four pages. I seem to be able to read it, too. I added it my Shopping Cart.

After doing that I searched Wikipedia for the novel. Then I was surprised that its publication date was 1922. It was eighty years ago and more, A classic... If it‘s a classic, maybe there is the text data in feedbooks.com.

Eureka! :-) It’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I’m going to read using Stanza on iPod touch.

Roses of My Front Door in 2008

2008-12-14T10:08:00.007+09:00

It seemed that my wife’s work this year on our garden finished. Our making a rose garden have begun from this spring. She had bought seedlings like very very small to pull in the cost. So, all of some roses we have are young, small and poor yet.

Until now I have shown only picures of my house’s front door. Actually there main garden in the south side of my house. But that place has been bad condition and there is not much sunlight because of neighboring house’s shade. In a word, it's not look good. Unless the garden became comfortable state in own way, I’m not able to update those pictures. When the time comes that they shoot a lot of new stem and leaves and become fullness, I will update a lot of more pictures.

RTM’s iPhone/iPod touch App

2008-12-09T19:25:00.007+09:00

I’m using the Remember The Milk habitually as much as that I set the URL to my home page of browser on work. Such the RTM’s iPhone/iPod touch application was released. It isn’t a web application but iPhone OS native.
Though... it’s for Pro users. I don’t have a account of Pro users. Uh... I’m in two minds about getting the account. Anyway, I will not get it and use the app for fifteen days.

Cross the Sea

2008-12-01T22:44:00.002+09:00

This is last diary about programming category. From here on, I’m going to update them to my new blog titled “Cross the Sea.” To writing a technical blog using English was drastic decision for me. And I am pleased with this title, “Cross the Sea."

Horoscopes

2008-11-25T23:41:00.004+09:00

I recently began reading a text book “English Phrasal Verbs in Use.” There is a sentence about horoscopes there as follow up.

Horoscopes are often good places to find everyday, informal phrasal verbs. Read your horoscope regularly in an English newspaper or magazine, even if you don’t believe it, and note down any phrasal verbs.

I don’t believe horoscopes, but it seems to be interesting to read them as one of ways of learning English. At least I think horoscopes are better than blood type-telling that is liked among Japanese. So I looked for a blog tool about horoscopes. A site providing free horoscopes I selected for including in my blog is here.

I sent my request week ago more but haven’t gotten reply yet. Did I typo my e-mail address? Today, I visited the site again and I would send my request, but I couldn’t see a captcha image for Anti SPAM. Does anyone know what's going on?

The MediaWiki

2008-11-21T18:26:00.010+09:00

I wanted to use the Template:Languages and Template:Languages/Lang on own MediaWiki. But even if the latest version of MediaWiki was installed, the result wasn’t display correctly. I could see vast amounts of texts in the area. If Template:Languages/Lang is available, some linked texts which don’t have any corresponding language page aren’t displayed. Before then, the result I could see the expression was obviously wrong.

I had searched for a solution for two days and found a way to clear it yesterday. The Template:Languages and Template:Languages/Lang needed the ParserFunctions extension to become available. And I needed to add following one line code to LocalSettings.php.

require_once("$IP/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php");

This was working. I think that they are special features to easily select a page from a lot of localization ones. But nevertheless why aren’t these features available on default? Even so, I only write Japanese and English. :-p

By the way, external link’s arrow icon also didn’t displayed in which case selecting the CologneBlue as skin. About this, I wrote CSS code in MediaWiki:Cologneblue.css. The code is as follows.

a.external,text {
background: url( image’s full path ) center right no-repeat;
padding-right: 13px;
}

I didn’t understand anything else image’s full path. Anyway, the Mediawiki is very difficult. I can’t casually use it like the Hiki and YukiWiki.