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		<title>Introducing PepperSpray, a jQuery Plugin</title>
		<link>http://www.genesx.com/2011/11/introducing-pepperspray-jquery-plugin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonaphin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wanted to annoy the hell out of your users?

Look no further. Pepper Spray will drive 99% of your traffic away, thanks to its amazing features]]></description>
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<p>Ever wanted to annoy the hell out of your users?</p>
<p>Look no further. Pepper Spray will drive 99% of your traffic away, thanks to its amazing features:</p>
<h3>Disable Right-Click</h3>
<p>That&#8217;s right! Right Mouse Clicks can be so dangerous we made it simple<br />
to disable it with a single call to:<br />
<code>$.pepperspray("disableRightClick", true);</code></p>
<h3>Disable Text Highlighting (and yes, Images too!)</h3>
<p>Don&#8217;t allow other suckers to steal your content. You&#8217;ve worked so hard copying it from somewhere else!<br />
Here, one shot of pepper spray and look at them poor villagers, with their menacing pitchforks, all up-in-arms! But who cares? No subject shall walk off with her majesty&#8217;s property!<br />
<code>$.pepperspray("disableHighlighting", true);</code></p>
<h3>Disable the Back Button Functionality</h3>
<p>The world is a prison. Let your users feel it. Oh, one squirt of this pepperspray wonder suffices to piss them off!  Ain&#8217;t nobody goin&#8217; nowhere!<br />
<code>$.pepperspray("disableBackButton", true);</code></p>
<p>To download, contribute, or read the documentation, click on the link below:<br />
<a title="PepperSpray, jQuery Plugin, now on GitHub" href="https://github.com/jonaphin/pepperspray" class="aga aga_0" target="_blank"> https://github.com/jonaphin/pepperspray</a></p>
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		<title>Remove jQuery plugins at runtime</title>
		<link>http://www.genesx.com/2011/01/remove-jquery-plugins-at-runtime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonaphin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[javascript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jcarousellite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jquery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A good friend of mine asked me last week how she could remove jCarouselLite on the fly, after it had been instantiated. Allow me to share with you guys how...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A good friend of mine asked me last week how she could remove <a href="http://www.gmarwaha.com/jquery/jcarousellite/" class="aga aga_3">jCarouselLite</a> on the fly, after it had been instantiated. Allow me to share with you guys how to do this, and hopefully show you a trick or two along the way.</p>
<p>As you may know, a typical jCarouselLite plugin is instantiated as such:<br />
<code>$(function() { $(".anyClass").jCarouselLite({ btnNext: ".next", btnPrev: ".prev"}); });<br />
</code><br />
where &#8220;.anyClass&#8221; is the name of your gallery container, &#8220;.prev&#8221; and &#8220;.next&#8221; are the gallery&#8217;s previous and next navigation links, respectively.</p>
<p><script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
 google_ad_client = "ca-pub-9719885835960464"; /* GenesX inline */ google_ad_slot = "2029809093"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 15;
// ]]&gt;</script><br />
<script src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript">
</script></p>
<p>Removing the plugin at runtime is fairly simple once you understand what is involved:<br />
<code>$('.anyClass').jCarouselLite = null;<br />
$('.prev').unbind('click');<br />
$('.next').unbind('click');<br />
</code></p>
<p>These 3 lines allow you to re-initialize jCarouselLite later on within the same page. Pretty simple and neat, isn&#8217;t it?<br />
Let&#8217;s decompose what just happened so you may get a better understanding.<br />
<code>$('.anyClass').jCarouselLite = null;</code> removes the jCarouselLite instance from our gallery. In other words, you will have to reinitialize jCarouselLite if you want to reuse it on this page for this gallery.<br />
This isn&#8217;t all, however. When jCarouselLite is initialized, it creates what we call <a href="http://api.jquery.com/bind/" class="aga aga_4">event bindings</a>.<br />
Whenever you destroy the jCarouselLite instance the bindings are still lingering and problems will start occurring if you re-initialize jCarouselLite on the same page, for the same gallery, as the click events on the navigation links will have been bound twice.<br />
To prevent this issue from occurring, we add the two following lines:<br />
<code>$('.prev').unbind('click');<br />
$('.next').unbind('click');<br />
</code></p>
<p>Which brings me to one last pro-tip about dealing with groups and bindings.<br />
 There are two main ways to deal with group bindings in jQuery:<br />
- The first one is fairly common. It consists of using a common class to all elements of a similar group.<br />
<code>$('.clickable').bind('click', function(){ alert("Hi, I'm clickable!"); });<br />
$('.clickable').unbind('click');<br />
</code><br />
In the code above, all elements of the class &#8220;clickable&#8221; will have the mouse click event bound (then unbound) to them.</p>
<p>There is however a second, more mystical way to do this in jQuery: Namespacing.<br />
Let&#8217;s say you create an instant link preview feature that you want to disable and re-enable at will on your page. We will call our namespace &#8220;linkPreview&#8221;.<br />
Here&#8217;s the event binding to our namespace:<br />
<code>$('a').bind('mouseover.linkPreview', myPreviewFunction);<br />
</code><br />
And the event unbinding, just as easily:<br />
<code>$('a').unbind('mouseover.linkPreview');<br />
</code></p>
<p>This makes it easy to unbind only specific events from our elements. In this case, all other mouseover events would still be bound to our page links. Isn&#8217;t this amazing?</p>
<p><script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
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// ]]&gt;</script><br />
<script src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript">
</script></p>
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		<title>OS X 10.7 &#8211; What features can we expect?</title>
		<link>http://www.genesx.com/2010/10/os-x-10-7-what-features-can-we-expect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonaphin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple just announced their &#8220;Back to the Mac&#8221; event happening on October 20th, 2010. The only hint at new features leaked to the press refer to a job posting. As...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apple just announced their &#8220;Back to the Mac&#8221; event happening on October 20<sup>th</sup>, 2010.<br />
The only hint at new features leaked to the press refer to a <strong><a title="Big New Feature - Job Posted for work on OS X 10.7" href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20012161-263.html" class="aga aga_6">job posting</a></strong>. As is usual with Apple, the posting is about a &#8220;revolutionary&#8221; feature that will take over the world as we know it. Except, it&#8217;s Apple. We believe them when they say it.</p>
<p>So what is this revolution we will soon be dealing with? Well, your guess is as good as mine but I have a feeling we are talking about an app store for OS X.</p>
<p>OS X has been missing an official package manager for the longest time, and a common place to buy/download/find new packages or &#8220;apps&#8221; makes sense in that regard.</p>
<p>Also, Apple, great as they are at finding the honey pots, must definitely drool at the idea of recreating the app store craze, only this time on the desktop/laptop OS market.</p>
<p>What thinks you?</p>
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		<title>iPod Controls Plugin for Unity (iPhone &amp; iPod Touch)</title>
		<link>http://www.genesx.com/2010/08/ipod-controls-plugin-for-unity-iphone-ipod-touch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonaphin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ipod controls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to bridge the gap between the Unity game engine and the iPhone Native Objective-C Cocoa Touch framework, GenesX is proud to release iPod Controls for Unity! For...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In an effort to bridge the gap between the Unity game engine and the iPhone Native Objective-C Cocoa Touch framework, GenesX is proud to release iPod Controls for Unity!</p>
<p>For the modest price of $3.99, allow your users to play music from their iPod Library directly from your game!<br />
This is a must-have for all developers who want to provide their users with a premium experience.</p>
<p>As is usual with our plugins, we will support this plugin long term and keep adding features as we go, at no extra charge all throughout the v1.x series.</p>
<p>Purchase the iPod Controls plugin for USD 3.99<br />
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<div>
<h2 id="internal-source-marker_0.7894948357716203">Easy Installation</h2>
<ol>
<li>Import the .unitypackage file into your Unity project.</li>
<li>Drop the iPodControls prefab onto your scene</li>
</ol>
</div>
<div id="attachment_23" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 286px"><a href="http://www.genesx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ipodcontrolssetup.png" ><img class="size-full wp-image-23" title="iPod Controls for Unity iPhone Setup" src="http://www.genesx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ipodcontrolssetup.png" alt="Things just got easier for the iPod Controls Plugin" width="276" height="121" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Easy iPod Controls Setup</p></div>
<div>
<h2>Easy Integration</h2>
</div>
<div>You can enable iPod Controls using the plugin’s own built-in controls for your project or by calling its thorough set of API methods from within Unity.</div>
<div>
<div id="attachment_16" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.genesx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-2010.08.24-23.38.19.png" ><img class="size-medium wp-image-16" title="Built-in iPod Controls inside a Unity Game" src="http://www.genesx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-2010.08.24-23.38.19-300x200.png" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Playing my own music in-game <img src='http://www.genesx.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p></div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<h2 id="internal-source-marker_0.7894948357716203">Features</h2>
<ul>
<li>Built-in player controls for ultra easy setup</li>
<li>Ability to create your own player GUI, directly from Unity!</li>
<li>Direct Access to the plugin&#8217;s API for power-customization</li>
<li>Select the music player type you want: iPod or Application</li>
<li>Just drop the iPodControls prefab onto your scene and setup your player right from the inspector.</li>
<li>Multi-Plugin Friendly: Just add your other plugin PostprocessBuildPlayer files as such and you&#8217;re ready to go:
<ul>
<li>PostprocessBuildPlayer_myotherplugin</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Fully KVO compliant code:
<ul>
<li>Our plugin complies fully with the Key-Value pair Observing pattern, as advocated by Apple. What it means for you is instantaneous plugin responsiveness, whether on Unity iPhone 1.7 basic or pro or Unity 3.0</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>FAQ</h2>
<h5>Do the controls show by default?</h5>
<p>No. You will have to either drop one of the top/bottom prefabs onto your scene or call the method of your choosing to display the controls; Easiest one being iPodControls.Show(); which will display the built-in player controls at the game’s default orientation, and positioned at the bottom of the screen</p>
<h5>Can the iPod Controls plugin run on Unity iPhone 1.7?</h5>
<p>Yes. The plugin has been tested on both Unity iPhone 1.7 and Unity 3.0 Beta.</p>
<h5>Does the iPod Controls plugin work on iPhone OS 3.2?</h5>
<p>Yes. As long as you build against the SDK 4.0 and set your deployment target to at least iPhone OS 3.0.</p>
<h5>Does the iPod Controls plugin work on the iPad?</h5>
<p>I have not tested it on the iPad. It will however certainly work in 2x mode.</p>
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		<title>iAd Plugin for Unity</title>
		<link>http://www.genesx.com/2010/08/iad-plugin-for-unity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonaphin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Plugins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ipod controls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[GenesX is proud to announce the release of our latest Unity Plugin. iAd for Unity on the iPhone and iPod Touch platforms is the iAd solution we have all been waiting for....]]></description>
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<p>GenesX is proud to announce the release of our latest Unity Plugin. iAd for Unity on the iPhone and iPod Touch platforms is the iAd solution we have all been waiting for.</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
<ul>
<li>&#8220;Zero Coding&#8221; skills required.</li>
<li>Full Integration with XCode. Press &#8220;Build&#8221; from the Unity Editor and let the magic take over.</li>
<li>iAd for Unity will detect the orientation of your game automatically</li>
<li>Choose a &#8220;Bottom&#8221; or &#8220;Top&#8221; banner position and you&#8217;re ready to go.</li>
<li>Available API methods for more control over the ad banner</li>
<li>Read the <a title="GenesX's iAd plugin for Unity (iPhone &amp; iPod Touch)" href="http://www.genesx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/iAdForUnityDocs.pdf" class="aga aga_9" target="_blank">plugin&#8217;s documentation</a> for more details</li>
</ul>
<p>For the unique price of $3.99 all your Unity-Based iPhone &amp; iPod Touch games can now implement iAd without the hassles, and more importantly, seamlessly.</p>
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<p>NOTICE:  This is copyrighted material. By purchasing the product, you are granted a single, non-transferable license for the program. No refunds will be given.</p>
<h3>Instructions</h3>
<p>- Unzip the package downloaded from the payment confirmation link and import the .unitypackage into your Unity project<br />
- There is a PostProcessBuildPlayer file that will help with the magic. Please make sure it isn&#8217;t overwriting another file of the same name, in which case it will clobber some of the other magic you might be already running for your project.<br />
- For now, please use &#8220;File&#8221; &gt; &#8220;Build Settings&#8221; &gt; &#8220;Build&#8221; from Unity. The code in charge of code injection is not 100% accurate all the time, it seems.<br />
- As a precaution, make sure no other Xcode project is open at the same time you do press &#8220;Build&#8221;, so as to ensure the right Xcode project is being patched.<br />
- If all went well, you should now see &#8220;CoreGraphics.h&#8221;, &#8220;iAd.h&#8221; added to your Xcode project&#8217;s &#8216;Frameworks&#8217; group.<br />
- The library was compiled using the iPhone SDK 4.0, so if you have problems, check that you&#8217;re up to date with the SDK.<br />
- Building for iPod Touch 2nd Generation or other ARM6 processor-based device? Unity&#8217;s Xcode project has a known little problem with the iPhone SDK 4.0. The fix is easy to implement and listed <a title="Unity 1.7 / iPhone SDK 4.0 / ARM v6" href="http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=49414&amp;start=15&amp;postdays=0&amp;postorder=asc&amp;highlight=" class="aga aga_10" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>Notice: The current version of the plugin only works with the iOS 4.0 SDK. It is being updated to iOS 4.1 SDK and should be released very soon.</p>
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		<title>Apple vs. Adobe – And the Winner is… Google!</title>
		<link>http://www.genesx.com/2010/05/apple-vs-adobe-%e2%80%93-and-the-winner-is%e2%80%a6-google/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 01:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonaphin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple has given many answers as to their lack of flash support on the iPhone. From battery life reduction to buggy implementation to the evil nature of web plugins to...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Apple Inc." href="http://www.apple.com" class="aga aga_15" target="_blank">Apple</a> has given many answers as to their lack of flash support on the iPhone. From battery life reduction to buggy implementation to the evil nature of web plugins to the HTML5/Open-Source stance, we have heard about every possible reason out of Cupertino; including a death sentence to Adobe Flash-to-iPhone Compiler in the CS5 suite.<br />
In return, <a title="Adobe" href="http://www.adobe.com" class="aga aga_16" target="_blank">Adobe</a> has long stated their position on openness, willingness to meet standards, battery reduction refutations, partnership with other mobile OS makers should a deal with Apple fail. Last attention grabber on Adobe&#8217;s part was this pseudo-viral marketing campaign about love and Apple.</p>
<p>The more we bore witness to this ever-evil fight the more we lost focus on <a title="Google Inc." href="http://www.google.com" class="aga aga_17" target="_blank">Google</a> and the brews that were coming to maturity inside their busy labs.</p>
<p>In a most shock-and-awe fashion, the world received last week an open-sourced gift from Google. A gift most of us would not know what to do with, but a gift all of us will eventually benefit from. I am talking about <a title="Open SOurce Native Client" href="http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/" class="aga aga_18" target="_blank">Native Client</a>.</p>
<p>How can this resolve the Apple vs. Adobe issue, you ask?<br />
Native Client&#8217;s premise is that native code would run on any browser that is compatible with native client on any OS.</p>
<p>How it does this translate into our world? In theory, any web tool such as the flash player or Unity Web Player could potentially run on a Native Client compatible browser without the need for any plugin. Unity showed us the way by demoing Lego Star Wars running on the chrome browser in Linux, plugin-free.</p>
<p>Google offered us a first-class look at the future of the web, a plugin-less future; a future where the line between browser and native applications is blurred to the point where the browser becomes a virtual OS that can run code on any platform, regardless of their desktop OS.</p>
<p>While Adobe fights for the life of its plugin and Apple fights for the death of Flash, Google demonstrated a true act of peace-making. In this very instance, Google&#8217;s fight seems to be focused on a better web.</p>
<p>Due to the open-source nature of its technology, native client will certainly make its way into all major browsers. There is no doubt about that. Adobe has the best opportunity of all to get out of Steve Jobs&#8217; deadlock by integrating the native client API into their flash technology.</p>
<p>Apple, via pressure, will reluctantly have to integrate Native Client into Safari, short of rendering their web browser obsolete.</p>
<p>The next question is: How long will Apple be able to keep Native Client out of Safari mobile? It seems to me that Section 3.3.1 of the iPhone OS 4.0 ToS is dead before it is even born.</p>
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		<title>Unity Rocks Google I/O</title>
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		<dc:creator>jonaphin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unity has unveiled yesterday at the Google I/O 2010 an impressive demo. Using Google's Native Client, a new Google sponsored open-source technology aimed at running native code on the web browser]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unity has unveiled yesterday at the Google I/O 2010 an impressive demo. Using <a title="Google nativeclient" href="http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/" class="aga aga_19" target="_blank">Google&#8217;s Native Client</a> - a new Google sponsored open-source technology aimed at running native code on the web browser, the <a title="Unity Game Engine" href="http://www.unity3d.com" class="aga aga_20" target="_blank">Unity team</a> managed to run the<a title="Lego Star Wars, made with Unity" href="http://starwars.lego.com/en-us/FunAndGames/CloneWars-Quest-For-R2D2.aspx" class="aga aga_21" target="_blank"> Lego Star Wars game</a> on Google Chrome without the need to install any plugin.</p>
<p>While this is great news in itself, it is only a shadow of the real benefits pursuing such a technology would bring.<br />
As stated on the project&#8217;s homepage, one of the main objectives of Native Client is OS portability. You hear that right:<br />
<strong>Unity games are coming to Linux!</strong></p>
<p>I was able to confirm this with the Unity developers. <a title="Unity Player might come to Linux after all" href="http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?p=321333#321333" class="aga aga_22" target="_blank">Here&#8217;s proof</a>.</p>
<p>The future is bright for Unity, who thanks to native client, may end up maintaining a unique web player codebase while maximizing OS portability. Google might just have been able to justify the existence of a Unity Player for Linux, since the added cost of maintaining a Linux Web Player (or any additional OS) would be virtually inexistent.</p>
<p>Of course, both native client and the plugin-less Unity Web Player are very experimental, and will have to overcome quite a few obstacles (such as support for native client on IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera) before they can reach consumers&#8217; hands. But if nothing else, we should applaud both Google and Unity for their ambitious objectives and stellar accomplishments.</p>
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