Ruthless Test of an iPhone Application

Testing is one of the most important part of my projects and in this video i tried to show the last step of my tests and share some of my experiences with you.

Anyways, you can watch the video to see the test of a mobile application. You can click on the image or follow this link to watch the video: “Bir Uygulamanın Acımasız Testi“

Acta non Verba

These days i see so many things that i’ve thought  years ago. In this post, you won’t find me supporting my incredible ideas. Every thinking creature in this universe has things in the mind, many of these may be nonsense, but everyone has an idea. You may have found something incredible, but probably someone else had already found it; it may not be existing yet. You may see many people, from your friends, family, tv,.. saying “I’ve thought about it!! I swear! I could do it!”. YES, BUT YOU DIDN’T.

You have to be aware of the fact: You are not one in a million. ( ok, you are.. according to the point of view ) If you think that you find something (you can be sure that you are not the first one) and if it’s not yet done, do it! Don’t speak and stand still! Nothing is a unique, one-of-it’s-kind idea, but everything is undone.

• Before facebook was even heard, i’ve made a site that is same ( except application system ) with the facebook and for the same purpose; it was a private site, only for classmates. After a while, after my classmates looses their interest in the site, i’ve stopped doing it, later we saw facebook. This was not a unique idea. Probably many people did similar things.
• Before youtube was even heard, i’ve made a site that is similar to the youtube. Those days, it was a secret converting videos automatically for a web site. I had stopped doing it (it was working and usable), after i satistfied my desire for making a site/system kike that.
• I’ve even made a photo sharing site that you can use everything from 1 page without leaving and everything is movable (drag/drop). Those days, these were not that easy. Today you can  put a jquery line to your code and do it in 5 seconds.
• ….

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Flash HD Video Players’ Common Mistake

People are using flash’s fullscreen ability in the wrong way; they are not using the advantage of hardware-acceleration enough.

I have made a flash player (not-hd supported) in 2005 from scratch. It wasn’t using any flash component related to video playback. So it was’t using skins. Starting from those days, nothing really much changed when opening video in fullscreen.

After sometime, adobe gave us a big update which lets us use h264 codec in flash. Internet connections got faster and faster, h264 hardware acceleration was started to be used in graphics cards and in many different kinds of devices.

However  we see many blog posts, articles, tutorials about “how to go into fullscreen” or “true fullscreen mode in flash” or smiliar topics..

Nearly all of them says we have to use the following:

function toggleFullScreen(){
    if(Stage["displayState"]=="normal"){
        Stage["displayState"]="fullScreen";
    } else{
        Stage["displayState"]="normal";
    }
}
// OR "stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN;"
// according to the version you use

Ok. This is not wrong. Infact, you have to do it. But this is not the right way to do it, i was possibly one of the first ones who asked this to adobe, i got no answer and interestingly nobody said anything about my question. ( it was open to public ) After sometime, i saw that that is what it should be. Now i’ll tell you what i’m talking about:

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In the set of Cicibebe Music Clip for “GIDI GIDI”

Two weeks ago, i was in the set of Cicibebe’s first music clip for the song “GIDI GIDI”.

“Cicibebe” is an extraordinary music group in Turkiye. Their songs generally can not be compared with any other songs. However their songs arei n Turkish, melody would attract anyone from any country.

They are getting their first album ready fully in the following months. We may see their clip soon in well-known tv channels  (:

While i was in the set, i took approximately 800 photos without interrupting the video shoot.

Here i want to share some of them: