Karsten Bruns

Hello there… I am an Interaction Designer and App Developer from Hamburg/Germany and this is my blog. Original content only.

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And this is my follow up post with the second strap.

See the first post for more details.

Watchband: https://www.minott-center.com/timex-ersatzband-uhrenarmband-leder-band-hellbraun-20mm-fuer-t2p222-23470/uhrenarmbaender/uhrenarmband-marken-a-z/timex/a-23470/

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Last week I ordered two generic watchbands that were not explicitly made for the Apple Watch and attached them with an adapter from amazon.

Attaching the straps was really easy and I am quite happy with the results.

Adapter: http://www.amazon.de/dp/B010DKQ23A (I would recommend to try a more expensive adapter. This one works but I am not sure regarding quality)

Watchband: https://www.minott-center.com/timex-ersatzband-leder-braun-20mm/a-27077/

Nice about minott-center.com is that you have a ton of filters. Even for stuff like the buckle color. Some say that the buckle color does not have to match the watch casing, but I think it is important.

The Apple documentation recommends a 20.74 mm band width for the 38 mm watch and 25.23 mm for the 42 mm model. But like you see in the photos (38 mm watch) you can easily add two or three millimetres.

See the second watchband here: http://uber.bruns.me/post/131513710391/and-this-is-my-follow-up-post-with-the-second

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I needed to send this to Gigaset Elements Support regarding their Starter Kit. Currently I can only advise against to consider buying it.

Hallo,

leider muss ich schreiben, dass ich in den letzten Monaten oft von ihrem Produkt enttäuscht worden bin.

Da gibt es zum einen die App, die nicht auf das iPhone 6 angepasst ist und dessen überkomplizierte Bedienung (umständliches und überfülltes Hamburger-Menu, zeitfressende Animationen, zu viele Schritte zum Urlaubsmodus) und mangelnde Integration in iOS (Kein Today-Widget) mich sehr nerven.

Aber am meisten Probleme macht mir der Türsensor. Einmal musste ich Freunde zu meiner Haustür schicken, weil der Sensor meldet, sie sei offen (war sie nicht) und ich schon auf dem Weg in den Urlaub war.

Ich hoffte das letzte Firmware-Update* würde dies verbessern, aber jetzt musste ich das das System abschalten, weil der Einbruchsalarm getriggert wird, wenn ich an der Tür vorbeilaufe (Altbau mit Dielen). Damit ist das System für mich nicht mehr zu gebrauchen.

Haben sie hier eine Lösung für mich?

Grüße

Karsten Bruns

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Thanks to WWDC Session 236 and Objc.io Issue #12 (and the related CocoaHeadsHH talk) I made a lot of progress regarding interactive animations and responsive interactions in the last few days. All animations can be cancelled and are reversible at any time by the user. You can even catch an animation with your fingertips. This makes a huge difference because apps should never reduce the role of an user to a viewer of animations. Apps should always be responsive.

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Adaptive Split View Controller with Storyboards

Until now, the UISplitViewController was only available on the iPad. In iOS 8 the split view controller gained the ability to collapse into a single navigation controller, when we use it on the iPhone.

This is a nice addition, but there is one major pitfall, when you're using navigation controllers inside the master- and the detail pane of your split view controller. In this case the iPhone version needs only one navigation controller, but the iPad version needs two.

More precisely, when you tap an item in the master view on the iPhone you'll see a push over to the detail view using the navigation controller of the master view controller. Contrary, on the iPad the split view controller shows a new view controller in a whole new area.

Unfortunately, Apples sample code (AdaptivePhotos) doesn't use any storyboards at all, but there is a solution: Assuming you're using a table view in your master view controller you need to create two prototype cells. The first you'll actually use and another to create an extra segue.

Link your main prototype cell to your detail view controller directly and use ShowDetail as its identifier. Now Link your extra prototype to a navigation controller and assign this segue the identifier ShowDetailWithNavigationController and then set the navigation controller's rootViewController property to your detail view controller.

That is all you have to do inside your storyboard. Now we need a little bit of code inside of our table view controller to decide when to use the right segue.

First we need to overide shouldPerformSegueWithIdentifier

https://gist.github.com/uberbruns/51e8337f365b465798c1

We test if we need a navigation controller by testing if the horizontal size class of the splitview controller is .Regular. If we identify the segue that has a counter part with a navigation controller we perform that segue and return. Otherwise we let the super class decide.

Now if we prepare the segue we need to write a little bit code to find the detail view controller in case it is wrapped in a navigation controller.

https://gist.github.com/uberbruns/f56e8e90fb2967229c1a

Basically, that's it. Have fun.

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My first steps into the world of BeagleBone and Hardware Tinkering. The board runs Debian 7.5 and the logic is programmed on top of node.js.

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Working on my Paper Prototyping Setup.

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Small ruby script to validate an iOS asset folder. The script checks if all PNGs have a @2x version and tests their size.

Available as a gist on github.

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This weekend I developed a small OS X utility app to mirror partially a folder structure via symlinks to another destination. The idea came from a friend of mine who works as a freelance video producer. Now he is able to mirror certain folders from his project directory into his dropbox while excluding raw shooting material and sensitive information.

Finde the source code on github.

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Sunny Morning

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Hamburg Hafencity

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Kaffee und Liebe

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PushConference 2013

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Coaching JavaScript for Absolute Beginners

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## Description Last weekend I made this small utility app for OS X. Its useful for frequent travelers and people who like uniformly formatted phone numbers – and who doesn't, right? You just select a few numbers, define what country you're living in and with one click these numbers get their (missing) international prefix and are formatted accordingly. The app even seperates the area code from the local phone number. ## Special Thanks All the formatting magic is done by a library called [libphonenumber](http://code.google.com/p/libphonenumber/) and its python implementation [python-phonenumbers](https://github.com/daviddrysdale/python-phonenumbers) Special thanks to @mobilemacs who came up with the idea for this app. ## Download **[https://github.com/uberbruns/PhoneNumbers](https://github.com/uberbruns/PhoneNumbers)**

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My first MaKey MaKey project! :b