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Update: It turns out CACurrentMediaTime() has a significant bug in that it doesn’t count up when an iPhone is in standby mode. Check this update for a better solution.

One of the things I’ve wanted to do this year is to finally finish a few of the games I have lying around and publish a few short reviews of them. I’m not going to bother giving them a score but I will give an overview, a few pros and cons, and my final ver...

Exciting news from Disney:

I’ve been neglecting this website of late as I’ve been working fulltime on WallaBee for the past few months. However, I’m currently available for a short (< 3 month) freelance iOS contract or project ideally on a remote basis although I can obviously tra...

I’d been thinking for a while that my password setup wasn’t particularly secure; a fairly basic 10 character password with a mixture of uppercase, lowercase, and some digits that I used on every website and rarely changed (maybe once a year). I’d been readi...

A couple of weeks ago, I saw an advert in GQ which caught my eye; the nation’s first “Dryathlon”. Created by Cancer Research UK, the idea is to give up alcohol for the month of January in order to raise money to help beat cancer.

I’ve been running BenDodson.com for 6 years. It originally started as a website to showcase my portfolio whilst doing some freelance work and slowly grew into a blog about web development, coding, and eventually iOS and general Apple speculation. Last year,...

I received a new iPad today (along with a 1080p Apple TV) and whilst I don’t want to review it in detail (there are plenty of other reviews) I will say that the screen is absolutely incredible. Whilst most 3rd party apps are not retina-ready yet, those that...

Whilst using the public version of iOS 5.1 I’ve noticed an interesting bug with one of my apps. WallaBee uses Location Services but as all good apps should it makes a point of stopping location monitoring after a certain amount of inactivity (to save batter...

The strangest thing that happened at the iPad announcement last week turned out not to be the lack of Siri, presence of a home button, or uninteresting iOS 5.1 update, but instead the name; “the new iPad” rather than the universally predicted “iPad 3” (or l...