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		<title>How to Develop Achievements for iPhone Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought for a long time about an easy way to track achievements for my latest game Hippo Blast. The game is built using Cocos2d and uses OpenFeint for leaderboards and achievements. This turned out to be a very simple process with a SQLite database, and I thought I should share it with the community.
To [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reedolsen.com/how-to-develop-achievements-for-iphone-games/</link>
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		<title>Hippo Blast Hits the App Store</title>
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As of March 20th, Hippo Blast is available world wide for download via Apple’s App Store. The app is free while we compete in the Omniture iPhone App Competition. We’re trying to get as many unique users every day as possible, so if you want to help out, download it http://bit.ly/hippoblast and open it every day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reedolsen.com/hippo-blast-hits-the-app-store/</link>
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		<title>Compress PDF files in Snow Leopard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently needed to scan and email a 5 page document to a friend. Unfortunately, the scanned document weighed in at over 30 MB, and I couldn&#8217;t find a good way to compress it. I tried SmallImage, which doesn&#8217;t take PDF documents as an input file. After fiddling around with Preview, and Googling around to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reedolsen.com/compress-pdf-files-in-snow-leopard/</link>
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		<title>Speed Charades gets mentioned on O&#8217;Reilly Best iPhone Apps website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got word from O&#8217;Reilly that Speed Charades was mentioned as one of the best iPhone Parlor games. Thanks, guys!
http://iphoneapps.oreilly.com/2009/11/parlor-games.html
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		<link>http://www.reedolsen.com/speed-charades-gets-mentioned-on-orilley-best-iphone-apps-website/</link>
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		<title>HP All in One Scanning in Snow Leopard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I upgraded my wife&#8217;s iMac to Snow Leopard, we were sad to find out that her HP PSC 2110 couldn&#8217;t scan anymore. However, Apple recently released updated drivers that fix scanning in Mac OS X 10.6.

To make it work, we must first remove any previous drivers. First, uninstall and delete all HP files in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reedolsen.com/hp-all-in-one-scanning-in-snow-leopard/</link>
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		<title>Turn off Multiple Windows in Snow Leopard Dictionary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since Mac OS X Leopard, I have become hooked on using Spotlight to look up word definitions and find related words using the thesarus. However, with Snow Leopard, the default behavior of the Dictionary App is to open up a new window for each word query. Some people love this functionality but it doesn&#8217;t fit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reedolsen.com/turn-off-multiple-windows-in-snow-leopard-dictionary/</link>
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		<title>BYU Info Systems Students Win Big at National Comp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PROVO, Utah – Jun 24, 2009 – Brigham Young University information systems students reeled in eight awards this spring with their problem-solving strategies and technological expertise at the National Collegiate Conference for the Association for Information Technology Professionals in Oklahoma City.
Competing against 61 other universities, some with more than 20 student entrants, the six BYU [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reedolsen.com/byu-info-systems-students-win-big-at-national-comp/</link>
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		<title>Leopard Hotkey to open Help Menu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite new features in Leopard is the ability to search all of the menus in a given application. This is extremely helpful when you don&#8217;t want to dig through a whole much of nested menus to find the item you&#8217;re looking for.

If you&#8217;ve read my other posts, you know that I&#8217;m big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reedolsen.com/leopard-hotkey-to-open-help-menu/</link>
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		<title>BYU at AITP 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year, I was selected to travel with six other ISYS students to represent BYU at the AITP National Collegiate Conference in scenic Oklahoma City. We flew out on Thursday, and competed in 6 different competitions for three days straight:

GIS/Business Intelligence
Microsoft Office Solutions
Systems Analysis &#38; Design
Database Design
Application Development
Java Development

The trip was awesome, and we competed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reedolsen.com/byu-at-aitp-2009/</link>
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		<title>Presentation on Speed Charades</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know, I know. Enough with the Speed Charades already! But someone asked me to post this presentation that I did, entitled &#8220;Speed Charades: From Start to Finish&#8221;. It&#8217;s a really brief overview of some of the challenges that I faced while writing it, and the resources that I turned to to get help.
The meat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reedolsen.com/presentation-on-speed-charades/</link>
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