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    <description>Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com</description>
    <link>https://snipplr.com/</link>
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      <title>(Objective C) How to find the distance between two CG points? - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/54359/how-to-find-the-distance-between-two-cg-points</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Distance between p1 and p2:&#13;
&#13;
CGFloat xDist = (p2.x - p1.x);&#13;
CGFloat yDist = (p2.y - p1.y);&#13;
CGFloat distance = sqrt((xDist * xDist) + (yDist * yDist));&#13;
&#13;
Background: Pythagorean theorem&#13;
&#13;
Edit: if you only need to calculate if the distance between the points increases or decreases, you can omit the sqrt() which will make it a little faster.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 08:18:31 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/54359/how-to-find-the-distance-between-two-cg-points</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Playing and Stopping Sound Effect in Cocos2d - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/54343/playing-and-stopping-sound-effect-in-cocos2d</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This is how you play and stop sound effects in cocos2d&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 23:17:47 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/54343/playing-and-stopping-sound-effect-in-cocos2d</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Display a UIPopoverController - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/53257/display-a-uipopovercontroller</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 01:04:11 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/53257/display-a-uipopovercontroller</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) print_free_memory - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/52971/printfreememory</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 06:58:16 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/52971/printfreememory</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Cocos2d Scrolling Background - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/52934/cocos2d-scrolling-background</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 00:16:27 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/52934/cocos2d-scrolling-background</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Adding TextField to UIAlertView - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/52933/adding-textfield-to-uialertview</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 00:15:59 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/52933/adding-textfield-to-uialertview</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Cocos2d Scrolling Background - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/52590/cocos2d-scrolling-background</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:42:54 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/52590/cocos2d-scrolling-background</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Loading ViewController with CoreAnimation - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/52088/loading-viewcontroller-with-coreanimation</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:07:22 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/52088/loading-viewcontroller-with-coreanimation</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Easy way for Checking Device Type - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/52054/easy-way-for-checking-device-type</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:22:54 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/52054/easy-way-for-checking-device-type</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Universal Getters - App - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/52053/universal-getters--app</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:59:26 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/52053/universal-getters--app</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Reading plist file into an NSDictionary - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/52050/reading-plist-file-into-an-nsdictionary</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:08:09 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/52050/reading-plist-file-into-an-nsdictionary</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Check if the user is using an iPhone, iPod Touch device - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/52038/check-if-the-user-is-using-an-iphone-ipod-touch-device</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:58:06 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/52038/check-if-the-user-is-using-an-iphone-ipod-touch-device</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Determine device (iPhone, iPod Touch) with iPhone SDK - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/38644/determine-device-iphone-ipod-touch-with-iphone-sdk</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Here is how to determine the device type.\r\n\r\nHow to use it.\r\n\r\nUIDeviceHardware *h=[[UIDeviceHardware alloc] init];\r\n[self setDeviceModel:[h platformString]];   \r\n[h release];&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:08:15 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/38644/determine-device-iphone-ipod-touch-with-iphone-sdk</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Add white shadow to the text iPhone - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/35064/add-white-shadow-to-the-text-iphone</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Here is how you add a shadow to a UILabel on the iPhone.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 16:46:12 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/35064/add-white-shadow-to-the-text-iphone</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Adding entry to AddressBook iPhone - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/33957/adding-entry-to-addressbook-iphone</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Add the following framework "AddressBook.framework" to your project&#13;
&#13;
Make sure to import these header files.&#13;
#import "AddressBook/ABAddressBook.h"&#13;
#import "AddressBook/ABPerson.h"&#13;
#import "AddressBook/ABMultiValue.h"&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 10:40:31 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/33957/adding-entry-to-addressbook-iphone</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) UIActionSheet cancel button strange behaviour - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/33905/uiactionsheet-cancel-button-strange-behaviour</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;01-Dec-2008 10:22 PM Tom Saxton: I looked at this bug some more, and it seems to be an issue with the tabbar.&#13;
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    If you call UIActionSheet's [sheet showInView:self.view] from a view controller that is a child of a UITabViewController, then the hit testing on the cancel button fails in that portion of the UIActionSheet that lies above the tabbar's view.&#13;
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    If you instead pass in the UITabBarController's view, then the UIActionSheet acts as expected.&#13;
&#13;
    NOTE: in iPhone OS 2.1 and earlier, the UIActionSheet came up from the top of the tab bar when you pass the child view, but in 2.2, it comes up from the bottom of the tab bar, and thus covers the tab view.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 10:51:45 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/33905/uiactionsheet-cancel-button-strange-behaviour</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Adding a custom Pin Annotation MAPKit - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/33657/adding-a-custom-pin-annotation-mapkit</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Answering my own question here, just in case others have the same issue. Notice that I am using "MKPinAnnotationView" - it should be changed to "MKAnnotationView" and everything works.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:14:46 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/33657/adding-a-custom-pin-annotation-mapkit</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Adding a Search Bar to a UITableView - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/33653/adding-a-search-bar-to-a-uitableview</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This might look complicated but actually it was easy than what I though to integrate.  I'm using it with Core Data, but I'm sure you can use it with any data type.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:57:54 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/33653/adding-a-search-bar-to-a-uitableview</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Get the Title of a UISegmentedControl - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/32484/get-the-title-of-a-uisegmentedcontrol</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:11:05 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/32484/get-the-title-of-a-uisegmentedcontrol</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Show Directions on Google Map in the iPhone. - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/32368/show-directions-on-google-map-in-the-iphone</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Here is a peace of code from one of my project to show you how you to show directions on the Google Map application.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:44:53 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/32368/show-directions-on-google-map-in-the-iphone</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Replacing object in an NSMutableArray - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/32338/replacing-object-in-an-nsmutablearray</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:00:30 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/32338/replacing-object-in-an-nsmutablearray</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) UISegmentedControl in UINavigationItem - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/32281/uisegmentedcontrol-in-uinavigationitem</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This works for me!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:26:02 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/32281/uisegmentedcontrol-in-uinavigationitem</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Custom background for UINavigationBar - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/31264/custom-background-for-uinavigationbar</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This works well for me, and doesn't appear to have issues with pushing new view controllers, hidden titles and bar button items, etc. &#13;
&#13;
To implement it just copy and paste this line before you ViewController @implementation file.  Example:&#13;
&#13;
//&#13;
//  MenuViewController.m&#13;
//  Restaurant&#13;
//&#13;
//  Created by Eddie on 4/10/10.&#13;
//  Copyright 2010 __MyCompanyName__. All rights reserved.&#13;
//&#13;
&#13;
#import "MenuViewController.h"&#13;
#import "CheckoutViewController.h"&#13;
&#13;
@implementation UINavigationBar (CustomImage)&#13;
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {&#13;
	UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed: @"grayGB.png"];&#13;
	[image drawInRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.frame.size.width, self.frame.size.height)];&#13;
}&#13;
@end&#13;
&#13;
&#13;
@implementation MenuViewController&#13;
&#13;
@synthesize tableView,&#13;
			menuArray;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:16:36 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/31264/custom-background-for-uinavigationbar</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Using the groupTableViewBackgroundColor - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/29427/using-the-grouptableviewbackgroundcolor</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:30:52 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/29427/using-the-grouptableviewbackgroundcolor</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Read and Write User Preferences - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/29285/read-and-write-user-preferences</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This is really cool, thanks to the author for putting it together.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:42:08 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/29285/read-and-write-user-preferences</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) UIWebView displaying a network loading - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/29213/uiwebview-displaying-a-network-loading</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This works fine on my app.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:51:42 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/29213/uiwebview-displaying-a-network-loading</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Images in a Scroll View - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/29068/images-in-a-scroll-view</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:35:09 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/29068/images-in-a-scroll-view</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Transform hex color to objective-c color. - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/28867/transform-hex-color-to-objectivec-color</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This is exactly what I was looking for since I come from web development&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:35:37 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/28867/transform-hex-color-to-objectivec-color</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Date from String - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/28823/date-from-string</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:52:57 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/28823/date-from-string</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) NSDateFormatter - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/28821/nsdateformatter</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Good to know this&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:42:01 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/28821/nsdateformatter</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Adding a UINavigationBar to a UITableView - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/28794/adding-a-uinavigationbar-to-a-uitableview</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:18:09 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/28794/adding-a-uinavigationbar-to-a-uitableview</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Web link to convert long/lat city, state, etc... - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/28553/web-link-to-convert-longlat-city-state-etc</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This will return an XML that looks like this.&#13;
&#13;
&lt;code&gt;&#13;
&lt;postalcode&gt;10079&lt;/postalcode&gt;&#13;
&lt;name&gt;New York City&lt;/name&gt;&#13;
&lt;countryCode&gt;US&lt;/countryCode&gt;&#13;
&lt;lat&gt;40.780751&lt;/lat&gt;&#13;
&lt;lng&gt;-73.977182&lt;/lng&gt;&#13;
&lt;adminCode1&gt;NY&lt;/adminCode1&gt;&#13;
&lt;adminName1&gt;New York&lt;/adminName1&gt;&#13;
&lt;adminCode2&gt;061&lt;/adminCode2&gt;&#13;
&lt;adminName2&gt;New York&lt;/adminName2&gt;&#13;
&lt;adminCode3/&gt;&#13;
&lt;adminName3/&gt;&#13;
&lt;distance&gt;0.8345131270291027&lt;/distance&gt;&#13;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:03:31 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/28553/web-link-to-convert-longlat-city-state-etc</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Save to .plist properity list - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/28063/save-to-plist-properity-list</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:03:12 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/28063/save-to-plist-properity-list</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Async Images Code - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/27926/async-images-code</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:45:13 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/27926/async-images-code</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Distance Travel - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/27917/distance-travel</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:43:46 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/27917/distance-travel</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Get the distance from the user's location to the venue - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/27707/get-the-distance-from-the-users-location-to-the-venue</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This is the code i wrote for clubplanet to get the distance from the user's location to the venues.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:51:20 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/27707/get-the-distance-from-the-users-location-to-the-venue</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Saving and Loading NSUserDefaults - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/27694/saving-and-loading-nsuserdefaults</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:23:55 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/27694/saving-and-loading-nsuserdefaults</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Post a UIImage to the web - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/27693/post-a-uiimage-to-the-web</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;So here is something a lot of people have been wondering to do in the forums. How do I take a UIImage or any image and post it to a website. So this will go over how to do that.&#13;
&#13;
There are two ways to tackle this issue. One we can base64 encode the file and post is normally inside a XML or JSON instance or we can simulate a normal HTML post. This tutorial will go over the HTML post.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:23:11 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/27693/post-a-uiimage-to-the-web</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) SQLite3 Sample data - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/27690/sqlite3-sample-data</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:44:51 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/27690/sqlite3-sample-data</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Calculate distance between two latitudes / longitudes - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/27644/calculate-distance-between-two-latitudes--longitudes</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:44:17 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/27644/calculate-distance-between-two-latitudes--longitudes</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Objective c date: NSString Date - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/27579/objective-c-date-nsstring-date</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:10:46 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/27579/objective-c-date-nsstring-date</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Move to the top of UITableView - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/27320/move-to-the-top-of-uitableview</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:46:48 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/27320/move-to-the-top-of-uitableview</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Determine the device running an application - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/27319/determine-the-device-running-an-application</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:38:28 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/27319/determine-the-device-running-an-application</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) RssParser that works - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/27318/rssparser-that-works</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I'm using this Rss Parser for clubplanet app, it works really fast and easy to implement&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:36:16 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/27318/rssparser-that-works</guid>
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      <title>(Objective C) Updating &amp; changing settings plist files with new versions of an app - espinallab</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/27315/updating--changing-settings-plist-files-with-new-versions-of-an-app</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This code works&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:17:21 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/27315/updating--changing-settings-plist-files-with-new-versions-of-an-app</guid>
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