Archive for the ‘iPhone’ Category
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Apple released beta5 of the iPhone SDK and quietly opened iPhone Developer registration to the public so that everyone can load their code onto their iPhones and give them a go. The updates SDK is winging it's way to me at 1495K/sec right now which means I'll be able to ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
My copy of "iPhone Open Application Development" arrived in my hands today after spending a couple of weeks in the Mac-Sys office. It's a slim tome compared to the other Cocoa books I have but I understand where it fits in and it's a nice little addition to the collection. ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Twinkle is the first iPhone product I'm looking forward to. Though it's Twitter-based and could be opened to being a blogging client, it has the essentials -
support for the camera
support for conversations
support for locations!
Looking forward to June!
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
'Perry' wrote (on the RogueAmoeba blog post "Code Signing and You"):
"...the case for Code Signing on a Mac - in the service of its administrator/owner - is very compelling. In a sense, the Mac is living on borrowed time - viruses and worms and other nasty bit-critters will surely come ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
One thing that is nice about John Dvorak is that he truly has a visionary streak. In all the years I've read about technology, Dvorak has seldom been right. He's managed to cherry-pick the absolutely wrong from the blatantly obvious for years. That has to count for something.
The rant this ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
In an odd combination of non-day-job-work and play, I found this:
"I started working with the audio toolbox on the iPhone today. This morning, I added sounds to the little dice rolling application I've been writing. I recorded a total of fifteen sounds, five of a single die being rolled, five ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Chill the fuck out
According to TUAW, there are thousands of angry developers (online, select, premier, solo, corporate) who have been denied early access to Firmware 2.0 and the App Store and, more importantly, ability to load apps onto the iPhone.
Is anyone really surprised?
Only yesterday, Macrumors reported that someone had hacked ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
John Gruber, probably one of the most popular Mac bloggers, says:
Despite the fact that the iPhone SDK terms explicitly state that “No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Published APIs and builtin interpreter(s)”, Sun announced that ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
So, there's three categories of applications which can be installed onto the iPhone without Jailbreak.
Payfer Apps - you write your application, sign it, give it to Apple and they host it on the App Store and you get 70% of all proceeds.
Free Apps - you write the application, sign it, ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Let's say you're a developer producing applications. Your livelihood depends on applications sold and you really want to get the best penetration for them.
How much would you pay for:
a) no need to set up a web shopping cart
b) no need to pay for bandwidth and hosting
c) greatly reduced need for ...
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