Archive for the ‘iPhone’ Category

Work in progress

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 ...

Cocoaing with the JesusPhone

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. ...

Twinkle: a location-aware Twitter client.

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!

Code Signing. And me.

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 ...

Mobile/Portable Computing Caveats

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 ...

Dicing with the iPhone

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 ...

Been denied iPhone developer access?

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 ...

Sun: can we bring Java to iPhone? Pwetty pwease?

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 ...

Distribution of iPhone apps

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, ...

Thirty percent of everything

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 ...