Archive for the ‘iPhone’ Category

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 ...

For iPhone but not Mac?

Friday, March 7th, 2008

For years it's been a pain getting Macs to talk to Exchange servers because more often than not the Exchange servers are managed by some pencilneck IT guy with a pressed shirt and a lifetime subscription to "Ballmer - Candid Photos of Everyone's Favourite Microsoft Exec". As a result ...

iPhone stuff

Friday, March 7th, 2008

At some point last night, Apple's development servers fell over and died. These servers can hold 40 000+ concurrent download streams but there were so many people downloading the new iPhone SDK that the whole server became unresponsive. After several hours of trying, I finally got a connection at 11 ...

NiMUG meeting Monday 24th March

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Yes, it's Easter Monday but don't let that stop you. Here's the details.

The theory goes…

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

That the "roadmap" to be announced for the iPhone software will not, as previously thought, include the release of said SDK just yet but may include the release of some third party software whivch has been in development for some time. Of course, the responses were typical. What a tease. It just ...

iPhone SDK. 6th March 2008

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

According to Macrumors, the iPhone SDK will be announced on March 6th. "Please join us to learn about the iPhone software roadmap, including the iPhone SDK and some exciting new enterprise features," Apple said in an invitation sent to reporters. Are we to assume Apple has licensed ActiveSync? Are we going to see ...

mobile Learning

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Abilene Christian University is investing in mobile learning. What might a university look like with a fully deployed program of converged devices like the iPhone? Connected is one possible vision. This fictional day-in-the-life account highlights some of the potential benefits in a higher education setting when every student, faculty, and staff ...