Category Archives: iPhone

Adopted Pomodoro

Really not been work­ing very suc­cess­fully recently, doing a lot , all over the place but not mak­ing progress. So looked at the pomodoro tech­nique, got a nice timer app for the iPhone and it seems to be work­ing well and help­ing me con­cen­trate. As well as that the feel­ing of get­ting on with work rein­forces the

Motorola acquires app devel­oper 280 North

Here and here. The price has been con­firmed at around$20,000,000 dol­lars which is not dab for the orig­i­nal $250,000 injected into it. A lot of Motorola’s recent suc­cess has been through Android devices and so we can expect  Cap­puc­cino to come up with a set of touch  com­mands soon. 280 North already have Atlas which helps to speed

Mobile Frame­works Landscape — Sproutcore

The mobile devel­op­ment scene seems to be mov­ing apace with a range of hard­ware devices and a match­ing and dizzy­ing range of devel­op­ment plat­forms. When i say mobil devel­op­ment i am really talk­ing about iPhone, and Android and WebKit devices. Now although this can be con­sid­ered a small part of the mar­ket it seems to me to be the most

This looks like a use­ful tool … 04

Code Pilot extends Xcode by adding swift nav­i­ga­tion through files and other parts of your project. Thanks to a fuzzy search mech­a­nism and an advanced scor­ing sys­tem for the search results, Code Pilot tries to guess what’s on your mind imme­di­ately after you’ve typed just a few char­ac­ters. Its ulti­mate goal is to keep you in flow, not

This looks like a use­ful tool … 03

Ingre­di­ents is a free browser for Apple’s doc­u­men­ta­tion. It’s still under devel­op­ment, but today’s beta lets you: View iPhone and Mac docs Search Mac-related web­sites Fil­ter classes/symbols by var­i­ous attrib­utes Quick Search with sane sort­ing of results use the Fil­ter Bar to quickly jump to meth­ods in a class Ingre­di­ents is also open source and avail­able on GitHub

iTunes LP, iTunes Extra & TuneKit

iTunes LP (itlp)  and iTunes Extras (ite) are inter­ac­tive expe­ri­ences cre­ated to accom­pany music and movies. iTunes LP lets lis­ten­ers hear an album and view lyrics, liner notes, band phở­tos, per­for­mance videos, and more. With iTunes Extras, view­ers can see cast inter­views, exclu­sive clips, behind-the-scenes footage, and photo gal­leries along with the movie. Tunekit is the pack­age

Build­ing an ADLIB Application

Neat post here from Chris Moyer dis­sect­ing AdLib and giv­ing a tuo­r­ial, with code on build­ing an application.

Adobe vs Apple and HTML5 vs Flash Arguments

A recent MacJury Pod­cast two parter #1009 and #1010 was devoted to the Flash/Apple argu­ments and Apple not allow­ing Flash on the i devices. The argu­ments for and against were rea­son­able but missed com­pletely on aspect, in my view, that of the con­trol of the device and it’s inher­ent UI. The iPod/Pad/Phone’s are all non key­board, non

Pas­trykit reverse engineer

Michael Grinich has used the Apple Pas­trykiy library to knock up a small demo app. You can access it here on your iPhone/Pod and the full app code is avail­able here on GitHub.

iPhone 4 hand­set in the wild

so do we believe that some left some­thing that impor­tant in a bar? Or did Apple mock some­thing up and then plant it to throw peo­ple of the scent? Or am i just indulging in con­spir­acy theory?