iBetaTest is a new site that aims to bring together iPhone application developers and eager beta testers. The benefit for both sides is that developers get an eager set of users to play with their apps before they hit prime time, and the users get exclusive access and a first look at apps not yet [...]
Archive | February, 2009
A Mini Interview with Jeff Smith, CEO of Smule
Almost every iPhone user should be familiar with Smule. They’re the “sonic media applications” company behind the popular Ocarina application, where you blow into the iPhone’s microphone and use your fingers on the screen to control the notes you wish to play. Their latest creation, Zephyr, allows you to send messages to random people around [...]
ObjectiveResource: It’s iPhone on Rails
ObjectiveResource (or Github repository) is a framework for iPhone developers that allows you to easily interact with Ruby on Rails applications. Essentially it’s a port of Rails’ own ActiveResource – a library that enables RESTful communication between apps and serializes objects for transit. In this way, it makes it easy to interact with Rails apps [...]
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New Screencasts: Coding in Objective C 2.0 by Bill Dudney
Pragmatic Programmers – a niche publisher popular in the progressive programming world – has recently been getting into producing short, info-packed screencasts on new and up and coming topics. Their latest is Coding in Objective C 2.0 by Bill Dudney. As a relatively novice Objective C coder, they invited me to give them a whirl. [...]
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Hello There: A CoreLocation Tutorial
There are plenty of different places to get a mobile application designed. The problem is that they’re quite expensive. You might be able to figure out how to create your own, but it will probably look very basic. Instead, a good mobile application development software can make it even easier, so that you can build [...]
Review of Manning’s “iPhone in Action” Book
iPhone in Action, by Christopher Allen and Shannon Appelcline, bills itself as an “introduction to Web and SDK development” for the iPhone. In print form it costs $39.99 direct from Manning (with free e-book) and in e-book only form it’s $24.99. If you’d rather brave Amazon.com, the print copy costs $26.39 at time of writing. [...]
Inverview with the Tapbots, creators of Weightbot, winner of Best App Ever’s Most Original UI award
The latest Mobile Orchard podcast features an interview with UI designer Mark Jardine (Profile) and developer Paul Haddad (Profile) of Tapbots (Profile) about their Weightbot app. Weightbot is both a commercial success — having sold over 100,000 copies — and a beautiful example of creating a custom UI on the iPhone (Video). It won Best [...]
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