Apple’s much-anticipated tablet device coming early next year While this may only be a rumor, there are a lot of signs pointing towards Apple releasing some sort of a tablet-like device next year. Motally is Mobile Analytics It’s worth taking a look at this mobile usage statistics tracking/reporting tool. Create an iPhone Document Scanner from [...]
Archive | July, 2009
Combatting Ringtone App Pricing Pressure With Application Suites And Shared Pasteboards
I’m self employed, work from home, and earn a living as a blogger. Consequently, I don’t have much of a work-life balance. I’m reading Feeling Good by David Burns to rectify this. It’s basically Getting Things Done meets Life Hacker for mental health. The book is brimming with, for lack of a better label, workflow/procedures/metrics/instrumentation [...]
iPhoneDevCamp 3: This Fri-Sun, Sunnyvale, $50
iPhoneDevCamp 3 is this Friday, Saturday and Sunday on the Yahoo campus in Sunnyvale. It’s $50 to attend, and more than 400 people have already registered. iPhoneDevCamp is an unconference for iPhone developers in the a BarCamp model. BarCamps emphasize participation. Instead of having a fixed schedule of presenters talking to an audience the roles [...]
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New In iPhone 3.0 Tutorial Series, Part 5: Battery Monitoring
If you read last week’s New in iPhone 3.0 post on proximity monitoring then this week’s post on battery monitoring is a gimme. Like proximity monitoring, battery monitoring is enabled by setting to YES a property of the UIDevice singleton: UIDevice *device = [UIDevice currentDevice]; device.batteryMonitoringEnabled = YES; iPhone OS provides two type of battery [...]
iPhone Dev Drinks/Dinner: Thursday in Palo Alto
Join me for dinner/drinks this Thursday at 7:30 at Gordon Biersch in Palo Alto! I’ll be in town to teach my sold out iPhone programming class and, well, I’m social. Email me (dan@mobileorchard.com) or call (612) 423-3694 to let me know you’re coming. The more the merrier: invite a friend, pass it on and let [...]
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This Week in iPhone News – July 24/2009
Contacting Apple over the App Store Review Process Try this tip if you have any issues with your recent iTunes App Store submission. Chillingo unveils Crystal, the social gaming platform for the iPhone targeting Xbox Live Another option for those wanting to integrate social gaming platforms into your next iPhone game. iPhone Recipes Book Help [...]
OpenGL iPhone Class. Superstar Instructor. Conference Discount.
I’m pleased to announce Mobile Orchard Workshops’ iPhone OpenGL Programming Class. Developed and taught by gaming industry veteran and iPhone indie game developer Noel Llopis, this two day class is specifically designed to teach Cocoa-Touch/UIKit iPhone programmers how to create high-performance, 2D and 3D OpenGL applications on the iPhone. We’re holding the inaugural class in [...]
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New In iPhone 3.0 Tutorial Series, Part 4: Proximity Monitoring
Seattle Beginning iPhone Programming Workshop: August 20-21.$1200 Only $799 with “mo” coupon code and early registration discount. When Google released their iPhone app last year it was accompanied with a bit of controversy: Their app used an undocumented API to detect when the phone had been placed next to the speaker’s ear. In iPhone 3.0 [...]
Podcast Interview: PhoneGap — Cross-Platform App Development Using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
PhoneGap offers a way of creating iPhone apps using HTML, JavaScript and CSS. PhoneGap provides JavaScript interfaces to location services, accelerometer, contacts, vibration and sound. What’s more, PhoneGap is cross-platform, so apps can run with little or no modification on Android and BlackBerry too. In this interview, Rob Ellis and Brock Whitten talk about how [...]
This Week in iPhone News – July 17/2009
Analyzing the App Store Paid Games Chart There may not be as many 99-cent titles on the App Store as one would think. Wildy Successful iPhone App Store A review of the App Store’s first year. Game Zichermann, CEO and Co-Founder of beamME An interview with a developer of iPhone enterprise and business application. iStat [...]
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