Archive | July, 2009
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Fighting Back Against The App Store’s Negative Rating Bias

Apple makes it easy to rate an apps during an uninstall by popping up an alert-box and asking for a star rating. This is, in fact, the easiest way to provide feedback. Absent an uninstall, a user must first launching the app store and then navigating to the app before providing a rating. Consequently, the [...]

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This Week in iPhone News – July 10/2009

A fireside chat with Apple’s Jonathan Ive Designer of the iMac, iPod, PowerBook, and more makes a public appearance. What you can learn from a Palm developer Some iPhone development tips from the Palm side of things. Prowl A Growl client for the iPhone. Push notifications from your Mac or PC to your iPhone. iPhone [...]

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Corona: Easy-To-Implement, High Performance, Native iPhone Apps Written In Lua

Bay Area Beginning iPhone Programming Workshop: July 30-31. $799 with early bird price & “mo” discount code. Hurry: early bird price expires Weds! Carlos Icaza and Walter Luh are the co-founders of Ansca Mobile and creators of Corona, a new & much talked-about Lua based kit for building native iPhone applications. This interview includes details [...]

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This Week in iPhone News – July 3/2009

Trixel Postmortem Very informative postmortem of the iPhone game “Trixel.” Birdfeed An alternative Twitter client for the iPhone. Includes features such as: local caching, refresh timestamps, and SMS-style direct messages. Here’s How iPhone App Store Ratings Work More criticisms of the iPhone App Store. Essential iPhone Memory Testing Great tips for debugging memory issues. John [...]

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New In iPhone 3.0 Tutorial Series, Part 3: Copy & Paste With UIPasteboard

Welcome to part-3 of our New In iPhone 3.0 Tutorial/Programming Series. The previous two articles in this series covered in-app email and shake to undo/redo. This time, we’ll cover the basics of reading-from and writing-to the pasteboard. Pasteboard Overview Multiple Pasteboards There isn’t just one pasteboard on the iPhone: There are two system pasteboards: a [...]

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