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DODOcase Durables – iPhone 5 Wallet

DODOcase are responsible for the lovely Moleskine-like iPad cases and the texturally delicious BOOKback, and when they produced a new line of cases for iPhone/iPad/MacBook Air, I ordered one for my new iPhone 5 immediately. The case consists of a khaki (they call it “sage”) waxed cotton sleeve lined with orange cotton material (some of […]

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Twitter enable your app with XAuth!

Community enabling an application can be a pain – far harder than it needs to be. One of the biggest reasons for this problem is OAuth. Requiring a mobile application to open an 800×500 html window is unrealistic, exacerbated by graphic designers who think that a web page is the answer to every problem (remember […]

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Adding iAd to Your Projects

I noticed that there is no official sample code for including iAd banners in your projects. Knowing Apple “version zero” demoware, I thought it might be a good idea to build a small project to evaluate iAd.

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iPad impact – for developers

I did a review last week of the iPad release, based on the Programming Guide and Human Interface Guidelines, for a customer. The aim was to find out what changes I would have to make to their iPhone application; this post is to give my impressions, on that very brief survey, of what changes developers […]

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iPhone app – Huddle

Huddle is a network of Online workspaces that brings project management software, online collaboration and document sharing together. I’m putting this up as the support URL pro tem for Huddle.

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Getting Online – how hard can it be?

I have a hate/hate relationship with BT Openworld.  Let’s be clear; I have no choice but to use them, as they have access points at all the places I visit and might need a connection.  All the old coffee shop access points in my area have been converted to BT Openworld, taking them at a […]

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iPhone app – HandyPoints

This is the draft of the App Store info page: HandyPoints is an easy-to-use points calculator which makes it simple for you to work out the points score for any food item, and helps you on your journey to your goal weight.   Use HandyPoints to help you diet responsibly. Just put in the right values […]

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iPhone developer tip – shake it!

Detecting shakes is easy. Balancing the sensitivity so that a lighter shake is required forward and back to trigger an event than sideways, or up and down – that takes a bit more work. Writing this code the first time will make your controller classes look like a mess, so it’s time to refactor that […]

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iPhone developer tip – image sizes

I’m going to jot down a few notes about image sizes for iPhone apps – these facts are hard to unearth, and I haven’t yet found them all together in place; hence this post.  I will update this if I find out any more. For most purposes, an iPhone app uses png format images; however […]

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