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Apple Announces iPad
Recently Apple introduced the iPad to a waiting world. The commentary I’ve seen has been mostly negative, but I don’t think this product is going to fail.
Could it use some changes? Sure it could. A camera would have been really nice. Multi-tasking would have been especially nice. (Imagine having several running iPhone apps embedded [...]
Nice Rebuttal
This is a nice little rebuttal video someone made to a recent attack ad against the iPhone.
Fading an Image into Another
My Pollen project required that I be able to have an image, and fade it into another image. Other projects since then have also had similar requirements. The effect is very nice, and the great thing is that the code is really quite simple. Just have two images, and do an animation from one to [...]
Pricing Apps: More is Better
AppsFire recently did some work trying to determine which apps on Apple’s AppStore are the most profitable? Surprisingly, it’s not the cheapo $0.99 apps that are making all the money (through volume, everyone assumes). It’s the high quality apps that charge more:
This list computed using the simple UNITS SOLD x UNIT PRICE formula may yield [...]
New Website
I bought a theme for use here, just because I think it was about time I made this place look a little more professional.
You can see some featured apps and a featured client on the main page, and soon I’ll be creating a portfolio pages that showcases all of the iPhone apps that I’ve worked [...]
Featured App: Pollen
The Pollen app was the first app I did for a client who knew exactly what they wanted down to the pixel. Their wireframes were so detailed, it looks like they looked into the future, took screenshots of the app, and put the screenshots into the wireframe.
They specified fonts, image sizes, backgrounds, timings (for the [...]
Fixing Broken Pipes
There’s nothing like the simulator for putting your app together quickly. It’s better than debugging on the device for one main reason: it’s fast! Starting up the app is fast. Debugging the app is fast. Everything is fast.
But sometimes you just need to slow down. By using the device. Of course, I was testing on [...]
Images in a Scroll View
I know that when I was a beginning iPhone developer doing things that seem so simple now weren’t so simple back then. Just because I didn’t know any better and was unaware of the tools and API’s available to me.
One thing that I’ve been doing a lot recently is putting several images in a UIScrollView, [...]
Yelp Augments My Reality
Robert Scoble just informed the world that Yelp includes an augmented reality feature! As I had just re-downloaded Yelp the other day, it was already on my iPhone. All you’re supposed to do is shake it three times, and the new Monocle feature will be activated. But I had a little problem doing so, and [...]
Cool Looking Apps like Groups
I was perusing an article about iPhone apps with nice interfaces again today, and decided to download one of them. After all, I’m a sucker for a nice GUI, and I bought Convert just for the purpose of checking out its GUI.
But the app I’m talking about this time is Groups. I just moved [...]
Push is Better
In my last post, I bemoaned two Push applications that weren’t working quite right for me. Unfortunately for me at the time, my timing couldn’t have been worse for either of them.
Because now they’re working just fine.
GPush went through some teething problems when it was introduced, but now it’s working splendidly. I turned off the [...]
Push a Bust?
Recently I’ve bought two push notification apps: Boxcar and GPush. I’ve been happy with neither of them.
Boxcar has already been around for a bit and I’ve seen a lot of reviews online that say it “just works”. That’s not my experience. I have enabled push notifications on my phone. I have enabled push notifications [...]