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Crate 33 is Available!
I’ve finally released my first paid app to the App Store.
I release the app to the App Store with fear and trepidation, I must admit. What if nobody buys it? What if people think the price is too high? What if people think my website for the app is too unprofessional? What if people [...]
Diacarta App [Update]
I just downloaded one of the coolest looking apps ever onto my iPhone. But I don’t use it.
Diacarta is a calendar app that lets you create and view calendar events in a rather unique way. I don’t want to try to describe it when a picture is worth a thousand words, so here:
You have an [...]
New App Almost There
I submitted my Crate 33 app to Apple on Monday but yesterday I pulled it because I found a bug. Disappointing, I know, but don’t want there to be any obvious bugs in my app.
So I fixed the bug and now I’m going through the app again to make sure there aren’t any other bugs [...]
Emotion Tugging
When I watched the new iPhone 4 commercial at Apple’s iPhone 4 unveiling, I knew that Apple had a new hit commercial on their hands. Now Apple has unveiled four more commercials touting the iPhone 4’s FaceTime feature.
I saw one journalist write about these new ads, and the fact that his (almost) Luddite friend wanted [...]
Finding Apps
Blinders on a horse keep distractions at bay and help the horse to focus on the direction of movement. Blinders on an app developer, however, aren’t such a good idea.
As an app developer, I want to monitor many sources of information that’ll help me as a developer. Staying hunkered down in my home office as [...]
Custom Button in NavBar
Just a quick snippet of code for you guys today.
Ever wanted to know how to put a custom image into the navigation bar? It’s actually pretty easy. Create a UIButton object, and stick that into the UIBarButtonItem object. The trick is to remember to set the size:
UIButton *add = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"button_plus.png"];
[add [...]
iPhone QRCode Integration
For one of my jobs I had to integrate QRCodes into the app. A QRCode is a 2 dimensional barcode, like you see here:
There are several ways of generating QRCodes online, including this one for generating MeCards, and this one for generating text, URL, SMS, and phone number ones.
Integrating QRCodes into an iPhone app is [...]
iPad Killer App
Many platforms only start to become really popular and gain traction when it gets a killer app. An app that is so compelling, it is worth investing in the platform just in order to be able to use that app. A killer app can also be an app that takes an existing platform to a [...]
iPad Hands On
I’m one of the few Canadians to actually have an iPad in my house. The iPad started selling in the United States a week and a half ago, but is not available here yet. Luckily my boss ordered one for our company, and today I got to try it out.
First impression? It is heavy. I’ve [...]
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 [...]