Today I’ve been working on submitting an update to our popular Catholic Prayers database app: it’ll be our first Universal application to hit the App Store. Ever since we upgraded to the latest SDK we can only build for iOS 4, but we’ve set the iPhone OS Deployment Target to be 3.1.3. That way, our [...]
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Develop your WebGL strategy now
WebGL is a developing standard for delivering 3D content inside an HTML5 canvas. The spec hasn’t reached a 1.0 version yet, but Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome have support we can try out in their nightly builds for the draft version. I had the best luck on both Linux and OSX in trying out WebGL [...]
Microsoft Pink smartphone project: KIN gets killed
After HP acquired and killed the WebOS Smartphone platform, another one bites the dust. As we reported in march, the Danger group Microsoft acquired — a Java-based smartphone platform that pioneered messaging-oriented phones targeted at younger people — has been working for two years on “Pink,” a top secret project operating independently from Windows Mobile, [...]
How to: unable to build for iPhone OS 3.1.3 after iPhone SDK iOS 4 upgrade
If you upgraded your iPhone SDK to the final version supporting iOS 4, you have noticed that everything older then SDK 3.2 vanished. After some research, I found out you can build with 4.0 SDK and still run on devices with earlier versions of the firmware. If you want to be compatible with iPhone OS [...]
iPhone: How to import photos, screenshots, movies and video without iPhoto
If you need to quickly import movies, photos or screenshots to your Mac and want to avoid iPhoto, here’s a quick tip for you. Introducing “Image Capture”, a very simple utility bundled with Mac OS X that will allow you to move media files from any device to your hard disk or to another supported [...]
iPhone iOS 4: watch out designers! Apps icons display changes: no more transparency.
I was so busy checking out the new iOS 4 features like folders and wallpapers, it took me a while to realize that the icons that used to be transparent now draw a black rounded-corners square behind the icon. This is most certainly because the new wallpapers implementation draws shadows and glows around the icons [...]
WebGL delivers 3D everywhere
WebGL is a developing standard for delivering 3D content inside an HTML5 canvas. The spec hasn’t reached a 1.0 version yet, but Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome have support we can try out in their nightly builds for the draft version. I had the best luck on both Linux and OSX in trying out WebGL [...]
JQTouch mobile app integration with SmartFoxServer
In the previous articles on http://surgeworksmobile.com/cross-platform/jqtouch-mobile-app-for-user-registration-tutorial, I focused on the JQTouch side of things. I’d like to mention the ingredients to make the app work with SmartFoxServer since that can be tricky. I built both grails and jython web services to serve as the back end interface for this application. Unfortunately, both these implementations would [...]
Apple to sell over 1 million iPhone 4 in one day
Apple announced that the first day of iPhone 4 preorders topped 600,000 on the first day of availability, representing the largest single day of preorders ever. Apple said in a press release that the total was “far higher than we anticipated, resulting in many order and approval system malfunctions.” Last year, Apple sold over a [...]
iPhone 4 Secrets: what Gizmodo didn’t know
Steve Jobs was expected to have little new to show about the new iPhone at WWDC 2010 keynote, since a near-final prototype had been “found in a bar” and all discoverable details were published by Gizmodo weeks before the event. Instead, nothing about the new Retina Display was leaked apart from the fact that the [...]
Apple sold 2 millions iPad, expected to reach 6.2 millions in 2010
Apple announced that it sold 2 million iPads in less than two months. That means Apple has sold about 34,000 per day on average. Apple reached its first million sales of the iPad in just 28 days. The announcement comes just days after the iPad started selling into international markets, shipping units in Australia, Canada, [...]
iPhone “4G”: new features, new colors, new OS
The new iPhone is expected to be announced in a few days at Apple’s WWDC. This time there’s a lot known and just a little unknowns, since a prototype iPhone was “found in a bar” and sold to Gizmodo earlier this year. The next generation iPhone is expected to feature: front-facing video chat camera, improved [...]
HP entering the tablet market: Palm’s webOS smartphone platform is dead
As reported by ZDnet, Hewlett-Packard chief executive Mark Hurd said HP isn’t going to “spend billions of dollars trying to go into the smartphone business. That doesn’t in any way make any sense. We didn’t buy Palm to be in the smartphone business. [...] The webOS is one of the two ground-up pieces of software [...]
How to watch DivX videos on your iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch
Stream live video to your iPad, virtually any format gets converted live by an app called Air Video. No jailbreak required! Yesterday night I wanted to watch a TV series on my iPad in the bedroom, but I had it on a DVD encoded with the popular DivX codec. Of corse, the iPad and the [...]
More than 1 million iPads sold, iPad 3G sold out, international sales just starting
Apple has sold nearly 90 million iPhone OS devices worldwide, and recently announced it has sold more than a million iPad devices. Meanwhile, the iPad 3G remains completely sold out in the U.S. weeks after its release. “One million iPads in 28 days — that’s less than half of the 74 days it took to [...]