We had an awesome Ruby|Web conference at Snowbird ski resort outside Salt Lake City last week. I was able to share some of my thoughts on WebGL and also connect it with ruby event machine. I have slides available and I also replicated the content on my github account. I know now that the websockets… →
Tag ‘iPhone’
Press Release: Popular Prayer App Update Adds New Features and iPad Support
The Ministry of Divine Office, a non-profit group that offers the “Liturgy of the Hours” collection of Roman Catholic prayers online and via the iPhone and iPod Touch, in partnership with Surgeworks, Inc. has released the latest version of its “Prayer” app with two new features and iPad compatibility. Prayer is available on the App… →
Would you like to beta test our next iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch game?
Are you an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch user? Would like to play an active role in iPhone games and app creation? Are you a passionate, U.S. based “iUser” that purchases a few apps from the App Store every month? Surgeworks is in the final stages of development of a new exciting word game named… →
App submission changes
If you have an existing project and you try to resubmit to the app store, you are likely to run into a problem with the changes Apple has made. Error: The binary you uploaded was invalid. The bundle did not contain an icon for iPad of exactly 72×72 pixels, in .png format. Solution: Add a… →
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… →
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… →
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… →
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… →
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… →
If Apple is the new IBM, then Google is the new Microsoft?
Google Search, Google Ads, Google Phones, Google Browser, Google Netbooks, Google Tablets, Google TVs, then what? Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering for Google, suggested during Google I/O conference that Google’s entrance into the mobile phone market was a move meant to directly oppose the likes of Apple and its tightly controlled iPhone platform. “If… →
The great tablet catch-up
It doesn’t matter if people understand your business model or not… if you sell a million of anything in 28 days, the competition will soon be clawing to get into the game. Apple is seeing some potential for competition. The other tablets are coming in a few classes of devices. Several models will run Windows… →
iPhone users upgrade, Android/Blackberry/WM users don’t
Many people don’t give a second thought to the idea that you can upgrade your laptop or desktop computer to a newer operating system, even an OS from a different vendor, down the road. It’s a completely different story for mobiles. The roots of the problem are in the specialized hardware that mobiles have. The… →
Apple’s iPhone “4G” launch on June 7 with iPhone OS 4
Apple announced on Friday that WWDC 2010 will kick off on June 7, running through June 11 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. A date for the keynote was not announced, though it is expected to be June 7. One new rumor suggests the fourth-generation iPhone could go on sale immediately after it is announced. A… →
Interface Builder not in sync with Xcode: can’t see images classes and project status is yellow or gray
Ever since upgrading Apple’s iPhone SDK to 3.2 beta and 3.2 final now, I started experiencing this issue: Interface Builder (IB for friends) didn’t recognize, show or list the images in “nib” files associated to an Xcode project. Other symptom of the problem is Interface Builder not being kept in sync with an Xcode project… →