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… →
Mauro Dalu
Project Manager at Surgeworks
Mauro is a Project Manager at Surgeworks, and Lead Designer and WordPress Developer at Divine Office Catholic Ministry. In 2017 Mauro has managed, designed and developed the second version of the Dyno Nobel's Explosive Engineers' Guide App for iOS and Android.
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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… →
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… →
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… →
What the iPad did to personal computing
The iPad. Hate it, love it, addicted to it?… reactions are all over the web, the only thing you can’t do is ignore the new “magical” device from Apple. Steve Jobs finally reached the target he and Wozniak had when they initially started working together: the iPad is the first computer for people that don’t… →
iTunes Connect: Chrome works better than Safari
Every time I get to upload an update to one of our iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad apps, I get frustrated by a number of things within iTunes Connect (itunesconnect.apple.com). In this post I want to focus on the total lack of feedback on the upload progress of the app binaries. In Safari the spinner… →
Apple’s iPhone OS 4 new terms and conditions to kill Flash CS 5, Rhodes and Appcellerator Titanium?
Apple iPhone Developer Program License Agreement was updated in the iPhone 4.0 SDK to specifically prohibit the development of apps using “an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool,” which would include Adobe’s Flash, Sun’s Java, Microsoft’s Silverlight/Mono, Unity 3D games engine, and most Cross-platform development frameworks such as Rhomobile Rhodes and Appcelerator Titanium. An… →
Apple’s iAd vs. Google’s AdMob: will iAd kill AdMob?
Apple’s tent poles for iPhone OS 4 looked somewhat aimed at getting back markets in which 3rd parties have been filling the role so far: one of these is iAds. The dominating platform for mobile ads is currently AdMob, which provides a complete platform for advertising on mobile devices through web sites and mobile apps… →