UIWebView is a great control to display formatted text (using HTML language). That text might contain links that you want to intercept in Objective-C and do a specific action (push a new view for example). You can do this by implementing UIWebViewDelegate protocol…
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Some quick Rhodes tips: using helpers
Rhodes allows you to create and use helpers, short methods you typically use to DRY your views. Very much the same as the ones you encounter in Rails. There are a number of caveats though.
iPad & iPhone GUI User Interface Elements for Photoshop Prototyping
We discussed in the past what are the best tools out there to create mock-ups for an iPhone application storyboard — a document that describes the app flow and the desired user interaction that will get you much closer to prototyping. A few days since the iPad has been shown in public for the first… →
Apple iPad: will it be a success or a flop?
The new iPad. Will it be a success? Will it be a flop? Why people complain about it? Is it worth to get my apps optimized for the iPad? What if it will be a huge flop? Continue reading to find out.
iPad influencing the tablet market
My first thought on seeing this image today was “wow… Steve Jobs looks really small now behind his big iPhone”. Fortunately, this isn’t a case of Steve shrinking, it’s the mobile computer that got bigger. I believe there is a lot of potential for the Apple tablet and I’m excited to write software for it…. →
Apple iPad price starting at $499, available in March
Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the long-awaited Apple Tablet today: the official name is iPad. “iPad is our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price,” Jobs said. “iPad creates and defines an entirely new category of devices that will connect users with their apps and content in a much… →
Apple January 27 “Latest Creation” Media Event Live Coverage
Here’s a countdown for you to keep track of these few more hours to the Apple event that will unveil the Tablet device… We’re all waiting and we’ll be all watching for live updates. Here are two sources for you: TheAppleBlog and MacWorld UK.
Apple tablets running iPhone OS 3.2 spotted by Flurry Analytics
It is just a matter of hours now to know the truth on iPad or iSlate devices, whatever the name will be… and I’ll be here updating you for sure. In the meantime, Peter Farago, VP of of Marketing at Flurry, noted that his company believes the devices running iPhone OS 3.2 are Apple tablets… →
How to Fix Chrome for Mac Broken Fonts
If your Google Chrome browser is acting awkward with fonts like in the picture (displays all “A” characters) instead of serif fonts or of all fonts, you may need to clean your Mac OS X Font Cache. Here’s how to do it.
New Free iPhone Ringtones App, iFist Pump: Techno Ringtones
A new Surgeworks developed iPhone and iPod Touch app hits the App Store today: it’s Toneaphone‘s free iFist Pump: Techno Ringtones application. The new application includes a new, different selection of Techno Ringtones for all your iPhones (in M4R format) and for all other mobile phones (MP3 format) if you are connecting through an iPod… →
Surgeworks' eCommerce team leader to open the Web: Startegy Conference in Zagreb, Croatia
Tomislav Bilic will open the 7th edition of the Web Conference: Startegy in Zagreb, Croatia on March 18, 2010. Web Conference: Strategy 7 – “Good developer spirit” includes educational lectures, directly and indirectly related to the web development thematic by lecturers who will educate participants on how to improve their knowledge and working environment in… →
What if there is no Apple Tablet?
A few recent articles on various rumors sites made me think that in late January we may very well not see any Apple iSlate tablet-sized iPod-Touch-like or Mac-like device. It is very likely that a new iPhone SDK will be introduced, and that this will allow iPhone Apps to support different screen resolutions. It is… →
PHP Mailer with Email Attachments that supports Mac OS X's Mail
We needed a server-side script recently to send emails with attachments from an iPhone App. We’ve chosen PHP because we wanted to keep it as simple as possible (we wanted no dependencies). The emails sent (and attachments) looked good in a few email systems, until we checked with Mac Mail. Check the image at the… →
How to build a 3D tag cloud on iPhone — challenges and solutions
Since the iPhone tocuhscreen is quite small and has great support for interactivity a 3D tag cloud looks an ideal choice for an iPhone application user interface. Neither iPhone SDK classes nor 3rd party libraries have 3D tag cloud classes, at least no libraries I heard of, so I implemented it from scratch. You can… →
Mobile Apps cross-platform development challenge: PhoneGap vs. Titanium vs. Rhodes
What is the best cross-platform mobile framework out there? Let’s take a look at the main three competitors. First of all, cross-platform compatibility is all about compromising on the native look, feel and features of devices. Therefore, if you’re looking into creating a 3D game or an interactive, multimedia, animated app, you’re looking in the… →