A Commodore 64 emulator that was previously rejected has been approved after the developer made changes to align it with Apple’s SDK. Then rejected again. Manomio’s $4.99 C64 title was rejected in June despite having lined up all the proper licensing rights.
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iPhone Icons, How to Preview the Glossy Effect.
We’ve already discussed a long time ago how to remove the glossy effect from iPhone icons. But what if you just want to look at how different icons will look with the glossy effect on the iPhone, while avoiding to recompile the app for every icon draft you made? Here is the solution: apply a… →
Xcode won't recognize iPhone OS 3.0.1
If you see a message like “The version of iPhone OS on (your phone’s name) does not match any of the versions of iPhone OS supported for development with this copy of Xcode” after the 3.0.1 update, the quick fix is to run in a shell: sudo ln -sf 3.0 (7A341) /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/DeviceSupport/3.0.1 And then restart… →
App Store: average user buys 2 apps every month
The latest Mobile Metrics Report from AdMob for July 2009 shows that iPhone users download an average of 10.2 applications from the App Store per month, with 2.6 of those paid. However, iPod touch users appear to be more app-hungry, downloading an average of 18.4 each month, with two paid.
iPod Touch & iPhone TV Video Out not working after OS 3.0 upgrade
Hello, I’m an iPod Touch first generation. I was just upgraded to OS 3.0 and now I refuse to work with any cheap AV-Out Composite cable you can find on eBay, Amazon or any other supplier. Apple has been using lock-out chips to control third-party video accessory development and effectively preventing older, less expensive accessories… →
Over-the-air calendar synchronization for iPhone
I’m very impressed so far with nuevasync.com for their over-the-air calendar synchronization. They have free and pay options. You set them up as an MS Exchange server data source and your contacts and calendar are synchronized with google. I love being able to edit calendar items with a full keyboard and also keep my existing… →
Native iPhone look in rhomobile
Rhomobile provides great instant gratification in building applications. See my last article for a starter. There are some elements you’ll miss as you start to work on the iPhone target. The back button is one and the custom tab bar is another. The main bar can currently be customized by building rhodes from source (the… →
Nokia, Apple iPhone and RIM are the real players in the smartphones market
Apple’s iPhone held onto a 13.7% share of global smartphone unit sales in Q2 2009, outpacing Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, which now claims just 9% of the market, according to Canalys. Canalys specialises in delivering high quality market data, analysis and advice to the world’s leading technology vendors. The results of their research can be summarized… →
New iPod Touch and Nano with Cameras likely to be introduced on September 9
Apple will hold its annual iPod and media centric event for the week of Labor Day, scheduling the keynote for Wednesday, Sept. 9. Expected to be a part of the event are “Cocktail” Apple’s full-length album download bundle with extras, and a new iPod touch and iPod nano, both sporting cameras, to be released together… →
processing large xml data files
XML is often used to convey very large data sets. A perfect example is wikipedia’s data. The full wikipedia datasets are available in several different slices. This dataset is about 24GB uncompressed for all articles in English. This is an excellent set to push the limits on your parser. Clearly, you can’t load a file… →
Rhomobile 1.2 for iPhone, android, blackberry, win mobile
We’ve been evaluating the Rhodes platform, aka Rhomobile, as a way to deliver multiplatform applications to our customers. Version 1.2.1 was recently released. One thing that is clear right away is the development platform problem. Develop on OSX if you need to work on iPhone and Android ports. Use Windows if you plan to release… →
Microsoft: Windows Mobile 6.5 vs. iPhone
Windows Mobile 6.5 will include Internet Explorer to reportedly provide a “better web experience” than the iPhone. How’s that? Simple: they are including Flash support. Microsoft compromised on Flash adoption in Windows Mobile 6.5 recognizing Adobe’s dominant position in the Web’s multimedia market, accepting not to push for adoption of its own Silverlight technology that… →
Apple releases iPhone 3.0.1 update to fix SMS exploit
Firmware 3.0.1 is now available for the iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS through iTunes. The update is around 300MB. Apparently, there is no new features or fixes other than the text message exploit patch. The technique involves sending only one unusual text character or else a series of “invisible” messages that confuse the phone… →
rails app producing "error or missing database"
You see an error like this in your logs: ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid (SQLite3::SQLException: SQL logic error or missing database: INSERT INTO…). The statement it prints out is working fine when you run it directly. First, one thing you can tell from this error is you are running the application using a different user id than you are… →
New graphing options for metric_fu
Metric-fu is a handy set of rake tasks for running various metrics on your project’s ruby code and tracking the overall health of your code base. It can give you some interesting insights into things like how good the code coverage of your tests is and how well-designed your code is. It can also track… →