The “secret” hardware specifications of the iPhone 3GS where finally unveiled by dismantling the headset and were available on the internet just a few hours after the first iPhone 3GS was sold. The new iPhone speed bump is supported by a new CPU (ARM Cortex A8) running 200MHz faster then its predecessor, and is also… →
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How to override UIWebView links request action with your own custom method
If you have a Web View in your view you can call a custom action when the user taps on a link in that UIWebView instance. Here’s how…
iPhone 3GS is the most successful iPhone ever, sales even better then anticipated.
“Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning. With over 50,000 applications available from Apple’s revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever.” – Steve Jobs While benchmarks have shown that Apple’s iPhone 3GS is so fast that it outpaces Palm’s self-proclaimed fastest smartphone, the Pre, also sales of the new iPhone model are… →
Rhodes vs. iPhone SDK, which is better for me?
In case your target is to deploy your mobile app to several mobile platforms — such as iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Symbian and Windows Mobile — we can provide custom mobile development and design your application so that it works well on all these mobile platforms with very little additional effort, using a new cross-platform mobile… →
iPhone Puzzle Game Design Concept, the process
Creating the user interface for iPhone Apps is a great challenge where we have to break some paradigms and keep some things in mind such as the fact that we have a really limited space to work on, the application has to be as much obvious and easy to be understood by users as we… →
iPhone 3G S. S stands for Secret hardware specs?
Apple says that the new iPhone 3G S is twice as fast as iPhone 3G thanks to built-in support for 7.2 Mbps HSDPA, letting you render web pages quicker and launch applications faster. The handset takes advantage of the OpenGL ES 2.0 standard for high-quality 3D graphics, making mobile gaming and other graphic intense applications more… →
Model-View-Controller (MVC) in iPhone OS 3 thanks to Core Data
By managing your application’s data model for you, Core Data significantly reduces the amount of code you have to write for your application. The Core Data framework (CoreData.framework) is a technology for managing the data model of a Model-View-Controller application. Core Data is intended for use in applications where the data model is already highly… →
iPhone users are more likely to use Internet and buy Apps then other smartphone users
A Forrester Research study found that iPhone users are “more than twice as likely to access the Internet from their phone as working BlackBerry, Palm, or Windows Mobile device owners.” The research suggests iPhone users are a peculiar class of smartphone customers.
iPhone OS 3.0 Golden Master seed available to developers today
Today, Apple announced at the WWDC ’09 that the new iPhone OS 3.0 Golden Master with over 100 new features will be made available for download today for all developers. If you didn’t yet, now it is a good time to upgrade your device and SDK and start working with the new SDK and OS…. →
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Live Coverage on Twitter
The latest rumors are we’ll see 3 or 4 new iPhone models with a new camera, a compass and a more affordable entry price. Will all this be true?… Our CEO Dane Falkner has been there for you and was tweeting live on our Twitter account. his Twitter account :) … Read on to learn more… →
How to build an iPhone User Interface prototype that follows Apple Guidelines
What are the best tools to create mock-ups of an iPhone app application storyboard, which describes the app flow and the desired user interaction? We often recommend and assist our customers to build “wireframes” of an App idea that describes all the screens and the expected user interaction, together with the main features of the… →
RadiantCMS customized
We are working on a very interesting project right now that allows us to adapt RadiantCMS to serve several different functions in a big picture system. Radiant is a powerful content management system that has very good design for factoring out redundancy in your web content. Think of the Don’t-Repeat-Yourself principle applied to the web… →
best railsconf title
The best title had to be When to Tell Your Kids About Client Caching. Parents might identify more with this. Interesting stuff in any case.
Ruby performance work
Railsconf had several performance-related talks. This one went over a lot of interesting territory. Who knew the Date class performed so badly?? Use equivalent ops in Time or get date::performance Use String::<< instead of String::+= Tune your custom sql with virtual attributes It’s surprising that things we might not think are performance issues are problematic… →
RubyMine
During his talk at railsconf, Gregg Pollack showed off Jetbrains Rubymine, an awesome IDE for ruby & rails. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out Jetbrains had a spike in their downloads coinciding with the talk. It is a nice IDE. I was happy to see it includes git support out of the box (I… →