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Coming back to New York after a couple months away, I’d accumulated quite a few odds-n’-ends that needed attending to. In the meantime, I was anxious to get back to work, and so I took a brief detour and joined the ranks of indie developers who, unwilling to accept the multitudes of existing well-executed Twitter [...]
Continue Reading →My February side-project was submitted to Apple several days ago, and I’m currently awaiting acceptance. This is a delicious novelty Twitter client app for iPhone and iPad.
Details to follow on launch, but in the meantime, check it out for yourself at http://www.takeawaytweets.com/
Continue Reading →I’m a big fan of UITableViews, as a class they enjoy the distinction of being completely ubiquitous and complete workhorses, whilst still managing to look gorgeous. But they must be treated delicately, for example best practice dictates that table’s cell views be reusable, and the architecture of UITableView reflects that. Recently, I wanted to create [...]
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Friends, it’s been a month – and a busy one at that. WWDC, a stint on the exotic islands of New Zealand and Australia in the South Pacific, and a rather anticlimactic return to New York City and my APP OF THE WEEK column.
I actually do have some things to say about my travels, [...]
Continue Reading →Much has been written and said following the revelation that Apple’s devices maintain a database (to use the term loosely) with entries, that, properly parsed, can be used to demonstrate more or less where the iPhone has been geographically over the course of it’s little iLife.
So: Is this a problem, and if so, how [...]
Continue Reading →Presented for your consideration today, a brief examination of what makes an app an app, and distinctly not a desktop application, nor a mobile website for that matter (and this is by far a more compelling examination).
Continue Reading →The internet is abuzz this week with the U.S. Copyright Office’s ruling that consumers in the United States have the legal right to over-ride software that ships on their mobile devices, this to the objection of many manufacturers including Apple. While much has been said about the ruling, I’ve read very little in the way [...]
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