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iOS I recently bought an iPhone 4S, because it’s finally on Sprint! I’ve owned a 1st gen iPod touch for a year, but a lot has changed since then. Yet, iOS 5 still has a similar look and feel, but more features have made it way more productive. Some of the features I like the [...]

It’s no lie that I like Apple products. I have a MacBook Pro, two iPods (80 GB Classic and 8 GB 1st generation iPod Touch, and a recently purchased Magic Mouse. I think that Apple makes some great products, even though I’ll admit that some of them are a bit overpriced. Is the price justified? [...]

Sad day (http://mashable.com/2010/04/30/lala-shutdown/). At least they’ll keep the site going until May 31st. Good news: I’m getting a $25 gift cert for iTunes!

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The Apple iPad will be released next month, and how will it change technology and what we do? Analysts predict that there will be heavy adoption among enterprises. It’s conceivable that professionals like insurance adjusters and doctors would greatly benefit from great apps on the iPad. But what does the iPad offer to the everyday [...]

I’m taking a mobile development class this semester, and we’re learning how to develop applications on the iPhone and Android. This last weekend I went over a tutorial published by O’Reilly books. Elizabeth goes over how to tie together a UINavigationController, UIViewController, UITabController, and UITableViewController all in one app. You definitely want to already be [...]

I don’t think that the iPad will ever get Adobe Flash. It’s not a matter of technical feasibility, but I think that Apple will ever allow it. The fact of the matter is that Apple manufactures hardware devices and sells the content to go along with it. Apple would cannibalize its content sales if they [...]

iPhone development is pretty stinking sweet. So I wanted to play around with some accelerometer hardware, but I don’t have an iPhone or iPod touch (yet), so I only had to work with the simulator. I tried using the shake gesture inside the simulator, but it doesn’t register any accelerometer data when you shake the [...]

http://www.trejan.com/projects/ipod/ If you want to test your app on different firmware versions outside of the iPhone simulator, this website has a huge list of all firmware binaries for the iPod Touch and iPhone. Everything is straight from Apple. There are also carrier profiles, basebands, and recovery files (for older iPhones). I’ve found it to be [...]

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/ Stanford recorded and released their intro to iPhone programming course as a podcast last year. I got about half way through this class before starting my internship last summer. All the course materials, assignments, and lectures are freely available online (and some solutions if you Google). The class is taught by developers that work [...]