As the company has with its Dashboard widgets page on Apple.com, Apple introduced a new directory for Web applications compatible with the iPhone and iPod Touch, announced through the company’s Hot News page (deemed by many to be Apple’s quasi-blog).
As anticipated by AppleInsider and others, the directory includes icons, screenshots, and short descriptions of the [...]
Mac software maker Market Circle has released iPhoney, an open-source iPhone simulator for web developers. See how your websites look on the iPhone in both portrait and landscape.
It lacks a few iPhone features, such as pinch and zoom, but will let you test while developing apps for iPhone (without using your iPhone). I think this [...]
Hack The iPhone has posted an in-depth walkthrough on how to get custom ringtones working on your iPhone.
It requires quite a bit of hackery and, if you’re not careful, could very well kill off your iPhone altogether.
I honestly don’t think I’d want to risk that considering it costs a small fortune to purchase an [...]
Developers have been buzzing since Jobs’ announcement at WWDC to make Safari the unofficial SDK for the iPhone. Many have voiced (or screamed) their disappointment, while others have rejoiced. But despite the variety of opinions on the matter, everyone has questions about how to develop and optimize content for the iPhone.
Fortunately Apple has released a [...]
Web developers have been more and more concerned with coding for mobile devices. Now that the iPhone is here, I wonder if that may change further. The iPhone - unlike most other cellular phones on the market - browses using a wide-screen web browser and the touch interface makes it easy to do [...]
So for everyone who’s ever complained about the .Mac service, someone is finally trying to do something about it. The notMac Challenge is offering up a choice bounty (at least $10k!) for anyone who can develop a .Mac alternative that’s as easy to use as Apple’s offering, but robust enough to be useful for [...]
If you like being so far out on the bleeding edge such that using a newly released beta isn’t high risk enough for you, the Web geniuses behind Apple’s Safari program offer nightly builds of the WebKit engine that acts as the underlying foundation for Safari, Dashboard, Mail and many other OS X applications. Now, [...]
Well, I promised an update to the events of this coming week in the world of Apple, and indeed a number of things have happened recently…
Updated hardware
Apple updated the Macbook Pro earlier than expected, with some of the key features that were rumored, so we score it off the “updated hardware” list..
However, there are still [...]
One week from today, Steve Jobs will be getting on stage to reveal some new developments in the world of the Mac, as well as showing developers how to take advantage of them. Here’s a quick roundup of what we’ve seen so far, and I’ll be revisiting/updating this on Saturday when I land in [...]
Those Mac developers looking forward to attending this year’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference (WWDC) just got another reason to go.
Today Apple sent an e-mail to registered developers, offering them first cuts and the much-anticipated Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) operating system. The e-mail says there will be a “feature complete” version of Leopard - ostensibly with [...]
A few months ago I started to mess around with a .htaccess file in connection with one of my websites. When I transferred the file from my web server to my desktop via FTP, the file never showed up. I tried again and again, but that dang file would never show up. [...]
A Product Manager at Symantec Corporation posted a query Wednesday on the Entourage mailing list.
I was curious if anyone knew the names of a few dev shops that focus on creating custom extensions for Entourage.
Although the mailing list is unofficial, and not run by Microsoft, it is frequented by MVPs and has seen activity [...]
Today I came across an article with a few ‘tools’ for web design and frankly, I thought it pretty lame and unexciting. There were 2 things on there that I felt were actually good information, Color Schemer and Typetester. The other, information was either lame (a “handy dandy” notebook) or untrue (”Mountain Dew“).
So, [...]
Recently Google has announced a release of FUSE for OSX.
For those not familiar with FUSE, it means Filesystem in User Space. FUSE allows someone to implement a filesystem using the built-in API instead of having to write complex software to achieve the same goal. This should open up a lot of interesting possibilities [...]
After TUAW posted about Leopard only applications the other day, Scott Stevens (of Thoecacao and CocoaBlogs, and CocoaDevCentral) addresses the issue from a developer perspective. You may want to check the TUAW post first, and then go back to Scott’s explanation of things for a full-world view of the situation.
The insight Scott offers [...]
I’ve been working more in web development lately, both in PHP (picking up more freelance work) and learning Ruby on Rails. It’s always been something of a hobby of mine to try new things with web programming, but one thing always makes me clench my fists and gnash my teeth: the Mac OS X user [...]
Apple has officially released Dashcode, an application for developing Dashboard Widgets. It’s in beta, but from what I can tell from using it, it seems to be pretty feature complete, and very stable.
This application is really cool, I must say. It allows anyone, even someone with very very little technical knowledge, to create a dashboard [...]
I do quite a bit of design and development with my company. To keep things streamlined I’ve setup my machine as a local development server to avoid the obvious hassle of having to FTP files every time I make a change that I want to see. Setting up your machine as a development server is [...]
This will be a new thread where I’ll show a tip or trick for Cocoa programmers, and why it’s imporant to everyone. These articles will be geared towards everyone - not just programmers. I’ll hide the code so you don’t have to look at it if you don’t want to see it.
I got an iChat message from Paul yesterday, asking about a way to use music visualizations as a desktop ‘wallpaper’. My initial suggestion was to play with Quartz Composer and see about coming up with something there. I’ve come up with a couple more suggestions - which I’ll write about in a moment [...]
