🔗 The Blind Shooting The Blind ∵ Stephen van Egmond’s weblog

The Blind Shooting The Blind ∵ Stephen van Egmond’s weblog If you REALLY want to demonstrate this to yourself, turn on voiceover (…) and then triple-tap with three fingers. This activates the screen curtain, a privacy feature that keeps sighted people from snooping what you are doing with your phone. It will also give you a very good idea of what the iphone experience is like when you can’t see.

September 23, 2012 · 1 min · 70 words

🔗 Custom UI Controls for iOS and Mac OS X – Cocoa Controls

Custom UI Controls for iOS and Mac OS X – Cocoa Controls Making an app? Don’t re-invent the wheel. Save time by using a control someone’s already written.

August 14, 2012 · 1 min · 28 words

🔗 Simperium – Pricing

Simperium – Pricing All plans include unlimited sending and storage of structured data plus access to Simperium libraries for iOS/OSX, Javascript, Python and Ruby. What is it: Simperium is a service for developers to move data everywhere it’s needed, instantly and automatically. Use a Simperium library and write a few lines of code. Simperium can then move any JSON data across multiple versions of your app and your backend services....

August 4, 2012 · 1 min · 121 words

🔗 How to Evaluate a (paid) iPhone App Idea – Tony Wright’s Startup Front-End

How to Evaluate a (paid) iPhone App Idea – Tony Wright’s Startup Front-End So, should you launch a paid app? Maybe. Every entrepreneur is different. If you want to build a big/impactful business, it’s not the right path (…). If what you want is a bootstrapped freedom-from-employment effort or are passionate about an idea that’s a lousy fit for in-app purchases, paid apps are a great path.

July 28, 2012 · 1 min · 67 words

🔗 Apptentive – In-app feedback for iPhone application developers

Apptentive – In-app feedback for iPhone application developers Easy feedback mechanisms for developers working on the iPhone & anything iOS. Make the best iPhone applications by communicating with your customers.

July 27, 2012 · 1 min · 30 words

🔗 Mobile App Feedback | Atlassian JIRA Mobile Connect

Mobile App Feedback | Atlassian JIRA Mobile Connect JIRA Mobile Connect is a free, open-source library for collecting feedback and engaging with your mobile users to improve the quality of your application. “Free” for anyone using JIRA .

July 27, 2012 · 1 min · 38 words

🔗 Providing Live Touch Feedback in iOS App Demos Using TOUCHkit

Providing Live Touch Feedback in iOS App Demos Using TOUCHkit Reflection -style recordings lack any indication of the user’s touch and visual focus. To deal with this, I developed TOUCHkit. TOUCHkit provides a live touch feedback layer for demonstration use.

July 27, 2012 · 1 min · 40 words

🔗 iPhone SDK Examples

iPhone SDK Examples “Just show me how to do it!” This site is meant for the relatively new iPhone Developer who just wants simple examples to common tasks. It is meant as a starting point. Please take the time to read the documentation and understand the SDK in depth.

July 10, 2012 · 1 min · 49 words

🔗 Delivery As A Service – Anil Dash

Delivery As A Service – Anil Dash This time it’s not a pattern in end-user applications, but rather in infrastructure services, which I’d call " Delivery as a Service “. In this model, new offerings provide a set of message delivery services for developers that share a few common traits: Digital services that pre-date the web , or were designed without the web in mind, can now be exposed as simple web services Legacy platforms that require extremely expensive startup costs convert into a cost-per-message (or cost per thousand messages) model Message systems with effective anti-spam components usually exert a high cost on spammers that can also be a prohibitively high bar for small developers unless they’re able to pool their efforts Service providers can aggregate requests from many small, separate applications to make costly services approachable for independent developers You can figure out what the hell these service providers do , unlike many generic web service providers See also Cloudtop Applications – Anil Dash

July 6, 2012 · 1 min · 165 words

🔗 iOS Fonts — A Place for Happy Typography

iOS Fonts — A Place for Happy Typography List of fonts included in iOS.

June 25, 2012 · 1 min · 14 words