It seems the industry wires and the social media are ablaze with the supposedly breaking story that iOS devices are tracking your every movement Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden announced this at Where2.0 and also made a nifty little application that will visualise the data that is stored in this sqllite database, mine for the [...]
Read More iOS, iPhone, location, media, newsMBProgressHUD MBProgressHUD is an iPhone drop-in class that displays a translucent HUD with a progress indicator and some optional labels while work is being done in a background thread. The HUD is meant as a replacement for the undocumented, private UIKit UIProgressHUD with some additional features. Sharekit If you only need to post updates to [...]
Read More iOS, iPhone, opensource, thirdpartyDespite reading about SSD’s improvements for a fair while, I was always of the opinion I didn’t use the hard drive that much other than boot times and opening programs and would therefore be far better served with more RAM. However after Simon upgraded his Macbook and convinced me it was more than just benchmarks [...]
Read More Macbook, Performance, SSDPhoto by Bryn Salisbury At the weekend just gone Elliot and I attended the LinkedGov hackcamp at LBi offices. The event was brilliantly organised by everyone involved. Some interesting data sets were released . The ones that took mine and Elliot’s interest were the Foreign offices travel advice api and the Greater Manchester bus time tables. Elliot set [...]
Read More Event, hackcamp, iOS, iPhone, LinkedGovMyself and Stuart presented to an audience at Bristol College, as part of a series of lectures on mobile app development. We split the presentation into two parts, and in sharing our experiences we talked about the key things that should be considered commercially ahead of investing in the tools, SDKs, equipment and necessary paraphernalia [...]
Read More BCS, Event, SpeakingA guest post from Stuart from intohand on how to make your virtual box more a little more useful within Ubuntu Why do you want to do this? So you can create a Virtual server that you are going to do some work with, which you might perhaps use when snapshotting different build states of [...]
Read More guest, ubuntu, virtualboxWhilst many developers complain of a race to the bottom with app pricing as this comic briliantly illustrates http://theoatmeal.com/blog/apps I do question whether this was a metric that developers found easy to manipulate in the early days of app stores that may not necessarily hold true in the longer term, a great comment I once [...]
Read MoreRomain Nurik posted an excellent article today on why you need to hand edit layouts for Android rather than using a WYSIWIG tool First off, there will be some obvious bias in this post. I have been very fortunate in my working career to work with some truly great product managers, designers and artists on [...]
Read MoreHopefully someone else will find these useful. Distilled from the Apple guide Icon.png – Home screen icon for iPhone 3 (57×57) Icon@2x.png – Home screen icon for iPhone 4 (114×114) Icon-72.png – Home screen icon for iPad (72×72) Icon-Small.png - Settings/Spotlight icon for iPhone 3 (29×29) Icon-Small@2x.png – Settings/Spotlight icon for iPhone 4 (58×58) Icon-Small-50.png – [...]
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