This Much I Know

Apple’s Ad Hoc distribution process is a godsend for iPhone beta-testing, but a right pain to use in practice.  I’ve tried several different approaches for creating and managing Ad Hoc testing; this article describes the one I now use for my National Rail Enquiries for iPhone application.

Whether it’s Shazam’s grey-on-black background on the App Store, arsenal.com’s subtle top bar, or the new Messages, iPod and Phone icons in iPhone OS 3.0, there can be no denying it: 45-degree-diagonal-one-pixel-stripes are this year’s curvy-cornered-box.  You heard it here first.

I’ve just launched a new web site, called devkits.net.  The site is all about a couple of iPhone development kits I’ve been working on. Each kit is a self-contained, fully documented set of classes to kick-start an iPhone development project. The kits have been fully tested in my own commercial software projects, and each kit comes with [...]

According to the latest reports from WWDC, QuickTime X finally brings the one feature that’s been missing for years: full-screen playback for non-Pro users.  It’s long been a bugbear of QuickTime users and developers that you have to buy QuickTime Pro to play movies at full screen.  It looks as though QuickTime X (currently being [...]