Category Archives: Apple

LocaDo 1.1 Submitted to The AppStore

I submitted LocaDo 1.1 to the app store this weekend and wanted to give a sneak peak. New features include: A sleep mode for improved battery life, up to 60% better in my tests. Metric to do saving for our … Continue reading

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Example Objective-C Code for iOS/iPhone/iPad

Learning a new programming language can be difficult and sometimes developer documentation just doesn’t convey the message clearly and you need an example.  Coming from PHP where every function is documented with example code, I feel this is one area … Continue reading

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Car Pool Party Goes Live – My First App

I’m very happy to announce that today my first app for the iPhone has gone live on the iTunes app store. From the description: Car Pool Party was created for my fiancée to help her arrange and keep track of … Continue reading

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Dynamically adding UIActionSheet buttons

Today’s useful Objective C resource, dynamic buttons on a UIActionSheet.  Awesome. The UIActionSheet is a very useful class, and I use it frequently in my apps, but its initialisation method doesn’t allow you to add buttons from an array. Instead … Continue reading

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alloc NSMutableArray and storing objects

Today’s interesting programming tidbit… If assigning an array to another NSMutable Array such as this: self.listData = [self userData]; You don’t need to alloc the listData array first, although i’m guessing it’s probably a good idea. However if you want … Continue reading

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Objective C – iPhone Programming – FMDB/Sqlite

I’m in the process of learning Objective C with the goal of making iOS apps.  I’ve come across some great resources so I figured I’d share them here as I go. Today I’m working with Sqlite databases. I used the … Continue reading

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Apple iPad 2 review | BGR

Apple’s iPad was the first post-PC device that people took seriously. Microsoft, Nokia and countless manufacturers have tried to find the right balance between a tablet and a computer for the last 10 years, but the iPad was the first … Continue reading

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Epic Citadel

Last month during the introduction of the new Apple TV and iPods, Epic Games showed a demonstration of the Unreal Engine 3 running on an iPhone 4 that looked amazing.  At the time I wasn’t able to test it out … Continue reading

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