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iPhone Development

simon — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:54:03 +0000

Besides being a right pain in the arse – with numerous development certificates required, I’m starting to get a handle on it.

I’ve got a simple ‘push’ application and service (written in PHP) working. Just need to work out how the feedback mechanism works, so that you can remove old connections.

These were the best sites I found, for help: Macoscoders and iPhone Software Development. I have to say that Objective-C is counter-intuitive and I’m glad I’ve got some good books!

Phone Air-bag

simon — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:16:23 +0000

For my next invention – an airbag for an iPhone. The iPhone has accelerometers in it – so it could detect if it was falling to the ground, and therefore deploy a mini airbag, to prevent any damage. A bit … Continue reading →

New Phone

simon — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:40:45 +0000

Ah, such a shame, time for a new phone as my current one is starting to fail (the little joystick on the Sony Ericcson is sticking) – so I have an excuse to get an iPhone! My cousin’s also looking at writing some iPhone apps and I said that I would help out.

Favourite apps so far:

- Remote – lets me control, via wi-fi, iTunes on my laptop
- Shazam – let it listen to some music and it will tell you what it is (100% success rate so far)
- Tape Measure
- Units
- Twitterific – think I might try out a few other Twitter clients
- Stanza – for eBooks. Going to try reading Ulysses on it later on.

The Facebook app won’t authenticate for some reason….