Sunday, May 17, 2009

iPhone Dev News of The Week [05/11/09-05/17/09]

  • I joined a company recently, and the company already has an account as an iPhone Developer under the company name. How exactly do I get my Mac set up...
    • Copyright © 2009 PatrickJ. Visit the original article at http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/iphone-contests/contest-4-free-promo-codes-for-pranktionary-to-be-won/ . Four free promo codes for Pranktionary to win …
      Contest Deadline: Wednesday May 20th, 12:00pm Central Here’s another weekend promo codes contest, generously offered up by the developer of Pranktionary.
      Pranktionary is a fun novelty app that provides a listing of pranks to play on friends, [...]
      • Copyright © 2009 PatrickJ. Visit the original article at http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/iphone-app-store/latest-charming-app-store-trend-stupidly-long-app-names-packed-with-keywords/ . What will they think of next, those ever so clever iPhone developers who help make the App Store such a wonderful place.  We already have the devs who produce dozens of apps that all do essentially the same thing but manage to occupy 10 [...]
        • Developer Kris Lau never claimed that ZombieTown would reinvent the zombie killing genre, he simply set out to make the most entertaining and graphically unique game he could possibly make. Thanks to the artwork done by James Silva, the creator of the hit Xbox Live Arcade game The Dishwasher, that mission has been fully accomplished. ZombieTown: [...]
          • Remember “The Clapper”? That goofy device from those awful television commercials? Now you can make your iPhone or iPod touch operate just like that crazy old thing with a new application called Clap Lamp Deluxe. Developer Maplewoods Associates already offers a slimmed down version of Clap Lamp, which is actually currently on sale, but it just [...]
            • The first question that should leap to mind is: “Why on earth is CoM reviewing Windows?” Frankly, for many professionals, we have no choice. Many of us have to use Windows software in the course of our jobs, or at a minimum use web applications that require that bane to open standards developers everywhere: Internet [...] This article is copyright Cultomedia Corp .
              • Silicon Alley Insider has picked up on some more rumors regarding Apple allowing background processes for a limited number of third-party developers. From what they've heard, there are two potential scenarios for handling the addition. The first would be to let users choose a select number of third-party apps to allow in the background. The second would be to let a select number of developers run processes in the background.
                • This isn’t the last of the iPhone rumors With the World Wide Developers Conference just around the corner, Apple decided to let everyone know that Steve jobs wouldn’t be delivering the keynote, but instead a team of Apple executives would. That didn’t stop the rumor mill from churning, however, as various reports popped up indicating that [...]
                  • Sure, the iPhone Application Store is big business for developers and consumers . For Apple? Not so much. Like always, it's all about selling hardware in Cupertino. Since Apple doesn't release detailed sales information for the iPhone App Store , this figure is just an approximation. LSVP is saying that Apple got about $45 million in total iPhone App Store sales for the last three quarters vs total sales of $25 billion. TechCrunch is saying $95 million, which is the number we have used for our…
                    • Filed under: iPhone , App Store , iPod touch , App Review The very popular Simplify Music [App Store link] iPhone/iPod touch app has now given users the option as to whether or not they want to see the 'demo' library. At the end of last month the updated free desktop app and the iPhone app, $2.99US, were changed so that demo tracks were added to the list of user-provided music. The purpose was to provide some test music for new users that hadn't set the streaming up yet. It was not really…
                      • Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Software , Odds and ends , Developer , iPhone , App Store , Jailbreak/pwnage Miguel Sanchez-Grice, creator of the iCombat app (a remake of the old Atari game), sent us these stats on piracy of his app after writing a blog post about the same thing, and I find them fascinating. Instead of building DRM into his app, he just detected if the player was using a copy that wasn't from the App Store, and then forwarded them onto a web page that he could track. It seems like…
                      • One of the original “wow”-inspiring iPhone apps, music recognition software Shazam, is now responsible for some legal trouble for Apple. Tune Hunter, a company that claims to hold the patent on the technology that Shazam uses, filed suit against the app’s developers, as well as Apple, Gracenote, Napster, Amazon.com and Samsung, among others. It’s actually [...] Related Posts GigaOM: How Apple Put Everyone In an App State of Mind GigaOM: PhoneGap Seeks to Bridge the Gap Between Mobile App…
                      • Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Audio , Software , Developer , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch I don't think I've ever fallen in love with an app as quickly as Bebot . Not only is it a pretty darn powerful synthesizer with an interesting touchscreen interface, but that robot. That robot! He makes you want to play something, anything, with those cute little closed robot eyes and that dashing tux and that knowing smile. If you just want to make funny robot noises, that's easy enough, but for…
                        • Apple is forcing David Muzi, developer of the iPhone and iPod touch RSS application Trackr, to remove all features related to torrent queuing from the next version of the app, or have it pulled from the App Store. Trackr drew extra attention when iLounge reported that Apple had rejected Maza Digital’s Drivetrain torrent remote control application, as Muzi wrote in to point out that Trackr also lets users remotely queue torrents to start downloading,…
                          • SLOT JAPAN is a simulator application of a “Pachislo” or a Japanese slot machine that actually existed and amused a lot of people in Japan. It is a brand new idea! This is the first realistic iPhone based “Pachislot” simulator that was produced and provided by a Japanese developer. In other words, [...]
                            • It could be a while before Ge Wang and the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) starts to feel the heat, but the The London Geek Community iPhone OSCestra served notice last week at the City’s Open Hack London that experimental iPhone music performance is alive and well.
                              Wang, of course, founded Smule, developer of the internationally [...] This article is copyright Cultomedia Corp .
                              • The 10.5.6 update for Mac OS X Leapord that Apple released back in December 2008 prevented Mac from recognizing iPhone in DFU mode, making it impossible to jailbreak and/or unlock it using PwnageTool or QuickPwn. So if you are worried about the 10.5.7 update for Mac OS X that was...
                              • Filed under: iLife , TUAW Business , Books , TUAW Bookshelf With the introduction of iWeb '09, Apple pumped up the volume on its entry-level website authoring tool, making it more functional and flexible for novice users while adding enough power -- multi-site publishing options, FTP upload to unlock users from MobileMe, more capable RSS/podcasting tools and widgets, and links to social media sites like Facebook -- to merit a second look alongside midrange/prosumer apps like Sandvox , RapidWeaver ,…
                                • With more than 1,750 votes from iLounge readers, our latest poll—“Would you rather buy TV shows from the iTunes Store or record them on an iPod/iPhone-friendly DVR?” has ended. Readers were given a variety of responses to choose from, including that they would rather purchase TV shows from the iTunes Store and are satisfied with the way it works now, that they would like to purchase all programming from the iTunes Store but can’t…
                                  • Copyright © 2009 PatrickJ. Visit the original article at http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/general/recommended-6-tips-to-get-your-app-noticed/ . I’m not an iPhone developer, but I feel like I could almost play one on TV. I talk to a lot of devs regularly, and have the utmost admiration for what (the many, many good ones) do, and bring to our iPhones.  So [...]
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                                      • Filed under: Software , Odds and ends , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch Sometimes it's uncanny how many similar iPhone apps appear at about the same time. Over the past week or so, we've heard about a number of new apps that "tune you into" streaming police, fire, and emergency medical service radio services. Apps like this can be useful to volunteer firefighters, off-duty policemen, news crews, scanner enthusiasts, and the occasional ambulance-chasing lawyer. The first out of the box is…
                                        • Filed under: Software OK, when a Mac application has a fun word like "soap" in the name, you just have to roll with the puns. Please forgive me. The developers at unmarked software have scrubbed the dickens out of TextSoap, their text processing application for Mac OS X. Some dirty bugs had besmirched the application, especially in the trial version, so unmarked lathered up the code and washed 'em out. Now they're bubbling over with clean news about TextSoap 6.2.1. Bad puns aside,…
                                          • Copyright © 2009 PatrickJ. Visit the original article at http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/iphone-news/apple-announces-wwdc-2009-keynote-kickoff-time-get-your-countdown-widgets-going/ . Apple® will kick off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address on Monday, June 8 at 10:00 a.m. A team of Apple executives, led by Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the keynote. We already [...]
                                            • Filed under: WWDC , Snow Leopard Apple issued a press release this morning, saying that Worldwide Marketing VP Phil Schiller would lead a "team of Apple executives" to deliver the Worldwide Developer Conference keynote June 8 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific (1 p.m. Eastern). According to the press release, attendees will receive a developer preview of Snow Leopard, the next major version of Mac OS X. The developer preview is designed to show off a new version of QuickTime, QuickTime X, multi-core and GPU…
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