software
What if Adobe generated code?
Wil Shipley had an idea for Adobe:
If Adobe were smart, they’d modify their Flash ▶ iPhone code to just output Obj-C source code. Not much Apple could do.”
I’m sure Adobe is smart. And that’s why they aren’t getting into a battle they can’t possibly win. Let’s explore a what-if scenario of Adobe going down this [...]
Getting User Data From a Lite to a Paid App
It’s a common problem now on the App Store. User buys Lite version. User likes lite version. User buys the paid version and loses all of her/his data. Not a very good experience.
How can we fix this?
UIPasteboard of course!
Apple introduced an excellent and oft overlooked addition to the iPhone SDK when it gave developers the [...]
New Site!!
http://thatswh.at/
It’s juvenile and hilarious. My two favorite things. It looks at every tweet on Twitter and finds tweets that tell other people “That’s what she said.” It then finds the tweet that was in response to and puts it on a list.
This produces some of the following gems:
“my hands smell like meat”
and
“@mikejarrell @Jabrown85 Haha, thanks. [...]
Free Software!!!
I made a little app for my personal use the other day and thought I would share it. It basically keeps a window that is globally accessible through a keyboard command (cmd+shift+m by default). It lets you jot down any notes and use them in any other app.
Simi-useful but more importantly…free!
Download Memo 1.0
Exciting News
So I’ve put my pet project, Searcher, on Cydia (under Utilities). Searcher is an easy way to search your entire iPhone. SMS, Contacts, Notes, Events, Safari Bookmarks and Safari History are a single tap away. Check out the website for Positron Software to find out more.
I will have some more news on OpenClip in the [...]
OpenClip Concerns
Note: This is also mirrored on openclip.org.
Let me first explain how OpenClip works:
How it works is relatively simple and doesn’t break the SDK agreement. OpenClip works by looking into the Documents folder of other applications to get their pastes. Applications are allowed to write all they want to their own Documents directory (for copy), so [...]
iPhone Copy/Paste
I created an open source project for iPhoneDevCamp 2. It allows cross application copy and paste.
Basically, all you have to do to get the benefits is include a few classes and use the very simple API to copy data or paste data. The special part is cross application. Copy a cocktail in Cocktails and paste [...]
iPhone SDK
Who’s ready for the iPhone SDK? Me. In preparation, I’ve been working on a project I’m code-naming Engineer. That might change, but the app is a search application. At the moment, it searches SMS, Notes, and Contacts and it is pretty easy to add support for just about anything. I plan to add iTunes, Mail, [...]
Iron Coder Live
I finally entered an Iron Coder! The theme this year was “Conspiracy” and the API was “iPhone”. Which is a little funny considering there is no real API for the iPhone.
Basically what I did was write a little cocoa app that lives up in your menu bar and takes a shot with the iSight ever [...]
GVoicemail?
I am currently trying Callwave. The main reason I’m trying it out is I want to get voicemail to my email. So I was setting up a GMail filter to deal with it.
When I try and add a “Voicemail” label to GMail, it won’t let me…
Interesting…