In times of global warming every single tree counts. Go for a green Christmas! My close friends at TreealityGroup just released iTree - The Original [direct iTunes Link].
iTree - The Original is different than all other Christmas themed applications for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. With iTree - The Original not only can you decorate a beautiful personal Christmas tree, change between day and night scenery, watch how the sun walks the horizon and the snow falls down silently. You can also send your finished iTree as an electronic greeting card to your friends and beloved ones! (Recipients do...
ZDNet's Ed Burnette published an excellent article about jump starting iPhone development. As he was so kind to link back to my series of posts I'll owe him my trackback, too. Thanks Ed!
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Today Amazon shipped OpenGL Programming on Mac OS X by Robert P. Kuehne and J. D. Sullivan and Core Animation for Mac OS X and the iPhone by Bill Dudney. I guess I'll survive the rainy weekend!
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Given the wide popularity, the enormous amount of comments and personal feedback I've received so far for my first post about iPhone mobile provisioning and the ongoing discussions in various developer communities related to this topic, I've decided to write a follow-up on how to address mobile provisioning issues that tend to arise time and again.
While Apple has made some enhancements to the documentation available in the iPhone Developer Program Portal – you need to be logged in to access the linked content – there still seem to be many problems out there with respect to setting up and maintaining...
The folks at Apple have just finished their review of the fully reworked TAXIRUF version 2.0. The application is about to hit the App Store within a few hours now.
As usual you'll find all the (German) details here. If you want to grab a copy for your iPhone please follow this link.
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I've heard scattered rumors :-) that TAXIRUF 2.0 is about to hit the App Store and it'll feature a fully reworked user interface along with full text search and streamlined automated updates.
Stay tuned!
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Yesterday we've released the updated version 1.1 of Taxiruf for the iPhone. Today it entered the Top 10 sold applications in App Store and less than two weeks after the initial release now ranges on rank 10.
Mac Life recommends Taxiruf as one of the must have applications for your iPhone. Besides the joy of having the leading German Apple mag recommending our solution we are also extremely pleased by the fact that Mac Life considers our technical support services as outstanding.
We are continuing to invest into completing the database which ships with the application in order to also cover smaller...
As outlined in a previous post we've released a location based cab finder for the iPhone which features a full offline database containing cab companies for all major German cities about a week ago. Since then we've enjoyed an impressive and increasing number of daily sales, very positive reviews and even direct feedback from customers.
Quite coincidentally Google has announced the winners of the Android challenge: cab4me! Reading the description of the service it's almost identical with what we've built for the iPhone:
“cab4me enables you to easily call a cab to any location worldwide. You do not need to...
As many if not all of my readers know approved iPhone developers are under a heavy NDA. This prevents public code discussions and step-by-step tutorials. One of the applications I'm currently working on heavily depends on the current user's location. When I started diving into creating location based applications I naively assumed that iPhone's Core Location Framework would provide me with a rich API for getting country, city and street information. Well, that's not the case. At the end of the day all Core Location Framework gives you are latitude and longitude as a 2D coordinate. The rest is...
I've been asked by some folks with a .NET background how I've jump started my iPhone development journey. Well, first of all, if you're new to programing for the Mac and have a .NET/Visual Studio background, be warned: EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT. And with "different" I mean VERY different. :-) The same applies if you're background is a Java/Eclipse one. It took a while for me to get a hold of Apple's paradigms when it comes to application architecture and how things integrate into each others. One of my biggest difficulties was to really grasp how stuff you...