March 2008 Archives

Progress bars allow end-users to anticipate wait times. They present bars that fill from left to right. These bars indicate the degree to which a task has finished. Progress bars work best for long waits where providing state feedback allows...... read more

The other day, I posted on TUAW about finding Apple's new AppStore Protocol in Apple's public storeBag.xml file. Today, I've been able to flesh out those calls and make them work--mostly through the help of iPhone hacker Pumpkin who figured...... read more

Hackers have been hard at work updating the open source iPhone SDK to work with Apple's newest unreleased firmware and here is what they have found: nearly everything that worked with earlier firmware continues to compile and work with the...... read more

What happens when you offer free technical support and application distribution for only $99? An oversupply of iPhone developer wannabees and an undersupply of Apple developer support resources. That's my guess at least. If you actually made it into the...... read more

Say you were working in an unspecified but extremely buggy beta SDK. Say you suddenly started encountering "could not open a new pseudo tty" errors whenever you tried opening a new terminal windows. There's not much help out there on...... read more

I was up way way late and woke up way way early. I didn't sleep so you could--here are important things you need to know about the SDK. Intel only. You need an Intel Mac running 10.5.2. Don't believe the...... read more

Last weekend, I decided to expand Coverflow to work with my entire photo album. This involved exploring the MusicLibrary and PhotoLibrary frameworks to find out how I could extract a complete set of albums and their pictures. The PLPhotoLibrary class...... read more

If you have even the slightest interest in the iPhone SDK be aware that Apple's servers are getting slammed from every direction. I finally got a download to start after a few hours and am about 5 hours away from...... read more

After dumping strings from LayerKit, I'm pleased to have found two new previously unknown animations: mapCurl and mapUnCurl. These are the animations used in Google Maps to reveal the settings pane. The complete list of animations that I was able...... read more