November 2008 Archives

Put aside the debate about $0.99 vs $1.99 on the App Store for a minute. How about $109.99 vs. $199.99?! There are currently 14 iPhone applications for sale on the US App Store for more than $100. While some of...... read more

Yesterday I posted about Lala.com over on the Rogue Amoeba weblog. You can read the full article, but in short, I discussed the very cool Lala.com music service, which offers several advantages over the iTunes Store. I'd certainly encourage you...... read more

Last week, I wrote about exploring subviews both of the user-added and Apple-created varieties. Many GUI components contain view classes that are hidden from the developer but are composed of perfectly standard components.... read more

Early this week, Google released their Google Mobile Search application on the iPhone, adding Voice Search capability. It can now record your query, pass it to Google's servers to translate, and return results. The voice recognition itself is far from...... read more

"I have an idea for an iPhone application." The most common conversation I have with people these days concerns the process of turning ideas into iPhone applications. Someone reaches out to me from across the Internet, hoping I will be...... read more

It's often helpful to take a look at your UIView hierarchy; and when I say "look", I mean all the way down. You can just as easily look at the component subviews that comprise on-screen objects like buttons, switches, and sliders, as you can at the UIImageViews and UIButtons that you add directly to your screen. UIButtons, for example, are composed of three image views and a label. Some UITextFields are built on a private UITextFieldRoundedRectBackgroundView, with a number of UIImageViews that are added below that class.

Several weeks ago I wrote about the experience of using a Nokia E71 as a 3G tethering device for my laptop here on Inside iPhone. I took advantage of a $19.99 unlimited data plan offered by AT&T GoPhone, the pay-as-you-go...... read more

There's so many new apps appearing on the App Store, how can anyone keep track of what interests them? Apple's Genius playlist technology, currently restricted to just music, might be one answer.... read more

I've come to an important stage of the development of an iPhone-optimized version of my website, RinkAtlas. I've decided to redirect all visitors to the site who are using an iPhone or an iPod touch to the iPhone-optimized version of...... read more

Yesterday, I read a terrific post by Andy Finnell regarding iPhone Pricing. You may now have seen this article linked by Daring Fireball or Ranchero, but if you haven't, it's absolutely worth a read. In it, Andy discusses the low...... read more

One of the things I hate about the Media Player framework is that although it offers easy-to-use audio playback, it does so horizontally. Users have to flip their phones onto the side and access the playback controls in landscape. It's not all that hard to force Media Player into portrait mode and today I'll show you how.

Brian Cooke of roobasoft has posted an insightful blog entry about the launch of his iPhone application, Count It Off, used for 'simple calorie counting and weight tracking'. What stands out about this blog entry more than anything else is...... read more

Strategic research company Create With Context has published a fascinating presentation online, titled How people really use the iPhone.

I've spent some time recently trying to hunt down items for use in your Info.plist files. The natural place to look for these is the SpringBoard executable in the iPhone's Core Services folder. I ran this file through a strings filter, looking to see if I could find groupings of items that might work.

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