A Developing Situation

As I wait impatiently for FedEx to get here with my copy of Leopard, I took a few minutes to take Safari over to the iPhone Dev Center page on Apple's site. With the company's recent announcement that a software developer's kit for the iPhone is on the way early next year, there's been a lot of buzz about the potential for new applications from third-party developers.

The iPhone Dev Center site has a lot of cool geeky stuff already -- sample code, videos, reference libraries, and Web development guidelines about app-crafting for the iPhone and iPod Touch. To see the goods, though, you need to have an Apple Developer Connection membership. Don't worry, you can sign up for a free online membership here. But as I was poking around the page, I saw a note saying you could also just sign in with your .Mac username and password. Rawk!

Once you get signed in, the links on the iPhone Dev Center site go live so you can start checking out the content. You can even download the seven iPhone Tech Talk videos on the page and watch them with iTunes. "iPhone User Interface Design" and "Managing Content and Synced Data for iPhone" are two of the titles -- nuke up the Orville Redenbacher!