Designing and Prototyping
Designing and prototyping is a big part of creating great software applications. Skimping on the design step in hope of shortening the development cycle is a typical [...]
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iPhone programming books
“What do I need to get started?” This is the question we get most often from readers regarding iPhone development. The answer is pretty simple: an Intel-based [...]
TapWorthy apps: Emerald Sequoia
The App Store has a huge collection of timer apps, clock apps, and apps which count down in every imaginable way. We use them all the time, but we usually don’t [...]
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t was 1994 and the world had just been introduced to the Newton MessagePad. The Newton was a handheld personal digital assistant (PDA) which was supposed to help you [...]
Navigating a Touchscreen UI
The iPad is a great example of how difficult it is for some folks embrace new/different things. For the first time in thirty years a new computer interface has been created, [...]
Building the perfect tablet
Hardware companies think that writing software is easy (Sony) and software companies think that building hardware can’t be that hard (Microsoft). Apple has been doing [...]
ePublishing for the iPad – 1000 Chinese characters
The project we completed last week was to take the 1000 Chinese characters and convert it into an eBook viewable on the iPad. Converting the collection of images into a Word [...]
ePublishing for the iPad
The iPad has sold more the 500,000 units since it went on sale two weeks ago. Its success has surprised even Apple, and it has pushed back the overseas release date of the [...]
Free iPad Apps
The iPhone has been a success in part because of the large number of third-party apps available for it. Likewise, the usefulness and ultimate success of the iPad (beyond the [...]
iPad FirstLook
Now that our iPad has been unboxed we thought we would provide a quick tour of the unit and offer a few observations about the physical aspects of this device: Height: [...]
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