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GIC Acquires Cocoapedia
Grupo Imaginación Cibernética (GIC), a software development company based in Mexico, agrees to acquire Cocoapedia’s brand and assets after winning the bidding on Monday, July 16th. Cocoanetics sought...
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Before Renewing Your Membership …
The month before your membership in the iOS Developer program expires Apple begins to gently remind you that renewal is coming up. If you don’t want to experience an “interruption in service” you...
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Urban Airship Commander BETA
Imagine yourself implementing APN (Apple Push Notifications) using Urban Airship’s API and service. How do you go about testing the push functionality and possibly demonstrating it in front of your...
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Multi-Context CoreData
When you start using CoreData for persisting your app data you start out with a single managed object context (MOC). This is how the templates in Xcode are set up if you put a checkmark next to “Use...
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Out of Office
We’re offline for “maintenance” until August 2nd with no way to receive emails or respond to your requests and orders. We mention this so that you know why you won’t hear from us until then. We...
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GeoCorder 1.3.3
GeoCorder was having a problem that only became apparent if used over longer durations. Also it was quite elusive so we needed to open a technical support ticket with Apple to get help in finding it....
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Softly Killing iPhone 3G
The latest version that ever ran on the iPhone 3G was iOS 4.2.1, but even though iOS 4 brought multi-tasking to the platform the iPhone 3G never got that. The iPhone 3G had been introduced in June 2008...
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A Taller iPhone is a Giraffe
Blogger Mark Gurman from 9to5Mac caused quite a stir when he showed screen shots showing that Apple had secretly updated the iOS Simulator to be able to deal with the rumored higher resolution of the...
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Unit Tests Don’t Bite
You might have heard about the term “Test Driven Development”. The idea is – as I understand it – that for every problem you find in a component of your apps you create a Unit Test that fails. Then you...
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Cubed CoreAnimation Conundrum
One of the big mysteries of CoreAnimations are 3D transforms. You might have seen them used in popular apps like Flipboard (page turn) but there are hardly any good tutorials in how they actually work....
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Podcast #40 – “Happy App.net Day”
App.net reaches their funding goal, Apple releases Xcode 4.4 and almost kills armv6 support and a crowdsourced system estimates review times more accurately. Show Notes Since July 10 when Apple has...
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Smart App Banners
How often do you get annoyed by the following? You look up something on Google on your iPhone and you find an answer in a form. When you click-through the search result the forum does not just show you...
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iPhone 5 Fake Rumor Roundup
Current rumors about the next iPhone are that it will have a 4″ screen, a smaller SIM card and will probably start with pre-orders on September 12th. We’ve heard all that, that’s old news. Following in...
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Software Update Server Guide
Once you get to a level of having more than a single Mac you might find it a bit of a hassle having to download and install all updates for all your Macs from Apple over the Internet. When you check...
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iCatalog+
Our partners at International Color Services (ICS) have been rather busy throughout the summer. The main reason is that we released the next major update to the iCatalog.framework, adding several new...
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Podcast #41 – “Megabytes of Who-Knows-What”
Apple updates Xcode 4.4, seeds the first point release for Mountain Lion, and somehow manual symbolicating of crash reports has become broken. Show Notes On August 7th Apple released version 4.4.1 of...
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Time-Limited Demo of Our Components
I’m happy to announce today that we will begin to make available test versions of our components so that you can try them out in your apps. This is possible with the help of our Jenkins build server...
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Pixate Reboots Their Kickstarter (Scandal)
Paul Colton contacted me on July 17th, a week before they went live with their first Kickstarter campaign. Always happy to support my fellow iOS developers I agreed that I would make Linguan available...
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Radar: AirPlay broken if only connected display is VNC
I got an AppleTV for our office and brought over my old Sharp TV which is able to display 720p well enough to be used as a presentation display via AirPlay. When I tried to use AirPlay to display the...
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NOT a Radar: Missing IR Remote Settings
I was about to file a second Radar from out latest AirPlay Experiments. When I was remote-controlling the AppleTV my colleague complained that stray radiation was also changing his speaker volume. When...
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