August 2010
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Win Flickpad, Flickr Pro Account, and an iPad!
To celebrate the launch of Flickpad, we are giving away copies of Flickpad, Flickr Pro accounts, and an iPad! Each day from today until Friday, we will post a message on Twitter. All you need to do is retweet the message and follow @flickpad, and you are automatically entered to win. Each day, we will randomly select ten winners for a copy of Flickpad and one winner for a one year Flickr...
May 2010
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OAuth and Facebook iPhone SDK
I was just doing some research on this and figured I would post it here for other devs that might be looking for similar answers (and because Stack Overflow limits new members to one link per reply). The best resources I have found are:
http://www.capturetheconversation.com/technology/iphone-facebook-oauth2-graph-api...
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Flickpad - Facebook photos on the iPad
Facebook is awesome, and I love browsing photos from all my friends, but I must say that I find it cumbersome. I often miss new photos that have been posted because I don’t happen to check Facebook soon enough after photos were posted and they got lost in the news feed. Also, clicking through albums often leaves me with a browser history that makes using the back button in the browser...
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Mac Desktop Setup Nirvana
I am one of those people that tote around a 17” MacBook Pro and love it. The MBP has been my primary development machine for going on four years now and I continue to think it is the best setup for the average nomadic Mac developer. Even with the 17” MBP though, extra screen real estate is always nice to have, and historically I have used an external secondary monitor via the DVI out...
April 2010
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Facebook FQL Multiquery Example
While working on our latest app for the iPad, Flickpad, I have been knee deep in Facebook FQL. FQL provides a powerful, albeit resource limited, way to access Facebook data. FQL is loosely inspired by SQL, pretty much just implementing the most basic syntax features. There are no joins allowed, tables must be queried on at least one of there indexed fields, IN is supported but NOT IN is not....
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Urban Airship iPhone Framework
Our iPhone application The Now is a tool to help people live more mindfully. The Now accomplishes this using a technique called continuous mindfulness training. The process works by using periodic cues, in this case, free iPhone push notifications with an audible chime and relevant message, to remind you to be fully focused on the present. When we started creating The Now we researched what was...
January 2010
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AppStore Delisting
There is no doubt that the AppStore has revolutionized the distribution and sale of mobile applications, but for all its success, it could use some major improvement in a couple areas.
One of the most publicized issues is the app approval process and the seemingly random nature with which guidelines are enforced. To be fair, this one is more of an Apple failing than the AppStore in particular.
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The Killer Idea
I would have thought that one of the hardest parts of starting a software product company would be coming up with the killer idea that is going to make you and all your partners rich. It turns out that it is hard, but not in the way that I thought. Coming up with the killer ideas has actually been the easy part. We have about a half dozen ideas right now, that I believe, if designed and...
December 2009
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iPhone Animation: Fade Between Multiple Images
Maybe you want to have a background of images that slowly fade from one image to the next. Or maybe you want to do a photo slideshow with a nice dissolve between the two pictures. We tried a few different approaches before we found the right way to get this to work for us. Here’s a little bit of sample code to show you how to do it.
We need three instance variables: two image views to draw...
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Indie Mac Developer Band Wagon
All aboard. After nearly three years working for a Mac photography software startup here in Honolulu, HI, I decided to resign and try my hand at starting a Mac indie dev shop. I learned a lot these last three years and got to work with a bunch of great people. During that time, we also created some really compelling software but for many reasons, its full potential was never realized and I was...
