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Stanford University: iPhone Application Development (iTunes) : If you’re interested in teaching yourself how to develop for iPhone, this might be the ideal resource. Includes videos and presentation slides, all free of charge. And the “professors” are Apple employees Alan Cannistraro and Josh Shaffer. Don’t know Objective-C? Start following Dan Walker’s series of articles, the first titled “ Learn Objective-C: Day 1 ”. … Read the rest here

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Gramercy iPad Messenger Sling : Stylish, portable, all-in-one storage for iPad, iPhone, digital camera, shades, and more. … Read the rest here

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Camera+ for iPhone: $253,000 in First-Month Sales : tap tap tap’s Camera+ , which sells for $1.99 in the App Store, sold 217,000 copies in its first month. That’s a quarter-million dollars in one month of sales for an app that sells for two bucks. Is it surprising to anyone that, right now, any mobile platform other than iOS is “ largely out of the consciousness of your average developer ”? BTW, the article, written by founder John Casasanta, contains lots of good advice for those hoping to accomplish the same as tap tap tap. … Read the rest here

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EPICWIN : A genius concept for an iPhone app: to-do list meets RPG. For a procrastinator like myself, this just might be the ticket to checking things off. … Read the rest here

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Hard Candy Case for iPhone 4 : It’s thin, comes in a few colors, and — most importantly — it’s not rubber. This may be the perfect fix for my Bumper woes . Update: Phil Coffman found another case , less expensive and perhaps even thinner. /via @carlpeterson … Read the rest here

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I’ve finally been through the entire site, and kicked out any legacy stuff (some of which went back to 2003!) and implemented the new responsive design. Originally, I’d intended to change the layout in the various sections, but in the end I’ve used the same one. After trying the other options, it just felt right. Wallpapers One of things I’ve changed is a new Goodies section. With the exception of the Hill House font (download link now works!), everything is new, including brand new desktop and iphone(4)/mobile wallpapers. Icon Reference Chart Another new goodie is a little labour of love: The Icon Reference Chart . … Read the rest here

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Firefox Home for iPhone : Mozilla has submitted its first app to the App Store, and it’s a “lite” version of their Firefox browser. The entire premise seems to be built on picking up where you left off on your desktop PC. While a nice idea (and one possibly forced by Apple policy), it ignores the context of mobility — something I repeatedly hammered on in Mobile Web Design and something that still holds true today. Frankly, I don’t see my phone’s browser as an extension of my desktop browser. I wouldn’t place any bets on this app doing remarkably well. … Read the rest here

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Tapworthy Book: Designing Great iPhone Apps : Josh Clark’s Tapworthy is now available from O’Reilly Books: Tapworthy takes you from concept to polished interface design with plain-spoken principles and a rich collection of visual examples for designing exceptional interfaces for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The ebook version, which is available in the ePub, mobi (Kindle), Android, and PDF formats, is on sale for $9.99 today only (normally $31.99). Use code DDTAP. The print version is also available on Amazon . … Read the rest here

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With the iPad and iPhone 4, there are as many, if not more, different size icons to create for iOS than there are for desktop apps. While there are plenty of templates and reference sheets for Photoshop users (see Cocoia ) I prefer to use Illustrator CS5 to create mine. So I’ve made my own template, and it’s available here if you find it useful too! Download the iOS icon template for Illustrator CS5 The top layer of the file contains labels and a mask to add the rounded corners of the icon. Don’t forget to hide these before you export. Corner Radius Something that Apple doesn’t include in it’s documentation are the various corner radius dimensions for all the icon sizes… Read the rest here

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Two sizes of dive slates, as displayed in my shower. I’ve written before about showering as an ideal model for creative pause —minimal distraction, mental freedom, and a change of scenery. What I haven’t written about is how to capture what comes of the pause. Inspiration is elusive and fleeting, and if it isn’t captured when it comes, it’s often gone for good. … Read the rest here

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How to Make Web Content Look Stunning on iPhone 4’s Retina Display : Aral Balkan’s tutorial includes a number of helpful resources, as well as a petition to browser vendors: I’d like to suggest that browsers adopt the same naming convention that Cocoa Touch uses to find and load high-DPI versions of image and video assets. That is, if I embed an image using the following code… … it should load in flower.jpg when the device-pixel-ratio is 1 but it should attempt to find an image called flower@2x.jpg at the same relative path if device-pixel-ratio is 2 (and so on, for higher pixel-ratios), falling back to the original graphic if it can’t find a high-resolution version. … Read the rest here

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“It’s Like a Love Letter to Dieter Rams.” : John Gruber’s exhaustive review of iPhone 4. … Read the rest here

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eBoy FixPix : Having long been a fan of eBoy’s pixel art, this new iPhone game caught me attention immediately. But what’s interesting here is how simple yet addictive it is. “Piece together” 100 of beautifully chunky posters by tilting your iPhone in certain directions. My only complaint is that it can be so fast paced that you often fail to stop and admire the artwork. … Read the rest here

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The Cure for Creative Blocks? Leave Your Desk. : Jocelyn K. Glei, writing for The 99 Percent: Though we are more likely than ever to be tethered to others by our iPhones and Blackberries, it’s more important than ever to carve out periods of uninterrupted contemplation. To take our brains out of their scattershot Internet patterns and navigate a new city, take in nature on a long walk, sit quietly and read a book, or have a serendipitous conversation with a stranger. I’d refer to this as creative pause , and I agree with Jocelyn’s remarks about it being a necessary element in the flow of creativity. … Read the rest here

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“Apple of My Eye” Shot and Edited with iPhone 4 : Directed by Michael Koerbel, a graduate student at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Update: The video now includes behind-the-scenes footage following the short film. /via First & 20 … Read the rest here

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ALT/1977: We Are Not Time Travelers : Re-imagining four common products from 2010 as if they were designed in 1977: an mp3 player, a laptop, a mobile phone and a handheld video game system. … Read the rest here

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iPhone Timelapse of St. Petersburg Sunset : So, I might have been lucky enough to capture an impressive sunset and even a brief video just 30 miles from St. Petersburg (and possibly even the same night), but Philip Bloom one-ups me by capturing the entire sunset with his iPhone 3GS using an app called iTimelapse . Only question is, what happens if you need to answer the phone in the middle of it all? … Read the rest here

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While Authentic Jobs may be noted more for its design jobs than development ones, there’s certainly no shortage of the latter around the U.S. and even for remote work. Highlighted below are a few of these, specifically those looking for skilled PHP developers. K-fx², Inc. offers a relocation bonus for the right PHP/Zend Developer looking to settle in Baton Rouge, Louisiana… Read the rest here

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While Authentic Jobs may be noted more for its design jobs than development ones, there’s certainly no shortage of the latter around the U.S. and even for remote work. Highlighted below are a few of these, specifically those looking for skilled PHP developers. K-fx², Inc. offers a relocation bonus for the right PHP/Zend Developer looking to settle in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. You’ll have an edge over other applicants if you can “coherently explain what ‘fat models, skinny controllers’ means and why it is good.” Alas, I cannot. … Read the rest here

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While Authentic Jobs may be noted more for its design jobs than development ones, there’s certainly no shortage of the latter around the U.S. and even for remote work. Highlighted below are a few of these, specifically those looking for skilled PHP developers. K-fx², Inc. offers a relocation bonus for the right PHP/Zend Developer looking to settle in Baton Rouge, Louisiana… Read the rest here