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“It is aaaall over!” To quote Mike Goldberg of the UFC. To be honest, the finish wasn’t all that exciting, I got a baby-blue T-shirt. The event was a bit different from other events I’ve been to. First of all they made it very clear that the event was under NDA, meaning no bloging (oops), [...]

I was in India last week for work and got a pleasant suprise when my iPhone indicated that I got mail at 3 am. The email was from Apple informing me that I was welcome to attend the tech talks in Stockholm on december 8 (next week). The event is all day and will be [...]

Apple just released the 2.2 update for the iPhone, with that there’s also an updated SDK. As usual Apple is rather quiet about what is really updated with the new firmware but they have a list here
Google Maps

Directions by public transportation and walking.
StreetView is available when dropping a pin.
Share locations by mail with other [...]

A while back I wrote about the sliding menu in the Facebook application. I was truly impressed by their application and especially the sliding menu. One of the major problems with the iPhone UI in my opinion is the lack of intuitive ways to present navigation to many functions for a single view. The sliding [...]

In a previous post I wrote about downloading an image asynchronously. As my work has progressed with my app (which is soon to be released on app store) I realized that the InternetImage class worked very well in the simulator but crashed my application very often on the actual device. The problem with the first [...]

Facebook released a new version of their iPhone application, bringing it to version 2.0, just a few days ago and I must say I’m very impressed. It’s not that I’m a big Facebook fan, I check my profile once or twice every week. But Facebook is always ahead when it comes to new cool features [...]

Just starting with a new language and new framework you always run into problems that you never thought would be a problem. I’ve encountered the problem of finding out the height/width of text when drawn on screen when I was working with a Java applet. Now that I’m working on my GPS and internet aware [...]

NOTE! I’ve updated the InternetImage class, read about it in this post: Downloading an image asynchronously. Revisited!, you will also find the revised code there.
In a recent post I showed you how to round of edges of an image. But how can you go about downloading images from the internet in your iPhone app? There [...]