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Ever been in a situation where you need to wait for an asynchronous task to complete. This is a rare case but sometimes you need to do this. I used this techinque in my previous post on how to extract the user-agent string from a UIWebView. Check it out for a more complete sample. The [...]

In each new version of iOS the browser gets a new user-agent string. I’ve been searching for a way to get the user-agent string from the API but haven’t been able to find a straight forward way to do it. Here’s my solution:

I’m working on a new application that will be released on Appstore sometime soon and the full source will be posted on this blog, but I want to share a part of my application already. I want to restrict access to my application using some kind of password and I really like the pattern style [...]

DnBNor Eiendom, one of Norways largest real estate broker, joins the iPhone train today with the release of their location aware app “Finn din Bolig“. Building on the successful application “Hitta Hem” released by Svensk Fastighetsförmedling little over a year ago. The application utilize the GPS functionality and finds homes, appartments and vaccation cabins for [...]

If you’re building a somewhat complex NET TV application with multiple views and want an application like feeling you probably want to allow users to use the back button on the remote to navigate but still control the navigation paths instead of the default “web style” back functionality which makes absolutely no sense in an [...]

Today Apple presented what will come later this summer, iPhone OS 4.0. Multitasking has been a long awaited and talked about feature that I’m not the only one being excited about, I was not so excited however to find out that it’s not supported on iPhone 3G! The new multitasking feature looks really neat and [...]

Recently I turned my interest at content delivery networks (CDN) and found a plethora of blog posts both praising and bashing Google App Engine as a CDN. This is the first post in a series of posts I will publish discussing Google App Engine as a CDN. Google App Engine wasn’t created to be a [...]

The iPhone (and now iPad) SDK supports reverse geocoding out of the box. Reverse geocoding means you have a coordinate and want to find out where you are located, for instance, the name of the street you are on. Forward geocoding means you know the name of a location and want to find the coordinates. For [...]