One of the secret features in Word Dice is a built in API request counter with a nifty HTML5 reporting page. If you useĀ iPhone, be sure to add it to your home-screen and u’ll get the ‘full experience’. Check it out!…
I have always hated watching movies on my phone because I have had to convert them to m4v before watching them! What a frigin hassle apple!
However!… Yesterday while playing with my iPad, I stumbled onto a application that I wish I had known about earlier… Continue reading
Wow, the people working on Adobe AIR have some awesome things in the pipeline. They have taken (just about) the same code, and ported it to:
For developers it means alot, but for consumers it means that the same application can run on multiple platforms and it’ll ‘behave’ the same and it’ll have the ‘same’ release date!
Disregardng the fact that the applications made with this are going to go against the user interface guidelines for each and every one of these platforms. You have to agree Continue reading
If your a fellow student at CSE UNSW, check out iConnect! Its a web application that i created almost 6 months ago that allows you to access many of the commands like ‘friends’, ‘labs’, ‘pp’ and ‘whichprinter’ on any web browser. I’d recommend using a iPhone though;)
To see some screen shots, head to my iConnect page.
Have you ever wanted to create a web application for iPhone/iPod touch but didnt want to fiddle with the CSS to make it look right? Well fortunately there are a few different frameworks that you can use to do this.
If you are hip enough to be running a mac, you can use Dashcode, It gives you:
Lets face it, Dashcode sucks and most people dont have access to a mac for development. There are a few different 3rd party frameworks available which might be harder to use but give you(the web developer) real control on how you want your content to appear! Here are some frameworks that I have seen or used in the past.
If you don’t know where to start, I would suggest iWebKit or jQTouch, but it won’t be a bad idea checking out the others.
Some readers will notice that I haven’t mentioned the use of these frameworks on non-webkit browsers like Firefox. I have found that the best frameworks don’t do a very good job at being cross platform due to the fact that they are all trying to save your precious download quota by using the draft WebKit CSS3 functionality to render the gradients and boxes instead of static images.
If your framework of choice is iWebKit, I have extended the css stylesheet to allow FireFox 3.x to render half decently. You can grab the iWebKit_4.6.2 framework here(Its no longer available on its homepage anymore)and the iWebKit 4.6.2 Firefox CSS Style. I am currently working on a iWebKit5 version which has a better structured, I’ll post that here when its ready;).