So we’ve created an Amazon store to guide the Gentle Reader to how they should go about building their iPhone programming library, as well as — hopefully! — support further building out our own.
It is, naturally, called the Under The Bridge Store. Take a look now!
The layout is, the front page “Coming Soon!” is things that we haven’t examined personally, but we figure probably will turn out worth buying. Whatever earnings this store produces will be applied directly to buying things on that page, and we’ll review them here, and then either move them to the other categories or delete them as we judge appropriate.
The other categories are all books that are, indeed, in our reference library right now, and we believe should be in any iPhone programmer’s library, divided by main focus into “Programming - iPhone”, “Programming - OS X”, and “Programming - General”. We may get around to specifically reviewing those at some point in the future — although hopefully we’ll be focusing on exciting new goodies instead of the old stalwarts — but they all have at least a few Amazon reader reviews so you can go by those in the meantime.
Browse, enjoy, and buy!
Here’s what looks like it could be an interesting full-time job for any of you other budding iPhone developers out there who are in/will move to Los Angeles:
Modern Feed & Supply, Inc. is a start-up based in Los Angeles. Our website was launched at the end of March and has since received numerous accolades. The Modern Feed mission is to make it simple to find and view high-quality full-length programming online. Programming spans the gamut between “Lost” and the “Nobel Peace Prize Lectures.” For us, the experience is not limited to just your computer. Our first mobile Modern Feed implementation is on the iPhone but we will expand to many more devices.
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So we’re naturally interested in the idea of developing games for the iPhone/iPod touch, and thus we were intrigued by the offerings of iGiki, “the world leader in iPhone and iPod touch games,” and particularly the Ultra Games Bundle II Interactive, which they say “includes over 40 premium games, software to create your own games, widgets, and extraordinary extras.” Wow! What a deal, huh?
So we checked it out, and here’s how it went:
Continue reading ‘Review: iGiki Ultra Games’
So the first thing a new iPhone blog needs is a catchy icon for when a webclip of it is put on the Springboard, which no doubt anyone who reads this will be doing immediately. Thus, today let’s experiment with that process.
We start out by selecting possible source graphic assets, namely these portraits of the Troll done (from life, naturally) by fantasy artist extraordinare Toren Atkinson back in the day before he got all professional:
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Here’s a new tool release which will no doubt be of interest to all you online application developers: a remote console debugger for querying and manipulating your iPhone pages remotely.
As announced by author Jon Brisbin,
I grew frustrated with trying to debug my iPhone Ajax apps and wanted a way to interrogate the DOM and JavaScript stack while my page was running. Joe Hewitt had written a tie-in to firebug that gave me the idea to take that to the next logical step: a COMET-based JavaScript debugger and console. It allows you to log to a remote desktop console from your JavaScript code, but most importantly, it lets you send commands to the iPhone to be executed there. You can inspect style properties of your elements, set new ones, call JavaScript functions, etc… Anything that can be eval’d can be sent via the command line.
Sounds pretty sweet!
The code is GPLv3, posted on Google Code as the iphonedebug project.
Screenshots of remote iPhone debugging in action can be seen here.
h/t: iPhoneWebDev!
Ah, yes. What could be more natural a web application for an iPhone or iPod than a custom radio feed over teh InterTubes? Well, that’s the theory behind Stitcher.com, “Custom radio that plays the news and talk you want.”
In their words,
Our service enables you to hear the audio content you care about. We “stitch” it into personalized, always-current stations that you can easily listen to on your iPhone or computer.
Stitcher revolutionizes information radio because it is:
Customized: we learn what you like and don’t like - so we can serve you better and better content
Easy: just start listening, we’ll take care of the rest
Portable: stream Stitcher anywhere: no satellite device, Wi-Fi or syncing required
It does work to the desktop as well, but the interesting part to us is its iPhone support. Let’s go log in, which is free and straightforward, if you have an iPhone:
Continue reading ‘Review: Stitcher.com Custom Radio for iPhone’
