Monthly Archives: March 2010

iPhone OS 4.0 to Bring Expose-like Multitasking?

Posted on March 31, 2010 by katzdoron

iPhone OS 4.0 to Bring Expose-like Multitasking? Wednesday March 31, 2010 01:20 PM EST; Category: iPhoneWritten by Eric Slivka AppleInsider offers some details on multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0, which would allow users greater ability to run multiple apps at … Continue reading →

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iRiver Story firmware update 1.71

Posted on March 30, 2010 by katzdoron

Ladies and gentlemen, I found (although in Chinese and I don’t really read Chinese) a firmware update for the iRiver Story, that updates the firmware to 1.71. This is significant since the official English iRiver Story only goes up to … Continue reading →

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iTunes updated to 9.1 in preparation for iPad

Posted on March 30, 2010 by katzdoron

Your iTunes should notify you of an update which would update your central media application to be iPad compliant. One of the things noticeable, is the reference to iBooks and iPad throughout the settings screen. The screenshot below shows the Books … Continue reading →

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Getting your novel on the iPad for free |

Posted on March 30, 2010 by katzdoron

by Tom Kaneshige, CIO Authors with writer’s block, listen up: With the iPad poised to bring e-books into the main, along with e-book publishing services like Smashwords inking deals with Apple to get your work in the iBookstore, you’re now … Continue reading →

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Why i still think the iRiver Story is better than the Kindle

Posted on March 26, 2010 by katzdoron

For all of you who haven’t heard of it before, the iRiver Story is another of those eBook readers, similar to the Kindle and Sony Reader, but unlike the Kindle, this baby allows you to read PDFs, ePubs, image files and Office … Continue reading →

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Amazon Kindle on the iPad

Posted on March 26, 2010 by katzdoron

Amazon has announced that it is readying itself to have it’s Kindle App on Tablet PCs (netbooks) including the iPad, which will be a continuation of it’s presence on the iPhone.  Utilising WhisperSync you will of course be able to make use of reading … Continue reading →

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How To Do Amazingly Simple Searches With NSArray & NSPredicate

Posted on March 25, 2010 by katzdoron

Cocoa-Touch ships with an super-useful class that will help you search through your lists of objects just like they were coming from a database. The class is called NSPredicate which also works with Core Data. This is very powerful stuff, … Continue reading →

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A promotion code to get 50% off APress Books

Posted on March 23, 2010 by katzdoron

I am as you all know a big eBook reader, and just found out a few interesting things. With APress, which is a techy publisher, for tech-books for the iPhone, C, .NET and so on, I found a promo code that gives … Continue reading →

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IBooks a chance for amateur books?

Posted on March 19, 2010 by katzdoron

The evolution if iTunes had witnessed podcasts and then iPhone apps hit the stage , with both largely being co-contributed by both professional podcasters and semi-amateur podcasters as well as developers. With Apple deep in negotiations with publishers to link … Continue reading →

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Prototype Mocking an iPhone/iPad app with #MockApp

Posted on March 16, 2010 by katzdoron

For most of you iPhone developers, who have been trying to lure professionally (not seductively) clients, when you get to the first few meetings, exchanging ideas, you might want to think about using MockApp to prototype your iPhone (or soon to be … Continue reading →

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