Sad day for me, and I believe for many of us. Not to say too much. Let alone Apple , world had lost a truly genius and brilliant mind. Mind that, I’m sure, could give so much more if it could live a tiny bit more. Mind that did change they way we think, we [...] Read more – ‘Long live the King!’.
Blogium was my first ever iPhone app to go on sale. It was hard to write and hard to maintain while being on sale for several reason. Even so I learned really lot about iOS development as well as app marketing, promotion, etc; as a result I really loved that product and even after a [...] Read more – ‘Blogium, Removed from Sale’.
Web is not an internet. Cloud is. “Cloud” is simply new name for the internet, that’s all it is. For me, “cloud” sounds simpler and fluffier, so I’ll stick with it. Web, on the other hand, is a little part of the cloud. Little, but most commonly used. So common in fact, that Google is [...] Read more – ‘On Web, Internet and Cloud’.
I always loved built-in camera app in my iPhone, mainly because it is as simple as point-and-shoot. Yes, it can’t process images and make them warmer or look like it was shot on toy camera (at least now), but when you need to capture great moment only thing you need is camera which, obviously, shoots [...] Read more – ‘Streetmate app, back to taking photos again’.
I love useful, innovative, and memorable business cards. You can find gazillions of interesting designs in Internet: some of them are funny and some of them are even impressive like Steve Wozniak’s one from perforated metal. Some of them are so complicated that they loose the whole point of business card — which is sharing [...] Read more – ‘Business Cards for 63BITS’.
Apple never did such thing, never ever before major OS X version was available for developers or anyone else, before even announcing a launch date. This spoils some of the Steve’s keynote surprise factor, but gives advantage for developers to be ready for next major version of OS, because there are some big differences in [...] Read more – ‘Mac OS X Lion UI/UX Preview’.
There are many great unit converters in App Store, in fact there are so many that I suppose it has became a new “Hello World app” for iOS developers, everyone has unit converter app in portfolio. I wasn’t going to join this club, but one evening, my girlfriend was reading a Climbing Magazine and complained [...] Read more – ‘Grade Rock App’.
Some thing in Cocoa Touch are just not done properly on higher levels, there are lot’s of utility and comfy functions and methods but some classes are not as practical and friendly as they could be. Today pulling images from network in your apps rather than from disk is much more common task, which out [...] Read more – ‘TCImageView: Asynchronous Image View for iOS’.
I love reading, but I hate reading on screen or on a very bad web-page layout with gazzilions of ads and stupid text formatting, that bring us to service which I absolutely adore for it’s simplicity and beauty. Instapaper is on of the very best web-services I’ve ever seen. Anything, any mobile or desktop app [...] Read more – ‘Instapaper Wrapper for Objective-C’.
Getting rid of conventional buttons on touch screen was a little bit like a revolution when Apple introduced iPhone and “swipe” instead of up/down “push” buttons on screen. Generally, buttons on screen are bad, firstly because they have no feedback and secondly just because it has became a fashion unit everyone has to implement; even [...] Read more – ‘On Buttons and Touch-Screens’.
“A group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content.” — Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein Progress is good; but is it? Just about 2000 years ago, around 59 BC , as ordered by Julius Caesar, government announcements were [...] Read more – ‘News-making in Social Media’.
There was a bit of an argument today between @otomeskhy, @iosebi and me (@totocaster) about open letter by Steve Jobs about Adobe Flash. This inspired me to write this post. Before you start reading please bare in mind, I’m reviewing only consumer software with user interface and human interaction involved. The idea of cross-platform software is [...] Read more – ‘Thoughts About 3rd-party Platforms’.
Nobody ever cared about hyphenated text since information moved from printed media like newspapers and books to screen which is now in front of you. Typography is same everywhere, at least it has to be same, but some of the typographic elements do not work on screen, like hyphenation. In this article I’ll try to [...] Read more – ‘Hyphenation on the Web’.
