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Apple’s developer center is down for now.  But, I can assure you we will be downloading the SDK as soon as it goes live.
Get ready for some iPad dev tutorials!

App Store Overpopulation

The number of applications in the app store is approaching 100,000. The quality of applications in this massive of a marketplace is hard to measure. Apple provides the star ratings for applications but I like to have a few more sources. Check out:
app.itize.us
app.itize.us is a site highlighting the best of emerging apps in the store. [...]

CES 2010 – Mobile Processors, eReaders and Tablets

This year I was lucky enough to go to CES in beautiful Las Vegas. While I’m sure you all know, CES is the Consumer Electronics Show, and it is one of the largest trade shows in the world. Everyone who is anyone is at this show (except Apple), and it has historically been a place [...]

iPhone Coding Recipe: Live Character Counter, Word filter, and 1337 Translator For A UITextField

I’m sure you have seen a Twitter client such as Twittelator Pro or Tweetie 2 count down the characters as you type your Tweet.  This is done by responding to the Editing Changed action on a UITextField.

 

Today, I will show you how you can implement this functionality in your application as well as show you some other real world examples of responding to this action.  Here are a few of the uses that we will discuss:

• Countdown of characters allowed – Used when the user is limited by a certain number of characters
• Word filter – useful in filtering out swear words or other unwanted text
• Live translator – our example will translate english to 1337

I will create the core code and show you how to modify it slightly to implement the other 2 applications.

Cocoa Development in 2010

2009 will be known as the year  the world learned the word app. With the first full calendar year of the app store coming to a close it is amazing to look back and see the growth that has occurred in this market. There are about 100,000 applications now available in the app store, give [...]

UITextField – A Complete API Overview

The UITextField is probably one of the most commonly used UI controls on the iPhone. It is the primary method of user input via the keyboard and provides a great deal of additional functionality.
With the success of our las API tutorial on NSArray, I thought I would do another walkthrough, this time on UITextField. I [...]

Introduction to MapKit in iPhone OS 3.0 Part 2

Introduction
Back in September I posted a large post going over all the components required to implement the MapKit in your application. The MapKit is a framework introduced in iPhone OS 3.0 and allows developers to easily take advantage of Google’s mapping technology. In my first post I go over how to present a map as [...]

Introduction to MapKit in iPhone OS 3.0

Introduction
Hello everyone. Welcome to another screencast. Today we will be looking into the MapKit, a new API’s made available by Apple in the iPhone OS 3.0 release. The MapKit allows simple access to the map seen in the maps application. Using GoogleMaps as its engine the map kit allows for a developer to make their [...]

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The site invisibleskinz.com has decided to give iCodeBlog readers a 20% discount on the Invisible Shield for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

The iPhone is Bad at Keeping Secrets

Today an article from TaranFx has been making the rounds talking about a new open source application called SpyPhone that highlights all of the “information vulnerabilities” within the current iPhone SDK. You can check out the article here:
SpyPhone App Steals Personal Data from ALL iPhones
Everyone has probably heard of the problems some users with jailbroken [...]