How to get your iPhone application approved by Apple App Store?
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How to build an iPhone application online
Thursday, May 20, 2010
How to get your iPhone application approved by Apple App Store?
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iPhone Now Supports Adobe Flash (Kind of)
Tobias Schneider, a programmer from Germany, created a script to make iPhone's mobile Safari browser run Adobe Flash files. The program that he named Gordon and released as free and open-source software works by writing the Flash runtime purely in JavaScript.
Though Schneider's work is quite impressive, don't think of playing those cute Flash games already because it has a number of limitations:
* Gordon only works within the Safari browser and does not enable full Flash support for the iPhone OS.
* For the script to work, website owners must use Schneider’s code on every page with Flash that they want to display correctly on the iPhone.
* Pages running the Gordon script will push the CPU of the iPhone to its topmost limits according to initial tests. That should cause your battery to drain in no time.
Perhaps future versions of Gordon will bring in lots of improvements to make Flash on iPhone more usable.
If you are curious, you can test your iPhone's Safari browser running Flash and seeing Gordon in action by going HERE. Just make sure your battery is fully charged.
Credit: http://www.junauza.com/2010/01/iphone-now-supports-adobe-flash-kind-of.html
Slacker Radio iPhone Application Review
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Hot on the heels of the Slacker app for BlackBerry announcement the other day, comes a Slacker Radio application for the iPhone. I love my Slacker G2 Personal Radio, so I was anxious to check out how this free application on the iPhone compared to it.
To use this app, you’ll need a Slacker Radio account. Don’t worry, it’s free. If you happen to already have a premium account, you can use it to login to the iPhone app. Here are some of the features:
• Free music library featuring millions of songs• High-quality stereo playback from any wireless connection• Over 100 professionally programmed genre stations• Create custom artist stations• Fine tune stations to play more of the music you like• View artist biographies and photos• View album art and reviews• “Peek Ahead” artist and album preview• Pause and skip songs• Rate songs as favorites• Ban the songs and artists you don’t like The first time you launch the Slacker player, you’ll be in your station listing screen. Your favorite and custom stations are shown at the top. Custom channels are created on the Slacker website. As far as I can tell, there isn’t a way to create one through the iPhone app. When you scroll the station screen, you will see a list of different genres of music.
Tapping the genre name will take you to another screen…With individual stations for that genre. Tapping a station will let you listen to music in that station. 
To add that
station to your favorites, you tap the station title bar at the top of the display. From there you can add it to your favorites. It doesn’t look like there is a way to remove favorites through the app… Yes folks, there is a Jack Bauer Slacker station…
Credits: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2009/01/13/slacker-radio-iphone-application-review/
To use this app, you’ll need a Slacker Radio account. Don’t worry, it’s free. If you happen to already have a premium account, you can use it to login to the iPhone app. Here are some of the features:
• Free music library featuring millions of songs• High-quality stereo playback from any wireless connection• Over 100 professionally programmed genre stations• Create custom artist stations• Fine tune stations to play more of the music you like• View artist biographies and photos• View album art and reviews• “Peek Ahead” artist and album preview• Pause and skip songs• Rate songs as favorites• Ban the songs and artists you don’t like The first time you launch the Slacker player, you’ll be in your station listing screen. Your favorite and custom stations are shown at the top. Custom channels are created on the Slacker website. As far as I can tell, there isn’t a way to create one through the iPhone app. When you scroll the station screen, you will see a list of different genres of music.
Tapping the genre name will take you to another screen…With individual stations for that genre. Tapping a station will let you listen to music in that station. To add thatstation to your favorites, you tap the station title bar at the top of the display. From there you can add it to your favorites. It doesn’t look like there is a way to remove favorites through the app… Yes folks, there is a Jack Bauer Slacker station…
Credits: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2009/01/13/slacker-radio-iphone-application-review/
Internet Radio Box
Surely you’ve heard of Internet Radio? Everyone from bedroom broadcasters to big commercial stations pumping out music and voice 24 hours a day via the Internet? And all for free? Sounds idyllic, but the reality is that there is huge variety in terms of file formats and bitrates, plus there’s a high turnover of ’stations’. What’s needed is a clever iPhone application, with a real time, maintained database, to gather everything into an interface that ‘just works’. And Internet Radio Box is it.
In fact, there are several iPhone-hosted Internet Radio clients, but this is arguably the best and most all-encompassing. It draws in its own ‘Radio Box’ network of MP3 and WMA (Windows Media Audio) streaming stations, adds a complete SHOUTcast (an older, proprietary streaming format that’s starting to die out) directory as well, and then tops this by adding an entire ‘icecast’ (an open source rival to SHOUTcast) directory too. The end result is a mass of semi-organised radio stations that you can access anywhere on the planet, numbering over a thousand in all. That’s a lot of listening.
Internet Radio Box’s interface is well thought out, with four basic tabs: ‘Radio stations’ is the directory section, of course; ‘Player’ is effectively the ‘Now playing’ panel and music started here will continue to play while you access the other tabs; ‘Settings’ gives information about bandwidth used and lets you set up bitrate limits over 3G/EDGE; and, lastly, ‘Browser’ is a custom instance of Safari and means that you can look up information about a radio station while it’s playing. You’ll remember that the iPhone OS doesn’t allow third party apps to run in the background, so the moment you switch away from Radio Box the music stops – hence the workaround by including a browser within the application itself.
This limitation of only working in the foreground really hits hard with something like Internet radio – the whole point of it on other platforms is that it gives you a new source of tunes while you’re working away doing something else. On the iPhone in Internet Radio Box, you’re limited to using Safari in its own window, and that’s it. Apple, please take note and rethink your OS philosophy here.
This limitation isn’t the developer’s fault, though more could have been done to help matters – there’s no saving of your current station when the application is forced to exit, so you have to rely on manually adding stations as ‘Favourites’ and then using
this list as your shortcut back to where you were before the interruption. Even so, I’ve still opted for a decent star rating in the review – at the end of the day, it’s the variety of material and the quality of the sound which is important here and Internet Radio Box comes through with flying colours. On many of the stereo stations, music is as clear here as when played in iTunes itself.
The main Radio Box directory is speedy to load and nicely organised, but the SHOUTcast and icecast directories are slow and are also let down by stations not being sorted alphabetically within each genre – when you’re looking for a specific station this is a right pain.
Look past the annoyances though, and you’ve still got a reliable core of enjoyable Internet Radio stations that will serve you well day in, day out, and all for free once you’ve handed over your dollar for Internet Radio Box itself.Read more: http://iphoneapplicationlist.com/2009/08/01/internet-radio-box-2/#ixzz0Zq6fbAgD
In fact, there are several iPhone-hosted Internet Radio clients, but this is arguably the best and most all-encompassing. It draws in its own ‘Radio Box’ network of MP3 and WMA (Windows Media Audio) streaming stations, adds a complete SHOUTcast (an older, proprietary streaming format that’s starting to die out) directory as well, and then tops this by adding an entire ‘icecast’ (an open source rival to SHOUTcast) directory too. The end result is a mass of semi-organised radio stations that you can access anywhere on the planet, numbering over a thousand in all. That’s a lot of listening.
Internet Radio Box’s interface is well thought out, with four basic tabs: ‘Radio stations’ is the directory section, of course; ‘Player’ is effectively the ‘Now playing’ panel and music started here will continue to play while you access the other tabs; ‘Settings’ gives information about bandwidth used and lets you set up bitrate limits over 3G/EDGE; and, lastly, ‘Browser’ is a custom instance of Safari and means that you can look up information about a radio station while it’s playing. You’ll remember that the iPhone OS doesn’t allow third party apps to run in the background, so the moment you switch away from Radio Box the music stops – hence the workaround by including a browser within the application itself.
This limitation of only working in the foreground really hits hard with something like Internet radio – the whole point of it on other platforms is that it gives you a new source of tunes while you’re working away doing something else. On the iPhone in Internet Radio Box, you’re limited to using Safari in its own window, and that’s it. Apple, please take note and rethink your OS philosophy here.
This limitation isn’t the developer’s fault, though more could have been done to help matters – there’s no saving of your current station when the application is forced to exit, so you have to rely on manually adding stations as ‘Favourites’ and then using
this list as your shortcut back to where you were before the interruption. Even so, I’ve still opted for a decent star rating in the review – at the end of the day, it’s the variety of material and the quality of the sound which is important here and Internet Radio Box comes through with flying colours. On many of the stereo stations, music is as clear here as when played in iTunes itself.The main Radio Box directory is speedy to load and nicely organised, but the SHOUTcast and icecast directories are slow and are also let down by stations not being sorted alphabetically within each genre – when you’re looking for a specific station this is a right pain.
Look past the annoyances though, and you’ve still got a reliable core of enjoyable Internet Radio stations that will serve you well day in, day out, and all for free once you’ve handed over your dollar for Internet Radio Box itself.Read more: http://iphoneapplicationlist.com/2009/08/01/internet-radio-box-2/#ixzz0Zq6fbAgD
A Tribute to Vincent Van Gogh
Monday, May 4, 2009
Such A beautiful Person, Such A beautiful Song,
Such a beautiful lyrics..
"And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you Vincent
This world was never meant for one as
beautiful as you"
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