GlobeTrotter is a new iPhone app for everyone who frequently has to work with or depends on people in different timezones. It offers easy and quick timezone calculations. Without hassle, without calculation errors. Set up unlimited timezones and see how they relate to each other:
What time is it in Tokio if it is 3PM in New York.
For everyone who finds himself calculating timezone differences ever so often because the built-in iPhone app doesn’t cut it, Globetrotter is the perfect, solution. Guaranteed.
Find out more about GlobeTrotter for iPhone or iPod Touch
So after a small hiatus the first serious StyleMac iPhone application is out. OweMe, the Money Lending Manager has been created with a lot of attention to detail and based on a specific problem: I often experienced the situation that I lend someone a small amount of money (say $5) and forgot about it later on. On the other hand it just as often happened that I lend money from someone and forgot about it too – until I got a disappointed or even enraged call.
That’s where OweMe comes in. A slick and easy to use interface helps in quickly jotting down all these small amounts of money one owes or lends from time to time.
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January 16th, 2009 in iPhone |
Palm’s Andrew Shebanow (former Adobe) on Cocoa on iPhone versus JS on the Palm Pre and it’s effect on application quality and developer interest:
That’s a complex question to answer. But the thing to keep in mind is that is not a zero-sum game: I expect many developers will work with both webOS and iPhone, and that is perfectly fine. But I also believe that we will be able to attract additional developers who want to leverage their HTML/CSS/JavaScript knowledge but can’t or won’t deal with the strictures of iPhone development.
I do think he’s right in that many developers will want to target both plattforms. In this case the Cappuccino Web Framework seems to be godsend.
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January 15th, 2009 in iPhone |
A detailed (actually even a brief) look at the field of Twitter clients for different systems leads to an interesting observation: There’re not only more but especially far better Twitter clients available for iPhone than for any other device. Take Tweetsville or Tweetie as the dominant examples. They’re a joy to use, offer great functionality and one can just feel the attention to detail and thought gone into their development.
A look at Mac OS X or Windows, on the other hand, reveals just mediocre clients which lack a lot of functions I’d take for granted, given the size of the userbase and importance of Twitter.
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Google offers a potpourri of source code snippets from their varying Mac projects qua Google Objective-C Toolbox.
The Box contains Mac and iPhone compatible sources and offers several additions to Foundation and Appkit as well as new classes to aid in integrating Google services. In brief:
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