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12 SQLite Resources for iPhone Developers

"SQLite is a public domain database library that offers file and memory based relational database functionality from a single C library. The iPhone / iPod Touch has the SQLite library included and ready to roll and Apple expects the SQLite library to form the backbone of most applications’ data storage requirements.

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7 UI Design Resources for iPhone Developers

"With the great significance of the large screen on the iPhone / iPod Touch, the graphical interfaces of iPhone apps are more important than on other mobile platforms. In this post, we’ve rounded up several tutorials, links, and resources that you can use in your iPhone user interface design process.

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9 Places To Publicize Your iPhone App

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99 Cent iPhone Apps Not Significantly More Popular

"Visually, you can see that even though 99 cent apps appear to have the edge at higher levels of popularity, it’s just not significant and if you were to multiply the price by the sales obtained at each level of popularity, the higher priced apps would beat the 99 cent apps in overall revenue (we looked at this before in the Games category).

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Building a iPhone web app in under 50 lines with Sinatra and iUI - The Devver Blog

"One awesome thing about the iPhone is that it can display documents very nicely, including Word, Excel, and PDF files. However, the other day I was complaining that it’s not very easy to view the documents you store on your computer on your iPhone. Sure, you could email them to yourself, but then you have to search through your mail on your iPhone to find your documents. And I’m sure there is a snazzy iPhone app from the App Store to do this as well. But instead, let’s build a quick web app using Sinatra and iUI.

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gedblog » Blog Archive » Why Icons Matter

So when it comes to designing our icons for our own software products, we almost always end up obsessing over them. The redesign of the application icon for xScope went through nearly 20 different revisions before we settled on a final version. This time around, the drama was caused by the new icon for Frenzic for the iPhone.

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iPhone Microsites - Linking To App Store In OS 2.1

With the release of iPhone OS 2.0 came support for linking to apps in the app store from websites, however this was effectively broken by the 2.1 update which came out shortly thereafter. In talking with Chris from iWebKit I came across a post on the iPhoneWebDev board from Romain about a simple modification which will re-enable support for direct links to app store apps.

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App Store Lessons: 4 Quick Reasons to Mind the Details

Whenever you submit an application to App Store, make sure you've dotted all your Is and crossed your Ts. The silliest slip can cost you time delays as your application gets rejected. Here are four real-world rejection examples that highlight the need for precision review.

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Safe from the Losing Fight » How to Price Your iPhone App out of Existence

"The problem that you’re likely to have, like most developers, is setting a price that you can live on. The temptation will be to price your app too low, such that developing the application isn’t sustainable. You might have the best of intentions, but in the end you’ll cause the premature death of your business before it even gets a chance.

So why might you be tempted to price your iPhone application so low?

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Veiled Games » Blog Archive » App Store: A New Hope

"Whoever this guy is, I want to give him a big hug. I may not agree with his every point, but my god does he have his head pointed in the right direction. Everyone, do yourself a favor and read this guys post. If you’re an app shopper, or a developer, read what he has to say, it applies to everyone.

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On App Store pricing - Instapaper Blog

"Well, guys, I’m a developer and my app sells for $9.99. It’s not a blockbuster hit, and it hasn’t made me a millionaire, but it sells at a healthy rate considering that I only spend a few hours per week on it, I haven’t spent a penny on promotion, and I haven’t released a new version in months (although I’m about to). A few people have complained about the price, but their numbers pale in comparison to the people who email me to say how happy they are with my app.

Selling an app for $9.99 isn’t impossible, but you can’t expect just anything to sell for that price. Here’s a combination of my anecdotal evidence and some general hunches on how to do it:

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Virtual Earth Kit « Consonance Software

"VirtualEarthKit is a framework to allow Cocoa developers to communicate with Microsoft Virtual Earth. Microsoft Virtual Earth provides a wide range of services, including geocoding, reverse geocoding, map imagery, route guidance, and business lookup.

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Latest iPhone Software supports full-screen Web apps « AppleInsider

One unpublicized feature introduced by Apple's latest iPhone software updates is the ability to save Web apps to the home screen and have them launch in full-screen mode without the Safari wrapper, essentially mimicking the experience of a native app.

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The Joys of Vertical Audio « Inside iPhone Blog

One of the things I hate about the Media Player framework is that although it offers easy-to-use audio playback, it does so horizontally. Users have to flip their phones onto the side and access the playback controls in landscape. It's not all that hard to force Media Player into portrait mode and today I'll show you how.

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Tip: Porting Core Audio at Under The Bridge

Here is your tip of the day for porting Core Audio code from the desktop:

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Redirecting Your Website to an iPhone-Optimized Site « Inside iPhone Blog

"I've come to an important stage of the development of an iPhone-optimized version of my website, RinkAtlas. I've decided to redirect all visitors to the site who are using an iPhone or an iPod touch to the iPhone-optimized version of the site. The technique I'm using for this is JavaScript-based user agent detection. I realize that Apple has frowned on this technique at times, but big sites such as Facebook and ESPN do it. So why wouldn't I do it for my ice rink directions Google Maps mashup?

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Latest iPhone Software supports full-screen Web apps « AppleInsider

One unpublicized feature introduced by Apple's latest iPhone software updates is the ability to save Web apps to the home screen and have them launch in full-screen mode without the Safari wrapper, essentially mimicking the experience of a native app.

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The Joys of Vertical Audio « Inside iPhone Blog

One of the things I hate about the Media Player framework is that although it offers easy-to-use audio playback, it does so horizontally. Users have to flip their phones onto the side and access the playback controls in landscape. It's not all that hard to force Media Player into portrait mode and today I'll show you how.

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Tip: Porting Core Audio at Under The Bridge

Here is your tip of the day for porting Core Audio code from the desktop:

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Building CoverFlow for Safari on iPhone « inside looking out

"Did you know that 3D graphics and animation is possible with Safari on iPhone? If you have an iPhone, try out the CoverFlow (zflow) demo live with a live Flickr feed. This CoverFlow demo is part of a new open source project I’ve started, CSS-VFX. The idea with CSS-VFX is to demonstrate all the cool things that are possible with Apple’s CSS Visual Effects extensions.:

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