A great, but underused location feature on iOS is the purpose property of the CLLocationManager. So many apps ask for your location — give your users confidence in sharing their location by telling them why you need it! Example: locationManager.purpose = @“We’ll only use your location to show you local events nearby.”; You need to do […]
Update 04/08/2011: last.fm have updated their client, either use the Check for updates.. in the app or download it. Still no scrobbling but the release notes show they’ve fixed it for Lion: 1.5.4.28012 (mac) (04/08/11) —————————- * Plugin fix for iTunes 10.5 * 64bit version of the plugin for iTunes on Lion Original: Sadly the last.fm client […]
Starting in PhoneGap 0.9.5 there’s an undocumented iOS only feature that allows you to handle whether the device should rotate to a particular orientation. It exposes the iOS Objective-C method shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation with a JavaScript function shouldRotateToOrientation. function shouldRotateToOrientation (rotation) { switch (rotation) { //Portrait or PortraitUpsideDown case 0: case 180: return true; //LandscapeRight or LandscapeLeft case […]
By Ben Collier
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Posted in iPad, iPhone, Javascript, Mobile, PhoneGap
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Also tagged Apps, html5, iOS, ipad, javascript, javascript function, phonegap
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If you restore your iOS (iPhone or iPad) from a backup in iTunes, you’ll find you need to re-enter your usernames and passwords for all your email accounts. Simply tick the Encrypt iPhone Backups option in the device summary tab in iTunes and enter a password to secure your backups. iTunes will now backup and restore your […]
Usability Cramps [yoo-zuh-bill-ity kramps] n. are unpleasant, often painful sensations caused by unbearable unusable user experience mistakes v. usability cramping, usability cramped, why the hell did they do this? Form Labels That Don’t Select the Fields This one mega-stresses me out; when the text label next to checkbox or a label doesn’t select it when you click it: […]
UK Holiday’s provided by Apple that you can subscribe to in iCal — webcal://ical.mac.com/ical/UK32Holidays.ics Been using this ever since I’ve had my Mac and it’s very useful. Works on iPhone and iPad as well.
From the updated iTunes Terms & Conditions: We may ask for your permission to provide the name, email address and postcode listed in your Account to the Publisher so that the Publisher can send you marketing messages about its own products in accordance with its privacy policy. Previously iTunes / App Store purchases had no […]
If you’re trying to find your iOS app screenshots you’ve snapped in Xcode during your app development they’re located here: ~/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Screenshots Enjoy all your lovely iPad and iPhone app sn-apps..
