October 29, 2010

Suertudo: Your lucky App for iPhone/iPod

Well, after 1 month of development, programming and learning, the first version of Suertudo is out.

It has been sent to Apple for approval, meanwhile I will show you some of the key features presented within this app:

- Determine your luck at any point of time: pressing the red button or shaking the device.


October 28, 2010

Objective C Valuable Links

Right now that I have been developing Suertudo for the iPhone/iPod, many doubts and circumstances have been solved with just little search over the greatest Google, however others have not, anyway I found many useful links that could help many others programmers:

October 25, 2010

FastPost: iOS User Interface Dimensions

iOS management bars for normal resolution devices has this constants:

- Status bar: 20 pixels
- Nav bar: 44 pixels
- Tab bar: 49 pixels
- Toolbar: 44 pixels


WebOS for Android with Itching Thumb


Such applications are always interesting, because one of the things people most want is to customize their mobile. In addition to testing things that belong to an OS, running in another.

WebOS multitasking interface is based on "cards" system. Inside the application, the user makes a gesture in the "gestures area" of the phone to bring the "cards" (apps) to front, enabling the move along left and right of the screen. Applications are closed by releasing the app of the screen. Something similar is what Itching Thumb tries to emulate, multitasking management view like for Android.

October 22, 2010

Configure Your Own Smartphone


This idea is great, make more yours your smartphone is a project from Synapse-Phones, a new mobile phone maker who comes to change things offering something different: it is you who choose the features of your phone and pay for each component.

Not content with this, the model underlying Synapse is rated very good: 1 GHz processor, 4-inch screen and 480 × 800 pixels and a capacitive multi-touch, 256 MB of RAM, AGPS, accelerometer, Bluetooth and all in an aluminum body. Not happy? There are still the best, knowing that the starting price is only $ 299 for the terminal with the characteristics described above.

MacBook Air

The renovated MacBook Air is such a piece of engineering, with its ridiculous thickness, but without forgetting the horse power, here are its technical specs for 11'' model:

Processor: 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Memory: 2GB of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM onboard (4GB maximum)

Storage: 64 GB of flash storage (up to 128 GB)

Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 320M with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory

October 20, 2010

Mac App Store


Do not really know why nobody had done it seriously before, but an application store for computers had to come sometime. So was Apple, who knows enough well how to sell.

The Mac App Store maintains the iTunes' philosophy, One-Click buying, free and paid applications, automatic updates, and the right to use it in any of our computers with Mac OS.

Developers can begin submitting their applications starting in November and Apple has given 90 days before it is available, regardless of the new OSX, Lion, which few sneak peaks were revealed today.

October 18, 2010

Gameloft goes for Samsung Galaxy Tab


Gameloft, the company responsible for creating video games for every mobile device that would accept them, also that was created in 1999, by the time when many began to take mobile, has announced the imminent release of three games for the Galaxy Tab: Asphalt 5, Let's Golf and Nova.

October 11, 2010

Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 is here. Today is official, and although with each passing day we get to know in detail what this new operating system will bring, as well as phones that incorporate first operating system, it is worth giving a look into the bowels renewal of Windows Mobile.

The Windows startup screen Phone 7 is based on panels that can be customized and find their perfect match in the design of the first phones from different manufacturers. His only physical buttons are the arrow to go back and start button with the legendary Windows logo, and the search button.

October 4, 2010

How Popular Is The iPhone


Someone has asked this? well Bill Shrink did and also they made an image illustrating few funny facts: