How to Get Started with iPhone Dev

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/how-to-get-started-with-iphone-dev/

GoGoStand Holds Your Gadgets for On-the-Go Viewing, Fits in Your Pocket [Stuff We Like]

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GoGoStand Holds Your Gadgets for On-the-Go Viewing, Fits in Your Pocket [Stuff We Like]

[YouTube Video]If you've spent any amount of time trying to watch video on a portable device like the iPhone, you know holding it in your hands gets old fast. That's where the GoGoStand comes in.

Rather than requiring you to carry around a bulky stand wherever you take your portable player, the credit-card-sized GoGoStand fits nicely in your wallet and folds into an on-the-go stand in a jiffy—perfect for watching a video on your next plane ride. According to the creator—who is also incidentally the same guy who showed us how to fold a paper clip iPhone stand—it works with the iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, Android G1, Palm Pre, "and other similarly sized electronics." The GoGoStand will set you back $5, comes in two colors.

GoGoStand [via Gizmodo]

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jQTouch: JQuery for iPhone, Android, Palm Pre, etc

http://jqtouch.com/

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Vuzix Wrap 310: Turn Your iPhone into a Home Theatre

The iPhone’s 3.5″ screen is one of the most gorgeous displays out there on a cellphone, let alone a portable device. It’s always fun to watch YouTube videos and movies on the amazing touchscreen. But what about when you want to take your iPhone entertainment to another level?

Vuzix Wrap 310: Your iPhone = Portable Home Theatre

Coming later this fall, Vuzix is releasing their Wrap 310, a pair of “video eyewear” glasses that are iPhone compatible. Here’s a quick list of highlights:

Video

* Twin high-resolution 428 x 240 LCD widescreen displays

* Ultra-low video distortion

* Equivalent to a 55-inch screen viewed from ten feet (approximately 3 m)

* 24-bit true color (16 million colors)

* Adjustable brightness, contrast and color saturation

* 60Hz progressive scan update rate

* 26 degree diagonal field of view

* 2-3/8″ intraocular distance (IOD)

Audio

* Detachable premium quality noise-isolating earphones

* Includes 3 sizes of noise isolation inserts

Performance

* Supports 4:3 and 16:9 display formats

* Works with 2D video

* Works with all common 3D video formats including side-by-side and multiple anaglyph formats

* Includes “Vuzix Auto-3D”, automatic 3D detection technology

* Six hours use with 2 AA alkaline batteries (included)

* Video Zoom mode

* On-Screen Display for video display adjustment

Versatility

* Connects directly to all video devices with composite video

* Wrap Multi-Connect port for optional adaptors for broad video device compatibility

* Wrap Mini-Port connector for optional expansion devices

* Use with NTSC or PAL video source

* Wearable over most prescription eyeglasses

* Independent +2 to -5 diopter focus adjustment

* Changeable lens

Comfort

* Adjustable, hypo-allergenic nosepiece

* Weighs less than three ounces

* Nine foot visual focus – reading glasses not required

* Ultra-thin cabling

I haven’t tried “video eyewear” before, but it’ll be interesting to see how these perform. I will be getting a sample in a couple months so expect a full review up on the blog. Can’t wait to watch The Dark Knight on my iPhone hooked up to the Wrap 310 while I’m driving or when I’m walking around Stanley Park. It’s gonna be swaa-weeeeeet!

[vuzix]

5 Steps to Write Better Css

http://aceinfowayindia.com/blog/2009/09/5-steps-to-write-better-css/

Free Complete Wordpress Cheat Sheet

Here is my complete wordpress cheat sheet available in pdf file format.

For those who develop WordPress templates or like to modify them, i designed a nice cheat sheet for WordPress.

The cheat sheet is in PDF format so you can download it and print it for later use, post it in a wall and make your life easier.

The Problem With Planning

Hi, this is Kelly, from Agile Software Development Made Easy!

I think I've been pretty successful in my career. But if I was better at planning, I wouldn't have achieved half the things I've achieved in my career! In fact, I wouldn't even have started some of them...


In reality, there are some things you can plan, and some things you can't. The trouble is, in most organisations we've come to expect a plan. And to meet it whatever happens. And that's just not realistic.
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Doing detailed planning pre-supposes you know where you want to go and aren't going to be influenced too much by what happens in the meantime - or at least not without a substantial amount of re-planning. This, at least in my experience, has a tendency to give project managers tunnel vision at times.

Now don't get me wrong - I'm not suggesting for one moment you embark on a project that doesn't have a clear and robust vision. And I'm not suggesting for a moment you embark on a project where you have no idea how to achieve it and whether it's a reasonable (although hopefully challenging) goal with the available resources. And forming that into an outline plan to provide some markers to aim for is certainly a good idea, but ideally it's a high level roadmap rather than a detailed plan.

Coming from a traditional software development environment, I realise this sounds slightly mad. And I must admit it takes a certain amount of maturity and experience to recognise that you can't really plan in detail up-front if you want to retain any flexibility, as the real requirements, risks, issues, priorities and opportunities all tend to emerge when you start to build and see the software in action.

Most organisations are not be ready to accept such a radical idea - the idea of acknowledging you don't really know what you want - certainly not for sure - and you don't really know what you're going to get for your money, or when. So, as a minimum, a clear vision and outline plan are essential, but be careful to keep them to a high level.

Rather than a detailed plan, I prefer to see a strong vision, a strategy, goals, and a roadmap (high level outline plan). The tactics to achieve this, for example the precise features and all the tasks to deliver them, can vary along the way and are best not articulated up-front. This enables the team to discover the details when they are in a better position to do so, and allows them to change direction rapidly in response to changing circumstances.

This, when you think of it, is the very meaning of agile...

Kelly.


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IPhone App Development with JSF

TouchFaces is a new subproject of PrimeFaces targeting the mobile devices mainly iphone. Applications created with TouchFaces have the native look and feel of an IPhone applications and still benefit from the Java/JSF infrastructure. In addition TouchFaces depends on the PrimeFaces UI so ajax is built-in.

There's a 10 minute getting started screencast available online. 

From http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=57877

Sprite Migrate Makes Changing Smartphones Simple

Windows Mobile/Symbian/BlackBerry/Android: If you've got an itch to flee your smartphone for another platform entirely, the prospect of manually dragging over your data is daunting. Sprite Migrate, a free transfer application, makes it easy to transfer pretty much everything.
Sprite's beta Migrate application, free until Dec. 1, should be installed on both the phone you have now and, when you get it, the phone you're moving to. From the phone being left behind, load up Migrate and tell it to grab bookmarks, call logs, contacts, SMS databases, photos, and anything else it can find. It dumps all that into a single file you can transfer by microSD or email, and you simply load up Migrate on a new phone and load that file in.
We lacked a second smartphone to grab and transfer Migrate data with, but Download Squad and online reviewers report that Migrate does exactly what it says. It's a free download for Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Symbian, and Android phones.

Sprite Migrate [Sprite Software via Download Squad]