iPhone OS 4.0 / iSlate Predictions

How To detect an internet connection with the iPhone SDK

There are several ways to problematically detect if an iPhone has an internet connection, but most of them cant tell you how the iPhone is connected to the internet.
Apple has sample code to accomplish just this task. The Reachability class is not shipped with the SDK, but is part of a sample project of the [...]

iPhone MMS, a love / hate story

Today AT&T unlocked MMS (multi media) messaging on the iPhone. Most of the world had had MMS messaging for YEARS now on their iPhone, but due to AT&T’s restrictions and fear of the data crushing their network they have limited the number of people that you can message at a single time to 10. This [...]

RotoPhoto, my first iPhone app

WOW, here I am about to release my second iPhone app, and I realized that I haven’t blogged about my first iPhone app!
“RotoPhoto” is my first iPhone app. It’s a simple tool that allows you to rotate the orientation of a photo taken with the iPhone. The internal sensors of the iPhone are designed to [...]

Video Blog #2

First Video Blog Entry

iPhone + AIM + push notification = Happy Josh Highland

I got my real start in programming making “progies”, back when MaGuS and fungii ruled the scene (only a fist full of people will know who I am talking about), circa 1995. I have and always will have a soft spot in my heart for AOL instant messaging. I don’t use the AOL service anymore, [...]

My Brute on iPhone

Lately I have been consumed by an iPhone game called “My Brute”. My Brute is an RPG fighting game based on the popular MyBrute.com. It works like this, You create a character, pick their body, their clothes, their hair and skin color. You pick an animal to represent your dojo (snake, fox or bear… I’m [...]

Controlling Twitter SMS notifications through code

It’s not secret my current favorite tech toys are my iPhone and Twitter.
I follow several hundred people of interest, and regularly use TwitterFon Pro, TweetDeck and Twitter.com to keep up with them all. For an elite group of people I follow on twitter I choose to have their updates pushed to me via SMS (text [...]

Info on the new iPhone has leaked

I have been keeping my ears open for rumors about the new iPhone. Earlier this week, the above image was leaked onto a mac rumors website from a chinese source.
The image above shows a new iPhone model number “MB717LL” with 32GB of Storage. If the poster’s claims are to be believed, the new iPhone will [...]

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