What the iPhone specs don’t tell you…

The iPhone technical specifications mention nothing about how much RAM is included nor how fast the CPU is running. Now that I have a toolchain, it was a simple task to take some code from iPulse to investigate. Note: Apple has obviously not documented the system level APIs that I’m using to extract this information, […]

iPhone scrolling tip

If you’re an iPhone owner, you’ve probably encountered a problem with scrolling. For the most part it’s very intuitive, but there are occasions where you can’t get to what you want. The problem is that there aren’t any traditional scroll bars, so it seems like you are stuck. Even very smart engineers who know a […]

Multi-touch on the desktop

Now that the iPhone has given us all a taste of a multi-touch user interface, I have been hearing many people say how cool it would be to have touch-based input on a new line of desktop displays from Apple. If you’re one of the people who think that a multi-touch monitor is a good […]

Bittersweet

Take a look at every application on the iPhone: what do they have in common? The answer is a navigation bar at the top and a toolbar at the bottom. The navigation bar at the top gives the user a well known location for “backing up”, starting an editing session, and canceling operations. The toolbar […]

Fun with templates

One of the great things about my job is that I get to work with some very creative people. Both inside our organization and with our partners. We’ve had a great relationship with Panic since the early days of both our companies. So when Cabel showed us some early screen mock-ups of their new web […]