It’s no secret that I’ve started hacking on my iPhone. And what’s the most frequent thing I use in development? SSH2 to copy new builds onto the phone and view NSLog output from the shell. And is it a pain to enter your password every frickin’ time? And is it slow to connect? Yes and […]
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Just how fast is the iPhone? Let’s run some benchmarks comparing the iPhone to my iMac running Safari 3 on a 1.83 Ghz Intel Core Duo processor: Test iMac iPhone Slower by 100,000 iterations 0.041 secs. 3.209 secs. 78x 10,000 divisions 0.005 0.413 82x 10,000 sin(x) calls 0.009 0.709 79x 10,000 string allocations 0.010 0.777 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Summary Changes to the Dock in Leopard do not follow the Human Interface Guidelines Steps to Reproduce Set desktop background to a light and solid color to make the shadows appear more clearly. In the examples, I used Solid Mint. Make sure Preview and TextEdit are displayed in the Dock. Additionally, you can download and […]