This Week in iPhone News – December 11/2009
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The Sensors in your iPhone An informative talk on the sensors in the iPhone given at the Where 2.0 Online Conference of 2009.
Command Guru Webcast reality TV featuring Aaron Hillegass leading ten devs/designers — including friend-of-the-site and creator of the icon-set that’s part of our holiday giving bundle Eddie Wilson — in week long, from scratch, product sprint.
Hack: Attaching a Telephoto SLR lens to an iPhone
App Store is a Game Changer for Apple and Cellphone Industry A detailed look at the impact the iTunes App Store is having on cellphone industry.
Rejections: A gentler hand? Two rays of hope:
- Instead of a rejection, Apple asked a developer to remove a private API call in their next rev.
- Wolfgang Dahmen wrote to tell us that the Apple imagery about-face for Rogue Amoeba may now be standard policy: the iNet Pro – Network Scanner (App Store link) was approved with stock Apple Mac imagery.
iTunes Connect Will Be Unavailable From Dec23-Dec28
Phil Schiller Shares What’s On His iPhone Apple’s senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing shares what his favorite applications are on his iPhone.
iPhoneFlow New curators have breathed new life into our link blog. Plus, we use it as a radar for this column. Subscribe to the iPhoneFlow feed or follow iPhone flow on Twitter!
Crafting the PatternMusic User Experience on iPhone An 1,800 word story on crafting the user experience for the PatternMusic app.
Three rumors rich on details rumors on the Apple Tablet: CNN’s Apple Tablet Set For Spring Launch; Oppenheimer’s peek into Apple’s supply chain (PDF); and this from the LA Time’s Books Section.
Ratings Scam Gets Almost 1% of App Store Pulled A prolific iPhone developer Molinker has had all of their apps — more than 1000! rumored to be 1% of all apps in the store! — yanked for scamming the review system.
2009 Best App Ever Awards presented by 148Apps The second annual Best App Ever Awards reviews the best iPhone applications of the year. You can start nominating apps now.
Google Confirms Goggles for iPhone Google steps into the “augmented reality” space with their own application “Google Googles”, currently for Android, but with an iPhone application coming soon.
iPhone Developer News from Apple Apple has created an news feed for iPhone developers. You’ll definitely want to add this to your RSS reader.
Malware Could Grab Data From Stock iPhones At a talk on iPhone privacy in Geneva a Swiss iPhone developer demonstrated how a malicious application could gain access to your personal data on a non-jailbroken iPhone.
Postabon is the love child of Foursquare and Groupon Postabon is a location-based service allowing users to tag and share deals found while out and about. An iPhone application is now available.
HootSuite for iPhone The populate desktop Twitter client now available on the iPhone.
iSimulate 1.5 released Now featuring compass support and full UIKit support, including previously absent scrolling and keyboard capabilities.
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