The copy-and-paste demo in Apple’s public iPhone 3.0 preview event demonstrated “shake to undo” and “shake to redo” capabilities at around the hour-and-six-minute mark in the presentation video. While we can’t know with certainty what Apple’s plans for undo/redo on the iPhone will be until 3.0 leaves beta, we can infer some clues from their […]

One of the most interesting bits to be spawned from Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) Compiler Infrastructure project is the LLVM/Clang Static Analyzer. The Clang Static Analyzer, usually shortened to Clang (to the exasperation of its creators), uses compiler techniques to analyze the structure of C and Objective-C programs to identify bugs. While described by […]

One of the most frequent — and justifiable — gripes from developers about the App Store is that the sheer volume of apps makes discoverability difficult. AdMob’s new Download Exchange aims to mitigate this problem by an ad swap: show ads for other apps in your app, get ads in other apps for your app. […]

Manually tracking the popularity ranking of an app in iTunes App Stores worldwide is cumbersome. Ben Chatelain of SOPODs.com (Profile) has written a script that automatically extracts this information and has generously shared the source code for anyone to use. The script works by downloading iTunes’ top-100 lists for every country. It reports an app’s […]