Dive into the archives.
- Digital Birmingham – Getting the most from Web 2.0 for your business
I recently gave a quick talk at a Digital Birmingham (@digibrum) Seminar focused on enabling businesses to get the most from web 2.0. In my presentation I talked about how making your brand and data as easily to access as possible by opening up as many platforms as possible could be a benefit. The talk [...]
- Showee – A proof of concept
For a while now i’ve been toying with the idea of creating an iPhone App. Due to my knowledge of web technologies such as XHTML and Javascript, I wanted to see how I could create an iPhone application using these techniques. With wanting to learn some of the new features HTML 5 would offer, I [...]
- How I managed to tether my iPhone
o2 our good friend in the UK for iPhone coverage claim to be ‘better connected’. That’s their claim, not mine. Recently I needed to tether my iPhone to my Macbook Air – a simple process you may think. It should have been, but it wasn’t. Hence this blog post. You can read my story, or [...]
- CodeIgniter iPhone Push Notifications
I have written a wrapper in CodeIgniter for the Prowl PHP API. It allows you to easily send Push Notifications to an iPhone by calling a simple function. Prowl is a Growl client for the iPhone. Notifications from your Mac or Windows computer (see the FAQ) can be sent to your iPhone over push, with a [...]
- Use your iPhone as a wireless speaker
This post will show you how to use your iPhone as a wireless speaker so that you can stream your iTunes library (or any application) to your iPhone. (This will only work within Wi-Fi range of your computer running iTunes) This set is up uses the following: MacBook (2008 model) iPhone 3G 8Gb (Jailbroken) iTunes Airfoil Airfoil [...]
- How I find new music using my iPhone
Over the weekend I updated my iTunes library and I now have over 23,482 songs. Due to my iPhone having only 8GB of storage space there was no way that I could have all that music with me all of the time, but with a few apps I don’t need to physically carry my music with [...]
- Custom ringtones for your iPhone
Just a quick post to show you a web service that allows you to create and download ringtones for your iPhone. Simply head to http://audiko.net and follow the instructions. Here is one I made earlier: http://audiko.net/ringtone/Roots+Manuva/886290/Buff+Nuff+%28Prod.+By+Toddla+T%29/en.html?fresh
- iPhone productivity
As a web designer/developer having an iPhone helps to make being productive just that bit easier. Here are some of the tools and work-flows I use to achieve this: Email Our company currently use Google Apps to provide email and shared calendar solutions. Since the iPhone is pre-configured with G Mail support I get access [...]
- Browser & User interface templates
While creating mock-ups of sites its often useful so see what it will look like in a browser window. For this reason I have created a png of a desktop and mobile safari interface. I find that this is useful for clients to get a better feel of what a site will look like and [...]
- My first web app (sort of)
As you can see from the scree shot above, I have created my first iPhone web app. I say web app loosly as it doesn’ty actually do anything apart from tell you about me!! There is some interactivity however – simply swipe your finger on the screen to move between different frames. Try it on [...]
