Monday, June 14

Revisions made to iOS 4 SDK

Matt Drance reports changes to Apple’s iPhone developer terms and conditions made last week. Changes are particular to the game developers that allow continuing use of the traditionally interpreted code languages, such as Lua in their App Store applications.

Apple’s iOS 4 SDK
relaxes iPhone games developers from restriction of section 3.3.2, appropriate to the interpreted code. Apple still prohibits Flash and other middleware platforms while it enables the popular gaming engines and libraries. The 3.3.2 restriction stated that iOS apps will originally be written in Objective-C, C, C++ or JavaScript, and specifically no certain interpreted code is downloadable in an Application. Exceptions of the codes that are being interpreted or run by Apple’s Documented APIs and built-in interpreters.

Now Apple seeks the app that is independent of middle-ware platforms via third party and restricts in the Apple’s Xcode development tool limitations. This, from a neutral point of view, a clear job by Steve’s to avoid any malfunctions via third party middleware to iPhone’s platform.

The interpreted code restriction will target the basic iOS apps that include a huge quantity of games which are utilized for general purpose, reusable code engines or libraries to accelerate development. Although, Apple won’t block the popular and mostly used titles due to the middleware meta-platforms restriction residing in the iOS software development.

Tuesday, June 8

Much awaited call-Apple launches iPhone 4

Yesterday evening, at the WWDC event, Steve Jobs finally officially proclaimed iPhone’s next generation “4G”. Though the lost iPhone prototype had already rusted the excitement of the new phone, as blogosphere had revealed a few expected features, but still a great deal of it was left for the event to uncover. After all a mother knows its child better than anyone else; is it Steve’s?

“The very newly launched iPhone 4 is one the most gracious and beautiful designs you could amuse yourself with”, said Steve Jobs. While Steve’s presented the iPhone 4, during the conference in San Francisco, he admired its beauty and told the audience that, “This is without a doubt the most precise thing and one of the most beautiful things we’ve ever made.”

In spite the beauty part, Steve also showed his interest in hardware upgrades. Here is what you see on the new iPhone:

* Through a look on the device it is observed that the iPhone 4 is 24% thinner than the current iPhone that makes iPhone 4 as sleek as 9.3mm.
* The display screen is same to that current iPhone margined as 3.5
* The iPhone 4 screen is four times better than the current iPhone with 326 ppi display pixel density.
* The beautiful and glossy casing for the new generation iPhone included a stainless steel, with glass at the back of device.
* Powered by A4 chip
* Larger battery attached with almost 7 hours of talk time, 6 hours of 3G browsing, 10 hours of WiFi browsing, 10 hours of video, 40 hours of music and 300 hours of standby
* The iPhone 4 lets you download 7.2MB and 5.8MB upload speeds in whole also depending upon the carrier capabilities

These were the revised features of the current iPhone. The additional features to the new generation are:

* Gyroscope

Jobs said “iPhone is getting more and more intelligent in regards of the landscape around it and that’s so true about the iPhone 4 that sensors five senses including a gyroscope.” But what actually does it mean for the users; a more enhanced gaming experience or app accessibility? It is specified that iPhone 4’s internal gyroscope can sense the motions on almost six axes. Steve’s demonstrates an axle in a circle with the mass of blocks in an app that actually spun with him.

* Camera flash

iPhone never had any camera flash, but now we can see an LED flash on the iPhone 4’s camera. So, now we’ll be able to shoot photos and videos clearly at the night time.

* Better camera

Camera in iPhone4 is a little larger in size with 5 megapixels of resolution, still leading behind HTC Droid’s Incredible 8-megapixel camera. iPhone 4 offers HD video shoot with a video-editing app known as iMovie that allows shooting, editing and sharing of videos with the phone instantaneously.

Video conferencing

The most amazing additional feature is video conferencing with a front facing camera. Jobs states it to be budding trend in the mobile landscape.

Stainless steel antennae

The flattened iPhone 4 from both the sides is followed up by band of stainless steel that goes all round the edges as a trim. It’s just not the design folk, said Steve that is actually an antenna.

“It’s never been done before and it’s really cool engineering,” Jobs said.

Wireless carrier

Like always, iPhone 4 is only available with AT&T. All of us were expecting multiple carriers especially Verizon, this time, but AT&T monopoly seems to go strong with the new phone.

iPhone 4 will be available online or at the store for $199 (16GB) or $299 (32GB), soon in U.S from 24th June. Apple has stopped iPhone 3GS manufacturing and only cleaning up their pending stocks by the 24th June for the current iPhone 4G or HD.

Much awaited call-Apple launches iPhone 4

Yesterday evening, at the WWDC event, Steve Jobs finally officially proclaimed iPhone’s next generation “4G”. Though the lost iPhone prototype had already rusted the excitement of the new phone, as blogosphere had revealed a few expected features, but still a great deal of it was left for the event to uncover. After all a mother knows its child better than anyone else; is it Steve’s?

“The very newly launched iPhone 4 is one the most gracious and beautiful designs you could amuse yourself with”, said Steve Jobs. While Steve’s presented the iPhone 4, during the conference in San Francisco, he admired its beauty and told the audience that, “This is without a doubt the most precise thing and one of the most beautiful things we’ve ever made.”

In spite the beauty part, Steve also showed his interest in hardware upgrades. Here is what you see on the new iPhone:

* Through a look on the device it is observed that the iPhone 4 is 24% thinner than the current iPhone that makes iPhone 4 as sleek as 9.3mm.
* The display screen is same to that current iPhone margined as 3.5
* The iPhone 4 screen is four times better than the current iPhone with 326 ppi display pixel density.
* The beautiful and glossy casing for the new generation iPhone included a stainless steel, with glass at the back of device.
* Powered by A4 chip
* Larger battery attached with almost 7 hours of talk time, 6 hours of 3G browsing, 10 hours of WiFi browsing, 10 hours of video, 40 hours of music and 300 hours of standby
* The iPhone 4 lets you download 7.2MB and 5.8MB upload speeds in whole also depending upon the carrier capabilities

These were the revised features of the current iPhone. The additional features to the new generation are:

* Gyroscope

Jobs said “iPhone is getting more and more intelligent in regards of the landscape around it and that’s so true about the iPhone 4 that sensors five senses including a gyroscope.” But what actually does it mean for the users; a more enhanced gaming experience or app accessibility? It is specified that iPhone 4’s internal gyroscope can sense the motions on almost six axes. Steve’s demonstrates an axle in a circle with the mass of blocks in an app that actually spun with him.

* Camera flash

iPhone never had any camera flash, but now we can see an LED flash on the iPhone 4’s camera. So, now we’ll be able to shoot photos and videos clearly at the night time.

* Better camera

Camera in iPhone4 is a little larger in size with 5 megapixels of resolution, still leading behind HTC Droid’s Incredible 8-megapixel camera. iPhone 4 offers HD video shoot with a video-editing app known as iMovie that allows shooting, editing and sharing of videos with the phone instantaneously.

Video conferencing

The most amazing additional feature is video conferencing with a front facing camera. Jobs states it to be budding trend in the mobile landscape.

Stainless steel antennae

The flattened iPhone 4 from both the sides is followed up by band of stainless steel that goes all round the edges as a trim. It’s just not the design folk, said Steve that is actually an antenna.

“It’s never been done before and it’s really cool engineering,” Jobs said.

Wireless carrier

Like always, iPhone 4 is only available with AT&T. All of us were expecting multiple carriers especially Verizon, this time, but AT&T monopoly seems to go strong with the new phone.

iPhone 4 will be available online or at the store for $199 (16GB) or $299 (32GB), soon in U.S from 24th June. Apple has stopped iPhone 3GS manufacturing and only cleaning up their pending stocks by the 24th June for the current iPhone 4G or HD.

Shrek Forever after By FrogDog Media LLC


Before blogging today’s post I was busy memorizing my childhood bedtime stories. Those everlasting and they lived happily ever after effects of the never forgetting stories are so soothing in their entirety. Just when the idea of a beautiful princess falling in love with a handsome prince on a swan lake came to mind, I thought of checking the app store for similar stuff. Something valuable caught my attention in the store; a work of StoryTime and DreamWorks Animation. The teamwork brings up an iPhone app called Shrek Forever After.

All of us know that the iPhone and iPad are much enhanced modes of digital books; be it stories or print media. The multi-touch user interface provides users to play with the book no matter if it’s about skipping through the page or swapping one another. And the best part is that he device would even narrate the story to your toddler and rejoices him/her with fantasizing story of the Shrek. And specially that Sir Squeakels, “Where’s Waldo” when you click on the Sir Squeakels makes a squeak.

ABOUT THE STORY :

Burdened by responsibility and trapped by routine, this ogre has lost his roar. In order to recapture his past as a real ogre, Shrek is tricked into striking a bargain with Rumpelstiltskin, trading a day from his life as part of the deal. But the fine print of the contract lands him in an alternate universe where he’s feared, all right, but he’s also never rescued Fiona or met Donkey, Puss in Boots, Gingy and all his fairytale friends. Now, to get back to reality and his family, he has to find Fiona and defeat the devious Rumpelstiltskin before the deal expires.
http://www.itsaboutiphone.co.uk

Everyone Business holder should know Facebook Etiquettes!

Facebook is a guru of all social media networks, leading on a rapid pace, nurturing businesses very cost effectively, creating new horizons for prospering business and establishing a bench mark that a business can be super-duper profitable by simply an online presence on social media networks. You see Facebook Fan Pages, Facebook Groups, and Facebook Applications are being designed in a bulk number.
When there is a whole world on Facebook, a question knocks on my mind’s door and that is “Will everyone be successful?” and the answer is No. I maybe am sounding a little pessimist but the reality bites, only excellent wins the game and not the good. You need to know a lot of things to get you business registered in the hearts of your niche market, because it’s not your monopoly, there are about thousands of other companies all around the globe, who are providing the same goods, the same services and the same opportunities to people who need it. You need to make yourself separated from them and build a whole new niche through your way of social media networking. Mind you, it’s the social media networking strategy who will make you stand out in the odd lot and not your available –in-world product.
I am going to share inspiring Facebook personalities’ key factors that made them renowned on the Facebook jungle, helped them getting thousands of fans and friends on their Facebook blocks and created a whole new world of opulence through their way of interaction and Facebook etiquettes they practice.
Excited that you can do that too eh? Move on.

Never offend someone
Because you are hidden behind the computer screen so you have opportunity to humiliate others? No. You actually are humiliating you and your business’ image. Good manners, courtesy, kindness and decency are not too difficult to adopt, you just have to be a little nice with your words. Even if someone says something bad to you and you really find an urge to kick his ass, don’t do that. There are thousands of ways to make him realized that he is a dumb creep.
Be polite anyway.

Don’t send Friendship request twice
It degrades your integrity on both levels, personal and professional. That’s completely fine if some is not really interested in buddy-buddy scene. It’s their legal choice to opt or not to opt you. Don’t get offended by this behavior and never send add request again. To make it more decent and positive, you should write a personal note while sending request, it might change the other person’s view from negative to positive. But I am stick to my point; don’t send the request again if they already declined.
Don’t you say NO too?

Be careful about your tone
You never know if they consider your joke as a sarcastic comment. It creates a negative impact of you and your business, which slightly changes in to dislike-ness. So be sure about your tone, how you say it.
The above points are not-out-of-the-box type etiquette's, you already know them. All you need to stress on them a little more for better and effective interaction with people of your life and your business. If you want to ask something related to Facebook Etiquette's, you can always drop your question at Facebook apps Development Company