Archive for the “iPhone” category

A few enhancements for iOS

by leon on January 2, 2012

Ever since the first iPhone came out I have been in love with the platform, however a few missing features are really starting to annoy me. I’m sure I’m not the first, and won’t be the last to suggest some (…)

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Beanstalk on your iPhone

by leon on January 6, 2011

Forget the Mac AppStore, something far more interesting got released today- MagicBean, the first proper Beanstalk native iOS app. The £1.79 app, built by Birmingham based Web and iOS developer Andrew Yates allows you to view your Repos, see the (…)

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Digital Birmingham – Getting the most from Web 2.0 for your business

by leon on April 1, 2010

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 (…)

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Showee – A proof of concept

by leon on February 17, 2010

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 (…)

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How I managed to tether my iPhone

by leon on November 22, 2009

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 (…)

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CodeIgniter iPhone Push Notifications

by leon on July 31, 2009

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 (…)

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Use your iPhone as a wireless speaker

by leon on April 20, 2009

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 (…)

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How I find new music using my iPhone

by leon on March 4, 2009

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 (…)

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Custom ringtones for your iPhone

by leon on December 16, 2008

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

by leon on November 28, 2008

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 (…)

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