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A few enhancements for iOS

leon — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:29:06 +0000

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

leon — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:10:19 +0000

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

leon — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:24:00 +0000

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

leon — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:16:16 +0000

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

leon — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:22:13 +0000

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

leon — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:21:30 +0000

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

leon — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:31:19 +0000

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

leon — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:41:48 +0000

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

leon — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:28:36 +0000

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

leon — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:14:11 +0000

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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