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October 1, 2009
 

Photo your whiteboard or shopping list and have it searchable: JotNot, Evernote and iPhone

Integration spotlight: JotNot for iPhone

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JotNot for iPhone is a nifty app that corrects your less-than-perfect photos and sends them into Evernote. Whether you’ve taken a snapshot of a business card at a wacky angle, a photos of a whiteboard under poor lighting conditions, or an off-kilter receipt, JotNot will magically fix contrast and let you correct the angles—turning your snapshot into a straightened, cleaner version of its former self. It’s like turning your iPhone camera into a scanner.

 

via blog.evernote.com

I just tried this, and it actually works, even with my casual handwriting. Color me very impressed indeed.

Filed under  //   evernote   iphone   notes   whiteboard  

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August 4, 2009
 

OSCON Highlight: Testing iPhone apps with Ruby and Cucumber

This talk begins with a survey of the landscape of iPhone UI testing. We’ll discuss the work done by Dr. Nic Williams in unit-testing Objective-C code with RSpec, and by Matt Gallagher in spidering the iPhone UI with an XPath test script.

That will be a natural jumping-off point to explain why a full-fledged “GUI driver” for iPhone apps has been long in coming. We’ll look at different ways to prod at application code, and discuss the tradeoffs. Finally, I’ll introduce a simple library of Ruby glue code to connect Cucumber test scripts to the iPhone. The technique will be very basic, but just powerful enough to test a simple iPhone app.

via OSCON 2009

I just skimmed through the slides here. The iPhone testing work is inspirational stuff. Definitely going to give this a spin. There's also a nice nod to the value of XML-based UI creation.

Filed under  //   cucumber   iphone   oscon   testing   xml  

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July 21, 2009
 

View of San Jose from convention center Marriott

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Filed under  //   iphone   panorama   sanjose  

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July 16, 2009
 

Dopplr launches iPhone app

Because your iPhone knows your location, the app can show you nearby places to eat, stay and explore, as recommended by the Dopplr community. It also comes with built-in recommendations for 250 popular cities around the world.

via dopplr.com

Very excited to see Dopplr's iPhone app hit the Apple app store today. I've been privileged to be an early tester of this, and can't wait to use it for real over the next two weeks at OSCON in San Jose.

Congratulations to @mattb and all at Dopplr!

Filed under  //   application   dopplr   iphone   travel  

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July 15, 2009
 

Now I can take my type fetish along with me in my pocket!

Are you a graphic designer? Do you work with letters? Do you know the difference between a font and a typeface? Do your eyes light up when conversations turn to ems, kerning, and baseline grids? If you answered yes to these questions, then The Typography Manual for the iPhone and iPod Touch is for you!

via typographyapp.com

Oh, oh, I think I've died and gone to heaven. Now I can take my type fetish along with me in my pocket!

The Typographic Manual is exactly the kind of thing that shows off the kind of application/content hybrid publishing model that the iPhone is such an excellent platform for.

A thing of beauty.

Filed under  //   application   iphone   typography  

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July 14, 2009
 

My co-workers make some great things... just seen the new Best iPhone Apps site

O'Reilly have just launched a Best iPhone Apps site, to support the new book of that name and it looks awesome. The featured "app smackdown" is OmniFocus vs Things — iPhone productivity software is something I'm pretty interested in, being a committed if slipshod OmniFocus user.
 
I'm really looking forward to seeing this site grow.

Filed under  //   iphone   oreilly  

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July 14, 2009
 

iPhone "wrecking" the cell industry — but nobody's crying very much

Apple has stolen the march, and in the process has recast AT&T from hero to villain
via appleinsider.com

Interesting article at AppleInsider, extrapolated from an analyst report on Apple and AT&T.

When Microsoft did things like this, we all complained they were anticompetitive. Thing is, Apple chooses opponents, sorry, partners, we're all too willing to hate in the first place: cell carriers and music labels.

I've sold my soul for aluminum enclosures and decent fonts. And really, life is too short to regret it.

Filed under  //   apple   att   iphone  

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July 14, 2009
 

Financial Times iPhone application

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via ft.ft3.kisshosting.com

I love just how good-looking the FT app is. I'm not an investor, but the FT is always my newspaper of choice for planes or trains. Great aesthetic, non-hyperbolic reporting. And of course, I always need to catch up on the exchange rates.

Filed under  //   application   ft   iphone  

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