Benefits of having a mobile application

Posted by D C on 28th March 2012

There’s been a sensation about smart phones recently in particular Apples iPhone, and much speculation about its advantages and disadvantages, usefulness of developing applications.

Why is it beneficial to have your own mobile application?

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The Death of Doubleclick

Posted by Simon Bos on 13th March 2012

Double Click Everything

Is the double-click facing extinction?

Most of us have experienced the frustration of watching a friend or family member struggle with computers...

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Keeping Track

Posted by Nathan Wong on 18th November 2011

There are a lot of solutions available online to help with making notes and organising, and I've been trying out several over the last few months.

Catch

Allows multimedia notes to easily include pictures or audio, Catch also has a fully featured mobile and well designed tablet app which sync immediately with their website. Notes are can be put into separate "streams" which can be shared amongst other users or used to categorise your own notes.

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How to avoid EXC_BAD_ACCESS when using pass by reference NSError objects

Posted by Mike Caisey on 10th November 2011
Sometimes people set the error instance to nil initially. It's better to test what you expected to receive over the error object itself. For example if you call a method to load an object with data from disk you'd test the object being set not the error object. You'd check the error object after you asserted the file data load failed.

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Useful .gitignore file for xcode explained

Posted by Mike Caisey on 4th November 2011
This is a useful .gitignore file I've found from the web and use in my projects. It makes my projects more portable.

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Two days at Over the Air 2011

Posted by Nathan Wong on 21st October 2011

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to travel to the beautiful Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes for an event called Over The Air, a community-run conference for mobile development featuring an overnight hack-a-thon.

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The 2011 App Store Pricing Matrix

Posted by Mike Caisey on 22nd September 2011
This is the latest pricing matrix from the recent changes on the 14 Jul 2011. After spending too much time looking for it on the iTunes Connect site I decided to make it available.

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How to fix the Xcode 4 opening problem

Posted by Mike Caisey on 16th September 2011
Sometimes, usually when your in a hurry, Xcode will open improperly and show you only the Editor area. If you didn’t know this as the "Editor area" you may assume that Xcode has launched improperly. This post describes how to re-instate your full IDE window.

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Banksy Bristol Tour

Posted by Nathan Wong on 9th September 2011

If you pay any attention to our Twitter account or News, you'll have noticed the launch of our most recent app - the Banksy Bristol Tour, in conjunction with Tangent Books.

We were delighted on Friday to find out that we have been featured by Apple as a "New and Noteworthy" app in their UK store, since when it has been one of the best-selling apps in the store: fourth in the Lifestyle category and consistently in the Top 200 across all categories.

Thank you to all of our customers who have contributed to this. I hope you enjoy the app!

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How to quickly add Core Data to an app in Xcode 4

Posted by Mike Caisey on 9th September 2011
Tagged: iPhone
A quick tutorial for adding Core Data to your existing project when you forgot to click the Core Data check box at the start. This is a re-print of the self created tutorial I use each time. If you have any problems please drop me a mail.

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