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Our “sister” company Surgeworks Mobile just launched an online store selling components for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad applications. The store is located here and it’s currently featuring two products: A completely free Review Alert component for iPhone SDK that gives you the ability to pop-up an alert after a chosen period of time, asking [...]

Mobile Apps team launched a Prayer website as a support for the most complete prayer database available for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The app is Easy-to-use, multi-language Christian Prayers database. The ultimate reference to Catholic Prayers for your iPhone and iPod Touch! The App can work without an Internet connection and provided users [...]

We have used Thinking-Sphinx in several projects to implement search engines. Thinking-Sphinx is a wrapper in Ruby to use ActiveRecord with Sphinx. But in the project I’m working right now I had to solve a different problem: the user should be able to search for formatted values, however without using the formatting characters, i.e, suppose [...]

Sending a large number of emails is not an easy task. It can take a lot of time so you need to do it asynchronously. Also, if you are on a shared hosting, you might be limited to a certain number of emails per hour, so you need to divide your list of email addresses in [...]

Do you know what the word above means? If you do, than you might be one of the candidates for a job position in our company. As some of you who are visiting the site for a longer time know, Inchoo was founded in May 2008. At the time of inception, Branko and me were [...]

Facebook developers already have a useful info on Facebook components documentation, i.e., they count on Facebook FBML wiki as reference.
Thinking of designers and, of course, ourselves as designers, we made a Facebook Graphic User Interface (FBGUI) resource kit for Photoshop to make our work easier.

The purpose is to speed up Facebook interface design, sparing you [...]

In the first article in this series I described a way to redirect iPhone clients to our mobile application. Now I will describe how to build a registration application using JQTouch.
A typical web application sends the content of each page, but in this model we deliver the whole application and only parts of the document [...]

Apple was given as “dead” in 1997. Steve Jobs returned and created a strategy in 4 weeks to resurrect the company. What were the key points of that strategy, and how did that allow Apple to create the iPod and the iPhone?
Here are some quotes from the press in 1997: “Apple has become irrelevant”, “Apple [...]

Analyst Katy Huberty with Morgan Stanley said suppliers for the iPad have currently forecast 2.5 million iPads to be shipped from March to May 2010: Apple would ship between 8 million and 10 million by the end of 2010. This number is much higher than the expectation of 5 million that was forecasted so far. [...]

In Objective-C protocols are used to declare a list of methods that are used or may be implemented in any other class.
Protocols are declared with the @protocol directive. They have no curly brackets with variables since they cannot have any variables associated with them.
@protocol ProtocolName
//method declarations
- (void) someMethod;
@endb
Protocol method can be marked as required to [...]