Apple
24 Jun 2011
Well it took me three years to recover from organizing the world's first fully-virtual web conference, <head> with over 70 amazing speakers, in-world conference hubs in the UK, US, Switzerland, Belgium, and Second Life, and several thousand attendees. And by recover, I mean to forget what a huge undertaking it is to organize a conference.
But the time is perfect for a mobile conference in Brighton, and so I give you the Update conference: the human touch – iOS and beyond.
I'm up to my neck in work trying to get the site for Update Conference up and running but I saw a tweet in my stream from Mark Ford that I couldn't ignore.
Mark had written a blog post about how his wife finds it difficult to use some iOS apps because they do not implement a means to increase text size: (more...)
How to add pinch-to-zoom to a text view on iOS
An easy way to let users scale the text size in your iOS app using pinch-to-zoom.
Twitter has been ablaze recently with revelations that iPhones and iPad 3Gs are secretly recording your every move, and have been doing so for about a year now.
Where have you been? Your iPhone knows.
Your iPhone or iPad 3G has been secretly recording your location since OS 4.0. Would you like a map with that?
Following my talks at the LOGIN, The Big M, NSConference, and Tweakers.net Developer Summit last month, .net magazine asked if I'd like to be the subject of their Reader Q&A section in their next issue and answer questions sent in via Twitter on life, UX, mobile, and everything. I informed them that yes, I'd be delighted to, and this whole adventure eventually resulted in a lovely email from Tanya at .net magazine with the questions that were tweeted in.
(Welcome if you're reading this from the link in the .net article, by the way. I hope you enjoyed it.)
A little over a month ago, I wanted to see what Apple would do if I submitted Tweaky to the Mac App Store. Not surprisingly, after keeping it waiting for review for about a month, Apple rejected it.
Tweaky is my little Mac app that lets you enable the so-called "Super Secret preferences" in Twitter for Mac that are otherwise only available to people who purchased Tweetie for Mac via the MacHeist bundle (or who are comfortable with setting preferences manually via Terminal). You can download it via my web site but you won't be seeing it on the Mac App Store anytime soon.
Tweaky: not coming to a Mac App Store near you anytime soon
Tweaky doesn't find a loving home on the Mac App Store (but you can still download it from here).