You may have been wondering why I disappeared off the face of the earth for the past month after announcing that Evolutio – which I thought was going to be my first iPhone app – was going into Alpha.

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Whenever possible, I try to use existing icons for my apps. I do this for two reasons: firstly, designing a good icon is an art that takes a ridiculous amount of time and practice, and, secondly, using standard icons correctly in your applications makes your app consistent with other applications on the same platform and thus helps it meet user expectations.

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My story's often told: app meets UITabBarController, UITabBarController starts an affair with multiple UINavigationControllers, the UINavigationControllers end up with a host of child UIViewControllers, some of which need to rotate to landscape mode and some that don't.

So far, so good.

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Mogenerator is a very useful utility that creates model classes for you when working with Core Data. I've written about Mogenerator before but what I didn't realize is that I wasn't working with the latest version (the version I was using was 1.6.1 and the latest version as of this writing, compiled from trunk, is 1.13.1).

It's easy to get confused as there are several outdated downloads and project pages floating around the web. It appears, however, that this github repository is where Mogenerator is being actively developed.

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I can access T-Mobile UK WiFi HotSpots with my T-Mobile Mobile Broadband account (I have a 3G USB stick) but I find the signing in process rather painful. It goes something like this:

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