You might be starting to notice that Update isn't a regular conference. It kicks off with the Royal Banquet at a palace (for which there are still a few tickets you can buy to attend), continues in the premier concert hall in Brighton, and ends with the A Night at the Museum after-party at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. It is a tightly-scripted experience, with 18-minute inspirational talks punctuated by Geek Ninja Battles, tech beats, and live/interactive music and visualization acts. And, unlike other conferences, we're approaching sponsorship differently too.

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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.

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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.

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Update: sorry everyone, the event sold out in under 24 hours but there is a waiting list you can sign up to in case anyone drops out. Thank-you all for your overwhelming interest and here's looking forward to seeing a bunch of you there in March!

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I will be teaching my 3-Day Introduction to iOS Development workshop this month, November 24-26, 2010, right after I return from giving the second day opening keynote and teaching a one-day iPhone workshop at Future of Web Design in New York. The venue is the beautiful Lighthouse Arts in central Brighton (UK).

This intensive course will give you a solid foundation in developing with the iOS SDK (for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch), Xcode (both 3 & and the upcoming 4), and Objective-C. To see a more detailed outline of the course and get all the juicy details, please see the course's web-site.

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