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MP Finder iPhone app released

MP Finder iPhone app released

Our latest iPhone application is a small demonstration of what can be achieved using the newly released data from The Ordnance Survey under the Open Data initiative combined with public domain data on Members of Parliament and Constituencies. MP Finder locates where you are and then drops a pin on the map identifying your constituency and [...]

Golden Hour comes to iPhone

Golden Hour comes to iPhone

Mindsizzlers have released their latest iPhone application. The Golden Hour app’ puts a sun clock in your pocket and allows you to plot the position of the sun for any location on earth and time of year. Of particular interest to photographers, the application highlights the so-called “Golden Hour” much appreciated by cinematographers and photographers [...]

How Amazon’s cloud saved the Golden Hour

How Amazon’s cloud saved the Golden Hour

Roger created and runs an educational site about the science of the so-called “golden hour” – the time around sunrise and sunset that has the most fantastic light for taking photographs. Although there were lots of websites giving tables of sunrise and sunset times, I wanted to create something more visual that showed the golden-hour [...]

Mindsizzlers launch first iPhone application!

Mindsizzlers launch first iPhone application!

Following on from our news about the launch of www.dodadog.com, we’re delighted to announce the release of our first iPhone application which complements the site by tracking users’ walks and giving them access to a special mobile web version of the website. Written entirely in native objective-c for the iPhone, this is the first of a [...]

Got a dog? Join DODADOG!

Got a dog? Join DODADOG!

We’re delighted to announce the release of www.dodadog.com which is our new gregarious network for dogs and their owners. The site has discussion groups, breed information, photo galleries, news and articles and uniquely, the ability to track your walks using our related iPhone application. DODADOG was the brainchild of TV producer / director Colin Brewer and [...]

Writing Apps for iPhone OS3, 3.2 and iOS4

21 July 2010

The recent launches of iPad and iPhone4 have led to a flurry of activity on the iPhone operating system front. iPad launched with iPhone OS 3.2 but this OS was never destined for iPhone itself. iPhone 4 has introduced another OS release, with a nameshift from ‘iPhone OS’ to ‘iOS’ 4. iPhone [...]

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Delegation and Notifications, Oddities or Pure Elegance?

02 June 2010

Objective-C and Cocoa Touch are strong on design patterns and principles. If you adhere to Apple’s way of coding then you’ll create reliable and reusable code. If you’re new to Objective-C, some of the design principles can be quite daunting and if your background is in other object oriented languages, some of the [...]

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Web Apps vs. Native Apps

21 May 2010

When the iPhone was first launched, it didn’t launch with a marketplace for apps – indeed Apple didn’t even enable programmers to create applications for the platform at all. Quite quickly though, people worked out that you could create a web based application and style it specially to run in the iPhone screen. [...]

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Objective-C and the Properties of BOOL

27 April 2010

At a basic level, boolean logic allows for a value to be either true or false, on or off, 1 or 0. The ways in which boolean types are implemented vary widely across languages and implementations. At the most granular level, computers work with bits that are either set to on or off, [...]

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KVO and Bindings on iPhone

16 April 2010

‘Google’ for KVO and bindings for iPhone, and too many results tell you that KVO is not supported on the iPhone platform.  Well, if it wasn’t once, it is now, and it’s a really powerful feature.  KVO is Key-Value Observing – essentially you can add have one object ‘observe’ changes to a property of another [...]

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MP Finder iPhone app released

MP Finder iPhone app released

15 April 2010

Our latest iPhone application is a small demonstration of what can be achieved using the newly released data from The Ordnance Survey under the Open Data initiative combined with public domain data on Members of Parliament and Constituencies. MP Finder locates where you are and then drops a pin on the map identifying your constituency and [...]

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OS Open Data Shapefile to KML

09 April 2010

In early April the Ordnance Survey released a whole set of previously expensive geographic data into the Open Data initiative. The data is often in ESRI shapefile format as that is pretty much the norm for GIS software. That’s great if you are taking the data into a GIS workstation, but what if you want [...]

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iAd – mobile advertising for iPhone

08 April 2010

The announcement from Apple today about the new OS 4 for iPhone was pretty much as expected with the main developer interest being multi-tasking (only on 3GS and newer devices). More interesting was the announcement about iAd, Apple’s new mobile advertising platform that aims to integrate advertising more tightly with the whole iPhone experience. This is [...]

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iPhone Training Courses

03 April 2010

Mindsizzlers are now running London based training courses on iPhone and iPad development for both programmers and business leaders. Developed over the course of the last few months, courses can be delivered either at The Bridge in East London, or on-site for your own company. Courses can be scheduled in different ways to suit the [...]

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Golden Hour comes to iPhone

Golden Hour comes to iPhone

21 March 2010

Mindsizzlers have released their latest iPhone application. The Golden Hour app’ puts a sun clock in your pocket and allows you to plot the position of the sun for any location on earth and time of year. Of particular interest to photographers, the application highlights the so-called “Golden Hour” much appreciated by cinematographers and photographers [...]

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