May 2012
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Listen
April 2011
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javierplumey asked: ShareTunes used to pick up on whatever I was already playing in the iPod app on my iPhone. Now it stops the music and prompts me to pick a song manually. How come?
March 2011
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Paperboy: Simple script to deliver news to your...
I just hacked together a simple script that uses Calibre to deliver your favourite news sources to your Kindle. You can use this with CRON to schedule daily delivery of the Sydney Morning Herald for example.
https://github.com/nathanpiper/paperboy
February 2011
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December 2010
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ShareTunes Promo Codes
In the spirit of Christmas and to celebrate the fact that iTunes promo codes can now be redeemed worldwide, here are some codes for ShareTunes:
34MW47Y7LXAJ
FYRYLK933NT4
KYJ47WNMK74Y
EPNXHXW9K3W9
369W4WMJL46L
3LYRRWH7Y97L
RYA76M3W67TK
TRENKW3YWH4L
KP66AEEFPRYA
N6KW7HNLXPYE
Enjoy!
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Smashing Pumpkins Player →
Check out the latest song from the Pumpkins: “Tom Tom”. It sounds like vintage Pumpkins!
May 2010
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ShareTunes 2.0 Beta
Just a quick update on ShareTunes 2.0.
ShareTunes has been in the App Store for just over 6 months now. During that time, we have had over 1000 paid downloads and 1800 downloads of the Lite version of the app (which has been live for about 2 months).
I would like to thank all the users who have provided encouraging feedback. It’s really cool to hear from people all over the world who share...
December 2009
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Git
I recently decided to use Git for my personal iPhone development projects. A lot of opensource projects seem to be using GitHub lately, instead of SourceForge or Google Code. For those unfamiliar with Git, here is a brief run down …
Git is an opensource distributed version control system developed by Linus Torvalds as a replacement for BitKeeper (a proprietary SCM which was being used for...
November 2009
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XCode VS Visual Studio
In general, my experience with XCode has been fairly positive. I’m going to give my honest opinion coming from a Visual Studio background. Please note: I don’t proclaim to be an XCode expert and there may be solutions to some of the complaints I have listed. However, the goal of this post is to provide an insight regarding into the “out of box” development experience for...
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My experiences with iPhone development so far ...
Having spent the best part of the last 5 years working fulltime as a mobile developer for the Windows Mobile platform, I felt Microsoft had the rug pulled from under them.
The iPhone is an exciting platform and seemed to provide the developer with a clear MVC architecture, clear user experience guidelines as well as a global reach to exploit your ideas. I decided it was time to see what iPhone...