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Introduction to MapKit in iPhone OS 3.0

Introduction Hello everyone. Welcome to another screencast. Today we will be looking into the MapKit, a new API’s made available by Apple in the iPhone OS 3.0 release. The MapKit allows simple access to the map seen in the maps application. [...]
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Special Deal For iCodeBlog Readers On An Invisible Shield

The site invisibleskinz.com has decided to give iCodeBlog readers a 20% discount on the Invisible Shield for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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The iPhone is Bad at Keeping Secrets

Today an article from TaranFx has been making the rounds talking about a new open source application called SpyPhone that highlights all of the “information vulnerabilities” within the current iPhone SDK. You can check out the article here: SpyPhone App Steals [...]
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iPhone Coding Tutorial – In Application Emailing

A lot of applications you see have an email button. When you click it then it will leave the application and take you to the Mail application. It can get really annoying leaving the application and then going back in [...]
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iPhone In Action Book – Free Chapter Downloads

Manning Publishing has started their MEAP (Manning Early Access Program) for the book I am working on. What this means for you is FREE DOWNLOADS. There is currently only one chapter available, but there will be more as the book progresses. The chapter currently available is about audio recording and playback. It goes into detail about the AVAudio frameworks as well as the MPMediaPlayer.
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iPhone Coding Tutorial – Inserting A UITextField In A UIAlertView

This will be a simple tutorial showing you how to put a UITextField in a UIAlertView. This is simple and just a couple lines if code. You will learn CGAffineTransform and coding UITextField programmatically. Heres a screenshots of what we should [...]
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iPhone Tech Talk World Tour: San Jose

Last week I went out to San Jose, CA to go to Apple’s iPhone Tech Talk World Tour! Apple once a year holds 9 single day “Tech Talks” across the world. This year only 3 were in the US and I [...]
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iPhone Coding Tutorial – Creating an Online Leaderboard For Your Games

As you may have seen, there are quite a few services out there offering free leaderboards. These are great and all, but sometimes you want to have complete control over your data. I have put together a complete tutorial detailing step by step how you can create your own online leaderboard. This will also give you a very simple introduction to interfacing with web services.
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Floodgates opened for iPhone development

For as active as iPhone application development community is, achieving success in iTunes has been an elusive affair for those who participate in this vertical. The two main obstacles presented to anyone who wants to create an iPhone applications are: one, finding resources/developers with the right skill set; and two, marketing the application after the application has been submitted. The bad news is Apple keeps iTunes a black box. Unless your application has been reviewed or mentioned on review sites or blogs, no one will be able to find your application outside of iTunes. This makes marketing your application relatively difficult. Here's the good news: the cost to build an iPhone application should come down substantially as it no longer requires a developer with an exclusive knowledge to a specific technology to build an application for iPhone.
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Debugging Tutorial – Automating Your Tests With A UIRecorder Instrument

If you have ever experienced a bug in your application that took many steps to reproduce, then this tutorial is for you.  By nature, testing and debugging are very tedious processes.  This is especially the case for the iPhone. Say you [...]
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