Developers: Retina-optimized Mac apps will take time

Macworld

While Apple is already updating its own apps for Retina display, officials with third-party developers Adobe and Autodesk on Tuesday said they’ll need time to ship Retina-optimized apps to the public. Their Photoshop and AutoCAD applications,…

13 June 2012

Correcting the Dots

inessential.com

One of the cool things about Objective-C is all the common conventions. My code should look like your code. But there seems to be one area where we’ve decided that anarchy is okay. I’m a wild fan of chaos and things-on-fire — everywhere except for code. So…

12 June 2012

Compressing PNG Images

Use Your Loaf

Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, Whilst making some changes to this blog recently I used the Google Developers PageSpeed tool to check page load times. One of the things it suggested was to optimize images by performing a…

8 June 2012

Prototype Table Cells and Storyboards

Use Your Loaf

Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, I recently posted on creating static table views with storyboards. In this post I want to look at some other changes introduced with iOS 5 to make it easier to create dynamic table views. …

7 June 2012

What’s the difference between UI and UX?

Planet Mozilla

Two weeks ago we were honored to have Brandon Schauer, Adaptive Path’s CEO, come speak to us about the difference between User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX). UX designers and researchers often say that UX is the most important element, and…

6 June 2012

Photography for the blind, courtesy of the iOS Camera app

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Most of us in the sighted world never need to use the amazing accessibility features that are built into iOS, but blogger and developer Stephen van Egmond recently found that these features go well beyond what is expected by even allowing the blind to…

5 June 2012

Hacking on open web apps

Planet Mozilla

At Mozilla, we believe the web is the platform. It’s the one place where we can share apps across many devices using ubiquitous, open technologies: HTML5 and JavaScript. Today, where we have many devices running proprietary platforms at our fingertips, the…

5 June 2012