Designing for iPhone 4 Retina Display
Nov 24With the iPhone 4, and later the fourth-generation iPod Touch, Apple introduced a much higher density of screen for their mobile devices. The Retina Display, has the same dimensions as its predecessors, but there are twice as many pixels per inch. This makes for…
The iPad is the New iPod
Nov 22Remember when every company developing a portable music player called it “The iPod Killer?” There were plenty of media players, but all the general public wanted was the iPod. The one device made the MP3 player market, previously a “geeky” thing, mainstream. There were…
BlogBuzz November 20, 2010
Nov 20Optimize a Website for iPhone Using Only CSS
Nov 19Lots of websites now have mobile versions that optimize their designs for speed and ease-of-use on the iPhone, reducing scripts and designing for the device’s smaller screen. They usually use some sort of browser detection script that loads a different template on the mobile…
iOS UIFileSharingEnabled Property List Flag
Nov 17Here’s a tip for you iOS developers. Have you ever noticed how some apps let you copy files back and forth between their Documents directories and your computer from within iTunes? It’s very easy to implement it yourself. As a matter of fact, it’s…
Twitter Blackbird Pie for WordPress
Nov 15Want to easily embed individual twitter messages in your blog posts? There’s a WordPress plugin for that. Twitter Blackbird Pie adds several options that allow you to embed a nicely-rendered HTML representation of a tweet. It adds buttons to the editor, shortcodes, even oEmbed…
BlogBuzz November 13, 2010
Nov 13WordPress to Gain Tumblr-Style Post Formats
Nov 12I’ve talked a little before about how WordPress 3.0’s custom post types made it possible, if you don’t mind doing a bit of coding, to turn your WordPress blog into a “tumbleblog.” A little while after, WooThemes released a plugin to make it a…
HTML5 May Not Be XHTML, But That’s No Excuse for Sloppiness
Nov 10I was reading an interesting post about HTML5 and the failure of XHTML strict parsing recently, and it reminded me of an issue I have with the HTML5 spec. It really bothers me that the HTML5 spec permits the use of quoteless attribute values…
