If you’re already building web apps, you might wonder why you should bother to build an iPhone native app. The short answer is that you might not need to, but you should still optimize the app for iPhones.
Native-looking chrome
Set these in the head:

// set a custom icon for when a user bookmarks the app to [...]

Posted December 2, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: applications, iphone, web apps, web development, webkit. Comments Off.

I’m at Apple’s iPhone Tech Talk in New York today. Info is flowing like water through a firehose, so I’m not going to attempt live blogging, but here are their suggested ingredients for a successful iPhone app:

Delightful
Innovative
Designed
Integrated
Optimized
Connected
Localized

The picture is of the main theater for the event. It’s by far the most beautiful space I’ve ever [...]

Posted December 2, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: apple, apps, developer, iphone, iPhone applications, new york. Comments Off.

Re-imagined a bit, anyway. Why browse a vertical list of results when you can flip through them like pages in a book (or album covers in iTunes). Searchme on the iPhone and iPod touch does just that.
As you type your search term, icons representing rough categories appear, allowing you to target your search and [...]

Posted November 25, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: iphone, iPhone app, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, search, searchme, web search, web searching. Be the first one.

Catherine asked me what iPhone apps I recommend, so I went looking. Exposure, WordPress, and Google Mobile App are on the first page of my home screen. Mocha VNC and Band are buried a little deeper, but deserve mention.
I’m surprised to say that Loopt and Whrrl disappointed me. iPint was good for one laugh, but [...]

Posted August 12, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: app, App store, applications, iphone, iPhone app. Be the first one.

Armin Heinrich’s $999 I Am Rich iPhone app is no longer available on Apple’s app store. Perhaps they felt too ridiculed by The Register to keep it listed? Heinrich says seven people bought it, two by mistake.
So, now what’s the most expensive app?

Posted August 8, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless., Technology. Tags: app, App store, bling, conspicuous consumption, expensive, iphone, iPhone app, rich. Be the first one.

David Lynch doesn’t like the iPhone. At all. At least not for watching movies. Maybe the guy doesn’t take the subway much.

Posted June 20, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: David Lynch, experience, iphone, movies. Be the first one.

Will it be a thinner or fatter iPhone? Will it record live video? Will it have a metal cutting laser?
To heck with the iPhone rumors. We know the story, all we’re waiting on are the details. I’m more interested in what we don’t know. What aren’t we expecting? Will there be “one more thing”?
(thanks to [...]

Posted June 9, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: anticipation, iphone, keynote, one more thing, steve jobs, wwdc. Be the first one.

Last weekend, while I was putting an iPod interface into my Scion I did the same thing for my 2002 Honda Civic. Using Ben Johnson’s story as a guide, I bought a PIE HON98-AUX interface and dove in.
Aside from tools (screwdrivers and 8 and 10mm sockets), you’ll need:

The interface adapter
Audio wiring — I used a [...]

Posted April 27, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, Technology. Tags: adapter, apple, car, car audio, civic, honda, honda civic, in car, installation, integration, integration kit, iphone, ipod, ipod integration, PIE HON98/AUX, step by step, stereo. 3 Comments.

Based on this story about an iPod interface install I purchased a PIE TOY03-AUX aux input adapter so I could finally listen to my iPhone without using the lousy FM transmitter. Sure, I coulda bought a new car, as the manufacturers seem to have finally come to their senses and started including such inputs, but [...]

Posted April 21, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, Technology. Tags: adapter, apple, car, car audio, in car, installation, integration, integration kit, iphone, ipod, ipod integration, PIE TOY03/AUX, scion, scion xb, step by step, stereo. 3 Comments.

Aaron Schmidt alerted me to this how to sweetening up your site with fancy iPhone web clip icons.

Posted January 17, 2008 by Casey Bisson
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