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• How to Create XHTML MP Templates that Work on Every Mobile Platform

  

  By Maximiliano Firtman : Today, 11:12 AM

  The following is an excerpt from my book, Programming the Mobile Web.XHTML MP is based on the W3C’s XHTML Basic, and they are almost the same. The W3C has an online mobile validator at https://valida...

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  • xhtml
  • xhtml mp
  • mobile
  • android
  • iphone
  • xhtml basic

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• How to Conserve the iPhone's Battery Life

  

  By chco : Yesterday, 12:52 PM

  The following excerpt is from iPhone: The Missing Manual, Fourth Edition. The author gives some helpful tips on how to make the iPhone last longer on one charge.The battery life of the iPhone is eithe...

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  • smartphone
  • apple
  • iphone

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• Mobile Site Design Best Practices

  

  By Maximiliano Firtman : 30 August 2010 - 03:22 PM

  When you are creating a mobile version of an existing desktop website, you need to understand that you are mobilizing the website, not minimizing it. Minimizing (or miniaturizing) a desktop website si...

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  • mobile web
  • best practices
  • UI
  • mobile
  • iphone
  • android

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• How to Include Search in Your iPhone App Design

  

  By joshclark : 30 August 2010 - 10:30 AM

  The final ribbon of standard interface chrome is the seek-and-you-shall-find search bar. If your app manages or accesses big collections of info, your audience will clamor for a way to search it. The ...

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  • iphone
  • UI
  • app
  • design
  • search

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• When to Use SQLite instead of Core Data on the iPhone

  

  By chco : 22 August 2010 - 08:05 PM

  This excerpt from Using SQLite explains the differences between Core Data and SQLite and will help you decide which to use when developing on the iPhone.When the iPhone and iPod touch were first relea...

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  • apple
  • iphone
  • database
  • sql
  • sqlite

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• How to add more than one google/gmail Calendar to your iPad/iPhone

  

  By Doron Katz : 20 August 2010 - 03:00 PM

  For those of you like me, who enjoy having an iPad and iPhone and use gmail's emailing and calendar services, when you set up your gmail account using the exchange method (see my other O'Reill...

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  • iOS
  • iPhone
  • iPad
  • gmail

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• The Importance of Storyboarding Your iPhone App

  

  By joshclark : 13 August 2010 - 10:16 AM

  Before you build, diagram your app's flow of screens, like a movie director preparing storyboard sketches for every scene of a shoot. Make sure that you have clean, untangled lines through your hi...

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  • iphone
  • storyboard
  • app
  • app development
  • UI

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• Would you buy a Verizon iPhone?

  

  By macslocum : 13 August 2010 - 04:44 AM

  I know this is dangerously close to Verizon-iPhone linkbait, but a recent post by John Gruber got me thinking about a legitimate question. Here's what he wrote: QuoteI don't think there’s anyone ...

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  • Google
  • iphone
  • Apple
  • Verizon
  • Android

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• Do you have to be able to hack a device to feel like you own it?

  

  By macslocum : 11 August 2010 - 04:24 AM

  Back in late-March, early-April, when the world was gripped in iPad hysteria, a debate emerged about the iPad / iPhone's closed system. Some said Apple's locked-down approach was a deal breaker. Other...

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  • devices
  • ipad
  • iphone
  • hacker ethic
  • ios
  • hack
  • Android

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• How to Make Use of the Tab Bar in Your iPhone App

  

  By joshclark : 09 August 2010 - 01:56 PM

  The tab bar is a dock of buttons anchored at screen bottom, giving your audience a menu of options to choose from. The result is a tidily categorized app, with its primary features explicitly listed a...

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  • iphone
  • UI
  • design
  • tabs
  • app

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