codedifferent.com » Applications http://www.codedifferent.com mobile | mac | business | development blog Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:32:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish … RIP Steve Jobs http://www.codedifferent.com/2011/10/06/stay-hungry-stay-foolish-rip-steve-jobs/ http://www.codedifferent.com/2011/10/06/stay-hungry-stay-foolish-rip-steve-jobs/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:06:43 +0000 Christian http://www.codedifferent.com/?p=770
Thank you for so much, Steve.

I was deeply moved by Your commencement speech in Stanford as I am when I watch it today …

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Sure, it’s not Steve Jobs presenting on this special event … but I think the mixture of Tim Cook, Scott Forstall, Eddy Cue and Phil Schiller giving the presentation works out quite well. But see it for yourself by watching the official video-stream from Apple about the iOS 5, iCould, iPhone 4s, Siri & all the other details.

P.S. Hope Steve Jobs health recovers!

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Here’s the Quicktime video stream of this years WWDC 2011 keynote about Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud … and how it all works together. So, tune in to see Steve Jobs, Phil Schiller and Scott Forstall presenting the newest software developments.

]]> http://www.codedifferent.com/2011/06/06/offical-apple-video-stream-of-wwdc-2011-keynote/feed/ 0 HowTo: Delete many pictures from your iPhone http://www.codedifferent.com/2011/04/30/howto-delete-many-pictures-from-your-iphone/ http://www.codedifferent.com/2011/04/30/howto-delete-many-pictures-from-your-iphone/#comments Sat, 30 Apr 2011 08:27:19 +0000 Christian http://www.codedifferent.com/?p=701 Sure, the iPhone can not cope with the image quality of a good digital camera … but it’s great for snapshots and ShakeItPhoto- or Hipstamatic-experiments. That’s why I’m collecting a lot of pictures on my iPhone from time to time. Sometimes I sync the pictures with iPhoto. But I’m not always using the delete-after-import feature. The current version of iPhoto does not have any problems with that if you use the “Hide Photos Already Imported” option: iPhoto just ignores the old photos and only downloads the previews of the new ones in the import section.
But there is no way to delete all or a selection of these old photos in iPhoto, iTunes or on the iPhone. But the only solution to delete these photos one-by-one on the iPhone is not working with hundrets of photos. So, what to do?

Every Mac ships with a standard Apple utility which helps you out :) It’s called “Image Capture” (or on German Mac OS X systems “Digitale Bilder”). This utility shows all images on the iPhone. You can select all or only a selection of these pictures and you’re able to delete them right away! Here is how to:

  1. Connect your iPhone via USB with your Mac.
  2. If iTunes or iPhoto starts, wait for the sync, and press the iPhone-disconnect button within the itunes window. Make sure, that you quit iTunes and iPhoto.
  3. Open “Image Capture” from the applications folder.
  4. Select your iPhone in the left column and a list of the iPhone photos will be displayed on the right.
  5. Select the photos, you want to delete – or select all pictures by pressing command-A.
  6. Now press on the red delete button just beneath the list. If you’re sure, that you want to delete the pictures you can confirm the deletion. WARNING: You cannot recover the deleted photos – so be sure, that you imported them to iPhoto before!
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Great to see Steve Jobs on stage again. The presentation is about three blocks of information:

  1. The market: Steve presents some amazing numbers … 15 Million iPads sold, 100 Million iPhones sold, 100 Million iBooks downloaded, 200 Million Accounts on the iTunes/AppStore/iBookStore with credit cards, $2 Billion payout to AppStore developers.
  2. The iPad 2: Apple listened to their customers and integrated most of the features iPad users are demanding. But they also kept the prices and the battery life. The new A5 Dual-Core CPU is up to twice as fast and the graphics performance up to 9x. With the HDMI-cable accessory, it’s possible to mirror the iPad 2 screen to a flatscreen or beamer. This is perfect for live app demos and presentations. The iPad 2 is now equipped with a front and a rear camera. The new design of the iPad 2 and the magnetic covers speak for themselves. The design team of Jony Ive did a great job.
  3. The software: iOS 4.3 is shipping with a lot of improvements under the hood. By introducing iMovie and Garageband for the iPad Apple shows, that the iPad is not only a consuming device, but also a device to create things.

But I only can recommend to watch Steve Jobs, Scott Forstall, Randy Ubillos and Xander Soren on the Quicktime streaming video yourself. Sorry PC-folks: The streaming video requires Safari 4 or 5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Safari on iOS 3 or later.

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Let’s find out on the Apple Special Event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts! March 2nd 10:00 AM PST (7:00 PM MEZ). Apple did not announce a live video feed (yet) … but here’s live coverage:

As soon as the video of the keynote is available as a Quicktime stream or Apple decides to live stream the event … you’ll be updated ;-)

]]> http://www.codedifferent.com/2011/03/02/apple-special-event-the-year-of-the-ipad2/feed/ 0 How to rename iPhone 4 / iOS 4 folders for apps http://www.codedifferent.com/2010/07/21/how-to-rename-iphone-4-ios-4-folders-for-app/ http://www.codedifferent.com/2010/07/21/how-to-rename-iphone-4-ios-4-folders-for-app/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:32:46 +0000 Christian http://www.codedifferent.com/?p=629 One of the most obvious features on the iPhone 4 & iOS 4 is “Folders for Apps” to organize your apps. This is how you can cope with the food of apps – at least on your own iPhone. iOS 4 automatically names the folder and you directly can customize the name. But what about changing the name later on?

Creating folders for apps

  • If you’re in rearrange mode – by tapping and holding on an app on the home screen until the app icons start to shake – creating folders is easy and intuitive: You only need to drag an app icon over an other app icon and the iOS instantly creates a folder and automatically names it.
  • The folder opens up and shows the included apps.
  • You can change the automatic generated folder name by clicking into the rounded white name field.

Rename an existing folder for apps

  • Changing existing titles of folders for apps is only working in the app rearrange mode.
  • So, you have to tap and hold one of the app icons on the home screen until the icons start to shake.
  • Then you tap on the folder you want to rename. The folder opens up so you can see the apps and the title in edit mode.
  • You only have to click on the title. Now the keyboard appears and you can rename the folder.
  • Just press the home button once you are finished to exit the rearrange mode.

Hope this saves some time.

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Finally the video stream of Steve Jobs iPhone 4 & iOS 4 keynote at the WWDC 2010 is online now. So tune in to watch his performance.

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It’s quite obvious, why Apple is revealing the next version of their mobile OS now: The app developers need to implement the new features – like multitasking – to their apps … only if they do so, the iPhone OS 4 will be a success. But, calm down, Steve Ballmer: It will be a success ;-)
This is a quick overview over the 7 tentpole features, Steve Jobs and Scott Forstall (Senior Vice President iPhone Software) presented at the event (Quicktime-Video-on-Demand of the event):

  1. Multitasking – specific functionalities, like audio or VoIP, can run in the background, now. Also fast switching between apps by preserving the exact status within the app can now be enabled. To achieve all this in a battery- and cpu-preserving way, app developers need to integrate these new features explicitly by using those new APIs. Apple provides the developers with seven multitasking services via the iPhone OS 4.0 SDK:
    - Background audio … example app: Pandora
    - Voice over IP … example app: skype
    - Background location … example apps: tomtom, Loopt
    - Push notification
    - Local notifications
    - Task completion … example app: Flickr
    - Fast app switching … example app: TapTap
  2. Folders – Now, apps can be organized within folders. Using folders, you can install a maximum of 2.160 apps instead of 180 on your iPhone ;-)
  3. Mail – Improved Mail-app with unified inbox, multi Exchange accounts, fast inbox switching, threaded messages and open attachment with apps.
  4. iBooks – the iPad iBook-Reader and the iBookstore are transformed for the iPhone.
  5. Enterprise – the operating system addresses the needs of major companies for handling large installations of iPhones as their corporate communication devices:
    - Even better data protection
    - Mobile Device Management
    - Wireless app distribution
    - Multiple Exchange Accounts
    - Exchange Server 2010
    - SSL VPN support
  6. Game Center – Now, game developers can use the social gaming network built into the native iPhone SDK:
    - Invite Friends
    - Automatic Matchmaking
    - Leaderborads
    - Achievements
  7. iAd – Mobile Advertisement – Apple implements a mobile advertisement service deep into the iPhone OS itself. The revenue share is an industry “standard” of 60% for the developer and 40% of the advertisement revenues for Apple.

Again, Apple achieved to integrate a bundle of innovations into the next iPhone generation … very good news for the growing number of iPhone-developers. Other players in the mobile industry, like Google’s AdMob, have to expect heavy seas ahead. This leads me to one of these wonderful Bob Dylan songs: “The times they are a changing …”

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Happy Valentine’s day 2010!

Last year, 30 German iPhone developers joint their forces and reduced their app prices to the max to make you smile on Valentine’s day … this year everything is bigger: Now more than 80 apps are reduced to the max to please our customers.
CompareMe shopping utility is also available for $0.99. So check out AppsForSale.de maybeyou’ll find a real bargain. Only on 14.02.2010!

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