Designing a mobile app can seem simple when you are sketching it out on the whiteboard. But when you actually sit down in your developer environment and get cracking, turning your ideas into reality is not always so easy. That’s only the beginning, of course.

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Using a Pinoccio board — a web-ready microcontroller complete with WiFi and built-in radio — and a Pololu 3pi — an adorable little two-wheeled robot that is connected to a programmable microcontroller — the folks at Pinoccio have created the Web Rover, a system that allows you to control the 3pi robot over the web.

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Build iPhone Apps & Games With Over 14 Hours of Actionable Video Instruction. Expires February 23, 2013 23:59 PST

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This year at FreshBooks, we released our first iPhone app. Our company’s been around for almost 10 years, and this is truly our first new product since the launch of our cloud accounting web application.

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Publishers looking for new ways to connect with audiences on the go need look no further than the device many people carry with them every day—their smartphone. Rodale, publisher of Men’s Health magazine, is doing just that with an enhanced version of the magazine now available on the iPhone. You have seen our App of the Week videos and news announcements. Today, you can learn directly from the Rodale Publishing team, featured in our latest case study video.

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If you’ve always wanted to build an iPhone or iPad app from scratch, iPhone Hacks Deals has an offer that you really shouldn’t pass up. And don’t wait too long to decide, either – because it won’t be around for much longer.

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There are more than 700,000 apps in the Apple App store and more than 200,000 specifically for the iPad. The competition is fierce and there is a lot of duplication in regards to the value propositions for each application.

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Some people like a pocket-sized notebook, and some people like carrying around a legal pad. That’s why for years, Moleskine has offered a dozen sizes for its notebooks, and convinced bookstores to carry them all. But while Apple’s iPad has replaced the notebook for many, it’s always just come in one size — until now. The company’s new iPad mini represents a new size in between the iPhone and iPad, and while it runs 275,000 iPad apps, it’s got a a few people a little confused.

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If you work on a mobile app and you’re planning on developing it on Android and iOS, it may be less work for you to write it on Android first. Google recently released a new tool that makes porting Java code to iOS much easier.
The project (j2objc) can be found here.

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WebMatrix has not been a tool that I use on a daily basis.  However, I have used it to quickly setup and deploy sites based on templates or applications from third parties (ie. DotNetNuke, BlogEngine.NET, etc.). Last week, Microsoft released WebMatrix 2.  It has quite a number of beneficial new features which make it worth investigating (not the least of which is the support for node.js).

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iPhone has reached beyond our ageing phones that were only restricted to talking and messaging. Reaching at its peak in terms of usability, performance and features the smartphone has grabbed attention of millions across the globe. Highest of this fame and adaptability is due to its applications that makes unimagined tasks possible. Unnecessary to state the scope it owns and segments or categories it covers.

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In this multi-part project, we’ll be creating the iPhone 4S in 3d Studio Max using tried and true poly modeling techniques. You’ll learn how to setup and model from six view blueprints, create precision cuts and holes, terminate edge loops and how to add proper supporting geometry to retain surface shape when adding subdivision.

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Three years ago, Igor Pusenjak and his brother Marko unveiled Doodle Jump, an addictive game that quickly became one of the biggest hits at Apple’s App Store. It turned them into millionaires.

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Today I show you how to create a debian archive for Cydia. Software requirements: You must have Fink installed. You can get it here: http://www.finkproject.org/download/index.php?phpLang=en

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When you start developing a new iOS project sometimes it happens, that you want to add at a later stage Core Data support. In this case there are some requirements which need to be fulfilled. Here are the steps you can follow to add Core Data support with XCode 4 to an existing iOS project.

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Earlier today, my friend Peter Steinberger asked if there is a way to tweak the iOS simulator device size. So I investigated, and found a pretty elegant solution. Without further ado, here is how to change the size of the iOS simulator in order to test your apps in resolutions never seen before.

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Let’s take our existing Clock App we created during our previous tutorials and turn it into a stopwatch. It will look similar to the standard iPhone Clock implementation. Open the ViewController.xib file and move rgw label closer to the top to make a little room for a Start/Stop button at the bottom.

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Mobile devices are definitely the future of the web. Everyone is using smartphones and other smart devices every single day for various tasks. As we know Apple is a leader in mobile devices industry with its famous iPhone. There are hundred and thousand’s of iphone apps available on the net for this smartphone.

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In this iOS SDK Basics tutorial, we are going to create a UITextView, implement the UITextViewDelegate protocol methods, and use NSLog to see when the methods are called. We’ll also touch on how to limit the amount of characters in a text view and how to use the return key to resign the keyboard. Read on to learn how to implement these features in your application!

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If you’ve been interested in learning how to develop apps for the iPhone and iPad, this may be the best chance yet. Based on Stanford’s Fall 2011 iOS development course, the new offering from Stanford gets social and lets you work on assignments with the rest of the enrolled class.

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