Marc Pampols » iPhone

Access your files anywhere with Dropbox free iPhone app

Marc Pampols — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:16:00 +0000

While I'm waiting for a Google solution to online file access and storage solution, now i'm using Dropbox, because they released today a free iPhone application witch you can use to access your account anywhere, anytime.

If you haven't heard anything about Dropbox, it's an online storage service that gives you from 2 Gb (free account) up to 100 Gb for $19.99/mo where you can upload, download and share your files, it's like an onlike hard disk for your personal files.

One of the coolest things of this new iPhone app is that you can take pictures with your iPhone and upload them directly to your account!

Dropbox also have a Windows/Mac/Linux free application that you can setup on all your workstations and laptops to have an easy and quick access to your contents.

Take a photo and upload to Dropbox

Open your Dropbox account today!

Steve Jobs unveils iTunes Phone (Motorola ROKR) in 2005 Apple Keynote

Marc Pampols — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Do you remember? it was an official Apple Keynote in 2005, believe it or not, here is the proof:

Accessing your Google Account from iPhone Apps, it is safe enough?

Marc Pampols — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:34:13 +0000

Today my co-worker SirKiwi showed me a new free iPhone application for accessing Google Analytics, but now I'm very skeptical about that because I'm not sure if these applications are transfering my username and password to Google in a secure way.

Can I be sure that my account info is only transferred to Google, and not to another server?

Of course you can setup a sniffer via your WiFi connection (or something like that) and see where the application is connecting to, I have searched on the web and have not found anything.

Is Apple monitoring the login information before approving an application? we want our passwords safe!

Our first iPhone App (Source included)

Marc Pampols — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:14:30 +0000

Yesterday we were in a bar doing our first team experiments with the iPhone SDK, we successfully manage to compile our first application, a simple slider and a label that shows the value on slider change.

Trying to get our first iPhone Application working

It's a very simple and easy application but good enought to learn how to fit all the pieces together (Xcode, classes, Interface Builder, objects, actions, etc...)

It took about 2 hours to get it work :(

For all the newbies like us, you can download here the source code from our first application test, who knows, it may be useful for someone!

TestApp3 (Yes, it worked at the third attempt)

An example of a useless iPhone application

Marc Pampols — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:55:41 +0000

laCaixa was one of the first spanish bank to introduce an iPhone optimized website some months ago (maybe a year or more... can't remember exactly) and it was a great version of "Linia Oberta", where you can do the most common operations and play with your money.

Right now web access still works, but today we were surprised with the launch of a native iPhone application available in the Apple AppStore!

Welcome screen

My expectations were very high until now, after testing the application, I can say that it's completely useless because using the original optimized website is fastest!

If you made a native application, you can't show a single index with nothing more than simple links to the rest of the original website (links that open a new Safari window! omg) the only native part is the office listing, with a Google Maps integration.

Received ratings

The 9 5-stars reviews where the first ones, of course (surprisingly...)

Very bad move guys, you know you can do it much better, so do not disappoint us next time!

Mill colour, the new and free color correction iPhone App from The Mill

Marc Pampols — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:43:31 +0000

The Mill has recently released Mill colour a free iPhone application for color correction.

Mill Colour has been designed by our team of Colourists to emulate primary grading within a high-end digital grading suite.

The application can be used both as a professional shoot-tool to set reference looks on location and also for fun to manipulate any photo taken on the iPhone or imported to the iPhone picture library.

You can take a new picture from the App using the camera, or you can go to your Camera Roll and select one... then you have two main options, coloring your image with a preset look (Golden, Print, Cross-processed, Chocolate, Noir, Instant, 70's, Milky, Promo and Bleached) or you can manually correct the colors using built-in processor with lift, gamma, gain and saturation controls for separate RGB or all channels together. Of course, once you're done you can save the image to the Camera Roll.

The application is really nice, a great looking interface and it does a nice job color correcting your pictures.

iTunes Store: Mill colour
Via: fxguide

Update your iPhone OS 3.0 beta or your terminal will lock automatically

Marc Pampols — Sat, 23 May 2009 13:16:23 +0000

Apple iPhone OS 3.0 beta firmware has a time expiration, and if you don't update regularly with new releases your terminal will lock, and that's what happened to three of my friends yesterday.

The truth is that apparently Apple does not mention anything about it on the iPhone Development Program website, and if you don't update to the new beta versions, after a couple of days your iPhone will stop working and you'll see the famous "Connect to iTunes" screen.

The solution is to download the latest firmware version and do a normal update/restore with iTunes.

iPhone - "Connect to iTunes" screen

Apple sending a “Help test the Apple Push Notification service” mail

Marc Pampols — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:23:40 +0000

We are in the Apple iPhone Development Program, and some minutes ago one of the Team Members has just received this mail, an invitation from Apple to activate the Push Notification service.

The problem is that apparently you need an US iTunes Account, and we have an Spanish one :(

iPhone Push Invitation Email

How to get Internet Tethering and MMS support with your iPhone 3G firmware 3.0 and Movistar

Marc Pampols — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:05:55 +0000

If you're lucky and you have access to iPhone Dev Center (registered as a developer) you may have installed the latest firmware version, and you may notice that the MMS support and Internet Tethering is not enabled by default, this is because it must be activated by your carrier (in my case Movistar)

First, you have to download this file: Telefonica_es.ipcc

Now, open iTunes and using the Upgrade button with Shift+click (PC) or Option+click (Mac) select this ipcc file.

That's all! it will take only a few seconds.

Sending an MMS to myself...

Learn how to develop iPhone Applications with Stanford University training

Marc Pampols — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:49:00 +0000

This weekend i've been following an interesting training videos made by Stanford University in how to develop applications with the iPhone SDK

Stanford University has a channel in iTunes U where you can find and download many courses for free (I think all of them...) and one of them is the iPhone Application Programming

Stanford on iTunes U

It's a 10-week course, you can subscribe for free and you'll automatically receive new videos every Wednesday and every Friday, the last one at the time i'm writting this post is the 3rd, and all I can say is that I found it the best way at least for me, to quickly learn (and do it right) on how to develop iPhone apps.

Also you can get the slides in PDF format from the same iTunes channel.

Every video has a lenght of approximately one hour, and this is a screenshot so you can see how it looks!

It's like being in a class, seroiusly, so it has some funny and epic moments :D

Take your Mac, download the SDK, and enjoy it!

Official CS 193P Course website
iTunes U iPhone Application Programming