Last week, Apple announced that in-app purchases will be available for free apps as well. This could probably free developers from creating “lite” and “pro” versions of the app and allow developers to “unlock” features inside the app and create business models that the AppStore haven’t seen. This model could be a great boon for developers like us to upsell our apps (provided they are of good...

Some companies have blocked twitter thinking that it’s another facebook. For people who have an iPhone, this is not a problem. But for those who don’t have a mobile access to twitter, and if company has blocked access to “twitter.com”, you think you are out of luck. Even plugins like TwitterFox or Twitter Clients like TweetDeck doesn’t work as they also have to cross your company’s firewall. Yet not out...

Sending an email from your iPhone application is something which you normally want to do it asynchronously. But unfortunately, prior to iPhone 3.0, the only way to send email was using mailto:// url format. i.e, [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL: @"mailto:john.appleseed@apple.com"]; The technique was clumsy for one reason. It quits your app and launches mail. To our rescue, comes in-app email. In-App...

codeproject Everyone knows SVN (Subversions) is the best version control tool on the planet. XCode, though, might not be as great as eclipse or Visual Studio, it offers one of the best integration with open platforms than both eclipse and Visual Studio. Apple scripting and XCode makes XCode even more powerful. In fact you can set up keyboard shortcuts to directly search the selected function name or keyword on Google or Apple Docs....

How many times have you wondered that you were able to protect your resume or other information from being copied? you would want the other person to read it, but prevent him from plagiarizing it…You can’t use the traditional Save options’s “password to modify”. That will only prevent him from editing the *current* document. He can always do a “Save as…” and create his own version of the...