Another usability related blog from me after a long time and now, it’s a mobile vs web debate. While not exactly a rant, I intend to bridge the gap between web designers and mobile designers. Information architecture on mobile In the web 2.0 era, not much thought or discussion was spent on how to organize your content on your website. Primary reason could be because, there were easier workarounds to get away with this. For example,...

If you have noticed the contacts app on your iPhone/iPad, it displays the contacts based on your preference of  sort order and display order in Settings.   Contacts app on iPhone displays your contacts based on this order   Fortunately, there is a quick and easy snippet to get this information and use it on your app. The AddressBook framework provides a method called ABPersonGetSortOrdering() to read this info. I use this code...

If you are a iOS developer and make your daily bread by writing iOS apps, these are three software applications that can dramatically improve your productivity and quality of your coding. 1) Code Pilot My first favorite software is a XCode plugin called Code Pilot. It is a nifty plugin that, I would say, is QuickSilver for XCode. Jump into a file, or a method within a file within a couple of keystrokes. It matches your keystroke with files...

Few days ago, I wrote a post on my review on Windows Phone. While I have been a Microsoft basher (no not really), Windows Phone is one product that surprised me (and I think most other bloggers as well) and took the smart phone UI to the next level. While Microsoft has been known to make killer user interfaces like Microsoft Fluent UI aka Ribbon, and the famous Start Menu on Windows 95, they haven’t been doing much recently. While...

SG BBoM iPhone App is designed specifically for use with SingTel mobile broadband plans. The rationale behind this development is, SingTel doesn’t send you an SMS or alery when your mobile broadband data charges over shoot the free limit. Overshooting the free limit even by a 100MB could cost your dearly. According to SingTel Excess usage will be charged at $0.01/2KB. Which means, a megabyte of data, (1024KB) will cost you about...