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The Prodigal Guide’s open letter to the Nokia CEO

Mark — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:45:32 +0000

Really great open letter to Nokia’s CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. I fully expected this was going to be a dull Nokia vs. iPhone rant, but it’s well considered with some sharp and accurate suggestions, not least number 2:

“Stop dithering, renew your software now: There are no two ways to say this: touch is the future and S60 5th edition simply isn’t up to the challenge. It’s unintuitive but – worse – completely inconsistent.”

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Pinstripe is a colour

Mark — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:35:56 +0000

I’m just getting back into the swing of things with Interface Builder after a little bit of a gap, and one of the first things I’ve noticed is that somewhere between the 2.2.1 and the most current 3.0 SDK’s, Apple have added a new special colour to the iPhone SDK, called “groupTableViewBackgroundColour”.

Previously it seemed you could only get this when creating your own grouped table view, but they’ve eased things off now so you can use it in regular views too. Nice!

iPhone 3G S photo and video samples

Mark — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:07:47 +0000

High on excitement from coming back from WWDC, and following the advice given from All About iPhone, I’ve picked up an iPhone 3G S on pay-as-you-go for work.

As is necessary on the day of release of a new handset, here’s the obligatory sample video and photo from the device:

Click here to view the embedded video.

(Or watch the same thing on Vimeo, which may or may not look a little bit better.)

The photo test is of some lavender in the garden. There’s clearly some actual depth-of-field going on, and I was able to touch to move the focus to the foreground flower head, just like the demo at the WWDC keynote: