Symbol Caddy

From Doubleforte.net is a Dashboard widget that allows you to keep a bunch of common special characters at your fingertips.

Keyboard mode copies the special character and HTML mode copies the HTML entity code.

Tags: Symbols

I've spent a little time putting together a list of Apple keyboard Symbol / Shortcuts, They were done on 17" MBP.
They haven't been tested on any other keyboard so I hope they work for you..



Please feel free to take a copy.


Keyboard shortcuts

Tags: Keyboard, Symbols

On Thursday the 6th March Apple held an event at Apple Town hall to discuss the iPhone Software roadmap.

First onto stage was Steve Jobs to welcome everyone and thank them for coming.
Steve then went on to discuss:

The US Smartphone market -

In just 8 months the iPhone has a 28% market share.
The iPhone has a U.S mobile browser usage of 71%.


Then Steve introduces Phil Schiller
( Senior Vice president, Worldwide Product Marketing) to the stage to talk about, iPhone in Enterprise -

Customers wanted:
Push e-mail
Push calenders
Push contacts
Global address list
Cisco IPsec VPV
Certificates and Identities
WPA2 / 802.1x
Enforced security policies
Device configuration
Remote wipe

Phil then announces that Apple are doing all these in the next release of the iPhone software 2.0.
Built in Microsoft Exchange support.
Apple has licensed the ActiveSync protocol from Microsoft.


Phil then introduces Scott Forstall
(VP iPhone)

SDK and developer news.

Scott updates on web app's, over 1000 already available.

Starting today 6th March Apple are releasing the same APIs and tools that they use for iPhone app's allowing 3rd party developers to build native app's for the iPhone.

The Mac OS has four architectural layers-
Cocoa
Media
Core services
Core OS

Media, Core services and Core OS are moved across to form the basis of the iphone platform.
Cocoa, based on mouse and keyboard, was used to build cocoa touch for the iphone.

So now we have the iPhone OS
Cocoa touch
Media
Core services
Core OS

SDK developers will have direct access on the iPhone for their app's to interact with:

Address book, so developers can create app's that have access to contacts.
Core locations, so developers can create location aware apps.
And much more.

Scott then goes on to explain the SDK tools in more detail such as Xcode.

Then demonstrates a Hello World app wrote in 2 days with less than 2,000 lines of code.
And a space fighter game wrote in 2 weeks with less than 10,000 lines of code.

Apple invited programmers to see what they could achieve in 2 weeks with the iPhone SDK.

Introduces Travis Boatman from EA to demonstrate SPORE for the iPhone.

Introduces Chuck Dietrich from Sales Force to demonstrate a sales force application.

Introduces Rizwan Sattar from AOL to demonstrate AIM for the iPhone.

Introduces from Glen Keighley Epocrates to demonstrate an app for the health care market.

Introduces Ethan Einhorn from Sega who demonstrates Super monkey Ball.


Steve Jobs then takes to the stage again.

Tells us about the App store on the iPhone to allow apps to be delivered directly to it. It will include featured, Just added, Staff picks, Top 50 and search section.
The app store with also show when a app you downloaded has been updated by the developer to allow you to update.
itunes will also be available to manage your downloads.

Developer will pick the price of the app and get 70%, apple to get the remaining 30%.
When the developer wants to distribute for free, there will be no charge to them at all.

Software update to be released in late June, free to the iPhone users and at a nominal fee for the ipod touch as they did for the recent Update 1.1.4 due to differences in accounting practices.

$99 to join the developer program.

ONE MORE THING...........

Steve introduces John Doerr a partner in Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers to announce the iFund.

A $100,000,000 fund for developers for the iPhone.

Past funding for companies to start include:

Google $24,000,000
EA $2,000,000
Amazon $8,000,000

Then rounds up the announcement from Apple and steve asks the press to stay behind for a Q&A.






Full details of the iphone developer program can be found here.

Tags: Apple, SDK, iPhone

Just added a new page to the site.

Software, I'll try to get a few App's added over the next few day's.
Got some nice app's to add, it wont be a review more like recommendations.

Tags: Software

Their aim is to get One Million Blog's from around the world listed on their site.

You have a choice of where to list your site, they have all countries listed and you choose the category in which to list your blog.

It's free to list your blog their and if you copy some code to your site, you get a small Icon that links back to http://www.onemillionblogs.org/ and as clicks are made to the Icon you climb up the listings on One Million Blog's .....

Tags: Blog's