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iPhone Push Notification API released to select developers

by Robert Palmer (Jul 31st, 2008)

CrunchGear notes that a version of the iPhone Push Notification Service API has been released to "a handful" of developers, and, according to them, will "surely" be released to everyone when iPhone OS 2.1 is released. If you remember our WWDC keynote coverage (around 11:05 a.m.), the Push ...

GDocsUploader puts Google Docs API to use

by Brett Terpstra (Apr 22nd, 2008)

TUAW reader Vinod tipped us off to GDocsUploader, a small application for drag-and-drop uploading of Office documents to Google Docs. It's a wrapper around a Python implementation of the Google Documents List Data API. The API, which is limited primarily to uploading and searching, has been around ...

The real Leopard show-stopper? Developer goodies that weren't on stage

by David Chartier (Aug 10th, 2006)

Reports are surfacing on the web that, while everything Apple showed on stage at WWDC 2006 was exciting and purty 'n all, the more exciting attractions are what wasn't shown on stage. AeroExperience, a Vista developer resource site (of all places), claims to have an exclusive list of many of the ...

QuickTime Components 101

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 24th, 2006)

Ever wondered what happens when you can't view a QuickTime movie, and Apple's QT player prompts you to "download the missing component?" Essentially a QuickTime component is QT's version of a plug-in. Similar to how Flash plug-in allows you to view Flash content, or Windows Media Player ...

Skype API for OS X

by C.K. Sample, III (Aug 12th, 2005)

Check out this announcement over at the Skype forums: "Skype API for Mac has currently Cocoa, Carbon and AppleScript interfaces. Cocoa and Carbon interfaces are implemented in Skype.framework. The recommended way to use the Skype framework is to include it in your application as an embedded ...