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iOS 6.1 Beta 5 now available for download

by Erica Sadun (Jan 26th, 2013)

Numbuh. Five. Is. Alive. (Yes, people, Short Circuit.) iOS 6.1 Beta 5 is up and ready for download, just days before Beta 4 is due to expire. Go grab your copy at the Apple developer site and, as usual, make sure to read the yellow release notes with the exclamation point. Hat tip to Mike ...

DevJuice: Preview your icons

by Erica Sadun (Jan 22nd, 2013)

Sharing icons by email and Dropbox never really captures the way each image will appear on-screen. That's why developer Michael Burford and his brother created a web page mock-up solution that automatically adds an iPhone background and styles the icons to match the way they display ...

Dev Juice: Tokens 1.1 released, TUAW-exclusive promo

by Erica Sadun (Jan 21st, 2013)

Tokens is a brilliant little app that enables devs to track promo codes they submit to websites for review. We looked at the app a few months ago and fell in love with its features. Now, the developers are celebrating their 1.1 release with a sale that starts tomorrow morning. The ...

Devjuice: TraductoPro offers human-powered localization and translation

by Erica Sadun (Dec 24th, 2012)

TraductoPro offers an app-based translation bureau for developers struggling to internationalize their applications. With it, you can translate Xcode projects and app metadata as well as press releases and other documents. Importantly, your app does not already need to be set up to use ...

DevJuice: iTC Daily Reports delivered to your inbox

by Erica Sadun (Dec 10th, 2012)

Wevito's Daily Reports, which offers a 30-day free trial followed by a US$4.99 one-time payment for lifetime service, scrapes iTunes on your behalf and sends daily email updates to you. To make this work, you entrust Wevito with iTunes Connect credentials. Admittedly, you do not have to pass ...

DevJuice: Stanford iTunes U course on iOS dev launches free textbook

by Erica Sadun (Nov 26th, 2012)

If you're a fan of the highly popular Stanford iTunes U course on iOS development (CS193P), you'll be happy to learn that an official companion text is now available on iBooks. iPad and iPhone App Development covers the latest release of Xcode and the newest Objective C enhancements. ...

DevJuice: Parse jumps to OS X Mountain Lion

by Erica Sadun (Nov 19th, 2012)

If you love Parse, you'll be happy to hear that the company just released an OS X SDK. Parse helps you store, sync and push data, enabling you to build server-based apps in the cloud without having to bring your own infrastructure. The new OS X API supports Mountain Lion development and you can ...

DevJuice early look: Create slick framed product shots with Promotee

by Erica Sadun (Nov 12th, 2012)

Update: The app is now live in the Mac App Store. TUAW readers can order from the vendor directly with a 20% discount using TUAWPROMO. I normally don't cover apps too early before they're released but I couldn't wait to post about Promotee. It will shortly be going into Apple review, so ...

DevJuice: Ray Wenderlich releases new iOS 6 learning book

by Erica Sadun (Nov 9th, 2012)

Ray Wenderlich is a really nice guy and a good instructor. His site RayWenderlich.com offers a huge number of tutorials suitable for new and experienced iOS developers, written by his in-house team of experts. (Update: Ray just wrote me and asked me to emphasize that, so I bolded it.) Now, he's ...

DevJuice: 6 tips for tightening your pitch video

by Erica Sadun (Oct 8th, 2012)

As a developer, you're probably aware that selling your app can be just as important as creating your app. Today, one of the regulars in #iphonedev asked me to take a look at his pitch video. Intended to sell the idea of his app to possible reviewers, blogs, and other media, his first attempt ...

DevJuice: Regular Expressions Cookbook enters 2nd edition

by Erica Sadun (Oct 3rd, 2012)

Regular expressions are a staple of development. A grammar for matching forms to text, regular expressions are used in Apple development for use with predicates, in validating text entry and more. O'Reilly just released a new edition of Jan Goyvaerts' & Steven Levithan's "Regular Expressions ...

So, your beta just expired. Now what?

by Erica Sadun (Oct 1st, 2012)

You're an iOS developer. Your beta just expired. Now what? Here's a simple cheat sheet for anyone feeling lost at sea. Download a gm copy of iOS 6 for your device. You'll find it at developer.apple.com/ios. Connect your device to iTunes. Locate it in the sources list, the blue-gray list ...

Dev Juice: Five things you'll want to know

by Erica Sadun (Sep 13th, 2012)

Yesterday, Apple introduced the iPhone 5 and the fifth generation iPod touch. Last evening, Apple invited developers to submit iOS 6 apps. Here are five tidbits developers will want to know. The new Default image is called Default-568h@2x.png. The base size is 640 x 1,136. Once the image is ...

DevJuice: Talking with Tim McMorris about royalty-free soundtracks

by Erica Sadun (Aug 24th, 2012)

Several weeks ago, a developer sent a video as part of his TUAW product pitch. The app itself was interesting enough but I was blown away by the video's music. It was smart, it was contemporary, and it had excellent production values. So I started to google to find out more about this music ...

DevJuice: PaintCode offers resolution independent design

by Erica Sadun (Aug 20th, 2012)

PaintCode (US$99.99) is a vector drawing app that generates Quartz and Core Graphics Objective-C (and C#/MonoTouch) drawing code. First released this March, the app was inspired by Apple's introduction of the Retina iPad. It allows developers to create resolution-independent art that adapts to ...