Rick's World

A couple of days ago, Apple finally revealed the tablet computer that they've been rumored to be making for a long time.  It's the iPad. My first thought upon seeing it was, "That's weird.  It's square!"  iPhones and iPod Touches have a much more wides… more »

Here's a quick tip for if you want to have an iPhone application that targets both an earlier version of the iPhone OS and the new iPhone OS 3.0. Juse use the __IPHONE_3_0 precompiler define to compile specific code for iPhone 3.0. i.e. #ifdef __I… more »

Just found a quick website with some snippets of how to do various things with the iPhone SDK. It's called iphonesdksnippets.com more »

It's up! My first iPhone app - LOL Maker, is up for sale as of this morning on the Apple App Store! Let's see what happens.... more »

Amazing Yesterday, Microsoft announced the rules for how developers can develop applications for the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The only problem is, the way these rules are currently written, Microsoft has no prayer of ever beating Apple's iPho… more »

Shipped! A few minutes ago, I submitted my first application for sale in the iPhone App Store. I've been working on this app off and on for the last couple months. Now to wait for Apple to accept/reject it and put it up for sale. Let's see how thi… more »

A few months ago, I bought and downloaded season 4 of Lost in HD from iTunes. I've been on a serious Lost kick lately, trying to catch up to the fifth season, which just started a few days ago. I watched all the episodes (or so I thought) and finished… more »

With the NDA finally lifted, it's time for my first quick iPhone SDK article. Recently, I developed an iPhone application for a company a friend of mine works for. The application worked well, but when the application was complete, the one thing mis… more »

This weekend was another expensive and bumpy Apple weekend for me. I am now the proud (?) owner of an iPhone 3G. Here's the whole sordid story of how I got my hands on this little gizmo. I knew about the original iPhone a year ago when it came out,… more »

A few weeks ago, I bought a nice new Apple Macbook. It is the first laptop that I've owned in probably 5 years or more. My last laptop was an HP laptop with a 1Ghz CPU, and a 20GB hard drive. My new laptop has dual 2.2 Ghz CPUs and a 120GB hard drive.… more »