Times are changing and it appears that smartphones with video capabilities are continually putting once popular pocket video cameras like the FlipCam, the Kodak ZX1, and the Kodak Zi8 out of business. What better time to hone you smartphone cinematography skills? Check out this cool video about shooting video on your smartphone.Seen on BBC Future
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Interactive Media: iPhone Development – Updates
Since my last post on this topic a few things have changed. Some good, some not so much… Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. The new iOS SDK is no longer free. That’s right, XCode 4 now costs $5.00 on the AppStore. Oh, and it only runs on Snow Leopard. There […]
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This is the last step. You had a great idea and used what you learned about X-Code and Objective-C to build it. You’ve tested it extensively on the iPhone Simulator (one of the components of the iOS SDK) and now it’s time to test it on an actual device. Why, you might ask? There are […]
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So now that you know how to work with XCode and how to program in Objective-C. What’s next? Next you need to come up with a viable idea for an app. And that begs the question, how do you know if your idea is viable? That’s a tough question to answer. There are currently 350,000 […]
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Having trouble with Objective-C? Yeah, so did I. Objective-C is a programming language developed by Apple for use in programming for the MacOS and iOS platforms. As you may have guessed, it’s based on C. You might find it helpful to take a few minutes to learn a bit about the C programming language. You […]
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Ok, so now you’re an Apple Developer and you’ve got the SDK installed. Great. At least it was until you opened one of the applications in the SDK and realized you had no idea what to do next. Here’s what you can do next: learn how to use the iOS SDK to make iPhone apps. […]
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So you want to build an iPhone app… Do you have an idea? Something people can’t possibly live without? Well, this is a good place to start. In this series of posts (iPhone App Development), I’ll go through all the major steps of how to develop your iPhone application. All this information also applies to […]
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