Some interesting tutorials if you’re just getting started with iPhone dev:
I enjoyed this graph from a recent post from Tony Wright, the founder for http://www.rescuetime.com/, excellent automated time-tracking software.
Read Later is an app that lets you save web pages on your iPhone/iPod for offline reading. Not the first app to do that? Well it’s integrated with delicious.com so any bookmarks you tag with a to_read tag (or any tag of your choice) are detected by the app and downloaded for offline reading.
And when you’re finished reading the article on your iPhone, hitting the ‘mark as read’ button sends a request to delicious and your read_later tag is removed. Nice, simple and clean. And currently free in the AppStore.
The articles are a pleasure to read on the iPhone. All flashing ads, graphics and irrelevant distractions are removed for you. You just get the cleaned text for easy reading. The app’s description says it best:
Apparently there are currently 1.5m “to_read” and similar tags on delicious so there must be a lot of folks using this system to flag articles for later reading. Check it out.
Here is some great advice from the SEOmoz site and their Trifecta tool:
Here’s a list of a few iPhone review sites I’ve found recently:
I’ll be adding more as I find them, comments welcome 🙂
Another idea, from the folks at AppstoreHQ, is their ‘spoonback’ badge that reviewers can add to their reviews of your app and get themselves and you more traffic.
And another, here’s a great list of top sites offering iPhone app reviews. There is some crossover with my list above.
And here’s a great list of Youtube iPhone app reviewers.
And here’s an independent reviewer looking for apps.
A very enlightening conversation on iPhone developer rates is going on over at Reddit. In brief, anywhere from $20 to $400 an hour 🙂
I will be adding to this list as I come across good ideas:
Here’s an article that explains some benefits of using Fireworks to layout iPhone apps.
Do you want to design your own iPhone app, but don’t know how to get started?
Well, Luke Kilpatrick not only runs Fire On The Bay, San Francisco’s Adobe Fireworks User Group, but he designs apps for a living. In this video interview with Robert Scoble, Kilpatrick shows how you can get started without writing any code or doing anything too hard.
Yes, it’s only a mock-up, but if you get it started like this, then you have something you can show your friends to see if they are interested before you spend a ton of cash on a development team.
Check out Fire On The Bay’s resource page here for some more tutorials and help.
Some great insights into the implications of the iPhone OS 3.0 push notifications, try them for yourself with the latest update to the AIM app.