Code from the guys at the Filament Group that fixes that annoying bug where iOS incorrectly zooms your site when you flip from landscape to portrait and vice versa.
A Fix for the iOS Orientation Change Zoom Bug
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The Difference Between the Top 10 iPhone & Android Applications
Maybe the best example of the differences between iPhone users and Android users is the difference between the top apps for the respective devices. Here are the lists of top apps from Retrevo:
Top 10 iOS Apps
- Angry Birds
- Angry Birds Rio
- Tiny Wings
- Fruit Ninja
- Where’s Waldo?
- Tetris
- Words With Friends
- The Sims 3
- Cut The Rope
- Plants Vs. Zombies
Top 10 Android Apps
- Beautiful Widget
- Rom Manager *Premium*
- Root Explorer
- Fruit Ninja
- Better Keyboard
- Robo Defense
- SetCPU
- Weatherbug Elite
- Titanium Backup Pro
- Power AMP *Full Version*
As much as Android fans love to tout how customizable their phones are, I think the fact that the top apps are almost all ways to change CPU settings, manage RAR archives, and other random hardware tweaks is a little crazy. I’m not sure what a normal Android user thinks when they first check the app store and sees this kind of stuff.
Why Mobile Apps Will Soon be Dead
A great article talking about the many advantages of the mobile web. A couple of great notes from the article. First, on the reach of the World Wide Web compared to the app stores:
One word: distribution. There are 2 billion web users versus 50 million iOS users.
And what’s in it for developers…
With web apps, developers could code once and be reasonably confident their app will work on any object — phone, tablet, laptop, etc. — with a standards-compliant browser. The implications for developer time and resources are profound.
Toyota releases, pulls down iPhone theme for jailbroken phones
Toyota Scion theme for the iPhone
There are lots of reasons to jailbreak your iPhone. Getting this official Toyota Scion theme is no longer one of them. It wasn’t actually good looking or useful, but it was interesting to see a big company like Toyota putting something out of Cydia. Of course Apple didn’t like that, and has forced Toyota to pull the theme down and it is no longer available. (via MobileCrunch)
Join the Adventure! Use Color, the latest iPhone MMPRLMG.
Awesome review of ColorTM (yes they have the nerve to trademark the word ColorTM) found by Mike Cohen.
Starting to learn iOS dev from Design Then Code
I worked through the “from scratch” article and learned the basics of C and Cocoa programming and then immediately purchased the rest of Mike Rundle’s iPhone/iOS design & development resources.
Take Back the Beep
The New York Times’ David Pogue has launched the “Take Back the Beep” campaign aimed at making phone carriers end the anti-consumer practice of adding 15 seconds of babble to every voicemail message you leave or retrieve. Read on…
Over the past week, in The New York Times and on my blog, I’ve been ranting about one particularly blatant money-grab by American cellphone carriers: the mandatory 15-second voicemail instructions.
Suppose you call my cell to leave me a message. First you hear my own voice: “Hi, it’s David Pogue. Leave a message, and I’ll get back to you”–and THEN you hear a 15-second canned carrier message.
Do we really need to be told to hang up when we’re finished!? Would anyone, ever, want to “send a numeric page?” Who still carries a pager, for heaven’s sake? Or what about “leave a callback number?” We can SEE the callback number right on our phones!
Second, we’re PAYING for these messages. These little 15-second waits add up–bigtime. If Verizon’s 70 million customers leave or check messages twice a weekday, Verizon rakes in about $620 million a year. That’s your money. And your time: three hours of your time a year, just sitting there listening to the same message over and over again every year.
Phantom cell phone vibrations?
Ever reach into your pocket because you think your phone is ringing only to discover you’re losing your mind? Check out this article from the USA Today on “phantom cell phone vibrations” to learn more about this 21st century phenomena. I constantly think I “feel” my phone and check to find out it’s only in my mind. It’s probably a sign of insanity, but might also be due to my many drives back & forth between Austin & Dallas to see my future wife with the jams up loud.