Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

Horiztonal Scroll Wheel with Cocoa and Objective-C

As engineers, we should attempt to cross the boundary of developers vs. front-end UI design engineers. Typically, people who write code are not very good UI engineers because they just don’t have the experience. It isn’t that we want to make a bad interface, we are just very accustomed to using standard UI components. However, [...]

A Better App Rating System

As developers, we try our best to create the best products we can.  We really do.  Yes, I know that some features get pushed to the back burner when releases are behind schedule or some bugs get kludged and we hedge our bets on whether the user will hit them or not.  However, for the [...]

Solving the Multitasking Problem in iPhone OS

iPhone OS is one of the most advanced OS available today – and it s a mobile OS. Using the OS, it is clear to see why mobile computing is the future. When compared to other OSs, the iPhone OS holds it’s own. Broadly, looking at most modern desktop OSs, it has support for nearly [...]