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NZiPhone.com and NZMac.com News app - now with retina display support

Written by Philip Roy | 12 August 2010
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The NZiPhone.com and NZMac.com News app has been updated to version 1.3 and will appear in the App Store shortly, and with it comes support for the iPhone 4. The app features a slight new look in that some of the tab icons (the tab is the bottom part of the screen) have changed, and this is due to using icons that have both a standard and high-res (for the retina display) version within the app. At the same time, text and other aspects of the app should be crystal clear to those with an iPhone 4. This was all incredibly easy to do (you can read more on this in a moment), thanks in part to the amazing TapLynx framework used to build the app. So what are you waiting for? Download the free app now and keep up-to-date with all the happenings on NZMac.com and NZiPhone.com!

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The TapLynx Experience - Part 5 - Testing and Publishing

Written by Philip Roy | 23 February 2010
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The final article about my experience creating the "NZiPhone.com and NZMac.com News" app - At this stage there's a lot of reading for a novice like me to get through. I wanted to learn how to test my application on my iPhone, so I had to login to Apple's developer site and go through the process of getting provisioning files and certificates all sorted. I would never have understood what this all meant if it wasn't for the fact that I had been sent apps and provisioning files in the past so that I could review the apps I had been sent (that's called an ad-hoc distribution), but there is also a superb amount of material on the Apple Developer portal to explain it...and a lot of iTunes U files on creating iPhone apps. I confess I ignored most of the iTunes U stuff, because as I've already mentioned, I'm not a coder and a lot of it would be too much for me to take in.

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The TapLynx Experience - Part 3 - Finishing touches and bug fixes

Written by Philip Roy | 19 February 2010
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Creating the "NZiPhone.com and NZMac.com News" app - Well the exciting thing for me (as I write this first sentence) is I kinda became an official iPhone developer today. The iPad was released and I wanted to get my hands on the 3.2 SDK Beta....and the only way to do that was pay the $99 USD and become an iPhone developer. I did it also because the Taplynx folk were quick to state that Taplynx would support iPad development. So now that I've spent some money, I had better get on with tidying things thing up!

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The TapLynx Experience - Part 4 - Things I've learned and more fixes

Written by Philip Roy | 21 February 2010
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Creating the "NZiPhone.com and NZMac.com News" app - Any software developer knows that things never go perfectly. Combine this with the fact that I was a newbie to the whole process, meant there were a lot of things to fix....from simple mistakes in naming conventions, to more complex issues. This article looks at those issues, highlights any basic faults that I may have caused and needed to resolve, as well as some things that were just about me being a bit fussy about the app and how the files all went together.

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The TapLynx Experience - Part 2 - Adding feeds and Tabs

Written by Philip Roy | 17 February 2010
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Creating the "NZiPhone.com and NZMac.com News" app - Time to get started on what is probably the most enjoyable and productive part of the development process (other than the "wow" moment when I see my app in iTunes), the creation of the tabs and feeds within Xcode and within the TapLynx framework. This might look a little daunting, but the good news is that the TapLynx site and the TapLynx Google group has a lot of useful information and support....so let's get started!

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