Route-me is an Open Source (BSD license) mapping library for the iPhone. It’s written in native Objective C and can use the OpenStreetMap data layer, among others. If you’re an iPhone developer, this gives you an easy way to add high-quality mapping functionality, similar to that of the built in Google Maps client, to your […]
Atif Shamin, a student at Carleton University in Canada has figured out a way of reducing a mobile device’s power consumption by replacing all of the internal wires and PCBs of a device with an antenna. This enables a wireless connection between a micro-antenna embedded within the circuits of the chip. Pretty cool, now my […]
This iPhone app lets you run the ARToolKit v.4.4 on the device at 10fps with realtime tracking and more features to come! Check out the video to see it in action, pretty limitless things you will be able to do with this like augmented reality mapping onto physical landscapes as you walk down the street.
Stanford released their iPhone programming course—syllabus, lecture notes, assignments, and all—online. It’s what you’d find in any serious software engineering and object oriented design program, but it’s been designed around the iPhone target platform, with Objective C as the instruction language. There are lectures and assignments on a number of topics, including the MVC pattern […]
Using the undocumented MPTVOutWindow class, Steven Troughton-Smith was able to update his iPhone Doom port to enable TV-out and on screen controller support. Doom on the iPhone on a TV is a pretty big deal to start with, but the bigger story here is that in addition to the TV-out features, he was able to […]
This iPhone app called “Record 001” by Hiroshi Okamura is a cool way to proclaim your dedication to old school records and turntables. The app lets you scratch a record on the device, the way you would on a regular turntable. You can backspin, pause, and scratch just you can an ordinary record, of course […]
The Zeptotools blog posted this demo of an iPhone application they are hoping to release. I haven’t used the application or seen it outside of this video, but I like the idea of adding whiteboard features to the iPhone by sending screen data to a nearby laptop with an attached projector. What would really be […]
