Facebook Timeline Enabled!
September 22, 2011 by daynah
Filed under Links and Resources

Facebook announced their new Timeline earlier this morning and it looks beautiful! It’s definitely a new way of expressing yourself. Profile pages will now have some more personality! The feature won’t be available for everyone until later this month, but if you’re too anxious to try it out, follow these steps on TechCrunch to turn on your Timeline profile.
If you already have a developer account, you can skip steps 4 and 5. Instead, go into one of your apps and head straight to “Get started with Open Graph” section. Enjoy!
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Excited about Google I/O 2011!
May 9, 2011 by daynah
Filed under Conferences, Google I/O 2011, Links and Resources

I’m so excited about attending Google I/O 2011! Getting tickets to the attend the conference was difficult this year, so I’m grateful that I have the opportunity to go. I can’t tell you how many times I hit refresh in my browser, hoping my registration went through!
I’ll be attending most of the Chrome sessions at the conference. I’m interested in seeing how HTML 5 is being used and the direction this new version of HTML will take the web. I’m also curious about what Google’s going to announce at their keynotes. These will be streamed, so you can follow along online!
I won’t be live blogging, but I will be live-Tweeting! So please follow @daynah for my updates and live coverage of the conference. I’ll be posting plenty of geeky goodies and photos.
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Pinterest – A Place to Pin all of your Interests!
April 4, 2011 by daynah
Filed under Links and Resources, Social Networking
Ever wanted a way to catalog your favorite things? Whether it be books, movies, inspirational pieces, fashion, or your precious hobbies, Pinterest may just be what you’re looking for! Catalog all the things you love in a beautiful and visual way.
You’ll love this new site call Pinterest! Read more about it on WebBeat.TV
Follow me on Pinterest.
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Get $3 in MP3s from Amazon, for Free!
November 23, 2010 by daynah
Filed under Freebies, Links and Resources, Multimedia
Love music? Get $3 in MP3s from Amazon! Simply put in the code GET3MP3S into this page to redeem. This offer is only valid until Nov. 29th, 2010 11:59pm PST, so hurry! Happy Thanksgiving!
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Finger Painting on the iPad
July 5, 2010 by daynah
Filed under Apple, iPad, Links and Resources, Multimedia
If you ever need a reason to purchase an iPad, here is a great one. Artist David Kassan demonstrates how to finger paint on the iPad using the Brushes app. It’s an amazing video that only shows one of many creative ways what an iPad can be used for. Watch and you’ll see!
Download: Brushes for the iPhone ($4.99) | Brushes for the iPad ($7.99)
Davidkassan.com – A quick Apple ipad live fingerpainting demo that I streamed live from my Brooklyn studio on Monday June 21st. 2010, The model sat for 3 hours as I painted and answered questions on how I use the iPad and the Brushes app. Just thinking of creative uses for the iPad. (YouTube)
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Free Tech Webinars
June 29, 2010 by daynah
Filed under Freebies, Links and Resources
Here’s a list of FREE upcoming Tech Webinars that you may be interested in signing up for:
- Combining Photos and Vectors in Photoshop
Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 10 PT
Audience: Designers
Learn how to easily combine illustrations with photography in this super creative session. Glean the secret to importing vectors into your document so you can experiment with them as backgrounds, artful embellishments, ornamental photo frames, and more — all without losing an ounce of quality. You’ll also learn how to use Photoshop’s vector Shape tools to create resizable and featherable masks in no time flat! - Five Ways the iPad Can Entertain You
Friday, July 9, 2010 at 10 PT
Audience: iPad owners or potential iPad owners
In this live, one-hour webcast, bestselling author J.D. Biersdorfer will guide us through the most entertaining apps on the iPad. - 5 jQuery mistakes you’re probably making in your project
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 10 PT
Audience: Developers
The ease and simplicity of jQuery’s API can be attributed to its success and shortcomings as new developers tackle larger and more complex tasks. Join us for this session as we walk through The Top 5 Mistakes jQuery Developers Can Make. We’ll look at lower level syntax issues up through architectural decisions with jQuery. This session will discuss selector performance, iterating with jQuery, event binding strategies, Ajax handling techniques and jQuery on public CDN’s for applications large and small. Gain a greater understanding of these core concepts and where developers can go wrong. - TechTrends: ALA Annual 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 11:30am PT
Audience: Librarians
Features an expert panel who’ll provide a look back at ALA Annual Conference from a library technology perspective. Our panel will analyze and discuss what they learned and what trends stood out at the conference. - UCCSC 2010: No Limits!
July 19 – 20
Audience: People in IT, usually in the UC System
This year, UCLA presents a unique hybrid of a live conference and a virtual conference. You can attend from anywhere, even your own office on your own campus, if you wish. There’s no registration limit. And you can attend as much or as little of the conference as you want. Those features brought us to the theme of No Limits.
If you find more, feel free to add them in the comments and I’ll update the post!
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Using Google Font API
June 4, 2010 by daynah
Filed under Code Snippets, Google, Links and Resources
One thing I learned at Google I/O that I thought was fun and exciting was their new Google Font API. What does this mean? It means I don’t have to add text to images using Photoshop anymore. I can just add it directly to the HTML code as plain text and it’ll look beautiful on the page.
This will (1) speed up page loads because text loads faster than images and (2) make the page more accessible (screen readers won’t need to piece together alt tags of images; instead, it’ll just read the text directly off the page. (3) The more text you have on a page, the more SEO-friendly it is.
Lucky for us, adding Google fonts to our webpage is quite easy. All you need is to know a bit of CSS and HTML, and how to copy and paste!
Step 1: Select Font
Go to the Google font directory and choose a font you would like to use. In the sample below, I picked the “Lobster” font.

Step 2: Get the Code
If you like the font, tab over to “Get the Code.” From there, you will get a sample code like this:
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lobster' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'></link>
To include the code into your page, simply copy and paste this code into the header of your HTML page.
If you prefer to include the font it into your CSS stylesheet instead of your HTML header, you can use a code like this instead:
@import url("http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lobster");
Step 3: Add some style!
Now that you have your font embedded onto your page, it’s time to give it some style. Create a CSS class and add in your font.
In this sample, I created a class called “prettyFont” and made it use the “Lobster” font to display, in huge red font. The alternative “arial and serif” font were added as a backup in case Google Font API was down; these web-safe fonts will display instead of Lobster in that case.
.prettyFont { font-family: 'Lobster', arial, serif; font-size: 3em; color:red; }
That’s pretty much it! Adding Google Fonts to your page is as simple as 1-2-3! You can also go even more wild and add shadows, shading, and anything else you can do with HTML + CSS.
For more information, see the Google Font API documentation. For more sample codes, check out Getting Started with Google Font API. And if you want to dive in deeper and add in italic, bold, and bold italic fonts, see their further reading section.
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Google I/O 2010 Overview
May 27, 2010 by daynah
Filed under Conferences, Google, Links and Resources

Another Google I/O has come and gone, and I had a fabulous and geeky time there. The great thing about Google I/O is that it’s geared toward developers, so the sessions are usually code-based or overviews of new APIs and developments over in Google HQ.
Of all the things I learned about this year at the conference, the most exciting was learning what direction HTML 5 is heading in. Last year, I learned about the new <video> and <canvas> tags, but there’s so much more now.
This year’s conference was much bigger than the previous years. The conference sold out quickly with 5000 attendees. There were sessions going on in every room on the second floor of Moscone West Hall. I was most impressed with the bigger Developer’s Sandbox. It was 4 or 5 times bigger than last year’s. It was great talking to companies and developers who are already implementing Google products into their products.
Although I was drained from attending all the sessions, I didn’t want to miss the Google After Party. It’s actually a very geeky event with food and robots! The MakerFaire was in town and they had some amazing displays, robots, and man-powered machines all over the party.. definitely something you don’t want to miss while at the conference.
There was a lot of fun and excitement at this year’s Google I/O. There were many amazing announcements as well, including the Web-M project (standard video codec), new features in Android Froyo including support of Flash, Google TV, and our fabulous gifts for attending — the Sprint HTC Evo 4g — a gorgeous smartphone running Android!
Below is a summary of all the sessions I attended. For more information on each session, please follow the links to the Google Waves. The official YouTube videos will be coming soon. For more information about the conference, see the official Google I/O 2010 website.
- Bringing Google to your Site
- Beyond Design: Creating positive User Experiences
- Developing with HTML 5
- Ignite Google I/O
- Google Analytics APIs: End to end
- Surf the Steam: Google Buzz, Location, and Social Gaming
- SEO Site Advice from the Experts
- Optimize every bit of your site serving and web pages with Page Speed
- HTML 5 Status Update
Summary of each Session
Bringing Google to your Site – In this session, we got many different examples on how we can add Google to our websites. Some examples were using custom searches (now with auto-completion), Google Feed API, Adsense with AJAX (new), SideWiki, Buzz API and Google Font API.
Beyond Design: Creating positive User Experiences – In this session, I learned that there are 7 principles for creating positive user experiences: 1) Be fast 2) Be yourself 3) Engage in conversations 4) Be willing to give up control 5) Be polite 6) Be prepared for failure 7) Be reliable. Examples of these principles were also talked about.
Developing with HTML 5 – This session was great since the presentation itself was written in all HTML 5 tags and coding. If you flip through the presentation, you can try out the bleeding edge features available for browsers in the near future. Some new HTML 5-specific tags and features are offline data storage, JS APIs, <head>, <hgroup>, <nav>, <section>, <article>, <aside>, <footer>, new form field types, <audio>, <video>, <canvas>, new CSS selectors and font support, transitions, and so much more. Run the presentation in a Chrome browser to see what lies ahead.
Ignite Google I/O – This session was a lot of fun. Ignite sessions capture geek cultures in a series of 5-minute speedy presentations. Each speaker gets 20 slides that auto-advances after 15 seconds. Topics were of various topics, from surviving the North Atlantic ocean and breaking world records, to our habits of searching on the internet, to playing battleships in a pond. It was very entertaining and super geeky.. and is best if you see the videos once they’re up.
Google Analytics APIs: End to end – This session was given by a UCR Alumni, Nick Mihailovski! This session demonstrated advance techniques of tracking statistics on your website using the Google Analytics API. For more information, see “What is Google Analytics”
Surf the Steam: Google Buzz, Location, and Social Gaming was not my favorite session since they spent a few minutes talking about the new Buzz Api, and then started stepping through code on how to implement the BuzzBingo game. The one thing I learned from this session was that there’s a new Buzz API — great if you want to create a social game!
SEO Site Advice from the Experts was an excellent session. It was a panel of SEO experts who went through a list of submitted sites and let us know what the site is doing right and wrong about SEO. They talked about how important it was to use text on your webpages, how meta keywords aren’t indexed by Google because people inflate them, branding techniques starting with the domain name, content needing to be above the fold, page ranks, 301 redirects, and much more.
Optimize every bit of your site serving and web pages with Page Speed – In this session, I learned about a new project called Page Speed. It’s an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them. Showslow.com is a demo website that shows the speed of websites. For more information, see Page Speed.
HTML 5 Status Update – In this session, the Chrome team went over new features in HTML 5 we should keep an eye out for. Their demo of the new Gmail was fun and quite intuitive. Drag and drop attachments as if it was a desktop app. New areas in HTML 5 include Offline storage, Media, Networking, CSS3, and Platform Integration (drag and drop, notifications, geolocation).
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How to Add a Camera to Your iPad
May 3, 2010 by daynah
Filed under iPad, Links and Resources
Disappointed that the iPad didn’t come with a camera? Well, so was I. But that doesn’t mean you can’t snap live photos on your iPad! All you need is an iPad, iPhone, and two apps.
Here are a few steps to get your iPad camera up and running!
- On the iPad, download and install the “Camera-A” app. (99 cents)
- On the iPhone, download and install the “Camera-B” app. It’s available for free.
- Once you have them installed, turn bluetooth on both devices. (Do this by going into Settings-> General-> Bluetooth -> On)
- Instead of Step 3, you can connect to the same wifi network also. (Do this by going into Settings -> Wi-Fi -> On -> Choose a network.)
- Now launch Camera-A and Camera-B on the iPad and iPhone, respectively.
- Camera-A on the iPad will show you whatever image Camera-B on the iPhone is pointing at.
- When you’re happy with an image, click on the shutter button in the middle on the iPad and that image will be saved to both devices.
Camera-A and Camera-B are two very simple to use apps. The hardest part is remembering to turn on the bluetooth! Camera-A on the iPad also have options to zoom in on an object as well as a toggle to turn off saving to the iPhone.
Since the camera is on the iPhone, it’s much easier to maneuver it to point to the subject you want. Also keep in mind, the image will only be as good as the iPhone camera, so it may appear noisy on the iPad due to the higher resolution. There is also no auto-focus in the Camera-B (iPhone) app, so you can’t tap and focus on an area like with the default camera app.
Overall, if you want to quickly capture live photos onto your iPad, these two apps are great for that. They can’t be more simple! Camera-A and Camera-B are both available in the iTunes App store.
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WordCamp SF 2010
April 29, 2010 by daynah
Filed under Conferences, Links and Resources

I can’t wait to attend WordCamp SF this weekend! If you love WordPress, you should be there! There’s an amazing line up of speakers and awesome WordPress schwag! It’s going to be a lot of geeky fun! I hope to see you there. Be sure to say hi if you run into me. :)
For more information, be sure to check out the official WordCamp SF 2010 website.
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5 iPhone Apps to Celebrate Earth Day!
April 22, 2010 by daynah
Filed under Links and Resources, Reviews, Software and Web Apps
Happy Earth Day! This should be an occasion to celebrate everyday and you can use the following iPhone/iPod Touch apps to do just that! Love Mother Nature and you’ll be surprised at how much she’ll love you back.
The Power of Green by Con Edison Here’s a beautifully made app that has great tips on how to save money in your home and office while going green! Tips include Weatherization, Heating, Cooling, Water Heating, Lighting, and Appliances. Included are 101 flashcard tips, 6 videos, and a checklist for you to keep your updates.
21st Office This app tests if you’re working in the 20th or 21st century! It asks you a series of questions in topics of Commuting, Business Meetings, and Reading. Then it examines your working habits and gives you a summary on what currently do, and how you can improve. There’s also a lot of great tips added by the community.
GoodGuide is an app that helps you find safe, healthy, and sustainable products while you shop. How does it work? Simply scan the barcode of the item with your phone and the product’s details will display. These details include ratings for health, environment, and their social responsibility.
The Lorax – Dr. Seuss is a wonderful ebook that’s perfect for Earth Day! It’s about a character who cuts down all the trees in the forest to make clothes. The Lorax warns him that his actions are hurting everyone, but he doesn’t listen. There’s a great moral to the story that will certainly engage young minds to help Mother Nature more. It’s a great story with beautiful animations and a narrator who reads to you!
iRecycle an excellent app to find your nearest recycling centers and green events. Simply type in the item you want to recycle and it will find the nearest location that would accept it. Links to green tips and articles from Earth911.com can also be reached within the app.
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MacWorld 2010: Web Development Symposium
March 7, 2010 by daynah
Filed under Apple, Links and Resources, MacWorld 2010
While attending MacWorld Expo 2010, I went to Nick Floro’s session – Market Symposium SA: Web Development: Tools, Trends and Technology. It was a great session on various Web 2.0 technologies. Topics covered were: Web 2.0, Designing Interfaces, Social Media, Video on the web, Simulations & Games, Project Management, Prototyping Techniques and other Tips and Tricks. Below are more information about the session as well as the slideshow.
Attend this day symposium and learn about the latest trends, solutions and what customers want today in web development. You will gain valuable knowledge on how to manage projects, developing new ideas, the latest hardware and software tools and what’s new in delivery for the web. Whether you’ll be creating marketing, education, presentations, e-learning, e- mail campaigns, asset and content management applications you won’t want to miss this session! Whether you are new to web development, a graphic artist wanting to learn more, a marketing manager, production coordinator or an instructor, this is the symposium to see the latest in web technology.
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MacWorld Expo 2010 Overview
March 7, 2010 by daynah
Filed under Apple, Links and Resources, MacWorld 2010

MacWorld Expo 2010 was quite a fun and educational experience. Even without Apple being at the show, the Mac community is still very strong. What I really loved this year was being able to meet the actual iPhone app developers at the App Pavilion and seeing the projects that they’re working on. There were also a lot of learning opportunities at the conference as well. Below are some of my conference highlights:
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Dr. Seuss iPhone Apps now 99 cents!
March 2, 2010 by daynah
Filed under Games, Links and Resources, Reviews
In honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday and NEA’s Read Across America Day, Oceanhouse Media is dropping all Dr. Seuss iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad apps to $0.99! Grab your favorite Dr. Seuss classic ebooks or camera apps. But hurry, this offer will last for one day only — today — Tuesday, March 2, 2010!
Dr. Seuss’s ABC (iTunes)
Have your child learn the ABC’s with this favorite classic book. It’s full of beautiful and colorful pages as well as fun animations.
The Cat In The Hat (iTunes)
Get the classic “That Cat in the Hat” ebook. Enjoy the beautiful artwork and animation as the book reads to you right on your iPhone / iPod Touch. It’s perfect for the little ones.
How The Grinch Stole Christmas (iTunes)
Of all the Dr. Seuss apps available now, this is definitely my favorite! I just absolutely love the story and it can be enjoyed by both kids and adults. The narrator is wonderful and the animation and illustration is just lovely. I highly recommend it. Full Review..
Grinchmas! (iTunes)
Would you like to be Mr. Nice Grinch, or Mr. Mean Grinch? Here’s a fun game to either toss presents at the Who’s houses or snowballs at them instead! Full Review..

Dr. Suess’ Camera: The Cat in The Hat Edition (iTunes)
Take photos of your friends and disguise them as the mischievous cat in the hat! A fun app to make you smile with your favorite Cat in the Hat illustrations!
Dr. Seuss Camera: The Grinch Edition (iTunes)
Take photos and insert your favorite Grinch frames on your friends! You can be Mr. Nice Grinch, or a Mean one, or even one of the Who’s. Full Review..
Read more about Oceanhouse Media’s Dr. Seuss iPhone / iPod Touch apps!
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GameSalad – Create Games without Coding!
February 20, 2010 by daynah
Filed under Games, Links and Resources, MacWorld 2010, Software and Web Apps
I attended MacWorld Expo 2010 recently and one of my favorite booths was GameSalad. They promised that I could make a game without any coding or programming at all. So yes, I was interested! I sat in for the beginner session to see how GameSalad works.
Photo by Albertech.net/@dragonal; Taken at MacWorld Expo 2010; I’m in the lower right!
GameSalad is the world’s most advanced game creation tool for non-programmers. With GameSalad, game makers of all levels can bring their ideas to life without programming a single line of code. Build games visually using a drag-and-drop interface along with a robust behavior system. Publish your games quickly and easy to the iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac Desktop, and the Web.
If you want to learn how to make games for the iPhone (or Mac), try out GameSalad. They had training sessions on the expo floor, which I thought was a lot of fun. Sessions ranged from beginner to advanced, and didn’t require any programming knowledge at all.. just a bit of creativity.
Basically, you can import your graphics (let’s called these actors) into the GameSalad software. Then you can place your actors onto the canvas (like the background) and add in other pieces in layers. Add behaviors to these ‘actors’ and you got yourself a game!
For the beginner session, we made a pinball game. We added the game’s background, along with the flippers, pegs, and pinballs. The flippers behaviors were control by the Left and Right Arrows. When clicked, the flippers would move up in an angle. If the ball touched a peg, points would be added up in a scoreboard.
The creation you create with GameSalad is all yours. This also means if you are creating an iPhone version of the game, an Apple Developer’s license is also require since you are publishing it under your account.
If you’re a graphic designer with an eye for games, definitely consider GameSalad. The software starts at $99 a year. I was able to create a simple pinball game in under 30 minutes… just imagine what you can do with just a little more time.
For more information, see GameSalad.com and follow them on Twitter.
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MacWorld Expo 2010: Abvio Fitness iPhone Apps
February 16, 2010 by daynah
Filed under Links and Resources, MacWorld 2010
I thought Abvio’s Runmeter, Cyclemeter, and Walkmeter iPhone apps deserved Beatweek’s Best of Show Award at MacWorld Expo 2010 for their innovative way of motivating individuals to exercise. I simply loved the features they integrated in the 2.0 versions.

Are you a fitness enthusiast? If you enjoy running, cycling, or going for a walk, try out Abvio’s new line of fitness apps — Runmeter, Cyclemeter, and Walkmeter. These exercise apps use the iPhone’s GPS to track and visualize exercise activities as well as help improve athletic performance and health. Each of these apps are similar to one another except for the fact that they come pre-customized to suit the needs of its user — the walker, runner, or cyclist.
Some of the great features of Runmeter, Cyclemeter, and Walkmeter are:
- An iPhone-centric approach, no Web site accounts, passwords, or ads required.
- Ghost racing against previous runs, walks, and rides along a route.
- On-device calendar of all runs, rides, and walks.
- On-device graphs of pace and elevation.
- On-device manual entry of runs, walks, and rides.
- Exceptional battery conservation.
Some of the new features that were demonstrated to me at MacWorld were pretty innovative! The features in the 2.0 versions include:
- The first apps to support use of the iPhone’s earphone remote to start and stop the stopwatch.
- The first apps on the iPhone to speak Twitter replies using text-to-speech technology.
- The first GPS apps to include a Twitter client for reading and composing tweets.
- The first GPS apps to share runs, walks, and rides using Google Maps, with links as simple as http://j.mp/5ouyIC
- The first GPS apps to use fuzzy logic to filter GPS locations for more accurate GPS location reporting.
- The only apps among our competition to allow full export of all your data.
If you would like more information about Runmeter, Cyclemeter, and Walkmeter, see their official website at Abvio.com
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iPhone App Review: Sweethearts
February 8, 2010 by daynah
Filed under Links and Resources, Reviews
Want to send a special treat to your sweet? Do it right from your iPhone or iPod Touch with the Sweethearts app. Sweethearts are the traditional conversation heart candies from Necco. Now they a fun app that promotes their new candy flavors and their new “Tweet Me” heart.
You start by customizing up to 5 candy hearts to give away. Tap on the candy to edit the text. Add another by tapping on the plus sign. Remove it by dropping it on the trash icon. When you’re happy with your box of candy, you can tweet it, DM (direct message) it to someone, or email them. You must login into Twitter before sharing the box of candy though. Your friend(s) will then get a unique link to the box of candy you made for them. It’s simple and is a fun way to say you care.
There is also an option to browse and view other boxes of candy created worldwide, boxes created by people you are following on Twitter, as well as a retweet option.
What I would like added to this app is the ability to add more than candy hearts in a box as well as pick a song for the candies. Other than that, it’s a simple app to bring a smile to anyone’s face.
Here is an example of what the link will take you to. The box of candy will open up for your friend and the candies will be displayed for them to play with.

You can read more about the Sweethearts app on their official website: MySweethearts.com and follow their Twitter account: @my_sweethearts. The app is free and available for download in iTunes App Store.
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Notes from iPhone/iPod Touch Development Seminar
February 5, 2010 by daynah
Filed under Apple, Conferences, Links and Resources
I attended the Software Development for iPhone and iPod Touch Seminar yesterday, presented by Steve Hayman.
He briefly talked about development for the iPad (which is very similar to iPhone / iPod Touch development), as well as how to create web apps and native apps during the presentation. These are my notes from the session.
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Software Development for the iPhone and iPod Touch
January 31, 2010 by daynah
Filed under Apple, Links and Resources
I’m attending a special Software Development for the iPhone and iPod Touch Seminar in Riverside, CA this Wednesday. It’s a free two hour workshop on how to create iPhone apps! The session is geared toward students, faculty, and staff from education institutions in Southern California. If you’re interested, there’s more information below. There will be sessions taking place at four different locations in Southern California.
More Times & Locations
- Irvine, CA – Mon, Feb 1 4:00PM to 6:00PM
- La Jolla, CA – Tue, Feb 2 2:30PM to 4:30PM
- Riverside, CA – Wed, Feb 3 10:00AM to 12:00PM
- Northridge, CA – Thu, Feb 4 9:00AM to 11:00PM
About the Seminar
We’ll discuss and demonstrate Apple’s software development tools for the iPhone and iPod touch, and show how individuals and institutions are building innovative mobile applications for their organizations and the wider world. We’ll highlight and deconstruct some popular applications – both web-based, and native – and show you how to get started building your own with Apple’s free developer tools. We’ll talk about web development with Dashcode, native application development with Xcode and Interface Builder, and review the integration and deployment options and Apple’s developer program. And if the presenter messes up, we may accidentally wind up demonstrating the debugger as well.
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MacWorld 2010 Schedule
January 29, 2010 by daynah
Filed under Conferences, Links and Resources

I’m attending MacWorld Expo 2010 in two weeks and I’m super excited about it! I’m mostly interested in iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad app development (both web and native) as well as meeting other app developers. It’s going to be super geeky fun! They’re also having a Special iPad Event, so I’ll get to test out Apple’s new creation! I hope to see you there! Register for MacWorld Expo if you haven’t already.
Daynah’s MacWorld 2010 Schedule
Here is my tentative schedule for the week. The bold items are events I’ll definitely go to and the rest are the ones I’ll try to make to.
Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010
- 9:00 AM – 10:00AM – Late night with David Pogue
- 10:00AM – 6:00PM – MacWorld Expo Exhibit Hall
- 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Q&A: Kevin Smith
- 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM – Feature Presentations: The Photoshop 20th Anniversary
- 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM – Appency Media Dinner
- 8:00 PM – 12:00 AM – Cirque du Mac 7.0
Friday, Feb. 12, 2010
- 9:00AM – 10:00AM – Feature Presentations: Revolution from the Rest of Us with Guy Kawasaki
- 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM – SA: Web Development: Tools, Trends and Technology
- 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM – US955: Youth and Educational Tools
- 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM – US954: Stereo 3D Animation with Adobe Photoshop & AfterEffects CS4
- 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Macworld Live! with Leo Laporte
- 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM – Feature Presentations: The Gruber 10: Apple’s Top Issues
- 6:30PM – TWiT Meet Up at the Marriott Marquis on 4th Street
Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010
- 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM – IT863: Making Your Sites iPhone Friendly
- 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM – Feature Presentations: Macworld presents: BT!
- 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM – US982: Demystifying iPhone (& iPad) App Development: A Non-Technical Overview for Decision-Makers and Idea People
- 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM – MacWorld Expo Exhibit Hall
- 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM – IT873: Custom iPhone Development
- 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM – Feature Presentations: Macworld 2010 Special iPad Event
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