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Unleash Your Inner App Developer Part 4: Adding Navigation
Do you have an idea for an app but lack the programming knowledge to begin building it? In this weekly blog series, How To Unleash Your Inner App Developer, I will take you, the non-programmer, step by...
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June 16th Biweekly Giveaway!
This is the official announcement of the iPhone life Biweekly Giveaway! Be sure to enter the giveaway at iphoneLife.com/giveaways to win prizes, which we'll announce June 2nd! We are raffling off tons...
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iOS 8 Brings Many New Features to Messages App
Apple's Messages app will be getting many great new features in iOS 8, and it's likely the app that will see the most significant changes. One of the most requested features for Messages had been the...
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Apple News: Apple Keeps the Party Going
With the addition of Beats and Dr. Dre, Apple continues to push the idea that they know how to party. Music and musicians have always been a part of Apple, going back to Steve Jobs' love of the Beatles...
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Top 3 App Deals of the Week
As new iOS apps flood the App Store every day — recently topping 1,000,000 — we know it’s tough to tell which ones are worth their salt. But thanks to our Weekly Scoop, you can have the best for free!...
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Tip of the Day: See the Notifications That Are Important to You
If important notifications keep getting buried under less significant ones in Notification Center, you can easily change the order they are shown to you. Or whether you see them at all.Go to...
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Unleash Your Inner App Developer Part 5: Next Steps
Do you have an idea for an app but lack the programming knowledge to begin building it? In this weekly blog series, How To Unleash Your Inner App Developer, I will take you, the non-programmer, step by...
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Week in Review: WWDC 2014, Lightning Connected Headphones, and a New Game...
Welcome to this week's review of some of the most captivating Apple news stories. It's been a full week with lots of exciting headlines, many of which focused on Apple's impressive Keynote at WWDC...
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Fleksy Releases iOS 8 Beta Program for 3rd-Party Keyboard
If you've been hoping for an iOS keyboard alternative, your wait is finally over. At this year's WWDC, system-wide, third-party keyboard support was unveiled for iOS 8.Third-party keyboard apps like...
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8 Reasons Swift is Easier to Learn & Use than Objective-C
Over the years I have literally taught tens of thousands of people how to write code in Objective-C through training classes, conferences, online forums, and my book series. Based on the mountain of...
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Rumors: iWatch to Arrive in October, Will Have Curved LED Display
The blogosphere was buzzing with rumors about the so-called iWatch on Friday, with a news report on Nikkei Asian Review saying Apple was planning to come out with a wearable device and a report on...
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Apple News: What's Next After WWDC
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference has come and gone. While there were plenty of surprises, like a whole new programming language called Swift, new hardware was conspicuously absent. Indeed...
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Dr. Dre's "Cool" and Perfectionism May be the Perfect Complements to Apple
The Wall Street Journal recently ran a very positive feature on Dr. Dre (aka: Andre Young) suggesting that his work ethic and demanding perfectionism are more similar to Steve Jobs than one might have...
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Tip of the Day: How to Set Special Ringtones for Individual Contacts
If you want to know which friend or family member is calling you without having to look at your iPhone screen, you can assign them each their own ring tone.In Phone open Contacts and select the person...
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Unleash Your Inner App Developer Part 6: Finishing the Prototype
Do you have an idea for an app, but lack the programming knowledge to begin building it? In this weekly blog series, How To Unleash Your Inner App Developer, I will take you, the non-programmer, step...
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Big Changes for Photo Storage and Editing in iOS 8
Apple's Photos app and the approach to storage are among the biggest changes you can look forward to in iOS 8. The new iCloud Photo Library gives you the option of replacing the confusing Photo Stream,...
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It's Time for Writers to Embrace Creating With the iPhone
As an aspiring novelist, I'm always curious to see what tools other writers are using to work on their manuscripts. In his introduction to On Writing Well, William Zinsser partly lamented the rise of...
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Notification Center in iOS 8 Will Be Customizable, Including Widgets
Notification Center, which was introduced in iOS 5 and expanded in iOS 7 with several tabbed views (Today, All, and Missed), will now be greatly enhanced in iOS 8, with new customization features...
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Swift 101 - Classes, Variables, Properties & Methods
As promised, here is my first installment on learning to program in the new Swift language!Defining Classes in SwiftThe following code shows an example of a Swift class definition:To declare a class in...
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Tip of the Day: Flick Away Unwanted Notifications
This was billed at WWDC as a part of a new suite of features for iOS 8, but in fact you can already flick away notifications in iOS 7 that are intruding on your activities.Getting an unwanted...
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