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• April 21st, 2008

  Mac OS X application that performs a specified action when a specified disk is connected?

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• 2 months ago

  Are you going to upgrade to Snow Leopard or install it clean? Why?

  I am taking this prime opportunity to upgrade my hard drive as well, so hopefully a clean install, but that might also require installing Leopard first as the installation for Snow Leopard might require a Leopard install, hence the nice cheap upgrade pricing. Will have to wait until friday to find out I think.
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• June 21st, 2009

  Are there any manuals or podcasts that teach how to make an iPhone App?

  This is the course on iTunes U you have heard of I think: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/ The link to iTunes is down the bottom of the page. I have found it very good, good intro to Obj-C and iPhone development in general. As johnpowell said above, knowing obj-c will help more, but I started it with no Obj-C knowledge and found the first couple of project gave a me a good feel and understanding of the syntax and things. However I do know other programming languages and I work as a software developer so that helped a lot. You would probably struggle without any background programming knowledge. I sort of remember sometime in the first lecture they go over what you should know at the start.
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• April 30th, 2009

  Best RAM memory clear in the App Store?

  Well it tells you some fun stats about your phone, but its not all that helpful really as there isn’t too much you can do with them. It does tell you your IP address though, which is handy occasionally and you can ping and trace sites with it if you really feel need, but it is mainly if you need to see what your server is doing. If all you really want is the free memory option, then you could try the others, but never even thought about freeing the iPhone memory until I saw the button in iStat, and so I have never tried any of the other apps and you don’t really need to free the memory manually. iStat is a very nice quality app and judging by their updates to their iStat widgets it will hopefully get some nice updates in the future. Hope that helps in someway.
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• April 30th, 2009

  Best RAM memory clear in the App Store?

  @eambos if you’re being serious, you shouldn’t really be doing that if not needed as it does a hard reset of the device, pretty much the same as pulling the power cord out of your computer. A handy trick to know if your whole phone has frozen though. @fortris I have iStat and it does free the memory, but it has completly locked my phone up a few times and havn’t used the feature for a while. Why do you think you need to free the memory btw? The devices have good memory management and any apps from the app store have all their memory cleared when they close. My phone has been on for 14 days now according to iStat and it can probably stay on, but just turn the iphone/ipod off and on properly once in a while.
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• March 19th, 2009

  How can you learn to program an app?

  And, as I have just remembed, you need to be using a Mac to install the SDK. No windows version as far as I know. Saves you the massive download if your not on a mac.
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