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Introduction to MapKit in iPhone OS 3.0 Part 2

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Screen shot 2009-12-22 at 11.48.05 AM

Introduction
Back in September I posted a large post going over all the components required to implement the MapKit in your application. The MapKit is a framework introduced in iPhone OS 3.0 and allows developers to easily take advantage of Google’s mapping technology. In my first post I go over how to present a map as well as annotate the map with custom badges to highlight points of interest. The MapKit also …

December 22nd, 2009 Posted by: (ELC) - posted under:Tutorials - View Comments READ MORE

Introduction to MapKit in iPhone OS 3.0

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Introduction
Hello everyone. Welcome to another screencast. Today we will be looking into the MapKit, a new API’s made available by Apple in the iPhone OS 3.0 release. The MapKit allows simple access to the map seen in the maps application. Using GoogleMaps as its engine the map kit allows for a developer to make their own custom map interface to fit their own application. Today we will be reviewing the MapView as well as the Map Annotations that can be …

December 21st, 2009 Posted by: (ELC) - posted under:Tutorials - View Comments READ MORE

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The site invisibleskinz.com has decided to give iCodeBlog readers a 20% discount on the Invisible Shield for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

December 10th, 2009 Posted by: (ELC) - posted under:Articles - View Comments READ MORE

The iPhone is Bad at Keeping Secrets

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Today an article from TaranFx has been making the rounds talking about a new open source application called SpyPhone that highlights all of the “information vulnerabilities” within the current iPhone SDK. You can check out the article here:
SpyPhone App Steals Personal Data from ALL iPhones
Everyone has probably heard of the problems some users with jailbroken iPhone have been experiencing. Without the boundaries in place from the SDK many users …

December 5th, 2009 Posted by: (ELC) - posted under:Articles - View Comments READ MORE