Apple’s developer center is down for now.  But, I can assure you we will be downloading the SDK as soon as it goes live.
Get ready for some iPad dev tutorials!

The number of applications in the app store is approaching 100,000. The quality of applications in this massive of a marketplace is hard to measure. Apple provides the star ratings for applications but I like to have a few more sources. Check out:
app.itize.us
app.itize.us is a site highlighting the best of emerging apps in the store. The site is really well categorized and will surely show you some hidden great apps.
Fresh Apps
Fresh Apps is a user driven review …

This year I was lucky enough to go to CES in beautiful Las Vegas. While I’m sure you all know, CES is the Consumer Electronics Show, and it is one of the largest trade shows in the world. Everyone who is anyone is at this show (except Apple), and it has historically been a place for companies to reveal big new products. Microsoft in 2008 released the Surface and last year Palm released the …

I’m sure you have seen a Twitter client such as Twittelator Pro or Tweetie 2 count down the characters as you type your Tweet.  This is done by responding to the Editing Changed action on a UITextField.

Today, I will show you how you can implement this functionality in your application as well as show you some other real world examples of responding to this action.  Here are a few of the uses that we will discuss:

• Countdown of characters allowed – Used when the user is limited by a certain number of characters
• Word filter – useful in filtering out swear words or other unwanted text
• Live translator – our example will translate english to 1337

I will create the core code and show you how to modify it slightly to implement the other 2 applications.

2009 will be known as the year  the world learned the word app. With the first full calendar year of the app store coming to a close it is amazing to look back and see the growth that has occurred in this market. There are about 100,000 applications now available in the app store, give or take, with more being added every day. While this might seem like a bad thing to the average developer, there seems to be a …

The UITextField is probably one of the most commonly used UI controls on the iPhone. It is the primary method of user input via the keyboard and provides a great deal of additional functionality.
With the success of our las API tutorial on NSArray, I thought I would do another walkthrough, this time on UITextField. I will be explaining all of the properties for it as well as bringing up some functionality that you may not have known about.
Text Attributes
The …