Cloud based storage and syncing is fast becoming a critical part of many iPhone and iPad applications. There are many internet/cloud based services such as S3 and one of the easiest and more popular is DropBox https://www.dropbox.com/developers

In late July the Dropbox api became public and since then it has been adopted in many different applications. The API is easy to use, has good documentation and comes with a sample application.

The sample application shows a random photo from your /photos folder. I thought it might be useful to also go through another even simpler example to explore the basics of the process.

I'm excited that my talk has been accepted for . I've included the description below. Let me know if you have any comments.

Wanted to let you know about a book that I recently got and can not recommend highly enough. Designing the iPhone User Experience: A User-Centered Approach to Sketching and Prototyping iPhone Apps by
Suzanne Ginsburg

iOS 4 has some interesting new features such as Event Kit for accessing the user’s calendars and local notifications for alarms. Unfortunately there is month, week or day calendar views as in the iCal app.

I went looking for open source calendar view frameworks and came across the following ones.

TapKu http://github.com/devinross/tapkulibrary Apache License (Month and day views)

Creating application settings (preferences) for you iPhone or iPad app is pretty straightforward and is outlined in the “iPhone Application Programming Guide” section “Implementing Application Preferences”.

Our next set of classes will be in September 13-17 in New York City. We are offering 5 separate 1 day classes. You can take all 5 days if you want to devote all week to learning iOS or you can mix and match the days that match your current interest and experience. The 5 classes are:

1. Objective-C
2. Intro to iPhone/iOS development
3. Intermediate to iPhone/iOS development
4. iPad for iPhone developers
5. More iOS

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I'm happy to announce our training classes for July in New York City. We'll have three separate 1 day classes so you can mix and match based on your experience and interest. They can be taken in any combination and the iPad class will be co-taught with Kirby Turner, author of an upcoming iPad book.

• Day 1 - Intro to iPhone / iOS programming July 21
• Day 2 - Intermediate iPhone programming July 22
• Day 3 - iPad for iPhone developers July 23

All classes will run 9:30am - 5pm with a break for lunch at SL Conference Centers at 352 7th Ave (& 30h st) 16th floor. Attendees must bring a laptop with the latest iPhone/iOS SDK installed.

Moving data and documents into and out of iPhone applications has always been important and will be come even more critical as we start to use the iPad as a primary computing device.

For example as we start using the iPad to create content such as documents, drawings, layouts and anything else we’ll want more ways to share and import user’s work.

I’m really happy to announce an iPhone class in June in New York City that will be taught by noted author and trainer Jeff LaMarche. I know Jeff personally and his knowledge, experience and enthusiasm for training is unsurpassed.

The class will cover the principals of programming for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. We will start with fundamental concepts and the overall architecture of iPhone SDK applications and progress to advanced topics. The class is very much hands-on and students will build several full applications over the course of the three day workshop. This class will run June 16, 17 and 18 2010 from 9:30-5:00.

Update Your App Resources Without Updating Your App

Ever get an app approved and then wish you could change the wording of an info page? Update a database? Or change an image? All without having to rebuild, resubmit, wait for approval and wait for users to update?

RMSApp.com gives you a simple way to send live updates of resources to the users of your iPhone application.