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How to read PDFs on an iPad using GoodReader

One shift I had to make when moving to an iPhone was the lack of a real file system. Other phones I used like the Nokia N95 or the Sony Ericsson had a tangible file system that you could navigate through, and apps could access directly. The iPhone doesn’t have such a thing. Either apps keep files in their own walled garden, or they have the ability to access music and photos through the shared spaces that Apple allows. With the iPad, there’s no Documents space, and using documents on the iPad is becoming a real hassle.

Michael Gaines | Apr, 5, 2010 | 3 comments

Don’t know the song? Shazam!

How many times have you heard a song and wondered what it was? It’s happened to me countless times. You’re in the car, in a store, watching TV, and a song comes on that you need to know the title of. There’s an app for that called Shazam.

Michael Gaines | Mar, 19, 2010 | 2 comments

Anatomy of an iPhone Wallpaper

A few days ago I started working on some classic videogame iPhone wallpapers which have gotten thousands of views after I posted them and were mentioned on the AppSlappy podcast. I wanted to write a bit about how I put them together.

The iPhone’s screen is 320×480 and has two tall banners on its home screen, one on the top and one on the bottom. What annoys me about slapped-together wallpapers is how they just resize images to fit the screen and don’t take the banners into account. If images are blindly resized, the result is cutting off heads or logos that look amateurish.