Life in a Startup

Category Archives: Applications

Growl Notifications in Tweetie

If found it a little difficult yesterday to figure out how to get growl notifications working until @colognerunner told me how he got it working. Figured there were others that were having problems, so I make a quick little screencast showing you what I did.

Objective Resource for Faster iPhone Development

I recently came across Objective Resource for developing iPhone applications that talk with a Rails backed website. According to the site, ObjectiveResource is an Objective-C port of Ruby on Rails’ ActiveResource. It provides a way to serialize objects to and from Rails’ standard RESTful web-services (via XML or JSON) and handles much of the complexity [...]

My Adventure in Ultralight Packing

I’m getting ready to take a trip out to Denver, CO for the week to go to an iPhone SDK Training class held by Pragmatic Studio and thought it was a perfect time to give Ultralight Packing a try. Andrew Hyde recently wrote about his adventures last month and after reading his story I thought [...]

Jing Pro

I’ve been playing around with Jing Pro since it was released and have to say that it’s pretty impressive.  First off I absolutely love that you can produce a H.264 video. It’s a very nice feature!  I also like that you can upload to some of the popular video hosting services like YouTube, Viddler, etc. [...]

What to Use to Post to Twitter

So I made some changes to Twitpress so I’m testing them to see if they work. I’m not sure if I should use this or Twitterfeed.?? I would like it to be a shortened URL, so either use tinyURL or some other service would be helpful. What does everyone else use? UPDATE: So I was [...]