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Entries in lunchbox (3)

Friday
Mar192010

Lunchbox Becomes Lunches

Introduction

Back at the start of December 2009 I wrote an article about Lunchbox. Since then nothing really progressed on the project. My designer got diverted onto other work for me and the application was just sitting in limbo. Last night that changed and Lunches will hopefully soon be on the App Store.

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Tuesday
Dec082009

Recommendation: xScope

Name: xScope
Supplier: Iconfactory and ARTIS Software
URL: http://iconfactory.com/software/xscope
Price: $26.95

xScope is a set of tools that can be used to perform tasks pertaining to on-screen graphics. For example, one tool allows you to measure dimensions, there is a loupe tool to allow you to inspect colours at a pixel-level and there is a tool that allows you to set up and display vertical and horizontal guides. The other tools are on-screen rulers, screen overlays to show the visible areas of alternate screen sizes, a tool that allows you to draw on-screen frames and a crosshair tool that provides co-ordinate information.

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Saturday
Dec052009

The Evolution of Lunchbox

Introduction

This is an account of how I devised and designed Lunchbox, my first completed iPhone application that will hopefully be in the App Store in a few weeks. It’s much longer than I originally thought it would be but rather than try to trim it down I thought it might be an interesting read for other developers and maybe its users so that they can see what goes into creating a ‘simple’ application. In addition, I am planning on following this article up with a set of smaller articles detailing some of the development issues I had and how I solved them.

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