Nic Wise

It's all very exciting. Oh wait. That's something else. This isn't very exciting. But it is very useful. I've needed a decent progress HUD in my apps for a while. I was using

FreeAgent just announced they have released automated bank feeds: Sometime back in the late Cretaceous period we announced that development had started on Bank Feeds. Since then, tectonic plates have shifted, civilisations have

TL;DR: An especially good tutorial for Objective-C from RyPress, which covers all the basics, without being too basic. Over the years, I've used a few languages, starting with Pascal and Delphi then

It appears that the UICollectionView is getting some well deserved love. UICollectionView is a successor - or just a well designed sidekick - to the UITableView, and provides a great way to display

There has been lots of talk about the Apple share price recently, around how its gone from around $700 to $500 in the past 3 months, all with very little apparent reason. Gruber

Leonie and I finally got to see The Hobbit this weekend. We've been busy since it came out, but as we know a few people who've worked on it, I wanted to see

The videos for MonkeySpace / Monkey Square are up on vimeo, and worth a look. MonkeySpace (run by Monkey Square - yes, it's a little confusing at the moment) is: is the official cross

Only yesterday, Verity Stob had the continuation of her (??) long Delphi saga, with a nice dig at C# at the end.: For C# hath become a lonely path. And the Beast hath shut

The Telegraph has the usual rant article about multi-nationals and the amont of tax they don't pay. This time, Googles Eric Schmidt is putting his foot in his mouth: "It's called capitalism,

uxarchive.com is a great reference covering how a lot of the best apps handle on-boarding, exploring, search and sharing. I suspect it will grow to other areas over time, but it's a

On the latest CultCast, the guys on there were talking about a strong AppleTV TV rumour: Here’s what I heard: The software was developed at the behest of Steve Jobs himself, who

I've been doing some Android development work lately (more on this when it's out), so I've been collecting Android design inspiration, as a lot of the conventions I'm used to from iOS are

From Christopher Mims and Stephanie Gruner Buckley on Quartz Meanwhile, a report from the US National Research Council, commissioned by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other intelligence agencies, says the consequences

Fraser Spears, on his blog: It is, in my opinion, just that side of 'too small' to be a 5-days-a-week, 6-hours-a-day tool for pupils. It is in no way too weak a computer

Nice, and extreamly accurate, analogy of what it costs for an app to be developed. "I want something that works well on one platform" = 2007 BMW 335i = $20-25K. You want something

Justin Williams has a very good article - and links off to an equally good one from Patrick Gibson - about Apple's awful record with online services: Apple has always been given a

Things have been a bit quiet around here - the blog - because things have been anything but quiet in real life. Last night, we launched another site. I didn't have a lot

Over the past few days commute, I've been reading Peter Bright's history of the Windows APIs. It's quite fascinating, and very much worth a read. The article is quite long, but it covers

I've been a bit quiet here lately - not a lot of interesting stuff coming across my desk, and a site release for the day job (which is only of interest to people

Previously, I've discussed NFC a bit, and also Passbook. I've been thinking about the whole payment thing a bit lately, and I think I might have come up with something which might work

Things like this make me love Dribbble. I want to encourage some good App.net apps. Here’s a bunch of images as a starter kit. If you do something interesting with them

I've been trying to follow all the slides and presentations at this years MonkeySpace aka the conference formally known as MonoSpace. Looks like the content has been really good. Here's some of the

Android Niceties is a showcase of Android design, and I'm finding it great to get some inspiration for what is possible in Android. Interestingly, Xero (which is not a native app) is featured

I have a love-hate relationship with Android (and by extension, Mono for Android). I've been a long-time iOS user, and back in the Android 2.x days, the difference was huge - in

Update: Roan at FreeAgent has put a post up about it. Last night at The Herald Digital Business Awards, Earnest won in the Best Application category! @kevinjmccallum: Delighted to report @freeagent wins best