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Recommended reading

• Cocoa with Love: Is a virtual machine for Cocoa programming inevitable? – A very interesting article on the pros/cons of objective-C and how Apple might be planning a virtual machine that multiple languages could compile down to
• Panic Blog » Good UI – Definitely watch this video, though it takes a while to load, and also check out the comments, this is literally a new generation of usability

Recommended reading

• Ten One Designer’s Blog – This will open up some really interesting possibilities for the iPad
• Communities Dominate Brands: Full Analysis of iPhone Economics – it is bad news. And then it gets worse – A brave look at the real economics behind the AppStore

Pretty interesting app.

This device can connect to your iPhone via Bluetooth, sending vital information such as physical activity, your pulse and other medical details to the app, which will then show you the information and store it for you to track it later.

Thanks to Pam for the heads up about this new app in the app store, WorkSnug.

WorkSnug uses Augmented Reality to connect mobile workers to the nearest and best places to work in the city. We’ve visited and rated hundreds of workspaces, assessing noise levels, power provision, community feel, even the quality of the coffee. London has been launched first. San Francisco, New York, Berlin, Madrid and several other cities are on the way in the coming weeks

Covered recently in Web Worker Daily, check out the video to see the app in action.

Here’s a few iPhone stencils, wireframe tools and Photoshop PSD templates I’ve come across recently:

• iphonemockup webapp
• PSD templates
• iPhone UI Vector Elements (Illustrator)
• iPhone PSD Vector Kit (Photoshop)
• Free iPhone PSD file for icons / snapshots / whatever
• iPhone GUI PSD
• iPhone Interface PSD File
• iPhone Icon Style .psd Kit
• Download the FreshBooks iPhone GUI PSD v1.0
• iPhone GUI PSD
• Ultimate iPhone Stencil for Omnigraffle
• Theresa Neil’s iPhone Wire Frames
• Patrick Crowley’s Ultimate iPhone Stencil
• Yahoo!’s Mobile – iPhone
• Fireworks toolkit for creating iPhone UI mockups by MetaSpark

UPDATE:

Here’s a few more ideas for wireframing tools, not necessarily specific to iPhone:

• http://speckyboy.com/2010/01/11/10-completely-free-wireframe-and-mockup-applications/
• http://lesscode.co.nz/interface nice one for the iPad as well
• http://speckyboy.com/2010/04/30/iphone-and-ipad-development-gui-kits-stencils-and-icons/

We need this app on the iphone – it makes even augmented reality stuff look paltry:

Here’s some more interesting AR videos.

Another case of iPhone devs reporting the full lifecycle of their AppStore experience.  These guys used a third party to develop their app and earned back their $5k dev costs quite quickly.

An interesting read.