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Custom Tab Bar Images/Icons For iPhone Applications

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So you’ve been making iPhone applications for a while, you’re sick and tired of the limited amount of icons the SDK gives access too and you’re over searching the for icons that are available in the codebase that you’re “not supposed to use”.  Over at glyFX we’re feeling your pain and coming to the rescue again.  Earlier this month we released a free 5 icon pack of iPhone TabBar and Toolbar icons as a bit of a teaser.

Now we’ve came out with our first iphone commercial set, 5 icons in the iPhone Messaging Icon Set that are geared towards a messaging application.  We’ve got Inbox, Outbox, Chat, Buddies & Status, head over and checkout the iPhone Messaging Icon Set.

Free iPhone Tabbar & Toolbar Icons

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Over at glyFX we’ve been preparing to jump into the market of iPhone icons.  That is, icons for Tabbars and Toolbars.  We’ve prepared a free set for everyone to take a look at and give feedback on.  It really is important for you to give  feedback so that glyFX can produce a product that meets or exceeds expectations.

The free icon set consists of 5 icons for the Tabbar an the Toolbar and will be followed up quite quickly with commercial iphone sets of 5 icons, for $5.  Get in, grab your free icons and don’t forget to go back next week for more.

ml_ipod Takes Control of iPhone 2.x Seemingly Quietly?

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Much to my delight i discovered today that the guys over at the ml_ipod plugin for winamp, have some how managed to find a way to put music into the iphone 2.x music library with so far what seems like no drawbacks.   You can still see your music in iTunes (i haven’t tried to manage it yet, but who cares that’s what i use winamp for),  while still allowing my application syncs to work in iTunes.  Bravo guys, we’ve all been waiting for this development.

If you hate your iTunes and love your winamp but are bound to an iPhone, get busy and install ml_ipod!

iTunes, iPod, iPhone.. iChoose?

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Something just occurred to me this evening and it has to do with software companies and the monopoly ‘lock in’ tactics that some use.  Microsoft was pulled up over forcing Internet Explorer on people in XP many moons ago now and I’m sure we’re all completely happy with how it eventually turned out, most of us use Firefox and Windows now recognises something called a ‘default browser’.

Fast forward a few years and we’ve seen Apple since day one, ram iTunes down the throat of every ipod owner in the world. This was understandable, after all Continue reading →

Free Newsgator Feed Readers..

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Wow! what a surprise, i awoke this morning to find that Newsgator are now offering their feed readers for FREE! So you can pickup Feed Demon (Windows), Net Newswire (Mac), Newsgator Go! (Windows Mobile, Symbian) and Newsgator Inbox (Outlook plugin) all free of charge. Continue reading →

Steam Community Widget for Wordrpress

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Just kinda finished up some work on a new WordPress widget i’ve been thinking about for a while. Last night i pulled the gloves off and started building the Steam Community Widget . Continue reading →