hamedh | 10 years ago | on: Handling App Transport Security in iOS 9
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hamedh | 11 years ago | on: Taylor Swift’s Stand on Royalties Draws a Rebuttal from Spotify
Your music have been heard by more people due to streaming, but it doesn't necessarily mean it was good enough (or the right type of music) for people to pay to come to see you in concert
hamedh | 12 years ago | on: PushServer – Node.js server for sending iOS push notifications
Grocer is the most stable APNS gem I've used https://github.com/grocer/grocer
hamedh | 14 years ago | on: Misconceptions About iOS Multitasking
You can write a audio, GPS, VOIP, etc app that does more than just do audio, GPS, VOIP, etc in the background. For example, you may think the app is only playing audio or doing GPS updates, but it can be badly-written and updating UI and/or other intense stuff. Now granted, iOS will still kill those apps if they start taking up too much memory/resources while in the background.
But I think the article is accurate, you shouldn't ever have to manage apps. iOS is night and day compared to Android's task management (where iOS is much better for users).
hamedh | 14 years ago | on: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
yea but GoDaddy being a domain registrar and hosting DNS for many domains already is a bit more scary in this case
hamedh | 14 years ago | on: How about some Android graphics true facts?
Will Android 4 still redraw everything when rotating the phone instead of animating?
This is not only a bad experience for users but also is one of the most difficult parts when developing Android apps.
hamedh | 14 years ago | on: Comments In Code
Yea, good post, I agree that documentation is key.
hamedh | 14 years ago | on: Facebook for iPad
i've been using the older releases of the app just for that very reason. the latest version simply does not work on my account, for whatever reason
hamedh | 14 years ago | on: IOS Boilerplate: A base template for iOS apps
doesn't ASI also use blocks? its syntax is very similar. but i didn't know about that it's much faster than ASI, thanks for that
hamedh | 14 years ago | on: All His Life Has He Looked Away, to the Future...
apple also releases beta iOS and OS X for months in advance so developers can test and write apps against the new release.
but noticeably they don't unveil new hardware until it's ready and stable for the public. the knock on most competitors is that the overall experience is underwhelming or way too beta, which hardware is a big component.
hamedh | 14 years ago | on: The New Apple Advantage
i cared about doing clean installs/configuring when i was a teenager and had nothing else to do. now i just want my computer stay out of my way and make me money. os x, time machine, etc all let me do that
hamedh | 14 years ago | on: Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You
3.1 is still honeycomb, they haven't announced the version for ice cream sandwich still i think
hamedh | 14 years ago | on: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
there's an options in system preferences to turn it off. but it's global for all apps
hamedh | 14 years ago | on: The Problem with the iPhone's Home Button
You are right, and the stack of Activities make perfect sense from the perspective of a developer.
But for example, as a user, I think it's confusing that you can open an app from home screen and can go back to home 2 different ways (either back or home button).
Also, if it's that easy for developers to mess up navigation, then it's going to create a frustrating experience for user.
hamedh | 14 years ago | on: GitHub for Mac
looks great, would be awesome to have keyboard shortcuts to go back/forward
hamedh | 14 years ago | on: GitHub for Mac
it only works on github
hamedh | 15 years ago | on: There's a new version of Google Analytics available
it still uses flash for the graphs
hamedh | 15 years ago | on: Now Chrome disables Quicktime plugin by default
What does HTML5 have anything to do with it? Many times you get linked straight to a movie file and the browser is expected to either play the file or download it (based on mime-types).
If they are disabling the Quicktime plugin on OS X, then at least just download the movie file even if the mime type is "video/quicktime".
The error screen they are showing now is scary enough that most people will abort out of it.
hamedh | 15 years ago | on: Google Makes Massive Counteroffers To Retain Employees
that's probably the only thing techcrunch is good at these days, coming up with these exaggerated titles. these days you can't help but roll your eyes on all the tabloid articles they post.
hamedh | 15 years ago | on: WWDC sold out in ten hours.
that's kind of sad. you'd think people will stick around to learn stuff, not just to say they attended the keynote
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"If you do decide to convert your HTTP site to HTTPS, please be aware that because we remove non-SSL compliant ads from the auction, thereby reducing auction pressure, ads on your HTTPS pages might earn less than those on your HTTP pages." [0]
I wouldn't be surprised if many app developers put in this exception because at the end of the day, they will hurt too if ads stop showing up.
[0] https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/10528?hl=en