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iOS 4 is in the wild! What’s new with the new iPhone/iPad/iPod OS?

Yesterday, the newest OS for iDevices was released to the world over. Steve Jobs recently reported at WWDC that there are over 100,000,000 iDevices in the marketplace at this point. Now granted, a lot of those are devices that don’t run the iDevice OS or use Apps. But either way, even the big chunk of that 100Million that are iOS devices is a HUGE potential market for any App. Here’s a quick rundown from Mashable… Read more »

New Developer’s Resource Documents from Apple

Apple Developer’s Resource – What’s New in iPhone OS .::. .::. .::. .::. .::. .::. .::. .::. .::. .::. .::. .::. .::. .::. .::. .::. .::. Apple Developer’s Resource – Over-the-Air Profile Delivery & Configuration

Developer Tip: Yahoo Pipes Make You Expert-in-a-Minute

So the developers here at PointAbout found an awesome new tool this week that has some really useful applications. It’s called Yahoo Pipes, and there’s a demo video below that shows you how to use it do do all kinds of RSS-enabling things to make your content more versatile than ever. For example, AppMakr is all about RSS. But, regular RSS– not Atom. If this was a problem before, it definitely isn’t any longer, thanks… Read more »

Turn any API into an RSS feed using XSLT and Yahoo Pipes

Yahoo Pipes gives users the ability to turn an API call or regular XML into an RSS feed, which can then be embedded into our multi-feed RSS reader template.  This allows any API to be mashed up and displayed as a mobile application using PointAbout – a very powerful combination!   If you’ve never heard of XSLT, here’s a great whitepaper by IBM on it. A picture of Yahoo Pipes at work, at left.

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