Category Archives: iPhone

Universities and Branding

By Kevin | Published: November 2, 2009

Having spent time creating official and unofficial university publications for Clayton State University and Mercer University, I’ve found that it’s just no fun to talk to those in charge of the university’s logo. Even with the backing of a department, it can add weeks to the project just to get institutional approval. For this iPhone [...]

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No Man is an Island – On Open Source

By Kevin | Published: October 25, 2009

So I want to make an iPhone app. With my limited coding skills, I always knew that the likelyhood of this happening wasn’t very high. I could, of course, get hip deep in code and piece my way though. I’ve done it before with wordpress themes, wikimedia preferences, and integrating different sets of software together. [...]

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Feature List – iPhone Library App

By Kevin | Published: October 15, 2009

Core Features (done before the end of semester) Search and find books using the GSU catalog At least allow for title, author, keyword and isbn searches. Display catalog results in an iPhone friendly style Ensure that the call number is highly visible Be able to save books to a queue to be found later Display [...]

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The Competition – There isn’t much

By Kevin | Published: October 7, 2009

First of all, Apple not having a webpage for their applications that doesn’t have to open in iTunes is maddeningly annoying. In protest I won’t link directly to any app and will instead link to the Apptism or AppCraver page instead. So I found two applications that are similar to what I want to do. [...]

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Coding an iPhone App

By Kevin | Published: October 7, 2009

So I’ve decided to create an iPhone application for my Comparative Studies in Emerging Media class at GSU and document my progress here. For now I’m working on creating a library search application that will allow me and others to search my university’s library from anywhere and create a list of the books I need [...]

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