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Linked List: October 3, 2008

Friday, 3 October 2008

Helpify, the Omni Help Emitter 

Python script and document template from The Omni Group for using OmniOutliner as an authoring tool for Apple Help Book content. This is the tool Omni uses to generate their own help books.

Matt Long’s Cocoa Touch Tutorial 

How to build a simple iPhone application.

Techspansion Closes, VisualHub Discontinued 

A real shame; VisualHub is a terrific app.

Fring, New VOIP App for iPhone 

Cory Bohon reports that audio quality is good, but echo-y. Update: It’s not the first VOIP app, as I initially stated; Truphone has been out for weeks (but doesn’t support Skype calls).

Apple TV 2.2 Software Update 

This is a pretty big update. It adds support for HD TV shows from the iTunes Store, genius playlists, music video playlists, and a brand-new playback feature menu that appears after you hold the Play/Pause button for a few seconds while a movie is playing.

Meta Tag Allows Full-Screen iPhone Web Apps 

Here’s an interesting tip from AppleInsider. If you include this meta tag in your iPhone-optimized web app:

<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />

Then, if you use the Add to Home Screen feature, it will launch as its own standalone app, with no Safari browser chrome. It’s a way to make site-specific browsers for the iPhone. They run as their own processes, outside MobileSafari. Update: Here’s the documentation.

The Macalope Weekly 

First edition of the Macalope’s new weekly column for MacUser.

SaaS Rails Kit 

My thanks to Rails Kits for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Rails Kits provides Ruby on Rails developers with tested, ready-to-use code libraries. Their SaaS kit is designed to help build subscription-based web apps, providing mechanisms for recurring billing, signup, and account upgrading and downgrading.

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Jim Goldman on the Bogus Steve Jobs Heart Attack Report 

“Selling first and asking questions later is the work of amateurs.”