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Handelsbanken API

Ok, this might be even more interesting for you guys. Handelsbanken is one of Swedens largest banks and their API is now public as well. Congratulations to them for being the second Swedish bank with...

29 oct 11

Länsförsäkringar Bank – API hack & documentation

It’s been a year since I released the first and only swedish multi-bank app for iPhone. It’s been pretty successful with some ~45.000 downloads and it’s being downloaded at a rate o...

29 oct 11

Yahoo Finance API for iOS

YahooFinance is a framework for accessing Yahoo! Finance information in your iOS application. The framework is a cornerstone in my latest project that hopefully will be released on App Store. Here...

10 apr 11

Why your video refuse to play on iPad/iPhone

Having problems getting your video to play on your iOS device even tough it plays back perfectly in your browser? First of all, make sure your video is in a supported format (H.264+AAC+MP4). Videos c...

26 mar 11

iPhone/iPad – AppStore like UIScrollView with paging and preview

Do you like the way application images are displayed in AppStore or the way Safari flips between tabs? This post contains a complete  horizontal, paged UIScrollView with preview control. Alexander Re...

30 jul 10

iPhone/iPad – Wait for asynchronous tasks to complete

Ever been in a situation where you need to wait for an asynchronous task to complete. This is a rare case but sometimes you need to do this. I used this techinque in my previous post on how to extrac...

27 jul 10

iPhone/iPad – Get User-Agent for UIWebView

In each new version of iOS the browser gets a new user-agent string. I’ve been searching for a way to get the user-agent string from the API but haven’t been able to find a straight forwa...

27 jul 10

Android style unlock screen for iPhone apps using Quartz 2D

I’m working on a new application that will be released on Appstore sometime soon and the full source will be posted on this blog, but I want to share a part of my application already. I want to...

06 jun 10

DnBNor Eiendom joins the iPhone train with “Finn din Bolig”

DnBNor Eiendom, one of Norways largest real estate broker, joins the iPhone train today with the release of their location aware app “Finn din Bolig“. Building on the successful applicati...

13 apr 10

Philips NET TV, close your application using javascript

If you’re building a somewhat complex NET TV application with multiple views and want an application like feeling you probably want to allow users to use the back button on the remote to naviga...

10 apr 10

“Verifying iPhone Update with Apple” iTunes crash

Are you too having problems updating your iPhone to OS 4.0 beta and iTunes crash while showing the message “Verifying iPhone update with Apple”? Use restore instead! Also, it is possible ...

08 apr 10

IPhone OS 4 – Multitasking, improved mail and more!

Today Apple presented what will come later this summer, iPhone OS 4.0. Multitasking has been a long awaited and talked about feature that I’m not the only one being excited about, I was not so ...

08 apr 10

Google App Engine as your CDN?

If you found this post it’s likely you’re interested in finding a cheap (most likely free) CDN. There are numerous posts on the net about using Googles’ App Engine as a free CDN. It...

05 apr 10

Google App Engine – Service API documentation

Recently I turned my interest at content delivery networks (CDN) and found a plethora of blog posts both praising and bashing Google App Engine as a CDN. This is the first post in a series of posts I...

05 apr 10

ASP.NET – Automatic CSS and Javascript versioning

Letting browsers cache files is a great way to improve your page load speed but also to reduce your bandwidth usage and ultimately save some money. It’s a win-win situation! Yslow recomends tha...

27 mar 10

iPad/iPhone forward geocoding API using Google gecoding service

The iPhone (and now iPad) SDK supports reverse geocoding out of the box. Reverse geocoding means you have a coordinate and want to find out where you are located, for instance, the name of the street...

14 mar 10

Fixing IE8 XForms support for EPiServer 4.x

If your EPiServer site is running a version older than CMS5 R2 and you (or your clients) are using Internet Explorer 8 you’re having problems creating XForms. There are multiple issues with XFo...

13 feb 10

Enable auditing in WSS 3.0

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 includes the same powerful infrastructure for auditing user access to list items, and documents and pages included in MOSS. The only difference in auditing f...

24 jan 10

Gzip compression of static files – EPiServer CMS 5 / IIS 6.0

Enabling gzip compression is an easy way to make your site load faster, but how do you go about doing so for your EPiServer site and why should you? Gzip compression will reduce the size of a text fi...

23 jan 10

DataFormWebPart – Getting the workspace URL

I recently banged my head against this one. I wanted a list of past meetings and another list for upcoming meetings in my meetings workspace. The calendar is picked up from the parent site using a Da...

21 jan 10

Exchange 2010 – iPhone ActiveSync issue

This week we finally got around to upgrade our old Exchange 2003 server, fortunately we waited a few extra months and skipped Exchange 2007 for 2010. The upgrade was handled by our friendly neighbor ...

09 jan 10

Exchange 2010 – Buying an SSL certificate

If you want to buy a certificate for your Exchange 2010 server, and I suggest that you do instead of generating a self signed cert, have a look over at Entrust. We recently bought a 4 year cert from ...

09 jan 10

Public SDK for NET TV in the works!

I attended and spoke at a breakfast seminar hosted by Philips and DoRight Group together with Mårten Wahlström from Svensk Fastighetsförmedling last week. Mårten spoke about their NET TV initiative a...

20 sep 09

Spotify – Share your music, share your account!?

Spotify is an awesome app for the iPhone, however, you need a premium account. Or do you? Most users will probably use the off-line mode to avoid the sometimes overly expensive data plans. If you don...

07 sep 09

Spotify is now available on iTunes store!

This time it’s actually there! Lots of confusion about a week ago when Spotify announced that it was available for iPhone when it in fact was just accepted by Apple. Early this morning it appea...

07 sep 09

Svenskfast is first, AGAIN! This time it’s NET TV

Svensk Fastighetsförmedling continue their strive together with Avantime to be not only the best on the web but also being the first to utilize new cool technology to attract customers and market rea...

30 jul 09

iPhone – Tips for building great server/client apps

iPhone apps come in all shapes and form. Some are really basic and doesn’t fill any other purpose than showing how much of a geek you are, others are just for laughs or passing time, some are r...

16 jul 09

Sharepoint CAML quickies

Get list items by lookup id, not value: <Eq> <FieldRef Name="Category" LookupId="TRUE" /> <Value Type="Integer">10& #60;/Value> </Eq> Notice...

13 jul 09

iPhone Safari – How to use a http proxy over 3G without jailbreak!

It’s a shame Apple hasn’t added HTTP proxy support in the Safari app! I just spent an hour or so investigating compression addons and ad-blockers for squid thinking it would greatly impro...

08 jul 09

iPhone – Core Data and UITableView. A drill-down application

iPhone OS 3.0 is out this week and while the new iPhone 3GS was pretty disappointing hardware wise, the new iPhone OS is really packed with new cool frameworks and APIs. I’m working on a lot of...

23 jun 09

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