So to help out every novice app developer; today I am going to present the list of top 10 most useful yet easy iPhone application tutorials. Go through this post and see how many tutorials you are already aware of and learn the rest to make a successful and engaging iPhone application.

Importing & Exporting Documents in iOS

Document readers are one of the most useful and popular utility application among the iOS devices. The basic algorithm behind these apps is the import and export of document files. In this iPhone application tutorial; the programmer has used a simple and easy approach to teach the method of importing and exporting the documents for the document reader so that it can be shared and read during the offline mode.

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PhotoCapture Application in iPhone

This is a very interesting app tutorial for the iPhone developers in which the tutor has designed a photoCapture App for the device. With this application the user can capture the photo of the view of any app. The mode of teaching is very simple and easy to learn for the novice as well as experienced developers.

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Create a Slick iPhone/Mobile Interface from any RSS Feed

If you are looking for an easy iPhone application tutorial to start with then this lesson will surely be the best for you. With this tutorial you can learn to create a customized web page for the iPhone devices which can import the content from the user provided RSS feeds. This web page would be integrated with beautiful transition effects and JQuery animations to provide an impressive UI.

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How To Make a Simple iPhone Game with Flash CS5

This is one of the best iPhone application tutorial from the list. This tutorial teaches you the every aspect of using the technology of Flash CS5 to create a simple yet engaging iPhone game. This tutorial can help you out even if you don’t have any prior experience with the Flash CS5.

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Offline iPhone Web Apps

Dashcode is a popular name among the iOS developers; actually it is a software introduced by the Apple to develop the customized dashboard for the device. In this tutorial you can learn the core concept of using Dashcode to develop or translate the online iPhone app into an offline application which can be used even when the user don’t have any internet access.

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SMS Bubble UI in iPhone Apps

Online as well as Offline chatting apps is surely the hottest search among the application stores. No doubt that the iPhone inbuilt SMS chatting application is incorporated with an amazing UI, the bubbles used for the conversation exchange are a creative and astounding idea. If you too are looking to use this bubble design in your application then this useful iPhone app tutorial will tell you how.

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WebView Application in iPhone

This is a very useful iPhone application tutorial for everyone who is looking to integrate the feature of WebView in the application. This tutorial is differentiated in different steps to make it easy for the learners to liquify the sophisticated algorithm.

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IPhone Tutorial For Creating A Splash Screen

This is a must to look tutorial if you are planning to make some moves in the fiend of iPhone application development. With this tutorial you can learn to create an attractive Splash screen for your application.

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Back To Basics: Hello iPhone

This is a basic iPhone application tutorial specially integrated for the novice developers. With this tutorial you can learn the basic tools and techniques of iPhone application development which can help you to develop something bigger and complex. In this tutorial the programmer has depicted the lessons of creating a small ‘Hello iPhone’ project with the help of basic tools and coding.

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Where Am I?

It is surely one of the best iPhone application tutorial to learn the concept of integrating GPS facility within an app. In this application tutorial, developer has designed an app which can tell the exact location of the user in term of latitude, altitude & longitude.

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I hope that my this post would have surely helped you to learn a lot of basic as well as professional iPhone Application development tips and techniques. For more information or any query related to the topic, please feel free to contact me; I will love to assist you.

Why UPrinting.com?

Extremely Customizable Business Cards

Being able to choose from various standard business card sizes as well as custom sizes, UPrinting offers great online printing services and experience. You get to choose the paper type, printed side and the quantity ranging from 250 to 10,000 copies. Everything is at your command.

Customise your business card

Customer-friendly On-Site Tools

Using the on-site Instant Price Calculator, you can easily estimate the price to print and deliver the business cards to your area.

If you do not have a design ready, the Easy Design Tool can be a great help. You can choose to start from built-in templates or blank design then customise your card by adding text, shapes, stock images and logo images, all within your web browser. And of course, after designing, preview is available in awesome 3D.

Easy Design Tool

3D Preview

Stand Out From The Crowd

Besides typical rectangle cards, UPrinting also offers business cards with 7 attractive shapes such as leaf, circle, half circle, rounded corners and more. A business card is an important tool that outlines your job role, a well-designed card would definitely leave a good and strong impression.

Circle Business Card

Leaf-shaped Business Card

Next up in our blog – Creative Business Cards Design

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Stay tuned.

Brooklyn Bridge

Wavy road

Roller coaster ride

Tokyo, Japan

River appears and disappears

Collapsed George Washington bridge

Melting Houses

Rift in the space-time continuum

Zig-zag bridge

Ghost town

For more pictures, please visit this Tumblr page instead.

Solution?

My temporary solution is: every time it happens, I switch the default search engine to Yahoo in the Chrome Settings > Search.

If you have any solution, feel free to post at the comment section below.

Chrome’s Browsing Speed is Slow?

For other Chrome users that felt the browsing speed is very slow, you can read my earlier post: How to Fix Google Chrome Slow Loading Problem

You can use the jQuery method if your website is already using jQuery library. If not, it is not recommended because there is no need to load a library just for this simple script.

Demo Page

Click here to go to the DEMO PAGE

Using Plain Javascript

Below shows the codes to achieve the behavior in a simple search form using plain javascript.

<html>
<head>
</head>
 
<body>
 
<form method="get" action="">
	<input type="text" name="search" id="search" value="" />
	<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search" />
</form>
 
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
	var defaultText = "Search...";
	var searchBox = document.getElementById("search");
 
	//default text after load
	searchBox.value = defaultText;
 
	//on focus behaviour
	searchBox.onfocus = function() {
		if (this.value == defaultText) {//clear text field
			this.value = '';
		}
	}
 
	//on blur behaviour
	searchBox.onblur = function() {
		if (this.value == "") {//restore default text
			this.value = defaultText;
		}
	}
 
//-->
</script>
 
</body>
</html>

It is pretty straightforward, we just need to set the default text, the onfocus & onblur behaviors to the search form’s text <input> element.
But make sure you placed the javascript codes AFTER the search form or else you will get an error complaining that the element doesn’t exist.

Using JQuery

Below shows the codes for jQuery, where the jQuery library is loaded from Google API. You can also use your local copy of jquery.js if you want.

<html>
<head>
 
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
	<!--
 
		$(document).ready(function() {
			var defaultText = "Search...";
			var searchBox = $('#search2');
 
			//set default text on load
			searchBox.val(defaultText);
 
			//on focus behaviour
			searchBox.focus(function(){
				if ($(this).val() == defaultText) {//clear text field
					$(this).val('');
				}
			});
 
			//on blur behaviour
			searchBox.blur(function(){
				if ($(this).val() == "") {//restore default text
					$(this).val(defaultText);
				}
			});
 
 
		});
 
	//-->
	</script>
</head>
 
<body>	
	<form method="get" action="">
		<input type="text" name="search2" id="search2" value="" />
		<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search" />
	</form>
 
</body>
</html>

Similar codes go for jQuery but with different syntax. Also, for jQuery, you can put the javascript anywhere (it does not matter before or after the form)

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The PHP Code

function getCurrentURL() {
	$s = empty($_SERVER["HTTPS"]) ? '': ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") ? "s" : "";
	$protocol = strleft(strtolower($_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"]), "/").$s;
	$port = ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] == "80") ? "" : (":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"]);
	return $protocol."://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$port.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
}
 
//usage
echo getCurrentURL();

It works perfectly in returning the following URLs

• http://localhost/
• http://localhost/a.html?b=1
• http://localhost:8080/a.html
• https://example.com/a/b/c.html?b=1

Hope this helps.

As theme designers, we can add more than 1 native menus to the theme to any position that we want. For example, we can create 3 native menus in our theme, for example: “Top Pages Menu”, “Top Categories Menu”, “Footer Link Menu”. We should name the menus according to their location in the theme so that user knows which menu they are working on.

Now you might think, what if the user did not want to use Native Menu, instead they want the traditional way to display all pages in their menu? A good way is to let user choose whether to use Native Menu or the default (traditional) one. In another word: we need Backward Compatibility. We will look into that in Step 3 below.

Some WP functions that we need

- wp_nav_menu() – to display native menu
- has_nav_menu( name ) – to check whether a menu called “name” is activated
- register_nav_menus() – to register nav menus

Step 1: Registering the Native Menu

Open up your theme’s functions.php, append this to the file:

add_action('init', 'register_nav_menus_on_init');
 
function register_nav_menus_on_init() {
	register_nav_menus(array(
		'top-pages-menu' => 'Top Pages Menu',
		'top-cat-menu' => 'Top Categories Menu',
		'footer-link-menu' => 'Footer Link Menu',
	));
}

In the codes above, we registered 3 native menus, each named with their location in the theme.

Step 2: Place the Native Menus into your theme

Now, add this code to where you want the native menus to appear.

In our example, we need to add 2 menus to header.php:

 
<div class="pages-nav">
	<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'top-pages-menu' ) ); ?>
</div>
 
....
 
<div class="cats-nav">
	<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'top-cats-menu' ) ); ?>
</div>

- Take note how we pass the registered name to the wp_nav_menu() function.
- wp_nav_menu() will generate the <ul> and <li> automatically for your menu, provided that user has activated the menu.

In our example, we need to add 1 menu to footer.php:

<div class="footer-nav">
	<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'footer-links-menu' ) ); ?>
</div>

- Take note how we pass the registered name to the wp_nav_menu() function.
- wp_nav_menu() will generate the <ul> and <li> automatically for your menu, provided that user has activated the menu.

Step 3: Backward Compatibility

Most likely you will need to display a default menu if the user has not activated (or decided not to use) native menu for that location.

Now we need to modify our header.php to achieve that:

 
<div class="pages-nav">
	<?php
	if (has_nav_menu('top-pages-menu')) {
		wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'top-pages-menu' ) );
	} else {
		wp_list_pages();
	}
	?>
</div>
 
....
 
<div class="cats-nav">
	<?php
	if (has_nav_menu('top-cats-menu')) {
		wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'top-cats-menu' ) );
	} else {
		wp_list_categories();
	}
	?>
</div>

Do the same to footer.php.

Step 4: Try out your native menu

Go to Admin Panel > Appearance > Menus.

If you registered the native menus correctly, you will see them appearing in the “Theme Locations” box.

Now, to test your native menu, create a new native menu by clicking on the “+” button of the right box.

Add categories, pages or links to the menu by using the 3 boxes under “Theme Locations” and save it.

Lastly, add your new menu to your desired Theme Location and save it.

Now view your theme.

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Main Features

It scans and clean your user caches, logs, trash, Safari Internet Caches and more, giving you more disk space and allow your Mac to run smoother than ever.

1. Mac Cleaner

Free up more disk space and keep your Mac healthy.
Available in free version.

2. Duplicate Finder

Search and delete duplicate files.
* Available for Pro version only (or in-app purchase from Free version)

3. Disk Usage

Locate large files and display in orders.
* Available for Pro version only (or in-app purchase from Free version)

4. Free Memory

Increase Mac’s free memory by a click.
* Available for Pro version only (or in-app purchase from Free version)

5. Disk Ejector

Eject all the mounted disks by a click.
Available in free version.

Downloading the Software

The free version of CleanGenius can be downloaded from Mac App Store while the Pro version can be purchased from the website with 30-Day Money Back Guarantee.

Get the Pro version for FREE

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or

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Thesis

Thesis theme is a very versatile theme, or a theme framework, and is used by many professional web developers, as well as Matt Cutts himself, the head of the Google Webspam Team. It’s very easy to customize, and can easily help you show off your best content. This theme is not free.

Socrates

This theme was developed for the internet marketer in mind. It’s easy as pie to set up for Adsense and Clickbank, as well as many other affiliate marketing ideas. There are several different formats to use for your page, including a sales page and a squeeze page. It has 220+ Niche Header Designs as well as a very active support forum. This theme is not free.

Heatmap

It’s named Heatmap after Google’s famous study of where people look when they visit a typical website. You can easily place your advertisements and affiliate offers at the area where people tend to look at the most. This will definitely helps increasing your conversion rate. The theme also comes with numerous choices of advertisement layouts and skins for the user to pick. This is not a free theme.

Notepad Chaos (Free)

This colorful floral theme is definitely one of the most interesting WordPress themes on the web. Having all your blog posts displayed in a notepad-like page, your website would like a e-diary, which makes it suitable for personal blog. Besides, there are other interesting areas in the theme such as the post-it-note design sidebar and handwritten fonts used in the special hyperlinks. This theme would make your blog stand out of the crowd.

TV.Elements

This is definitely a great WordPress theme for video bloggers. The theme features a main video display at the top of the page, with scrollable arrows. Below the main display is the featured video carousel with nice bordered thumbnails. You are allowed to insert up to 12 featured categories of your choice. This is not a free theme.

Although nofollow links don’t take your link juice away from your site, it does reduces the link juice passed to your dofollow links. So, it is best to remove all unwanted links, including nofollow links.

Mass delete all existing comment author URLs for WordPress Site

While we might have some WordPress plugins that can do this for you. I prefer doing it manually via phpMyAdmin. Go to your phpMyAdmin or any SQL administration tool that allow you to run queries to your database.

1. Select your WordPress installation’s database
2. Go to “SQL” tab.
3. Enter any of the following queries.
4. If your table prefix is not “wp_”, change it accordingly.

To delete ALL comment urls

Here we just set the URL value to empty. So no worries about losing your comment.

UPDATE wp_comments SET comment_author_url = '';

To delete ALL comment urls EXCEPT a certain link

I used this query to avoid deleting URL of those comments made by me myself.

UPDATE wp_comments SET comment_author_url = '' WHERE NOT comment_author_url = 'http://zenverse.net/';

Now I am feeling good having less outgoing links. Hope this helps :)