News
Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers
I was just talking about the potential security hole of allowing silent access to the iOS address book earlier this week and how surprised I am that iOS made it to version 5 without forcing a permission prompt like location services does, I know I value my contact data at least as much as my location.
mclov.in
Apple Kicks Chart Topping Fakes Out Of App Store
Good news for the App Store, glad to see it happen.
techcrunch.com
Tools
Sketchshare
Everyone knows that developers can't think or transfer ideas without drawing them inside a box. This app by Stewart Hamilton-Arrandale and Chris Wilson probably wasn't designed to share code diagrams or quick ideas but that is certainly what I am planning to use it for.
youtube.com
Experimenting with iBooks Author
Bill Dudney has been experimenting with iBooks Author and released a book containing some invaluable information on working with the ImageIO framework. If you missed him talking about this on the iDeveloper TV podcast recently then this mini book is worth a download.
dudney.net
Creating iOS Static Frameworks
Jeff Verkoeyen with a great round up of all of the techniques for creating static reusable frameworks on iOS. We really do need a better way of creating and reusing static libraries than any of the options mentioned here though.
github.com
Code
CGPath Hit Testing
Ole Begemann with a great article on the new CGPathCreateCopyByStrokingPath function which was introduced in iOS 5. Interesting tip for replicating this functionality on iOS 4 at the end of the article too.
oleb.net
UIImage Sprite Additions
Rafal Sroka has just the category for those rare occasions that a sprite sheet implementation would be useful for UIImage.
github.com
Introducing SocketRocket
Neat little library from Square for communicating with WebSockets.
squareup.com
Design
Ten Things To Think About When Designing Your iPad App
Nice round up of iPad design tips from Smashing Magazine.
smashingmagazine.com