In times of global warming every single tree counts. Go for a green Christmas! My close friends at TreealityGroup just released iTree - The Original [direct iTunes Link]. iTree - The Original is different than all other Christmas themed applications for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. With iTree - The Original not only can you decorate a beautiful personal Christmas tree, change between day and night scenery, watch how the sun walks the horizon and the snow falls down silently. You can also send your finished iTree as an electronic greeting card to your friends and beloved ones! (Recipients do...

ZDNet's Ed Burnette published an excellent article about jump starting iPhone development. As he was so kind to link back to my series of posts I'll owe him my trackback, too. Thanks Ed! iPhone, iPhone, iPhone Development, iphone tutorials

Today Amazon shipped OpenGL Programming on Mac OS X by Robert P. Kuehne and J. D. Sullivan and Core Animation for Mac OS X and the iPhone by Bill Dudney. I guess I'll survive the rainy weekend! Apple, iPhone, iPhone Development, iPhone Development Labs, Books, Core Animation, OpenGL

Given the wide popularity, the enormous amount of comments and personal feedback I've received so far for my first post about iPhone mobile provisioning and the ongoing discussions in various developer communities related to this topic, I've decided to write a follow-up on how to address mobile provisioning issues that tend to arise time and again. While Apple has made some enhancements to the documentation available in the iPhone Developer Program Portal – you need to be logged in to access the linked content – there still seem to be many problems out there with respect to setting up and maintaining...

I've heard scattered rumors :-) that TAXIRUF 2.0 is about to hit the App Store and it'll feature a fully reworked user interface along with full text search and streamlined automated updates. Stay tuned! iPhone, iPhone Development, TAXIRUF, iPhone Development Labs

Yesterday we've released the updated version 1.1 of Taxiruf for the iPhone. Today it entered the Top 10 sold applications in App Store and less than two weeks after the initial release now ranges on rank 10. Mac Life recommends Taxiruf as one of the must have applications for your iPhone. Besides the joy of having the leading German Apple mag recommending our solution we are also extremely pleased by the fact that Mac Life considers our technical support services as outstanding. We are continuing to invest into completing the database which ships with the application in order to also cover smaller...

(Updated) I'm posting this entry form North Africa so it'll be very brief: Our iPhone cab finder application for Germany hit the Top 50 Top 20 sold apps yesterday and made it to number 37 18 today! It now ranges before Trism, Enigmo and Koi Pond - all of which are quite popular apps for the iPhone! Thanks to all of our customers and keep telling your friends about it. TAXIRUF can be found on iTunes App Store and at http://tinyurl.com/taxiruf. A word about customer feedback: Some customers have emailed us about missing entries for their cities. We...

I thought my vacation announcement would have been my last post for the next two weeks but I just stumbled upon a great AppleInsider comparison which I had to share. It's a good read for those who thought the Android G1 might hurt iPhone distribution. Android, Android G1, iPhone, iPhone, iPhone 3G

As outlined in a previous post we've released a location based cab finder for the iPhone which features a full offline database containing cab companies for all major German cities about a week ago. Since then we've enjoyed an impressive and increasing number of daily sales, very positive reviews and even direct feedback from customers. Quite coincidentally Google has announced the winners of the Android challenge: cab4me! Reading the description of the service it's almost identical with what we've built for the iPhone: “cab4me enables you to easily call a cab to any location worldwide. You do not need to...

Submitted to Apple on September 17th it has only taken some five days through review and approval until TAXIRUF hit the App Store! TAXIRUF is a genuinely simple and straight forward application: It solves the problem of being in a foreign city maybe not even knowing where exactly you are and being in need of a cab. Right after starting TAXIRUF it offers to locate you (either through cell phone towers on a first generation iPhone or leveraging the GPS capabilities of the iPhone 3G) and immediately offers you to call the local cab company. While this might seem like just another what's-near-me...