Apple's big fall product announcements happened last week. Plus, iOS 7 app updates continue to trickle in. This past week finally saw Tweetbot 3's release. Not surprisingly, but perhaps somewhat irritatingly, a large number of reviews for the app are one star on the basis that it's a paid upgrade. I'm continually astounded by the sense of entitlement that some users have, especially on a product that they will likely use every day (or in my case several times a day). But, that is the nature of the beast.
On a brighter note, I am ridiculously excited about the new retina iPad mini, and can't wait to get one (assuming I can even find one when they ship later next month). Of course, they'll be supply-constrained and it sounds like everyone else wants one too, so it might take a while to find one. I had been planning on buying either a 16GB or 32GB wifi model, but after I heard that T-Mobile will be offering 200MB of free data with the iPads compatible with their service, I decided that it would be silly not to buy a cellular-equipped iPad mini. Are you buying a new iPad? If so, which one? If not, why not?
Best,
Aaron
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Control of the Week
FastImageCache
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iOS library for quickly displaying images while scrolling. MIT licensed. |
Weekly Roundup
iOSSystemSoundsLibrary
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List of all system sounds used in iOS. Try all system sounds on your iDevice, use them in your App. MIT licensed. |
MKAlertView
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A Metro UI style UIAlertView replacement. License unspecified. |
MFLTransformingDigits
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Core Animation Digit Folding, inspired by the Timely Alarm Clock for Android. License unspecified. |
MYBlurIntroductionView
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It's time for one introduction/tutorial view to end them all! MYBlurIntroductionView is a powerful platform to build introductions for your iPhone apps. Built on the MYIntroductionView core, MYBlurIntroductionView takes the first time user experience to the next level by providing a host of new features for building highly customized introductions. MIT licensed. |
ACHalloween
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A library with halloween-themed animations for iOS. The library contains 3 animations:
MIT licensed. |
PDGesturedTableView
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A great Mailbox-like UITableView subclass.
License unspecified. |
CRGradientNavigationBar
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Custom UINavigationBar subclass which allows gradient coloured navigation bar on iOS 7. MIT licensed. |
MKParentalGate
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An SDK to implement a dexterity-based parental gate so that your app can comply with rule 24.3 of Apple's App Store Review Guidelines. Apache 2.0 licensed. |
RMBlurredView
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Get an iOS 7 like blurred effect on your NSView with ease. Easy drop-in solution, that uses CAFilters, so you don't have to worry about FPS or other performance issues. Follow @raffael_me for similar releases. BSD licensed. |
KAProgressLabel
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Minimal circular progress view. Apache 2.0 licensed. |
AVTagTextView
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A category that adds an Instagram-like hashtag choosing/listing capability to the UITextView MIT licensed. |
RPFloatingPlaceholders
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UITextField and UITextView subclasses with placeholders that change into floating labels when the fields are populated with text. Example: http://i.imgur.com/Sze6OFN.gif MIT licensed. |
FlatKnob
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Flat Customizable Circular Knob MIT licensed. |
RMDateSelectionViewController
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This is an iOS control for selecting a date using UIDatePicker in a UIActionSheet like style MIT licensed. |