Whether you’re just getting into iOS development, or you’re a seasoned pro coding away since 2008, sometimes you need a few resources to pull off a successful application. Otherwise, your apps could get lost in the dark corners of the App Store. To help you build the best app you can, we’ve gathered our ten favorite resources for iOS developers. These tools can help you throughout planning, developing, and managing your applications in the App Store.   Planning Your Applications Ahhh… the planning stage. It’s where the spark of an idea is placed on a whiteboard, paper, or wireframe sketch. This part of the development process is like magic, and here are a few applications that can make it even more magical.   Mockingbird (gomockingbird.com, free) Mockingbird is a bare-bones, web-based wireframing application for those times when you need to simply get the visual idea out of your head and onto a piece of paper somewhere–in this case, the paper is digital. The application works like a program on your Mac, with the ability to create multiple pages to hound out your idea

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Staying organized is difficult when life gives you lemons. Fortunately, there are a whirlwind of applications that can help you keep tabs of all that is going on around you. If you’re prone to doing more than three things at once, it’s also nice to have your computer or mobile device keep you on top of everything. Read on for a list of the best free apps that will help you keep all of your eggs in one basket. It’s better late than never. Mac Dateline No, it’s not the campy news show, but actually a nifty Mac OS X application that shows the date in place of your dock (you have to hide the dock for this to work). Dateline gives you a linear calendar so you can see the weeks ahead without having to sift through iCal. Best of all, you don’t have to deal with widgets. We should note that DateLine is free, but if you want the added benefits of pop up iCal events or a vertical orientation, you’ll have to fork over the $5 for the full version. iPad Computer List You are the demographic for this app, stop kidding yourself.

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We’re pretty certain this week you rushed to iTunes to download the security-patch-update-only for iOS 4, you know, the one that renders jailbreak.me unworkable. Sure you did. Since Mobile Safari handles PDF files so wonderfully in the first place (cough cough, GoodReader), you open them up all the time and needed to be safe against bad script action. Right? Right? Are those crickets or did someone switch our ringtone again? Features: – 25 Awesome Safari Extensions – We must admit: we have loved Firefox since the days even before it was called Mozilla. Everything about it was better than Internet Explorer from the get-go. By the time Safari showed up, we were pretty locked in with our extensions on Firefox, and Safari’s lack was a dealbreaker. Well, Apple noticed this and finally came around to the idea of extensions. Like everyone else’s user-created content, 25% is garbage, 50% duplicate ideas, and 25% are sheer genius. Care to guess which ones we highlighted

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(Image courtesy of hedgeco.net) An Apple manager was arrested on Friday due to being accused of accepting a large amount of kickbacks in the form of $1 million, from various Asian suppliers of iPhone and iPod accessories.  This comes from a federal indictment unsealed, as well as a separate civil suit, according to The San Jose Mercury News . A global supply manager, Paul Shin Devine, and Andrew Ang, of Singapore, were both named in the 23-count federal grand jury indictment for wire fraud, money laundering as well as kickbacks. Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said in a statement, “Apple is committed to the highest ethical standards in the way we do business.”  He continued, “we have zero tolerance for dishonest behavior inside or outside the company.” A large chain of U.S. and foreign banks were to be used in the alleged scheme, and one front company would receive payments, according to the indictment.  Code words such as “sample” were used referring to the payments, with the hopes that Apple co-workers wouldn’t let on.  The indictment also goes on to say that Devine had used his position within Apple in order to obtain information that was to be confidential, which was then transmitted to various Apple suppliers, like Ang.  In exchange, the various suppliers/manufacturers would pay Devine kickbacks, which were then told to Ang.  Because of this, the leaked information would allow the suppliers and manufactures to negotiate contracts that would work to their favor with Apple. Separately in a civil suit, Apple sued Devine, claiming he received more than a million in “payments, kickbacks and bribes” during the years. Devine, 37, of Sunnydale is currently in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service, according to the IRS.  He is scheduled to appear Monday at 1:30 p.m. in the U.S

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Apple Manager Arrested On Kickback Charges

Cue up the Rocky montage music and get ready for your Apple devices to strut their stuff. It’s hard enough being in a competitive market with PC evangelists and Android users, so why not download a couple of apps that could really showcase your Mac and iOS device’s true capabilities? Your technology has fast processors, video games and multitasking, too (the iPad is getting there…hold your horses!). Here are a couple of apps that can really show what your Mac, iPhone and iPad are made of. Mac Geek Tools We know you’re not a huge fan of widgets, but we promise that these are actually helpful. GeekTool 3.0 is a glorified preferences pane/system preferences module for Leopard and up that allows you display all sorts of nifty info on your desktop. For one, you could pin pictures of your beloved all over your desktop (we’re incredibly smitten with the electronic duo Daft Punk, in case you couldn’t tell), or tack on some of that important CSS code you need for stylizing your website. Or, keep track of computer logs and even add in custom scripts that you can instantly launch from your desktop. GeekTools is pretty rad, and another great way to show how user friendly the Mac really is. iPad RJ Voyager This is a seriously cool app that you can utilize to show off the music making power of your iPad

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Geoff Teehan of Teehan+Lax writes to say that his company has just released a Photoshop file with all the iPhone GUI elements at Retina Display resolution. It allows designers to create App designs in Photoshop rather than the Xcode programming tool. Thought I’d reach out and let you know that we just released a fully

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iPhone Photoshop File Available At Retina Display Resolution

One of the first — if not the first — apps to take advantage of the iPhone 4′s forward-facing camera for security purposes should appeal to users with nosey coworkers and paranoid types alike. Free app Big Brother keeps grubby mitts (that aren’t yours) from defiling your iPhone 4 by launching the passcode screen if

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iPhone 4 App Uses Front Camera To Catch Snoopers

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeXe_G0xmY0 By all rights, id software’s John Carmack should be an engorged psychic brain floating in a tank somewhere: he talks like some kind of representative of a spatial robotic hive mind, and his ability to code next-gen graphics engines are often years ahead of their time. Consider, for example, this demonstration Carmack gave at

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“Rage” for iPhone 4 Boasts Xbox-Level Graphics At 60FPS

The gaping security hole in Mobile Safari has been fixed with updates to Apple’s iOS operating system. Apple has just updated iOS to 4.0.2 for the iPhone (and iPod touch) and iOS 3.2.2 for the iPad. The updates patch a security vulnerability that allowed Safari to run code embedded in PDF files. The updates are

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Apple Fixes iPhone Security Hole With iOS 4.0.2 Update [iPad Too]

Good news! You can now have H.264 hardware-decoded Flash on your Mac without resorting to installing beta software… just like Windows users have been enjoying for years! Yep, Adobe Flash Player 10.1 is now official and available for download. But it doesn’t work on all Macs. The new video acceleration API is only available in

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Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Bringing Hardware H.264 Decoding To Macs Out of Beta