Meanwhile a new version of the Siddharta app was released. I improved the slide show of pictures, added some more lyrics and most importantly downgraded to start with OS 3.1. These iAds are so inflexible and not even working for Europe yet so Admob here you go.

On the same concept i did another app for the band Elvis Jackson. It was approved a week ago and can be found here: Apple’s Itunes Store. Client was happy so was me. Great work!

You can try the app here and tell me what you think.

But now after 2 strong weeks with the Sdk, tons of frustration with the logic of a Mac and some fun with table views and tabbars, it’s coming together.

And I must say I’m quite excited. I think for me it’s a good step in a new direction. Extending the designing to interface design, and the programming to object orientated.

My first app will come to the app store in some weeks. We still have to work out some paper work. More about it hopefully soon.

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS%version%
\Plug-Ins\File Formats

restart Photoshop and there you go. Downsize your logo to 16x16px, save it as favicon.ico and upload it in the root of your website.
Most browser detect automatically that there is a favicon in the root but to be sure add

<link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="favicon.ico"
type="image/x-icon" />

in the head of the website (before head tag ends).

yoursite.com/?p=all

But now i wanted the mark up to work. Usually wordpress marks current items with the class “current_page_item”. Since this was a custom link, i had to do this mark up myself. I was searching quite some time for this. At the end i was able to solve it like this:

<li class="blog <?php if ( preg_match("/.*p=all.*/i",
$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) || is_single() )
{ ?>current_page_item<?php } ?>"><a href="?p=all"
title="<?php _e('title', 'default');
?>"><?php _e('Blog', 'default'); ?></a></li>

I tried all kinds of functions that wordpress is offering. is_home, is_page, is_singular etc. But only this did the final trick since these latest posts are not a page neither just one post. Now it adds the class “current_page_item” to this link when a user is on it. Solved.

So when creating a new site, lets say a portfolio, why not connect it with your favorite network? Most likely you will reach as many, rather more people, than with only your new site.

Nowadays social networks are so powerful and many people like to show their favorite artists or brands.
Why did Cola Cola reward 2 guys who created their fan page of the product? Simple because it grow so rapidly that they got a promotion worth at least 2 advertisement spots on TV during the best air time.

So while creating web pages it is worth to consider social network as an additional source or like a satellite site. Big ones are Facebook and Myspace of course, but also smaller ones can be worth a try if they cover a special target group. Another advantage of social networks can be also the offer of their services. For example gives you youtube a strong Video streaming function or have u ever consider the mobile version of your site on the net? Some networks offer a really easy access to this.

So networking, as i call it, is for sure worth a consideration and for me belongs to creating websites just as search engine optimizing and marketing.

A list of social networks can be found here

On my project I tried qTranslate. It looked promising but when adding a new language it got stuck. Sadly Slovene isn’t a very popular language so it wasn’t one of the standard ones. I’ll see how it can be realized at the end.

Update: qtranslate turned out to be the one. I was able to add new languages and it works quite well. So it’s the most recommended.