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On Teaching Mobile Application Design at Parsons
Dr. Dobb’s Journal, legendary software design publication, published our phone interview on its web portal yesterday on the subject of teaching mobile media design at Parsons Communication Design & Technology. John Dorsey, the editor of Dr. Dobb’s, offered probing questions that got at the nature of the program, the [...]

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Web Ink for Mobile Media Curriculum
Adobe published a case study on my work with students at Parsons Communication Design & Technology in the area of mobile media design.

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Mobile Touch Screen WordPress Theme In The Works

In response to the proliferating importance of portable touch-screen interfaces, we have started the design and development of a WordPress theme for iPhone and iPod Touch devices. The theme will make your WordPress site look and behave like a native application, taking advantage of the special requirements of a touch-screen, flick-and-slide scroll interface minimizing zoom-pinching, all using Joe Hewitt’s iUI JavaScript and CSS library.

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Specula-palooza
Risking iPhone coverage overexposure, today we ponder one of the most interesting questions about the future of Flash, iPhone and web standards. Despite assurances by Uncle Walt that Apple and Adobe are hard at work on a Flash Player for iPhone, plenty of naysayers, skeptics, and player-haters have voiced strong speculations that Flash will never [...]

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How to install Native Applications onto an iPhone

Introduction↓
Getting Started↓
How to install NES Game ROMs↓
How to get sound working in NES↓
How to get PICO working in iPhone Remote Terminal↓
How to change the SSH root password↓
How to Remove (Uninstall) applications↓
How to Find your iPhone’s IP Address↓

Introduction
This guide is written for Mac users who are not familiar with [...]

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