Daniel and Manton discuss Manton’s new iPad app: Tweet Library, Apple’s ultimatum to app-name squatters, and pricing iOS apps.

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Links for the show:

• Tweet Library — Manton’s new app on the App Store

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Daniel Jalkut and Manton Reece talk about the iPhone 4, reception problems, parsing strategies, and advertising.

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Links for the show:

• Consumer Reports on the iPhone 4 — reception issue details
• LibXML — popular open source XML parsing library
• ParseKit — Objective-C framework from Todd Ditchendorf
• Fusion Ads — ad network, embedded in some apps
• Camera+ first month — successful iPhone app launch from Tap Tap Tap

Daniel Jalkut and Manton Reece talk about WWDC 2010 a week after the conference, and take two listener questions about unit testing.

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Links for the show:

• WWDC 2010 keynote — announcing the iPhone 4
• WWDC 2010 session videos — now free for all developers
• New Mac Mini — Macworld coverage
• Daniel’s tweet — the Mac seems alive and well

Daniel Jalkut and Manton Reece talk with special guest Wolf Rentzsch about C4, section 3.3.1, and more.

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Links for the show:

• Wolf Rentzsch’s Tumblr blog
• ClickToFlash, plugin for selectively enabling Flash content in Safari.
• iPhone Developer Section 3.3.1 before and after, as recorded by John Gruber.
• C4 Release, Wolf announces end of C4 conference
• C4 Videos, sessions as published by Wolf to Viddler
• Marshall Culpepper, C4 speaker who was mistreated by audience members
• LLVM and WebKit, examples of Apple innovations that benefit everybody
• Bill Bumgarner and Chris Espinosa, Apple developer tools engineers
• Variable Aliasing, Wikipedia entry on one of the “features” that limits C language optimizations
• Node.js, high performance web server framework, by Ryan Dahl
• Cappuccino, a web-based implementation of Cocoa frameworks
• Pain Is A Gift, Daniel’s blog follow-up to wishes that Apple “get spanked”
• Apple’s Mistake, Paul Graham’s essay about Apple’s harmed reputation with developers

Daniel Jalkut and Manton Reece talk about the MarsEdit 3 release, WWDC 2010 being announced and then selling out, a correction from episode 28, and handling support email.

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Links for the show:

• MarsEdit 3 ships — blog post from Daniel
• WWDC sells out — it took 8 days
• Convoluted NIBs — tweet from Buzz
• FogBugz — bug tracking and support email
• Cotweet — Twitter tool for businesses

Daniel and Manton talk about everything iPad, how we’re using it and plan to develop for it, plus iPad listener questions from Twitter. A special hour-long episode.

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Links for the show:

• Twitterrific — great Twitter iPad client from Icon Factory
• Articles — iPad app for Wikipedia from Sophia Teutschler
• Instapaper — Marco Arment’s read-it-later web site and iPhone/iPad app
• Section 3.3.1 — initial summary Apple’s Flash ban from John Gruber
• Apple Announces LapTop — what if the iPad had been first, by Guy Kawasaki
• Cabel in Apple Store — Panic co-founder buys lots of iPads
• Omni refund policy — great customer service, but 30% to Apple

Special thanks to our listeners for the iPad tweet questions: Alex, Jon, Ryan, Michael, Paul, Jorge, and Mike (links go to the question).

Manton and Daniel discuss the state of iPhone and Mac development, Macworld 2010, and a listener question about marketing.

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Links for the show:

• Lucius Kwok on Twitter – guest theme music
• SoundStudio and Couch to 5K (iTunes) – Mac and iPhone apps
• Ngmoco acquiring Freeverse – Lucius’s take on the Freeverse acquisition
• Peter Cohen on The Loop – about the Freeverse news
• Was Macworld worth it? – Manton’s blog post about Macworld 2010
• Mac Indie Marketing – blog from Dan Wood

Manton and Daniel discuss the iPad announcement and preparing for Macworld Expo.

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Links for the show:

• iPad event live coverage – from gdgt.com
• iPad event photos – a Flickr set from Michael B. Johnson
• Macworld Expo – the main expo web site
• Manton’s blog post about going to Macworld – includes link to expo pass

Manton and Daniel discuss Apple tablet rumors, NSConference, working through someone else’s project, and new Apple frameworks.

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Links for the show:

• NSConference – Mac developer conference from the Mac Developer Network
• Tablet musings – John Gruber’s initial summary of tablet rumors
• Jason Snell – tablet isn’t a news story until it ships
• Aaron Hillegass on the text system – from CocoaHeads Atlanta
• Unison – usenet client from Panic
• Today 2.0 – iCal companion from Second Gear

Manton and Daniel discuss One Finger Discount, inspiration, podcasts, and including open source software with your app.

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Links for the show:

• OneFingerDiscount.com – promotion for 20% off Mac software
• MacHeist – 6 free apps
• This Week In Startups – podcast with Jason Calacanis and guests
• 37signals Podcast – from the creators of Basecamp and Highrise
• MDN Show with Daniel – Scotty interviews Daniel Jalkut
• Pair – Daniel’s old web host
• Slicehost – popular VPS hosting
• Dreamhost Scale – Manton’s blog post
• RBSplitView – replacement for NSSplitView