The Making of Spots

In a series of articles starting next week we will give you some technical details about the technologies under the hood of Spots, our new iPhone application. The first article My iPhone is not a Mac Pro will discuss how we tweaked the map rendering code of Spots in order to display over 230,000 hotspots smoothly. We will prepare an XCode project with example code for you. In the second article Designing Spots we will explain some decisions we made for the exceptional user interface of Spots. In Doing Apples Job we will share our TouchController code which correctly identifies (multi-) taps, pinch, turn, swipe and drag gestures on your iPhone.

We are happy to announce that Liquid Scale is available in the App Store. You can get more information on our product site.

Today is a good day to buy software. Indie developers are donating their sales to Haiti. Savoy Software will donate sales to Doctors without Borders.

»You get great software, Haiti gets financial help in its time of crisis.«

Content aware image resizing for the iPhone.

We plan to bring you some tasty new things in the near future. But for now we like to whet your appetite with this little movie we made for the Great Indie Bake Off in January. Unfortunately we missed the deadline for submission.
Turn on your volume, and… Buon appetito!

We are happy to announce the release of Spots 1.1 today. We added 13,000 free hotspots in the US and 2,500 T-Mobile US hotspots. All locations have been updated so that Spots now contains a total of 250,000+ hotspots worldwide.
Spots currently contains hotspot locations of the following providers:

Free US locations: 13,000+ (NEW)
T-Mobile US: 2,500 (NEW)
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This article is about enhancing the performance of iPhone applications using the power of Objective C++. By discussing a real-world problem from Savoy’s Spots application, the article shows the necessary optimizations to make the program run smoothly in three steps.

Today, Spots has been released in the App Store. Please check out the screenshots and a video on our product website. [...]