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We are looking for active iPhone developer who can help us to develop a native application using the latest SDK (iPhone SDK Beta 3). We will work with you to decide the compensation level and other things. But it will be fun to have a new brain with us.

For more details, click here: http://techblog.muthuka.com/index.php/want-to-freelance/. To know more or apply, please send your resume in an email to here

Sorry folks. I didn’t realize that i signed up with NDA. So, i can’t publish them legally. I will keep them added to my tutorials and i will publish them later. My old tutorials about Hello world iPhone and iPhone Button click are not available anymore.

Apple finally came through the easy way for Interface Builder users to create applications. Now the steps are very simple than Beta 2 version of Hello World.

1. Open XCode and Create a new “Cocoa Touch Application”
   
2. Open MainWindow.xib by double clicking it. This launches Interface Builder with a blue background window. Design the UI with Label control and set background to something which you like.
   
3. Save and Close Interface Builder
4. Click “Build and Run” from XCode
   

Download the source: helloworldv2

As per latest moves from Apple, it looks like, there will be 3G iPhone release before the end of this month. Already, we heard that, there are no inventory of iPhones in New York stores. Looks like, Apple is selling the existing inventory and get ready for the new release.

Huffington Post News: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/25/new-york-apple-stores-sol_n_93328.html

Also, there is a rumor about AT&T stores running out of iPhones. It will be a great thing for Apple iPhone native application developers to wait till WWDC and start testing them in the new phone with 3G speed.

Rubicon released a white paper regarding the popularity of iPhone and the applications. Few intesting items are

• iPhone users are very satisfied.
• E-mail is the #1 function.
• The iPhone increases mobile browsing
• …but it has drawbacks.
• The iPhone is expanding the smartphone market.
• A third of iPhone users carry a second phone.
• A quarter of iPhone users say it’s displacing a notebook computer.
• Users are young.
• Apple sells to its installed base.
• The iPhone increases phone bills.
• The iPhone leads people to change carriers.
• AT&T’s gamble pays off.

To read more, please click here or download the whitepaper from Rubicon