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The Accounts and Twitter Framework on iOS 5

Adding Twitter support is something that makes quite a lot of sense for a number of applications. If you're in a news reader application you might want to let your followers know about an interesting article you just read. If you're in a conference schedule app, you not only want to let your followers know about the awesome talks you're listening to but you also might want to know which other talks other conference attendees are tweeting about to decide whether they are actually even more awesome than that talk you're stuck in...
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Tired of Typing? Speak to Your Computer!

For some reason, humans have always dreamt of using natural language to communicate with computers. Quite a number of movies have been made that revolve around this theme, 2001: A Space Odyssey and I, Robot (named after the great collection of SF stories by Isaac Asimov) just being two of them.
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Using NSPredicate to Filter Data

Filtering data is one of the essential tasks in computing. With all the data available today, we need to apply certain limits and constraints to actually make it usable. What use is it to be able to scroll down a list of literally thousands of list items when you really care about one or two of them? Filtering and searching information make up a significant part of our work day - each time you use Google, you're applying a filter to the huge set of data we call the internet.
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How to Use the Gyroscope of Your iPhone in a Mobile Web App

This week's release of iOS 4.2 for iPad and iPhone comes with some nice little features most people will not immediately become aware of as they're neither directly visible in the iOS UI nor are they mentioned in Apple's official release notes. You have to dig a little deeper to find them. One of them is a JavaScript API for the iPhone's gyroscope. Read on to see it in action and learn how to use it. Read more

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