Ben Dodson

2024

• Getting Hi-Res Album Artwork in Apple Shortcuts August 20, 2024

• Using your Personal Voice (along with system and novelty voices) in an iOS app April 03, 2024

2023

• Adding teachable moments to your apps with TipKit July 26, 2023

• Attempting to connect a tvOS app to an iOS app with DeviceDiscoveryUI May 10, 2023

• Postmortem of the launch of a Top 10 Paid iOS App March 14, 2023

• Side Project: Back Seat Shuffle January 17, 2023

2022

• Return to Dark Tower Assistant December 15, 2022

• Using a Stream Deck for iOS development December 08, 2022

• The Dodo Developer November 21, 2022

• 'Chaise Longue to 5K' and porting a tvOS app built with UIKit to iOS, iPadOS, and macOS July 12, 2022

• Introducing the Spatial Audio Finder June 27, 2022

• Unlisted App Distribution on the App Store May 17, 2022

• Web Inspector on iOS devices and Simulators April 13, 2022

• Browser Note and the process of building an iOS 15 Safari Extension March 11, 2022

2021

• Side Project: Stoutness March 10, 2021

2020

• Exorbitantcy and the fight against the App Store August 13, 2020

• Side Project: (Feed Me) Seymour February 28, 2020

• Side Project: Sealed February 01, 2020

2019

• Revival October 25, 2019

• Gyfted September 15, 2019

• Introducing the Apple TV Shows & Movies Artwork Finder August 19, 2019

• Customising a website for iOS 13 / macOS Mojave Dark Mode June 12, 2019

• Detecting text with VNRecognizeTextRequest in iOS 13 June 11, 2019

• UKTV Play for Apple TV June 06, 2019

• Reaction Cam v1.4 May 12, 2019

• Foodim April 08, 2019

• Announcing the Apple Music Artwork Finder March 05, 2019

• Hawkker February 27, 2019

2018

• DrinkCoach Updates November 12, 2018

• Building a Twitch Panel Extension September 10, 2018

• Scalable bulleted lists with UILabel or UITextView August 09, 2018

• Solcaster July 02, 2018

• "iPhone Only" apps on the iPad June 20, 2018

• Custom Intents with SiriKit on iOS 12 June 05, 2018

2017

• Developers who work from spectacular locations November 07, 2017

• DrinkCoach+ October 26, 2017

• Forcing left-to-right text in iOS localizations October 04, 2017

• MPMediaItem+CanAddToLibrary.swift July 19, 2017

• Flawless June 16, 2017

• Great British Bee Count 2017 May 19, 2017

• Reaction Cam May 10, 2017

• AlcoPath March 27, 2017

• Building tools for Kylo Ben February 23, 2017

• Proposal for an Erase Data Passcode February 16, 2017

• The Checked Shirt #1 - Lost AirPods, iOS 10.3 beta, App Store changes, and Invoicing January 26, 2017

• Syncing Apple Music with Spotify January 25, 2017

• Some thoughts on Apple's new Alternative Tier A and B pricing strategy for apps January 18, 2017

• Sporta 2.0 January 10, 2017

2016

• Booktrim for iPhone December 12, 2016

• Don't be the idea person November 15, 2016

• Updates to iTunes Artwork Finder November 08, 2016

• Vortech October 29, 2016

• Kylo Ben October 27, 2016

• Working Remotely October 12, 2016

• MailRoute blacklisting via email September 15, 2016

• Pocket Rocket for iOS 10 (now with an iMessage app) September 14, 2016

• Generating a random colour, with a seed, in Swift 3 September 10, 2016

• Tips for Remote Working August 23, 2016

• Brapp: Summer Updates August 18, 2016

• Moonlight tvOS for Apple TV 4 August 11, 2016

• The Divide #15 - Virtually Reality August 05, 2016

• Media Library privacy flaw fixed in iOS 10 August 02, 2016

• Talking Shop with Ben Dodson July 20, 2016

• Creating passwordless user accounts within iOS apps July 10, 2016

• The Divide #14 - WWDC 2016, 'iTunes with tabs' June 15, 2016

• iOS 10 Wishlist June 07, 2016

• The Divide #13 - Consoles May 25, 2016

• HomeKit, AirPlay, and controlling iTunes with Siri May 24, 2016

• Great British Bee Count 2016 May 19, 2016

• Using a physical button (Flic) with HomeKit scenes and triggers May 18, 2016

• Fetching RSS Feeds for Steam game updates May 17, 2016

• AirPlay Alarm Clock with iTunes 12 May 12, 2016

• The Divide #12 - Reboots May 04, 2016

• Emoji flags from ISO 3166-1 country codes (in Swift) April 26, 2016

• iPhone 7 headphone predictions April 23, 2016

• Clinix April 18, 2016

• Connecting To Host April 16, 2016

• Thoughts on ringtones April 13, 2016

• 'Start Me Up' Interview April 08, 2016

• The Divide #11 - 3D Printing April 06, 2016

• HomeKit, Wink, and Canary March 23, 2016

• The Divide #10 - Let us loop you in. Again. March 23, 2016

• What to expect from the 'Let us loop you in' Apple event March 21, 2016

• Show Me The Next March 15, 2016

• Music Tracker v1.3 March 15, 2016

• Brapp 2.0 March 11, 2016

• Sunday Isn't Special March 10, 2016

• The Divide #9 - Board Game Tangents March 02, 2016

• Storefront Additions: A simple way to convert SKCloudServiceController store identifiers into country codes February 26, 2016

• Details on the iOS 9.3 Media Library additions February 23, 2016

• The Divide #8 - Drunkstarter: A discussion on crowdfunding February 17, 2016

• Music Tracker v1.1 and Pocket Rocket v1.1 Released February 16, 2016

• Deleting all NSUserDefaults with Swift February 05, 2016

• Calm Radio for iOS February 02, 2016

• The Divide #7 - Mind Missiles and The Internet of Stuff January 27, 2016

• Music Tracker January 20, 2016

• Your music library is a security and privacy risk on iOS January 13, 2016

• Munchkin Report January 13, 2016

• Calm Radio for Apple TV January 13, 2016

• The Divide #6 - The 'JJ Abrams' of game lists January 13, 2016

• Fixing emoji footnote arrow bug in Jekyll January 11, 2016

• Dodo Apps January 08, 2016

• Swift extension to make CALayer borderColor and shadowColor work with Interface Builder January 06, 2016

• The Divide #5 - 'Jar Jar Abrams', a Star Wars special! January 04, 2016

2015

• iOS developers don't work for free December 22, 2015

• Pocket Rocket, read your Pocket articles quickly in Safari on iOS December 20, 2015

• Natural Cycles Apple Watch app December 17, 2015

• The Divide #4 - Getting into code December 16, 2015

• Steve Jobs introduces the iPad at Death Star briefing December 14, 2015

• Using the Siri Remote with the Apple TV Simulator December 09, 2015

• Introducing 'The Divide' December 02, 2015

• HomeKit enabled Christmas tree lights with Siri control December 01, 2015

• Brapp v1.1 November 27, 2015

• Chipp'd, an app for sharing personal messages November 19, 2015

• A simple Audio Recorder controller in Swift (for iPhone) October 20, 2015

• HKHealthStore Extension, deleteSamplesOfType October 06, 2015

• HealthKit Radar 22977320 October 05, 2015

• The Times They Are A-Changin' September 25, 2015

• Brapp, the rap app September 25, 2015

• AppIndex Interview September 23, 2015

• Microsoft Bridge and the "App Gap" August 19, 2015

• LEGO Scooby-Doo July 31, 2015

• The mobile web July 28, 2015

• Finding the next available driving test with Goutte PHP Scraper July 24, 2015

• TransferWise July 17, 2015

• UK Apple Pay July 14, 2015

• Forcing UIStatusBarStyle for UIImagePickerController July 10, 2015

• Optical media and the pain of Remote Disc July 10, 2015

• Adding Exercise Data To Activity July 07, 2015

• Since, an NSDate Extension in Swift June 23, 2015

• Using an SSD with the Xbox One June 19, 2015

• Glenfiddich Residence Changhi May 29, 2015

• Working out with Apple Watch May 26, 2015

• Using Stripe for In-App Purchases May 22, 2015

• iTunes Artwork Finder Source Code May 20, 2015

• A Month-Year UIPickerView Written In Swift May 19, 2015

• TV for the UK politics fan May 05, 2015

• The Correct Way To Watch Star Wars May 04, 2015

• Great British Bee Count iPhone App May 01, 2015

• Initial thoughts on Apple Watch April 25, 2015

• Developer pre-orders April 24, 2015

• iTunes Artwork Finder updated with app screenshots and videos (including Apple Watch) April 23, 2015

• LOLy 2.0 March 25, 2015

• Albums on iTunes Artwork Finder now at higher resolution February 26, 2015

• Introducing "Blind Bags" February 23, 2015

• Three years of WallaBee February 16, 2015

• IAP and icons in the 'Featured' section of the App Store February 12, 2015

• Xcode 6 Essentials February 08, 2015

2014

• SKProduct localized price in Swift December 10, 2014

• Yosemite WiFi Workaround: Airport Express and USB Ethernet Adapter November 26, 2014

• Dishwasher tablets and app competition November 18, 2014

• Speeding up your DNS October 20, 2014

• Issues with Airport Express, Airport Extreme, and OS X Yosemite October 17, 2014

• October LEGO Updates October 16, 2014

• ‘No results found’ on iTunes Artwork Finder October 10, 2014

• The problem with Allow Full Access on iOS 8 keyboards October 07, 2014

• Showing TODO as a warning in a Swift Xcode project October 02, 2014

• Donating blood September 30, 2014

• Private lives September 29, 2014

• IslandBreak September 26, 2014

• iOS using internal reference name for IAP September 25, 2014

• How not to deliver a speech September 24, 2014

• The illusion of choice September 23, 2014

• Font Finder Featured September 03, 2014

• Retiring TubeUpdates and WikiLocation August 19, 2014

• Off on honeymoon! July 23, 2014

• LEGO MINI Cooper July 19, 2014

• kontent July 14, 2014

• Blocks Magazine July 12, 2014

• The joys of running your own business July 11, 2014

• Apple TV gains iTunes Extras July 11, 2014

• Awesome Client July 03, 2014

2013

• Dropping non-retina support in iOS 7 October 16, 2013

• Dr. Frasier Crane May 10, 2013

• LEGO Super Star Destroyer May 09, 2013

• iTunes Artwork Finder February 19, 2013

• Harry Potter at the Warner Bros Studio Tour February 18, 2013

• ‘CACurrentMediaTime()’ January 29, 2013

• Syncing the WallaBee Store January 22, 2013

• LEGO: Lord of the Rings (Xbox 360) January 20, 2013

• Disney MyMagic+ January 08, 2013

• Freelance availability January 08, 2013

• Passwords and Encryption January 06, 2013

2012

• Dryathlon December 29, 2012

• Cleaning Up My Web Presence December 28, 2012

• iPhone apps on the new iPad March 16, 2012

• iOS 5.1 Location Services Bug March 14, 2012

• The curious case of "the new iPad" March 13, 2012

• Analyzing the iPad 3 invite March 03, 2012

• I've been looking forward to this day for a long time February 16, 2012

• Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to their servers February 07, 2012

• Calling all beta testers January 31, 2012

• What's happening with iOS 5.1? January 31, 2012

• Retina display graphics reappear in iBooks 2 January 30, 2012

• A Sneak Peek at Atomix Magazine v2.0 January 29, 2012

• BenDodson.com gets an update January 26, 2012

• UK Carrier O2 sends your phone number to every website you visit January 25, 2012

2011

• How not to ask for an iOS app review - A review of Jumpship Thrust Control 2 December 12, 2011

• How's the London Underground? Ask Siri! December 06, 2011

• Goodbye Gowalla December 03, 2011

• The API behind Gowalla v4 October 24, 2011

• Highlights v1.1 - Gowalla Trips, Last.fm Events, and Translations August 20, 2011

• The inside story on powering Highlights July 25, 2011

• Review: GeoWiz July 10, 2011

• Does iOS 5 finally allow retina display iPhone apps to run unscaled on the iPad? June 10, 2011

• AirPlay Mirroring, TV Out, and the Apple TV as a games console June 09, 2011

• WWDC 2011 Keynote - Predictions vs Reality June 08, 2011

• WWDC 2011 Predictions - iOS 5, Lion, and iCloud June 06, 2011

• WikiLocation adds support for 36 locales May 28, 2011

• One year on: further thoughts on the Gowalla API May 12, 2011

• Font Finder: Now available for Firefox 4 and Safari 5 May 10, 2011

• Portal 2 on the new iMac (10.6.6) May 04, 2011

• Review: Worldictionary for iOS May 01, 2011

• iTunes TV Artwork Script April 13, 2011

• Gamification, Social Validation, Gowalla, and moving on from Wallabee - What I learned at SXSW March 27, 2011

• Mobile OS Updates: Android vs iOS February 11, 2011

• Review: WorldCard Mobile for Android and iPhone January 23, 2011

• Enabling any HTML5 Video to work over AirPlay January 13, 2011

• iOS 4.3 January 12, 2011

• Thoughts on the Verizon iPhone 4 January 11, 2011

• The AirPlay Alarm Clock: Turning an Apple TV or Airport Express into an Alarm Clock with AppleScript January 10, 2011

• The CoverSutra Saga January 09, 2011

• My take on Microsoft's Keynote at CES 2011 January 07, 2011

2010

• Contact Forms November 04, 2010

2009

• Why I built an Item Finder for Gowalla December 05, 2009

• The Apple Magic Mouse: Necessary upgrade or expensive luxury? October 31, 2009

• How to pitch an app idea to an iPhone developer October 16, 2009

• Social Beacon: Developing An iPhone App for "The Gadget Show" October 14, 2009

• Gowalla Tools Web App: Find your missing Gowalla items! October 07, 2009

• iPhone 3GS: Review and Speed Test (vs. iPhone 3G) June 19, 2009

• The tale of the "O2 Fail" (starring the iPhone 3GS) June 13, 2009

• Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.1 for Effective MySQL Management June 11, 2009

• TwitterFollowers PHP Class - A Better Way To Track Followers, Quitters, and Returning Followers on Twitter May 25, 2009

• Getting Xbox Live Achievements Data: Part 2 - The AppleScript Solution May 19, 2009

• iPhone 3.0 "push" Notification Testing with AP News May 18, 2009

• Duplicate Messages Bug Fixed on TubeUpdates.com May 17, 2009

• Getting Xbox Live Achievements Data: Part 1 - The PHP Problems May 12, 2009

• Designing for the Social Web May 08, 2009

• Poor Usability on the Web - Part 1: Online Banking April 28, 2009

• London Underground Tube Updates API is live! April 26, 2009

2008

• Updates coming soon to London Underground RSS Feed December 09, 2008

• iPhone 2.1 Firmware Update Released - Fast? Stable? Fixed? September 14, 2008

• How to control a Mac Mini from your iPhone including waking, sleeping, and audio / video September 08, 2008

• Twitter stops sending SMS to UK / Europe / Australia August 17, 2008

• Kampyle - An easy way to get web user feedback August 04, 2008

• Stop! Bug found in "Stop! Hammertime!" Firefox Extension on Windows XP / Vista July 21, 2008

• iPhone 3G, Apps, MobileMe, and iPhone specific sites July 21, 2008

• Does anybody really use RSS Feeds? July 21, 2008

• Website upgrades finally completed July 19, 2008

• New website goes live! June 21, 2008

• RSS Feed of the London Underground Tube Status March 16, 2008

• Firefox extensions updated for Beta 3 compatibility March 01, 2008

• Google extended encoding made easy! February 28, 2008

• Firefox Extensions page will be right back! February 26, 2008

• phpMyOpenID Beta Testers Required! February 25, 2008