Much of my blog traffic deals with iPhones or iPods, so I feel justified in linking to this brief article on ilounge regarding how everyone is waiting for the SDK next month. Given, that’s a no brainer. But how Apple will allow distribution of apps, how it profits off of them if at all, and how iTunes fits into the picture will be critical for many involved. Especially those who want to give away apps for free. This is more than just an SDK and “building apps” - it’s distribution.

Stumbled on these, and I wanted to get them in my bookmarks for my fellow coders. Parsing ITunes Library.xml with ActionScript 3.0 and plist parsing in PHP.

According to at least one report, you can get past the 24 hour expiration on rentals from iTunes… just push pause and don’t exit out of the movie. I have yet to download a rental but if this is true then I’ll be more likely to give it a try soon. I only use my iTouch (that’s my nickname for it, full name is iPod Touch) for the gym and rare roadtrips. I can leave the sucker in movie mode for a day or two. I’ll report back and see if this works.

Helpful video tip since there’s currently no cut-and-paste. Basically you need Safari to add bookmarks to your toolbar and then sync those links with your iPhone / iTouch via iTunes. I would imagine any bookmarking or similar widget would follow the same method.

NBC’s Coming Back To iTunes? - I hope so. Looks like Apple might have won here.

Watching the Macworld San Francisco 2008 Keynote, and Steve Jobs has introduced the Apple TV Take Two. No computer required. Rent movies on Apple TV. DVD quality AND HD + Dolby 5.1. Plus it does the standard podcasts, flickr… also works with the iTunes Move Rental service (have to think if $4.99 for an HD movie is too high, but $3.99 for a new release sounds fair right now). I’ve been wanting to get an Apple TV, and this might be the one.

APPLEBOX is a recreation (to an extent) of the iTunes store. According to their blog, they are using Ruby On Rails and “Serverless AJAX”. I wondered what the latter was, and the comments in Ajaxian seems to address this term. I’m thinking this is more proof of concept than anything - this doesn’t work in Safari. And I doubt it works on an iPhone or iTouch, or any iPod for that matter.