MockApp will allow you to do exactly what it sounds. You can quickly storyboard your application. By quickly, I mean relative to how well you know Keynote or PowerPoint and how clear of an idea you have for the flow of your application.

MockApp keynote template

You can play around with your app and link between screens. You’ll have a mockup of exactly what you want your app to look like and how you want it to function before you fire up XCode and write a single line of code.

If you are an ideas person but not comfortable coding yourself, this is a great way to get your idea across to a colleague or a programmer or agency you’re hiring to develop your application.

It’s a tremendously useful tool for thinking through your own applications.

You’ll want to turn off or down the sound.

I have a great app idea born from the heart attack, but that will have to wait until December of 2010 when my cardiologist and I can collaborate on remote cardiac monitoring. I already have a hardware guy lined up who has made a few test boards for another hardware project.

Soonish I’ll be posting again about current and upcoming projects. The Landscapes app is back up and going. I will be attending WWDC 2010 in San Fransisco to present my first iPad and iPhone applications, one of which will be for managing historic landscapes. I hope the other will be an application for my favorite tabletop roleplaying game.

First up is Rodney Aiglstorfer from iPhoneDeveloperTips who asserts that real men don’t use Interface Builder.

Next, Troy Mcilvena shows you how to get your app started without Interface Builder in the following video on Vimeo.

Building iPhone Applications without Interface Builder from Troy Mcilvena on Vimeo.

I’ve found that instrumental music, such as movie soundtracks, is a wonderful way to keep my brain entertained and help me get into a good flow. Even better, nature sounds (also called soundscapes) help me relax and keep my mind focused on the tasks at hand.

Landscapes for iPhone - Alpha 1

I downloaded the latest trunk of the WordPress for iPhone source code. It wouldn’t compile against 3.1, but no big deal.

Landscapes is coming along pretty nicely. The first alpha is done. I’m building out data entry screens and working on handling location on the iPod Touch (more of an issue, but I can workaround) and compass direction.

GPS isn’t as accurate as I would like, but I’m making the fields editable. Right now I’m going with latitude/longitude, but will put in a conversion for UTM. Letting users select a preference would be ideal, but it should default to UTM.

I’m eager to use Joe Hewitt’s excellent three20 library for this project once the major refactoring is done and it’s a bit more stable.