Your iOS app should be working with web content in the background without locking up the user interface or the main thread. Here is an article on using Grand Central Dispatch to download web content in the background.

Sometimes when people update their version of iOS, their apps or just because of a random cosmic event all their app data seems to be gone.  For an app like Tasting Notes this is pretty disheartening. Luckily, You Have An Automatic Backup! The good news is that iTunes automatically backups up all the data on [...]

Here is a quick video that I made that shows you how to use Tasting Notes. BTW: you’ll have to click through to the blog post to actually see the video (click the title in bold above). What other demos for Tasting Notes would you like to see?