iPhone Tab Bar icons

January 27, 2010

My tabulicious tool for creating iPhone Tab Bar icons continues to draw traffic. Users were asking for the ability to resize the icon, as the standard 32×32 dimensions can get crowded. You can now select from multiple sizes, from 30×30 to 128×128. Thanks for the feedback! Keep it coming.

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App templates for the Apple Tablet

January 26, 2010
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Scott shows a list of vendors that help you create a Tablet App using standard templates, costing as little as $25.

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Kindle Apps: wrong design point

January 21, 2010

I love apps. Amazon announced a private KDK (Kindle Development Kit) today available to the big boys, like Electronic Arts. Over time they’ll let more developers in as “space becomes available.” But…
The Kindle is dead. Black and white apps? No real operating system? Limited developers? Please.
Jeff Bezos had [...]

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Android v. OS/X in 2010?

December 15, 2009
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Will Google rebrand Android as Mobile Chrome? With Android apps reaching 20,000, Scott wonders if Google will pull together its fractured OS play. Regardless, apps will be everywhere in 2010.

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Particle Effects on the iPhone

December 4, 2009

Ben Britten Smith’s first chapter in iPhone Advanced Projects is worth the price of the book alone. The code for a particle generator is clean, elegant and well documented.

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We need the gPhone. Go, Andy, go!

November 20, 2009

Andy Rubin should be given complete control over the gPhone, giving ChromeOS a chance to be a real competitor to OS/X.

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Pushtones

November 6, 2009
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Pushtone 1.0 was approved last night by Apple. This App lets you send hilarious alert sounds to iPhones and iPod touches. For a simple app, it packs a lot (push notifications, free sms, images, audio, tables, registration, etc).

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Site Ants – real time communities

October 30, 2009

Site “ants” are the real-time implicit community created by those that visit a web site. What if you could interact with this community, easily, for free?

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The App Gold Rush

October 25, 2009

Apps made the cover of Business week! Apple has made computing fun again, and the market is exploding. Companies on the leading edge are entertaining and adding bite-sized value to millions around the world. And they’re getting paid handsomely for it, a buck or two at a time.

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Recovery.gov heat map visualization

September 28, 2009

Recovery.gov went live today with new Apps from North Highland Partners! Now we can visualize how $800B of the recovery dollars are being spent.

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