The pace of innovation in App land is incredible. Apps are appearing a week, or sometimes just a few days, after a story breaks. One of my favorites is “Ask the Octopus,” a comical take on the famous octopus that correctly guessed the outcome of the World Cup.
I’m equally amazed by [...]
Thomas Edison is rolling over in his grave. Never before has the phone system been so abused. Welcome, Vuvuphone, the world’s first Vuvuzela Phone.
Scott created a little hack now available for free in Apple’s iTunes Store. Its called “iSlide Camera.” He uses it for sharing photos instantly, a crude approximation to FaceTime from an iPhone to a Blackberry or iPad.
Eric Wing put together this video to help promote our Beginning iPhone Games Development Book from APress. The video shows a live version of Ben Britten’s Asteroids Game in OpenGL. Note the use of sprites, particle effects, Core Audio, and more. The chapter I wrote on Quartz 2D shows how to write [...]
Tonight I read that Android’s market share has outpaced iPhone in the US. Thought so.
Google wants to see an ad on every screen, just like Microsoft saw a PC on every desktop 30 years ago. A well engineered, free O/S is highly addictive to the carrier and mobile phone companies. They’re [...]
Hardcopy editions are now available for our best-selling book, “Beginning iPhone Games Development” with APress.
USA Today had an interesting article today about Marketers shifting to Apps. Could mobile social apps replace today’s traffic monsters like Facebook?
Meet the new face of scalability — Taylor Swift. Taylor sold out Madison Square Garden in 60 seconds today. I heard it on the radio while driving home from the grocery store. A quick glance at Wikipedia reveals that the Garden can hold 20,000 people center stage, plus an additional 19,522 end-stage (whatever that means). [...]
I’ve been watching people follow TwitPic, trying to become the Youtube of Twitter. I sure hope they have a good business model. When I was at my last company, video serving cost us roughly $4 per CPM, including hosting, storage, and bandwidth for a thousand 3-minute video clips. Basic ad networks can pay [...]
Don’t get me wrong. I love jQuery. The elegant language feels reminiscent of LISP, APL and other great languages of days long gone. HTML 5 and the canvas hackery makes me giddy. Just feast your eyes on Jacob Seidelin’s beautiful hack where he ported a chunk of Milkdrop to JavaScript and Canvas.
Less we fret [...]