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Written By: Sol Young on January 27, 2010 Comments

App Wall

Apple’s tablet is about to change the software development ecosystem and we mobile developers are rethinking existing and future projects. The tablet becomes the next app gold rush.

The App Store and the iPhone command a monstrous market share for mobile apps. There are a limited number of mobile app developers (20…

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Written By: Sol Young on October 15, 2009 Comments

Apple is opening up the In-App purchase to free apps. This is going to change the App Store landscape drastically…

In App Purchase is being rapidly adopted by developers in their paid apps. Now you can use In App Purchase in your free apps to sell content, subscriptions, and digital services.

You can

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Written By: Sol Young on September 10, 2009 Comments

Line for iPhone

AT&T confirms tethering is, “a matter of when and not if,” but the when is farther away than most of us would like.

As for tethering, by its nature, this function could exponentially increase traffic on the network, and we need to ensure that some of our current upgrades are in place

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Written By: Sol Young on August 17, 2009 Comments

Mashable:

For the longest time, the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi has been the most widely used camera on Flickr. With a 10.1 MP Lens, an image sensor vibration cleaning system, 9-point auto focus, and a mid-range price point, it’s easy to see why the Canon camera has been so popular with the photography enthusiasts

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Written By: Sol Young on August 12, 2009 Comments


Alley Insider covers the 10 most expensive iPhone apps. These aren’t your 99 cent grade of apps… All are for professional use. Cheapest in the top ten is $179.99.

1. iRa Pro – $899.99 (or Direct – $499.99)
2. MATG – SAP BusinessOne – $449.99
3. PDR Quote – $349.99

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Written By: Sol Young on July 31, 2009 Comments

Mike Arrington of TechCrunch claims he is quitting his iPhone as soon as he can port his number to Google Voice. I don’t think he realizes someone could have a web app that solves the Google Voice and iPhone interaction within days.

We don’t need a full blown Google Voice application…

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Written By: Sol Young on July 30, 2009 Comments

My iPhone Dock

I made the jump from the iPhone’s included mail application and may swap out the Phone app for a Google Voice web app later, too. The above image is my iPhone dock. Sean McKeever on Facebook asked how I get notifications for new mail being received. Here’s how I do that…

First off,…

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Written By: Sol Young on July 29, 2009 Comments

Google Voice iPhone

There’s a lot of noise about Apple rejecting the Google Voice application in the App Store. While a native app would be fantastic, I’d be fine with a good web app. The existing rev is little more than a WAP site and requires three clicks to dial a contact.

It would be…

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Written By: Sol Young on July 11, 2009 Comments

The tethering experience on the iPhone 3G S with iPhone 3.0 OS is slick. Engadget’s how-to can get you up and running. After that, Internet access is attained in 1 step: Plug iPhone in to USB. Nothing more. That’s it. Plug it in and the tether initiates as seamlessly as plugging in a USB…

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Written By: Sol Young on July 6, 2009 Comments

13 App Updates

Check your app updates today. Looks like Apple had a busy 4th of July weekend and approved a ton of 3.0 compatibility updates.

My last check for updates was on Saturday, the 4th at 9:00pm. Only the AOL Radio app had an update. The other dozen came in between then and this morning.

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Written By: Sol Young on July 6, 2009 Comments

It’s almost been an annual pilgrimage. Each year since Apple’s release of the original iPhone I’ve jumped in and gotten one, only to get fed up with lousy messaging features and switch back to a BlackBerry.

The phone trail: BlackBerry Pearl 8100 -> iPhone -> BlackBerry 8800 -> iPhone 3G -> BlackBerry Bold 9000 ->…

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Written By: Sol Young on July 4, 2009 Comments

Ars Technica What’s the uptake on iPhone OS 3.0? covers how many reliable reports are reporting different stats for iPhone 3.0 adoption. Ars ends the article wondering why the numbers are so skewed. But it’s obvious, right?

- Apple’s download + 3.0 device sales stats = ~17%
- AdMob reports 44% of ads served…

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Written By: Sol Young on July 1, 2009 Comments

Updates make my day. Today three favorite apps had updates released. It’s like lifting your cards in poker and seeing three aces.

RunKeeper Pro

RunKeeper Pro 1.5.0.7

Tweetie 1.3.2

Tweetie 1.3.2

Wordpress 1.3

WordPress 1.3

Downloading All…

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Written By: Sol Young on June 16, 2009 Comments

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Twitter

It was April 6th, 2008 that I posted How to post images to Twitter and Flickr at the same time from an iPhone. It has been one of the more popular posts on this blog.

Flickr now makes it possible to post to Twitter directly via an emailed photo AND via…

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Written By: Sol Young on May 29, 2009 Comments

Blackberry Bold 9000

I’ve switched back to a BBerry instead of an iPhone. Again. This is the second time I’ve found I’m working less productively on the iPhone. This isn’t a switch because I enjoy working on a Blackberry. The Blackberry simply handles messaging more quickly…

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Written By: Sol Young on March 17, 2009 Comments Off

So far, pretty neat. Ran in to some trouble copying more advanced HTML, Apple’s announcement page worked well.

“On March 17, Apple presented the blueprint for iPhone OS 3.0, the next version of the world’s most advanced mobile platform. In addition to previewing its innovative features, Apple gave members of the iPhone Developer Program immediate…

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Written By: Sol Young on February 10, 2009 Comments Off

Since switching to taking the train to work three months ago, I’ve been watching what devices people are using for news and media consumption. If you ride the train or find yourself in a public place, do yourself a favor and look around. It’s fascinating.

Newspapers aren’t dead here, but they’re definitely in decline. A…

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Written By: Sol Young on February 3, 2009 Comments

Since December I thought it was pretty clear OS X would own 10 percent of the operating system market share by the end of January. So yesterday, in Chinatown browsing my iPhone and trying jellyfish tendrils for the first time, I opened marketshare.hitslink.com and discovered OS X was more→

Written By: Sol Young on January 29, 2009 Comments

CNN just released their iPhone optimized m.cnn.com, and it’s great! Not only is it iPhone web app friendly, with easy navigation and svelt transitions, it also makes audio and video available in friendly formats.

I was impressed to click a video headline and have QuickTime immediately launch and stream the video. Very clean implementation.

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Written By: Sol Young on January 15, 2009 Comments

December Trends - from marketshare.hitslink.com

I described in December that Market Share for Apple would hit 9.5% at the end of December and break 10% in January. So far Apple exceeded expectations and reached 9.63% in December. That’s a 0.76% gain of the operating system market in one month!

Look for January to carry another increase and for…

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Written By: Sol Young on December 11, 2008 Comments

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Found a funny little bug with Apple’s dashboard weather widget this week. It comes installed and running by default when you set up a new OS X installation or buy a new Mac. I just got a new MacBook Pro a…

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Written By: Sol Young on December 2, 2008 Comments

iPhone Tech Talk t-shirt NYC frontiPhone Tech Talk t-shirt NYC back

Attending an Apple Tech Talk at the Millennium Hotel New York was a good use of time today. The evangelism team, despite evangelizing, is highly competent and I came away satisfied with decent knowledge consumption.

The event had a massively different feel than John Resig described last year.

There was a lot

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Written By: Sol Young on November 22, 2008 Comments

My dev team uses JIRA for bug tracking. It’s a flexible project management and defect tracking system. As with almost any bug tracking system out there (Bugzilla, Trac, etc), web based defect tracking from a mobile handset is not very user-friendly.

Enter JIRA Mate (formerly JIRA Buddy), written by Shaun Ervine, an…

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Written By: Sol Young on November 21, 2008 Comments

This is a very poorly thought out plan. When you delete an app you’re asked to rate the app, where a dialog is popped that gives the option of selecting between 0 and 5 stars.

At first thought, there will be lots more app ratings and this will help Apple kull (my favorite word this…

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Written By: Sol Young on November 16, 2008 Comments

Besides an absolutely killer Aston Martin opening chase and an even better dog-fight and parachute scene later, two things stuck in my mind from the latest Bond movie, Quantum of Solace.

First, James Bond driving hybrids. Ford got lots of hybrid vehicle product placement (listen for the electric motor during takeoff and…

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