A blog about things that interest me.
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Review of new iPad
I hadn’t planned on doing reviews of hardware on this site, but here we go, I’ve been using a new iPad for almost a week now, and the screen in incredible, but that is not the thing that I am enjoying the most. LTE support is amazing! My old iPad was a 3G device and…
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Apple’s cash and your app
Today Apple will announce what it is going to do with $100b in cash. Yes that’s right 100,000,000,000 in cash!! As app developers we have contributed a lot to that war chest. That doesn’t mean that apple will reduce it fees, or reduce the cost of the devices, no they will probably announce a dividend.…
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Android ice cream sandwich
Yesterday, as I went thru my rss feeds, I saw the list of devices getting the update for ice cream sandwich – here. This notice got me thinking, how much will ice cream sandwich impact game development on android. I do not have an android device, but the adoption of android is taking off. Enterprises…
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Today’s app
Today, in honor of Pi day, I will be looking at calculator apps. I find it amazing that the iPad did not come with a calculator app, so I find myself launching numbers for some calculations. On the iPhone, I use the basic calculator app that comes with iOS. A quick google search recommends calculator…
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Windows Phone and Windows 8
During the Mobile World Congress, Microsoft made the consumer preview of Windows 8 available to the general public. I had taken the ISO image and installed it on a VM. My goal was to isolate it completely and test out the value of the new Metro based interface. When I had original done some testing…