A blog about things that interest me.
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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…
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Data Plans and App Size
Was listening to MacBreak Weekly this week and heard Alex mention that the Apple store was changing the limit of over the air updates to 50mb which made a lot of sense given the new requirements that Apple has added to all apps on the app store. From here on out you have to include…
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The Neu iPad
Well, I was able to sell my old 64GB AT&T 3G iPad and have ordered the top of the line 64GB AT&T 4G/LTE iPad. Gotta have a test machine to address the new Retina display. Over at ApApp, Inc. we are working on a game and the new iPad is really going to make the…
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Free vs. Paid in the AppStore
One decision you need to make when you are developing an app is how do you monitize it. I won’t talk about pricing specifically in this post, but on the decision should you charge a user to buy your app. Let’s think thru a couple of options you have: Paid app – if you have…
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iCloud update
After watching a ton of coverage yesterday about apple’s big announcement, one thing fell thru the cracks… The update to iCloud now will allow you to redownload your movies. Of course this is not completely true, since not all of the movie studios are allowing it, but we are one step closer to having total…