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Xcode Source

April 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment

One of the best methods of learning Xcode is to see how its done by looking at source code, well commented code can help you learn more in a day than a text book can teach you in a month.

 

Imagine for a moment that you wanted to learn all about how to use Xcode, but you went to the Apple website and you just see tons of stuff that is just overwhelming. The instructions read like a rocket scientist, is trying to tell you how to install a light bulb, (to them it is probably about that way) since your new, a lot of the language they use is based on years of experience, and as long as you have all that experience then you can probably follow the white papers on this, if not then your lost.

Well, we hope to address this issue in the very near future.

We thought that it would be interesting to see just what resources were out there and even the tutorials are complicated, we thought this cant be that hard, but apparently either they (apple) do not want you to learn this stuff or they just are so smart that no one can understand what they are talking about, perhaps it is a little of both.

Even the build your own xcode tutorials, are just not specific enough to get the job done.

There are a few things that we think would be good to use in a tutorial, some methods that are commonly used in educational topics.

With that in mind, we wanted, to explore what it would take to be able to offer an alternative that would provide a better learning experience.

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Content On The Go

December 11, 2010 By

Just like fast food, Mobile media has become
an in demand and on demand commodity.

Consuming content, on the roll as they say is a way of life.

Moving, Rolling, eating on the run, so busy that we have no time to do anything.

We are on the move, non stop in many larger cities, across the US.

America is moving way too fast these days, it seems as if we have time to do everything but what is really important in our lives.

We eat on the run, we eat driving down the road, we are in a hurry everywhere we go.

Busy Busy Busy.

Everyone is so busy, going here and there and everywhere.

America is busy, so busy that we just do not have time to sit down and read a book.

What can you do in this busy world today?   You can learn to recycle your time…

Learning and reading on the go, it is often the only time we have that is not completely scheduled in advance.

Did you know that you could get a college degree in your spare time while your waiting?

Mobile content, Mobile Audio, Video, PDF, Software, Apps..

These days, there is just not enough time in the day to get the job done, and with the average wait time, at even a restaurant, very often you find that you end up so tired at the end of the day that all you feel like doing is going to bed.

Did you know that the average person, wastes 2 to 3 hours a day waiting…

Waiting in line, waiting at the pharmacy, waiting around, in lines, doing nothing…

This is now a thing of the past, with mobile content, you do not have to travel alone anymore, on long trips, even just riding to work, with a friend, on a business trip, in an airplane, you do not have to travel alone ever again.

Imagine, having to wait at the doctors office, and before you know it, they call your name and your irritated, that you have to put up your electronic book, well it can be that easy, reading and keeping up with the real news, instead of having to deal with those old moldy magazines…

Now that is worth a lot.

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App Store how to get that app in there

November 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment

One of the hardest things to do is to actually get your app into the app store, trust me on that one as well there are thousands of developers that have been unable to get their app into the app store, for one reason or another.

Developing or having an app developed does not guarantee that you will get that coveted app into the app store.

There are many considerations, where the moon is in apogee, to the correlation to the stars?
Perhaps, the app store can decline to accept your app for any reason they wish from not enough curb appeal to
you just dont get it, do you dummy.

Apple can do what ever they want, you pay your $99.00 fee and you get the pleasure of listening to someone tell you that your design or your the graphics in your app do not look good enough for the app store, no really, it can happen.

The process is not fair and some have suggested that it is outsourced by non English speaking personal to review it.

Which means that you could be dealing with someone that does not understand how to read in english, I know it seems crazy but for some of the turn downs we have seen it is the only explanation that makes sense.

So rule number one.

1. the app must do something useful or provide some form of lasting entertainment.
The famous ifart app, not going to happen, so gum chewing is also out, and how to grow your hair yep also out.

2. parental controls don’t work unless the parents set it up and many will not or just dont care, so apple has decided to do the job that the parents will or choose not to do, so apple is looking out for the kids, great gesture, I sure wish I could get them to watch my kids for a few days.

3. If your App looks like it is not as professional as the outsourced non native english speaking people hired to review the apps, you might want to think that over again, because once again apple is on the look out for those poor graphics.

4. Apple has an appeal board, go figure, “we have a Review Board that you can appeal to. If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps.” from the apple guidelines, amazing stuff, so how subjective is this process and can anyone thread the eye of the amazing apple needle?

Apparently it is not as easy as anyone ever told you more so if your not a fortune 500 company.

So sorry to all those people who bought into the make a million in the app store ebook, well your in for a real surprise.

Because the chances of you ever getting an app into the app store are probably about zero yep a big fat goose egg.

We are not saying that you cannot be successful just that apple has allegedly gone out of its way to be exclusive and to allegedly prevent anyone from gaining access to the app store unless your a corporate entity with deep pockets then you can afford to get your app submitted and accepted right away.

Sadly the rest of the 100 thousand other developers, that dont have millions in advertising revenue but have just as good an idea for an app, well look for the rejection letter soon.

For the most part, it appears that apple, well needs some serious management, help, perhaps even a psychiatrist.

But I guess that is what you get when an alleged mad man is in charge of your company, well see what happens next but one thing for sure look for lots of other app stores to show up in the near future, and watch for jail broken devices to rise above 50 percent, because as hard as it is for apple to understand this, when people buy something they want to be able to use it…

Think about that…

Before you buy your nice new neat, ipad device.

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Reading Mobile Content

October 2, 2010 By

What do you read?   Books or do you read your news on the computer, or perhaps you like to watch video.

What do you like the most about being able to pick and choose what you want to do?

Where do you read the most?

Books, Fiction, NonFiction, Technical?

Or do you prefer Video or Audio?

Where do you read the most?

In bed, or while you are going about your business?

Where do you read your mobile content, on the go or when your resting or when you just happen to have some spare time?

What kind of content would you most likely be interested in, if say you were sitting at a doctors office, or on an airplane, where you could not get internet?

Mobile content; is it the next great unexplored territory?

Content is something that everyone really needs, I know that so very often you have to wait, just about everywhere you go these days, from the doctors office, to just about everywhere, you even have to wait to be seated at your favorite restaurant, sometimes for up to 45 min, what do you do,  just talk and visit while your standing around.

Well, perhaps not so much…

Now you can go online with your mobile device and perhaps get caught up on that article that you have been meaning to read, or perhaps you could improve your technical skills, did you know that people that regularly invest in their education and professionals that invest in their continuing education are likely to be paid more money over the life span of their careers?

This is not only possible but highly preferable.

With layoffs and rumors of corporate jobs going the way of the dodo bird, you have to keep your edge and one of the best ways to do that is to stay up on current events and more importantly, staying up on what kinds of technology can help improve your performance.

Knowing what you can and cannot do in your job can mean a huge difference in how marketable you become in the corporate world which no one needs to be reminded is not as green as everyone had always hoped it would be.

The idea that you can coast is just not going to get it, so don’t become a statistic, and definitely don’t find yourself waiting in the unemployment line.

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