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“When will this app be free?” There’s an app for that!

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

I’m a half fan of this.  I like to see mobile developers make money, you see.

FreeAppAlert is a service that tells you when the app you’ve been wanting to buy — but weren’t prepared to pay for, becomes free.

Across the evolution of an application, you’ll often see an app released for $$$ before the price is lowered, and sometimes, it’s made free — especially if the developer’s after your eyeballs in return for ad revenue or another related metric.

Me? I’ll just keep on buying.

You can set up FreeAppAlert’s site to notify you via email, twitter, or RSS about the newest free iPhone apps, including those making the jump from behind a pay wall. If you don’t want to be bothered with notifications, you can browse the site by date when you’re in the mood to stock up on new apps.

via FreeAppAlert Notifies You When For-Pay iPhone Apps Become Free – Free – Lifehacker.

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THIS is why Twitter rocks — direct connectivity to developers

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Here’s a note from regular MIR reader, Simon Maddox.

It’s one for the ‘why does Twitter *actually* rock’ pile…

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Hey Ewan,

Think I’ve found one of the best reasons why Twitter rocks. I tweeted this earlier:

Dear GitX: if I click “delete branch”, I’d like to confirm that before it actually happens.

Oh no! I just deleted a whole load of code!!

*GitX is a frontend to the version control system, Git, by the way.)

A couple of hours later, I received this tweet from the creator of GitX:

@simonmaddox sorry about the GitX branch deletion. You can try git-resurrect (http://tinyurl.com/d33ufk) to resurrect the old branch

While I’d already realised that Time Machine is awesome, it’s great to see that you can have direct access to the developers of whatever software you use, without looking like a tool on a random forum or IRC channel.. :)

Cheers,
Simon

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Couldn’t agree more Simon. What a brilliant example of the power and usefulness of Twitter. Thanks for sending this!

If you’ve got examples similar to Simon’s experience, send them in to me.

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Now test those BlackBerry applications with DeviceAnywhere

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

DeviceAnywhere, the fantastic service which lets developers test out their applications across hundreds of applications has now teamed up with Research In Motion (RIM) to enable the developers to test their applications for their Blackberry phones.

Today, companies like Apple are making mammoth profits through their application store for their phones and Google too has joined the race. It only makes sense for RIM to give the best to the developer community.

We’ve already talked about DeviceAnywhere in the past and even spoke to them at CTIA.

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Red Five Labs announce Net60 v2.0

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

At the Symbian Smartphone Show in London, Red Five Labs have announced the latest iteration of their .NET compact framework, the Net60 version 2.0 for S60 devices.

The Net60 framework, along with Microsoft’s Visual Studio provide you with a powerful platform to develop apps for the S60 platform very easily. The app will be demonstrated at the Show today.

Dusan Babich, CEO of Red Five Labs, said:

We have been building the .NET compact framework for Symbian devices for many years. Symbian developers have never before had such an easy to use, easy to deploy, development experience.

The version 2.0 of Net60  brings:

  • .NET Compact Framework 2.0 compatibility (including generics)
  • Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 support
  • SQLite support with an ADO.NET provider
  • A managed namespace providing access to native Symbian APIs (telephony, camera, OpenGL, GPS etc.)

With Net60, developers can run managed WinMo apps on S60 without any changes. The same code and programming environment can be made use of to develop apps for the S60 platform.

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Blackberry Storm gets Developer Tools and an Emulator

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

With Developers Tools available for the Apple iPhone and Google’s Android platform for quite a while now, and with developers having tremendous success with the former platform (remember the developer who made $250,000 in 2 months?), why would Research In Motion (RIM), the makers of the popular business phone brand Blackberry, keep their developers away?

With the announcement that the Blackberry Application Center will also be available on the Blackberry Storm, RIM has announced the release of developer tools required to get an application ready for the latest touchscreen offering. The developer tools and the required documentation has been made available at the BlackBerry Dev Program microsite.

Following in the footsteps of the just released Android platform, RIM also an emulator available if you wish to browse through the virtual device.

It would be interesting to see the quality of applications that would be made available through the Application Center. Obviously, the phone isn’t aimed at the same demography as the iPhone, but it certainly has a great potential nonetheless.

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Sony Ericsson Calls for Entries to its 2008 Content Awards

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Sony Ericsson has just announced their annual 2008 Sony Ericsson Content Awards and are calling upon entries for the same. The annual event honors outstanding achievements in mobile content development.

The company has opened up the entries for the competition beginning today and will continue till November 30, 2008 and is open for all mobile developers who have created content, applications and services for Sony Ericsson Phones. From all the submissions, finalists are planned to be selected somewhere in December and a winners will be announced in an official online ceremony on February 5, 2009.

This year, there are 7 categories earmarked for the event. 

  • Being Productive
  • Going Green
  • In-Car Applications
  • Mobile Entertainment
  • Lifestyle Experiences
  • Themes and Graphics
  • Xperia X1 Panels
According to Sony Ericsson, the winners will be judged on ease of use, entertainment factor, innovation, look and feel, uniqueness, creativity and audio performance. Last year, the awards provided a great platform for exposure for mobile developers around the globe with RealNetworks, BitCycle, Opera, Gracenote, Metronize/Clavitones and Vringo winning awards.
[Official Site]

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AT&T opens up apps for developers, users with disabilites

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Following in the footsteps of Google and Apple, AT&T has decided to open up and make information available for developers that will help them create applications for pensioners and users with disabilities. The methodology, called Universal Design, is “the practice of designing products and applications that are usable by the broadest possible range of consumers”, according to AT&T.

AT&T has already created some applications based on Universal Design, including Mobile Speak, a screen reader with Braille support, and Mobile Magnifier, a magnification application that supports low- and high-resolution screens, which it says are now open to the broadest range of handsets.

If any budding developers want to take a look at Unvirsal Design, the documents are available here. There are already some incredibly smart apps out there for disabled users – hopefully this will add to that number.

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