Month: December 2008

More on iPhone app store pricing

iPhone applications are too cheap, and changes are needed to encourage the development of premium applications that sell for a fair price.

AT&T is increasing their price for SMS to 20 cents per message. The math shows it costs less than a penny to send each message.

Update on the mobile version of Firefox

How to create custom ringtones for your iphone using Garage Band

Development library for mobile web apps on iphone

Instead, the real surprise is that the carriers – AT&T in the U.S. and 02 in the UK – agreed to Apple launching the App Store in the first place. Or more specifically, that Apple could offer the App Store in the manner in which they have done. Apple has a direct billing relationship with iPhone customers

If you're like most people in Silicon Valley, you probably think that's an Apple iPhone developer chart. But actually it's Palm OS ten years ago, from 1998 to 1999.

Another big player dives heavy into building out web application platforms

most themes by default display primary links in such a way that if the menu has sub-child menus, they will not be displayed. Fortunately, the solution is much easier that you'd think.

Scan your entire site for validation errors and dead links manage multiple sites, watch report status in real time receive report email notifications…

PHP Library to detect mobile phone user agent strings

There were a couple of table css properties that I wasn't familiar with in this article. That's always a welcome surprise.

"Of the three new devices, the Storm has made a much bigger impact on Verizon and is already responsible for 16 percent of all BlackBerry mobile Web requests." How to reconcile this with the fact that the Storm seems so poorly designed to me.

Number of downloads for a top-rated iphone application

A Mac OS X Leopard developer tool for debugging HTTP services by graphically creating & inspecting complex HTTP messages.

Open source web conferencing and service

Send and receive SMS via web sites

Taking Google Maps for mobile as an example: there are 10+ platforms to support, requiring 100's of builds in total – it all adds up to PAIN

Great reminder of the power of creativity and innovation. The story revolves around the growing of square watermelons in Japan

The history of the TiVo peanut-shaped remote control.

database for querying congressional and state legislators by latitude & longitude.

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableDataDetectors YES in Terminal

Recreating the flick scrolling behavior in Mobile Safari

an experimental add-on to explore geolocation in Firefox 3 ahead of the implementation of geolocation in a future product release.

The chart below shows the number of applications being released per day, with momentum clearly trending upward and sitting currently at more than 140 new apps per day. There are more than 9000 apps available on the AppStore, with the ratio of paid to free apps at about 7:2.

Open sales numbers from an iPhone app

Over 50 percent of consumers would substitute their Internet usage on a PC for a mobile device

CSSHttpRequest (CHR) is a method for cross-domain AJAX using CSS for transport. Similar to JavaScript, this works because CSS is not subject to the same-origin policy that affects XMLHttpRequest.

Nice demonstration of Mobile Safari css effects used to make a smooth cover flow effect.

31 different iPhone applications including source code

iPhone analytics package plus some nice graphs on applications by category and free vs. paid

The after election let down. Plus a funny Nate Silver comment on hover.

A full featured and beautiful CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) framework which combined the best of Blueprint, Tripoli (hence the name), Hartija's print stylesheet, 960.gs's simplicity, and Elements' icons, and has now found a life of its own.

A css framework for print stylesheets

Watir is an open-source library for automating web browsers. Watir drives browsers the same way people do. It clicks links, fills in forms, presses buttons. Watir also checks results, such as whether expected text appears on the page.

Very good read from the flickr team

Add automatic hyphenation to wordpress blogs

tablesorter is a jQuery plugin for turning a standard HTML table with THEAD and TBODY tags into a sortable table without page refreshes

Alternative, smaller version of sIFR

Stories of problems that they encountered releasing their iphone app.

Choosy lets you open links in the browser you want. Just set up a few simple options and Choosy will do the right thing, whether that's opening a browser or letting you pick from some or all of the browsers on your system.

system handles billing and payment collection for software built on Amazon storage and processing systems, if the developers wish to use it.

Sometimes you have to restate the obvious.

Interesting discussion of how he decided what to pay to take over the source code of an existing iPhone application

Consumers now make up 45 percent of the subscriber base, and 60 percent of new subscribers during the quarter were consumers. Additionally, 75 percent of phones went to new customers in the U.S., and an even higher percentage in Europe.

But in 2009, IDC predicts that we’ll see a downturn in mobile phone volumes by 1.9 percent. More interesting for mobile marketers is that IDC expects an 8.9 percent growth of the smartphone market in 2009.

Yahoo's browser enhancements