Earn money by testing iPhone apps and create a buzz for your own apps

Posted on August 11, 2010 by @pka13

A French website (AppVIP) offers to test new apps and earn some money. If you’re a developer or publisher of applications for iPhone, this site helps to promote your product, and obtain the opinion of many users. Promote an application is difficult because many applications already exist on the appstore. Create a buzz is very important and you must be present in the “tops” of the appstore. I guess this site can help you. Here is the link to this new service.

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Your keys are inside your iPhone

Posted on August 6, 2010 by @pka13

A french start-up, called Openways, has created an application to open doors with an iPhone.

By example an hotel can send an invitation to a customer, this customer can use an application with an unique encrypted sound to open the door of his room. Or you can invite your plumber or the babysitter to open your door when you decide it.

This application will be available for iPhone and other smartphones soon. This company announced recently tests with several Holiday Inn Hotels.

I believe in this type of application. I hope smartphones will someday combine encrypted sounds with RFID technology.

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Mockup for iPhone

Posted on July 30, 2010 by @pka13

mockupMake a mockup (wireframe) is an important step for a project or a product manager. You can imagine your application and explain easily your idea to the developers or your own manager ! Several projects exists for iphone or ipad mockup : powerpoint or photoshop files by example. But Mockup for iPhone is a native application to create your mockup directly on your device.

Unfortunately lot of important functions are not yet on this app but i hope new releases will be submitted on the Appstore.

More details here.

Mockup on Itunes

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Choose your menu with the iPad

Posted on July 21, 2010 by @pka13

A new way to choose your menu in the restaurant is now available at Lille (France) or at Sidney (Australia). Forget the traditional paper menu, and imagine an application on the iPad. You can view the menus, the suggestions, and maybe later : your favorites, make your order, write your opinion or choose your music, and why not check in with Foursquare ? I can have a lot of ideas for this application and i’m sure you too ! ;-)

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OTRS for iPhone ?

Posted on July 17, 2010 by @pka13

OTRS official website announced an iPhone release. OTRS is an acronym for Open Source Ticket Request System. I use OTRS for my daily activity of project management and support by email. When a customer sends an email to us, OTRS opens a new ticket and we can manage lot of functions. I’m waiting this release of OTRS for iphone (and ipad) since a long time now.

http://otrs.org/news/2010/otrs_iphone_app_update/

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A slideshare to understand the Apple’s strategy

Posted on July 9, 2010 by @pka13

Good job from Fabernovel.
With several cases you’ll have a better understanding of Apple’s strategy and you’ll probably learn lot of things about Apple’s products.

Apple Study: 8 easy steps to beat Microsoft (and Google)

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PhoneBook : The iPhone Ties Parent and Child Together

Posted on June 29, 2010 by @pka13

It’s the hybrid book which combined iPhone and an ordinary book. You can enjoy interactive actions there, by touching the screen or tipping the book as you read it.

I’m a father of 2 little girls (2 and 4 years old). I was surprised by Alice on the iPad, now i’m really pleased to discover PhoneBook. Really great idea from Japan (2980 yens on Amazon -> 25 euros).

More details here

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WWDC 2010 for everyone. Thanks to Apple !

Posted on June 19, 2010 by @pka13

From yesterday Apple’s developers can download for free all sessions video from WWDC 2010.

But what’s WWDC ? WWDC is the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference. Steve Jobs announced the iPhone 4 in the WWDC.

Videos HD and PDF are on the excellent iTunes U and free for all developer with a free account on Apple website.

It’s really interesting. Thanks to Apple for this good idea.

wwdc

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HTML 5 and CSS 3 : Sencha a Javascript framework to develop with web standards

Posted on June 18, 2010 by @pka13

HTML 5 and CSS 3 are probably the future of the web (special thanks to Safari, Chrome, Firefox). On iPhone and iPad HTML 5 and CSS 3 offer new opportunities to develop new applications. I would like to present you Sencha, a Javascript framework. Please watch this screencast for more informations. I guess i will work on HTML 5 and CSS 3 on the next few days, don’t you ? :-)

Sencha Touch Introduction

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Home automation solutions on your iOS device

Posted on June 12, 2010 by @pka13

Today with new technologies we can have a house or an apartment with complete automation system.

Some examples that we already know :

  • Water management : opening the tap when you approach your hands
  • Opening and closing shutters
  • Turn heating to the good temperature
  • Intercom, digicodes.

There are many other applications we can imagine for our future green houses :

  • Lights can turn off when nobody is in a room
  • Heating can go off when you open a windows

Now imagine an application to control all automatic things in your house : lights, heating, air conditioning, windows, shutters, TV, hi-fi system, computers etc … with Wifi or 3G connection !

Unfortunately i can’t test but i can easily imagine the house of my dreams. This is a real investment to save money and energy and improve our daily life.

More details here.

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