The combination of clock + radio has been a classic for over 50 years and now it’s available for your iPhone or iPod Touch. The new application, designed and developed by Raizlabs makes use of a retro-style LCD clock display with an internet radio dial featuring over 25,000 stations. While many applications for the iPhone […]
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Think about your day-to-day activities. What do you do? Where do you go? Would it be as easy and simple to go through the motions for someone who has a visual impairment or other accessibility need? This isn’t something that we tend to think about: how accessible is this task or action? Is there a […]
Read MoreIn this week’s episode of AppCorner we chat all about Apple’s rumored iWatch speculation. Will it actually happen or do we think Apple is moving into another realm? Also, we chat recent Twitter brand hacking, the new Mailbox app and as always, recommend our apps of the week! AppCorner is hosted by the team at […]
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Building an app? Deciding whether or not to write “native” code will be the first technical choice you make. This single decision affects everything that follows, from whom you can hire to customer satisfaction to first-year revenue. It’s not always crystal-clear what tech teams mean when discussing native and since we often get asked to […]
Read MoreGoogle took web analytics by storm, but up until recently, their mobile offering was always a bit clunky. For our mobile client work we’ve historically recommended alternative solutions to Google Analytics – i.e. Localytics (we built their SDK) or Flurry, which have provided great mobile analytics services for a number of years. That being said, […]
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What is an API? API(noun): An application programming interface. In layman’s terms, a way for computers to talk to one another in a predefined format. APIs define a clear way for computers to communicate with one another. Think of an API as a way to query information. In simplistic terms, if I say: “What […]
Read MoreI woke up July 3rd excited, I had a golden ticket to Google NYC to get my hands on Google Glass, the new head-mounted technology from Google. Half Gordi La Forge, half Android phone strapped to your head. Going into the experience I have to admit I was a skeptic. My skepticism stemmed not from […]
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It’s that time of year again. Spring showers are gradually yielding to beautiful summer flowers and the smell of freshly mowed lawn hangs in the air, as the sound of the neighborhood children playing in the yard brings joy to our hearts. For most, June is the feeling of summer creeping just around the corner. […]
Read MoreWhile user interface designers cannot affect the shape, dimensions, or textures of the device we are working with, we can affect how people use them. The use of ergonomics is a latent factor in application design. If you don’t notice it, it means that the app is doing it right. If you do notice it, […]
Read MoreLocation Location Location. GPS Twit is a new application that makes it easy for your friends and contacts to track your location around the world. The application is freely available from the iTunes application store for IPhone devices as well as for Windows mobile phones. Users can visit www.gpstwit.com to download the application. The software […]
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