5 really good reasons to postpone the launch of your killer product

by accelera on May 30, 2010

Most mornings when I wake up I have a really excited feeling in the pit of my stomach. Most evenings when I lie down to sleep my mind is still whirring away trying to work out how today could have been better and what the best use of tomorrow is. These feelings will be familiar [...]

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Making money from free iphone apps.

by accelera on May 16, 2010

Time and again I return to the question of how do we make money out of our app. It’s not that I’m obsessed with the money sides it just so happens that I’ve shovelled loads of our cash into this project and have been promising that this is an investment that has a good chance [...]

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The 7 habits of highly productive iphone users.

May 7, 2010

Productivity is the 4th most popular category on Apple’s app store showing a keen appetite for productivity apps amongst Iphone users. We have embraced the idea that we can become more productive by using our Iphones to perform some of our work tasks whilst on the move. This requires a certain discipline and by introducing [...]

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Adobe vs Apple – A Playground fight.

May 2, 2010

Those kids are at it again! Steve Jobs and Adobe’s CEO, Shantanu Narayen are having a spat over Adobe’s desire and Job’s objection to putting Flash player on the iphone. The argument runs something like this,
SJ: Your flash is rubbish it will make my iphones run slowly, crash and be unpredictable.
SN: Your users aren’t going [...]

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Genius loves company

April 30, 2010

Some strange combinations can fit together so well that they seem heaven sent.. like peanut butter and Jelly, maple syrup and bacon, porridge with salt, Eminem and Dido, Tom Jones and Robbie Williams – their weirdness is matched in equal measure by their delightfulness.
Combining things that don’t ‘belong’ with each other is one of the [...]

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The ten commandments of iphone app development

April 28, 2010

Apple’s promise of “an app for everything” is a most enticing sales pitch. Almost every desktop application you can think of has been repackaged for the iphone experience. For the most part these offer enjoyable vignettes of the complete experience and at 99 cents a pop who’s going to complain? As an iphone user I [...]

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What does your business card say about you?

April 27, 2010

There is a scene in the film American Psycho where a number of young partners are showing off their business cards. The cards all look more or less identical, black writing on a white background but to these young executives the subtlest nuance signifies the bearer’s superiority. This scene puts an individuals desire to express [...]

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Efctv comm..

April 26, 2010

Goethe once said “Sorry for writing this long letter I didn’t have time for a shorter one!” To be effective communication needs to be tailored to our audiences. As it’s a universal truth that time is in short supply, taking the time to be concise and to the point shows real consideration.
If Goethe were alive [...]

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How social networking can really work for you

April 25, 2010

How do you choose your friends? Social media and the Internet are blurring the definition of friendship we find ourselves friend-ing all sorts of inanimate objects, groups and long forgotten classmates. People and companies that used to be kept at arms length are increasingly finding new ways to infiltrate our private space to use and [...]

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How to be truly creative

April 24, 2010

When Dr David Michael said “we stand on the shoulders of those that came before us” he could of been talking about any great endeavour that humans have acomplished. In fact he was talking about the struggle for civil rights in the USA and specifically the emancipation of black people. Taking a hard won ideal [...]

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