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It may not be the dark ages but people losing their homes and having to deal with a bad credit rating for seven years is pretty bad. Maybe in the dark ages, a second chance was a l…

I agree. What works for me as a programmer is to get into the zone as quickly as possible. I like to set aside one day of the week to handle miscellaneous tasks. Other days its all…

I guess I will answer my own question. The app compareAnywhere won the Android ADC 1 Contest. Here is a link below: http://code.google.com/android/adc/adc_gallery/app.html?id=8 Tha…

I might be wrong on this but I will say it anyway. The original idea for this came out of the Google App contest for Android. This was the idea that won the competition. So the ide…

Not sure I agree with it. I can think of at least two people - Henry Ford and Walt Disney whose success came after a long string of failures. And that's just the cream of the crop.…

I developed a webapp (project management) before deciding to go native. Some of the additional reasons why I believe users prefer native apps are: 1. The app store app and iTunes m…

The top competition for netbooks and the Chrome OS will the smartphones. Smartphones are in a position to be your second computer in the next few years. Personally I prefer the sma…

The lesser evil would have been to allow everyone an update at least once a month. The current app store policies encourage developers to iterate apps i.e develop a bunch of apps i…

I have now two published apps in the App Store. Both business apps - one in finance and the other in business. The biggest change they have made that took me off their platform was…

That's why the happiest people are those who are enjoying themselves when others see them as working.

I have to agree with the Article. Jobs is truly a visionary when it comes to technology. The article is not really clear on why he is unique. Here's my perspective. Steve Jobs has …

Well, the one thing that motivates me to come back to entrepreneurship despite some past failures is simply the fact that, There is a future in working for yourself. If your plan s…

After a few months of in the App store, I am finally realizing the realities. A month ago they told me I had information that would be confusing across regions. I changed it immedi…

Anyone have any scoop on when the public SDK will be available? I bought a Palm Pre hoping that it will be available soon.

In my humble opinion, I can't see the Kindle succeeding in this pricing model. I really respect Bezos but to me he is seeing things from his side not the customers. The consumer ha…

The iPhone 3.0 SDK GM seed has been available for a while now.

I just bought a Pre this weekend. My main gripe is the keyboard. The keys are too small.The operating seems to not respond at times. Maybe they released the product too early. I ju…

I was only thinking of Jobs.

Not good.

No typo, timburks. Before the app store debut around July 2007, web apps was the only way to develop for the iphone. With Webapps, Apple simply place your application on their http…

Does the time depend on the category you are posting to? I got a productivity webapp approved in one week last July. I will be posting another finance app to the app store but I do…

I am a recent cook-for-relaxation person. Going through their web site, the main differentiation factor is the tried-and-true recipe factor. Apparently they try each recipe 30-40 t…