Posts Tagged ‘Mac OS’

Long time Mac developer finds developing for iPhone interesting: Interview with Pierre Bernard, developer of the highly successful ACT Sudoku

Long time Mac developer finds developing for iPhone interesting: Interview with Pierre Bernard, developer of the highly successful ACT Sudoku

Developer name: Pierre Bernard Developing Since:2004 Company Name:Houdah Software s.à r.l Apps at the App Store:2 Location:Luxembourg, Europe About Dev: Tell us a little about you, and your current company. I founded Houdah Software in December 2005. Before that I worked for 6 years at the central bank in Luxembourg. There I developed in-house applications built upon Apple's WebObjects frameworks. In the early days of Houdah Software I used to spend half of my time as a consultant on various WebObjects projects. Then I made transition to Mac OS X development only. Houdah Software currently has 2 successful Mac products: HoudahSpot and HoudahGeo. These are respectively a Read More...

Travel better in the information highway: The case of 3rd party web browsers for the iPhone

Travel better in the information highway: The case of 3rd party web browsers for the iPhone

The recent buzz at the App Store has been created is the fact that Apple has allowed 3rd party browsers. That sure has caught up some wind in the world of virtual surfing and third party browsers are appearing at the App Store. If not yet at the dime a dozen rate, certainly something that you will wake up and take a notice of if you are a fan of palmtop, mobile and finally, iPhone browsing. However, why do we need a third party browser? Safari does a pretty good job. Even in its watered down version for the iPhone and Read More...

Interview with Jeff Rock: Developer of Tumblrette the popular social networking application

Interview with Jeff Rock: Developer of Tumblrette the popular social networking application

Developer name: Jeff Rock Company Name: Mobelux Location:U.S.A. Apps at the App Store:1 Website: Mobelux About Dev: Tell us a little about you, and your current company. My name is Jeff Rock. I live in Richmond, VA, and I co-founded Mobelux with Garrett Ross in September of 2008. We'd been going back and forth about starting a software company for years, but when Apple announced the iPhone SDK it all kind of fell into place. We both have a passion for well-designed software and we knew that this might be the only time that we  could get in on the ground floor of something great, so Read More...

Microsoft comes to the Apple Store with Seadragon Mobile

Microsoft comes to the Apple Store with Seadragon Mobile

Microsoft has just launched an app under the photography category at the App Store. The Seadragons Mobile app, developed by the Microsoft Live Labs has just made an entry to the App Store before making its entry to the Windows Mobile Platform: Alex Daley, group product manager for Microsoft Live Labs, tells CNET news: The iPhone is the most widely distributed phone with a (graphics processing unit), "Most phones out today don't have accelerated graphics in them. The iPhone does and so it enabled us to do something that has been previously difficult to do. The brouhaha of Microsoft entering the App Store Read More...

iPhone Web Browsing statistic

iPhone Web Browsing statistic

Did you ever wonder how many people use their iPhone or iPod to  access internet? We have covered this earlier, this is the updated statistic. Web search using an iPhone has gone up from 0.31%, to a record high of 0.48%. With this, iPhone OS is still the fourth most popular operating system for net browsing after Windows, Mac OS and Linux. Windows retains the first position at 91. 02% followed by Mac OS and  Linux at 7.76% and 0.82% respectively. Playstation (0.04) and SunOS (0.01) comes after the iPhone. With this rate of growth, the market cap of Apple too is Read More...