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  • KPI time!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    OK… so it is now officially the end of the working year and I was thinking the other day about a few things I have set for myself to have done by the yearly reviews next year in July. One of my ‘KPI’s’ was to have an iPhone application submitted to the app store. Now…

  • Apple teases ‘Black Friday’ shoppers

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Apple has advertised that they are marking the beginning of the Christmas shopping season with a special one day shopping event. You’re invited to “wrap it up” this Friday when the apple online store will be having a sale on iPods, iPads and other Mac gifts. This isn’t the first time Apple have had a Black…

  • Android’s share of market jumps 600%

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    In the third quarter of last year, Android accounted for 3.5% of the market, now, they are at 25.5%! Can you believe it? This puts them ahead of Apple, Microsoft and the makers of Blackberry, with the main takeover prominent in North America. In the third quarter of 2010 more than 20 million handsets running…

  • Apple MacBook Air’s Next Generation

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Apple have now released the new generation of MacBook’s available in an 11 inch and 13 inch screen size. The MacBook Air. This MacBook runs off a flash drive instead of a hard drive, which, if you already have an iPod, iTouch, iPhone etc… then you already have the experience of using such development. It’s…

  • iPhone Accessories

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    So you’ve got a brand new iPhone 4, what to do next? Accessorise!! The iPhone 4 is probably the most sought after smart phone on the market, even considering the recent hiccups in terms of reception, it seems that the world once again loves iPhone. What’s not to love about a phone that can provide…

  • iPad or PlayBook?

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    By now everyone has heard of Blackberry’s attempt to go up against Apple’s iPad, but what will make you sway towards buying one? Well, let’s compare a couple of things: The PlayBook is smaller in screen size than the iPad (7 inches up against 9.7 inches); PlayBook weights 400g to the iPad’s 700g; and iPad…

  • The Genius of Design

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The ABC is showing a series called the Genius of Design starting this week on Tuesday evening. It should be compulsory viewing for anyone with an interest in the way design influences our lives. We live in a designed world, created by a diverse group of specialists that we call designers. This series tells the…

  • iPhone UITableView Selected State

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    While playing around the other day in Xcode, I wanted to change a row of a table view to a different colour other than blue when selected. Now after having a look high and low for a solution, I figured I would throw a few things at it and see what I could come up…

  • Designing for iPhone 4’s Retina Display

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Hmmm, ok so the new iPhone 4 is pretty amazing with some really amazing enhancements on the previous model such as the new high resolution retina display which now doubles the resolution to 640×960 pixels. The screen resolution on Apple operating systems (OS) has always been superior to other OS’ especially in internet browsers (if…