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Monday, November 28th, 2011
Ever since I got my new bicycle, I wanted to find a way to record videos of my rides. I’m planning to make a video with a bunch of stuff I’ve done here in Miami and I thought that my bike rides could be a great source of footage.
The first thought of course was to buy a GoPro HD camera, but I didn’t want to spend that much money, and I wasn’t really planning to do anything extreme that involved water or mud. Since I already own a small device capable of taking awesome videos–my iPhone 4S—I tried to figure out a way to use that on my bike.
Most bike supports for the iPhone are made so that you could use the phone as a bike computer, so they weren’t ideal for my purpose. After some research, I came up with the following setup:
Here’s a picture of the final result:
While I already had a Glif, I was afraid that a bump could throw the iPhone off the track with a tragic outcome. That’s why I opted for the Canopy Jumba, which I was able to find on Amazon for $20 (apparently that store doesn’t carry the case anymore). Another alternative could be the XShot case, but I’ve never tried it so I’m not sure on how secure the tripod adaptor is.
Here’s a video made mostly with this setup:
Tags: Bike, Camera, iPhone, Video
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The problem of developing for Android
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
This morning I saw this great chart by Michael Degusta that clearly shows Android’s poor support for its phones. This is the reason why enterprises are choosing iOS devices over Android ones. This is why many company choose to develop for iOS first. This is why many developers choose to stick with iOS only.
Few months ago I bought a Nexus One, so that I could test some Android apps we are developing at 39, and yesterday I found out that Ice Cream Sandwich (the upcoming Android version) won’t be available since the phone is too obsolete. Now, this is a phone that is only few months older than the iPhone 3gs, that is still sold, supported and updated by Apple.
Tags: Android, iOS, iPhone, Nexus One
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Every single one
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
You can tell how much Steve Jobs impacted so many people in the tech industry looking at this screenshot from Hacker News last night: every single story on the front page was about Steve Jobs.
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Tablets, before and after the iPad
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Via @ReiVersuri
Tags: iPad, Tablets
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Possible picture of an iPhone 5
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
If you ask me, this look legit, and if it’s a fake, this is a pretty close guess of what the iPhone 5 will look like. Apparently this picture was taken yesterday in the office of a French operator.
Tags: iPhone, Rumor
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Wondering who is making money on the Mac App Store?
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Look no further than Apple. They have 9 out of 10 applications in the Top Grossing chart, also strong of the newly released Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor.
I heard a lot of people complaining about the new Final Cut Pro, especially because it won’t let import projects from Final Cut Pro 7, turning off a lot of pros in the video production industry. But in my opinion I still think this new version of Final Cut will be a huge success, especially for those mid-low budget productions.
On another note, congrats to Pixelmator for being there, I love that application and I’m looking forward to post some tutorial for it on this blog.
And of course I’m looking forward to launch a couple of apps in the Mac App Store with 39 Inc. and Fifth Layer (the company behind SyncPad).
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Link: Resources for iOS designers
Friday, February 4th, 2011
An amazing collection of resources for iOS app designers from the developers of Boxcar. If you, like me, often design for these devices, you are going to love it.
Tags: iOS, Resources
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What I learned doing support for SyncPad
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
About a week ago we launched SyncPad, the very first iPad whiteboard app for remote collaboration. This was the first time we released a ten-dollar application, and things were different than usual. Here are a few of the things I learned:
- They will e-mail you: For most of our previous applications, most of the feedback we received was via reviews on the App Store, but when it comes to a business-oriented application that cost $9.99, expect to receive e-mails. Luckily for us, most of them were very nice e-mails with positive comments and a lot of suggestions on how to improve our product.
- Users love great human support: It may sound like an obvious thing, but it’s not. A lot of companies still don’t understand the value of great support. Good support solves problems. Great support creates evangelists and enthusiasts. Here are two examples:
Thanks for the email, I know you guys are busy, taking the time to send an email was enough for me to buy your software. I’ll let you know how it goes. Try to keep the human touch as a simple email went a long way.
Regards,
Dennisor
That is great to hear.
I also want to let you know I appreciate your feed back and will be sure to mention that in a positive way when I rate the app on iTunes.
I know it is not much, but so few developers reply it is great to find one that does!
Brian *****Try to reply to all the customers within 3-4 hours; they will love it!
- Be yourself: If you are not a corporation, don’t reply to your customers like one. If your users see that on the other side of the e-mail there is a person who cares, their attitude will immediately change, and they will start caring more about your product. They will feel as if they are supporting you instead of feeling as if they just bought a product from Walmart.
- Learn from your users: When we came up with the idea for SyncPad, I mostly envisioned how I would use it myself. Well, apparently that’s not how our users want to use it, and we couldn’t ignore that. Most of the people who contacted us are using, or planning to use, SyncPad more for presentations than actual collaboration sessions, and they had a specific set of features to improve the app.
It’s important to know how to say “no” to your customers, because you can’t add every requested feature, but at the same time you need to know when you just have to follow their lead. In our case, we took those features we thought would make SyncPad a much better product, and you will see them in version 1.1.
Being on the front-line of support really connects you with your users. I’d recommend that anyone with a startup or a product try it for at least one week, and I assure you that you will learn more in that week of dialoging with your users than in months of researching.
For more info about SyncPad visit mySyncPad.com
or download SyncPad from the AppStore
Tags: iOS, iOS Applications, SyncPad
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Another coincidence
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
I’m sure this is a coincidence, just like this one.
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