Posts Tagged ‘iphone’
December 15th, 2009
iMLost without my iPhone. Navigation applications are being exerted as “must haves” in every day life.

Auxiliary or Necessity?Traffic App 2

Have you ever went a day without electricity? I bet not. Try it. Should be interesting. Well, iPhone dependence is becoming more and more common every day. There are so many applications out there that appear to be so helpful, it’s hard to think what you would do without it.

The iPhone can now be used as your very own GPS. GPS systems started out at $900 a piece when they first came out. Now they are going down in price. Who needs a GPS, when you can download an app. to get around on your iPhone for as low as $0.99! The iPhone is now being looked at as the All-In-One, helpful tool. Heck you can even use the thing as a level to put up a picture on the wall!  Yeah, you have the internet to get you to Map Quest from your phone but that takes five-thousand extra steps, so why not get something customized for your phone and your patience.

Again, another new piece of technology, which started out being an auxiliary, is now a necessity for people who are highly adaptive to convenience.

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October 5th, 2009
Tips for Designing Mobile Applications

Designing for mobile applications is quite different from designing for conventional computers, such as laptops or desktops. If you were to port a website, for example, to a mobile device, it would mean more than simply making a miniature version of it. Think of mobile applications more like a child of a main application, rather than a miniature version. The mobile application shares many of the attributes of its parent application, but like any real child, it is not miniature copy of its parent. Here are a few things to consider when designing a mobile application: Read the rest of this entry »

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