With over 100,000 apps available on the iTunes App Store, developers are striving to be seen. If your iPhone App is on the front page of the App Store, sales tend to rise. What if your App is in the actual Apple Store? Will it help sales? I guess it could, but most users won’t make the leap from an image in the store to the app in iTunes. That said, at least you can say “My app was featured in the Apple Store”.
My app was featured in the Apple Store.
Here it is, yet another video showing the process of creating an iPhone app, just a bit inspired by the video posted by tap tap tap. As you’ll see, this whole post is full of inspiration.
My latest project has been for a client that was looking for a focused percentage calculator. A quick search through the App Store shows a lot of tip calculators and even some percentage calculators. It would be very easy to pop a few controls and some simple math together to make an app, but aren’t Mac / iPhone interfaces supposed to be a bit more thought out? Well, yeah.
Keep reading for a video showing the process of designing the app from sketch, to final product. Or just check out the app on iTunes (iTunes link)
Exactly one month ago, I decided to stop using web clients and start using desktop clients for some frequent tasks. What did I find? I like theweb clients better. For most of the apps I tried, I lasted about a day or two.
Why? I don’t know. Maybe I have pre-conditioned myself to automatically open the browser over the last 15 years. In some cases, I simply preferred the web version. These are all great apps though, here’s the break down:
So there it is. I’m a web-based junkie.
Monday is here and as promised, atebits has released Tweetie for Mac. Having spent the $2.99 for the iPhone version I had high hopes for the Mac version. With a couple exceptions, it is great!
I’ve been a Twhirl user for some time, it ended up being the better of many, many twitter clients. I think I may switch, however to Tweetie for one feature alone: Conversation view. Being able to click on a conversation I have no context for and seeing what is going on makes so much sense, I’m suprised it hasn’t happened before. (It may have, I just haven’t looked)
The worst part, no opacity option. While this seems simple enough to ignore, It helped in the focus department. Set the opacity to 20% when not active and you don’t see the thousands of tweets streaming by every second.
Sacrifice! I’ll have to sacrifice opacity for a better, in my opinion, UI. Good UI makes me happy.