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2010 WWDC Developer Design Award Results (iPad & iPhone)
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010Marketing Your App is Getting Easier Thanks to Apple
Friday, October 16th, 2009Apple has unveiled a new way to market your iphone apps by allowing you to provide a free app and then charge to enable additional functionality. This is known as their “In App Purchase” program. I have always been a big proponent of this approach. Try before you buy has worked since the beginning of time to sell products and the iphone app is no different. Amazon, for example, let’s you read a few pages of most books with their “Look Inside” approach. There’s a lot less risk to a customer if they can try out some of the functionality of your app first then make a buying decision. Now, you don’t have to create a separate free app for download. You can use the same app.
As I’ve said before in my classes you still have to do a very careful job of delineation on how much functionality you provide up front. You want to provide enough to catch a buyer’s attention but not so much that they don’t have to purchase your app to gain the full value. this is still the tricky part.
To learn more about how you can add In App Purchases to your free app visit the App Store Resource Center.
Major free updates to iWorks 9.0
Monday, September 28th, 2009The update is free at Apple | Software Update
Includes:
Addresses general compatibility issues
- Updates the help
- Adds a link to online resources in the Help menu
- Improves image handling when reducing the file size of images with Instant Alpha applied
- Improves file size management when inserting some movies
Keynote 5.0.3
- Improves the reliability of guides by changing the display frequency and relevance
- Resolves an issue with GarageBand exports
- Fixes an issue when working with Move actions in chart builds
- Addresses an issue with the preview of some charts in the Build inspector
- Resolves an issue when pasting a Numbers table that has cells with wrap turned on
- Resolves an issue where pasting multiple cells containing duration or date/time values into the Chart Data Editor would only paste zeros
- Fixes an issue with Sleep when the computer’s battery has completely discharged while playing a presentation
- Resolves an issue with updating thumbnail previews in Navigator view after sending a presentation via Mail as PDF or PowerPoint
- Improves reliability when dragging and dropping text in Outline view
- Adds a presentation preference for showing the slide switcher when scrolling
Pages 4.0.3
- Resolves an issue where copying and pasting multiple cells containing duration or date/time values in the Chart Data Editor would only paste zeros
- Improves reliability when working with objects in Full-Screen mode
- Fixes an issue with saving documents with EndNote citations containing multi-byte characters when using Mac OS X 10.6
- Resolves an issue with EndNote citations when using Mail Merge
Numbers 2.0.3
- Fixes an issue with columns and categorized checkboxes
- Addresses an issue with categories and CSV export
- Improves reliability of import and export of some Microsoft Excel files
- Addresses an issue that could cause formulas to stop working after formatting a cell
- Fixes an issue with hiding or deleting rows in categorized tables
- Improves reliability when reverting a document to the saved version
- Addresses an issue caused by quitting without saving after editing some templates
- Fixes an issue with deleting table columns containing chart data
- Resolves an issue that prevented dropping an audio file into a media placeholder
iWork.com Beta
- Enhances security with 128-bit SSL encryption and document password protection
- Improves document reviewing capabilities with Comment notification features
- E-mail invitations are now sent via iWork.com instead of using Mac OS X Mail
China readies to embrace iPhone Apps
Monday, September 28th, 2009Scottsdale, AZ – September 29, 2009 – xcelMe, the worldwide leader in live online iPhone development and marketing training, will be presenting iPhone Development and iPhone Game Programming keynote and workshops in Beijing China October 22-24, 2009 at CSDN.net. CSDN.net is one of the largest development conferences for mobile software development in China.
Gary Bennett, xcelMe President says, “The iPhone becomes available on October 1, 2009 to the largest population of developers and consumers on the planet. We are extremely excited to be able to discuss iPhone software development to one of the world’s largest mobile software development communities. Additionally, we are looking forward to showing iPhone owners in China some of the 83,000 apps already available on their iPhone and iPhone Touch.”
xcelMe.com offers seven courses in their series, given worldwide, from 2-4 weeks in duration. Classes are taught live, twice a week, and are recorded for later viewing by any student. The cost of each course is only $97 and can also be purchased in discounted bundles.
The live online courses are:
- Intro to Object Oriented Programming and Logic
- Objective-C 2.0 for iPhone Developers
- Cocoa & xCode for iPhone Developers
- iPhone SDK Programming – Getting it Done!
- iPhone SDK Programming – Advanced
- Beginning iPhone Game Development **New**
- Introduction to Marketing iPhone Apps
Additional information about xcelMe.com or the iPhone online development courses can be found by visiting www.xcelMe.com or by calling at (480) 776-9111.