Nov 18
I am working on this startup these days where we are working with different moble platforms to bring this new idea on board. Basically, everyone has some dead contacts on their mobile phone and we wanted to keep that up-to date with lots of effort. To remove this time and effort, we started this new idea where everyone will be conneted with other person and they will push their updates or receive updates in their mobile itself.
The first one will be going to iPhone, but the site is ready now for web users. Now, you can download the vCard version from the site directly into your desktop mail clients.
URL - http://www.amigle.com/
Please send us your feedback, bugs, ideas to support@amigle.com.
Sep 25
Apple released the first Beta after iPhone OS 2.1 surprise release. As usual, we don’t have any additional information about when the push services will be made available for developers. As of now, the release note mentions that this release covers the compatibility (iPhone OS 2.1 ?) and bug fixes. I haven’t played it yet with the new SDK and hoping to see the things soon.
Version History:
Due to NDA, I cannot publish other things like README or Release Notes. Hope to see good things with this release and resolve lots of other issues with previous versions. Cut/Copy/Paste will be nice too !!!
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Sep 19
I decided to find a better way to get some money out of my 1.5 yrs efforts behind Apple’s iPhone. I tried simple apps and asked for a buck! People didn’t like it and few went too far. Then i made most of them in a lite version. Then I see a sudden change in Downloads. I realized one thing that, it’s all behind the value users expect out of $1.
I started thinking at AdMob to get implemented in my iPhone applications. I read a lot about it in the Web. It’s still early. There are few things which will discourage you to use it. One of the blogs which is very valuable on that topic is http://www.doipod.com/ipod/2008/08/admob-still-not.html. But I wanted to give a shot anyway.
I added the advertisement and posted it for Apple’s approval. Eventually, it will take another few more weeks to get it published and see the response. I will keep it posted here. But I am thinking that if this works (as it says), I may get some revenue coming back with the effort. Worst case i will get $1 a day which is another $300 overall !!!
Look at AdMob at http://www.admob.com/.
Aug 20
There are so many US centric applications available already in App Store which are really great and most of them are free. But there were no applications targeted Indians to use this great technology with their Mobile experience. The following apps are great and simple to start with and the updates are getting posted quite often. These applications are more towards what users requested and wanted rather than what the developer thinks.
India News - This application provides simple UI for reading news from various sources. Particularly Indians check The Hindu, Times of India, and other sites quite often. But considering other free RSS readers, you may need to configure them and set lots of other options for you to get a feel of a seperate software to read news related to India. It’s almost like Outlook email folder after they start growing. This small application targets only those newspapers which are specific for India and it has lots of cool features. It stores the stories for a daily use. Loading will be faster or you can read it when you are not in a coverage area. Good if you have limited Data Plan. Also, you can read lots of other pages from those favorite news papers. Lot more to come. Keep checking the site at URL.
Cricket - This is a game which stays all the time with Indian Blood. Most of the people in India listen or track cricket all the time. There are several paid Scoring application using SMS and Web. What if you are driving and wanted to spend less and get the scores right on your phone. There is this simple solution which provides Live Cricket scores in a simple way from CricInfo feed. It’s a 2 minute delayed content and you can have it refresh automatically or manually. It’s really cool to jump into the site when you require more information. Also, it provides news from other sources like ABC Australia, BBC and more to come. This application caches the headlines from those feeds on a daily basic. So, if you are traveling to a place with low signal or wanted not to use mobile minutes, this is a great choice. Check it out at URL.
Tamil Daily - This is a one page application which make the life easy when you wanted to see Tamil calendar immediately when you are not close to one. It has the daily sheets scanned and displayed from the wall calendar. It covers year 2008 and you can easily navigate from day to day or month to month. Simple way is to swipe left or right to move forward or backward. Very simple to use and a handy tool. Please check here for more information.
Jul 29
Man, being in iPhone SDK Developer program is like having no sex after getting married. Whole fun is gone. Its like fight club. “Do not talk about iPhone SDK…”. Anyway, i installed 2.1 on my phone and i had several issues on my phone. I desperately wanted to get back to iPhone OS 2.0. I tried all possible ways and this worked.
CRASH THE PHONE. Try to restore the phone back to 2.1 and disconnect it at the middle of it. Now connect iTunes and get the recent 2.0 update automatically when you sync.
Easy !!!
Jul 25
I am running a PHPBB forum for iPhone. I wanted to do SEO work for that for a while. I recently found out the good one to do it as mod for phpBB 3.0. The site is at PHPBB 3 - SEO checklist and it had a good review too. I did all those things described there. My current search listing in google is low and my google pagerank is zero right now. I will update the status sometime in the future. Good work.
