Aardvarks to Zorillas - Anything goes

Interesting book that is written for the non-programmer and the programmer, who has the technical abilities but lacks the marketing skill to peddle his wares. There are some obvious stories as to the need to plan and the approach but there are a lot of other stuff that would assist the man of ideas. The book starts in a typical way as to where you can start with an idea for the iphone, that can become the million dollar idea. It brings down your enthusiasm with stories about how nearly 99 percent of the applications in the store are not making the millions but the select one percent. The book covers the store, the various pricing tiers and a lot of material can be had for 99 dollars once you become part of the Apple Developer Connection. It does give a good overview of the apple iTunes store for the un-initiated. The books in interspread with Interviews with successful UI designers who made it in the store, as well as the people from the industry (the advertisement industry). The...

Some of the apps in my iPad. Check out as I introduce some of other interesting ones as I get a snap shot of the screens. To take a screen shot, all you have to do is hold the Menu Button and the Switch Off button in the ipad or the iphone to take a snap shot.  The screen shots on the left are from my iTunes. I have not yet synched my applications and there are a few that I would review and post my comments. Keep on the watch out.

Is this a kindle killer - Sort of and May be yes. We love colors and colors make our lives interesting. The iPad brings that to the ereaders and much more. I have tried using the iPad in the last few days and have liked the great screen and the sensitive touch screen on the iPad, but there is a large laundry list when it comes to nice to have features. As always the case, an Occam's razor hangs over its head, we expect it to do much more than that - after all it is an Apple product. There are quite a good bad ugly list for this product. I have in this post rambled on those lines after using the device for the last few days. The Good: It is apple quality build. Have not seen any other company, which has the industrial design team as apple does, it shows and the now familiar aluminum billet laser engraved to fit the components, oozes class and has the finish and finesse. The product has a great screen, from the colors it displays and other aspects of it. Though I hate device...