Sharing what we’ve built
7 October 2009
Inspired Zdnet's prediction of the smartphone market, I gazed into my own crystal ball for 5 reasons why Google Android will prevail in the coming years. 1. Android is an open source…
3 October 2009
The chart below compares the mobile operating system market in a period of 6 months – Feb vs Aug. More details can be found in Admob Aug 09 report . It is…
24 September 2009
Cheating on the Internet is a common thing, since it usually cost nothing, and tools are easily available. Plus a lack of police-ing, cheating is wild. I will be highlighting some ways…
12 September 2009
If you develop mobile applications on other platforms such as Java ME, iPhone, Winmos or others, making a HTTP/TCP/UDP connection to the Internet is straightforward. The underlying network used is either Wifi…
9 September 2009
Apple latest OS X 10.6, otherwise better known as Snow Leopard, is selling in a few flavors – $29 for single user upgrade, $59 for family pack upgrade and $169 for single…
19 August 2009
Canalys released report on smartphone market shares for Q2 2009. For the detailed report, go to Canalys . iPhone growth is an exhilarating 626.9%! That makes iPhone roughly 60 times more exciting…
10 August 2009
Android Developer Challenge 2 (ADC) is just like American Idol , a big contest for software developers. The first similarity is that there are big prizes to be won. A whopping total…
5 August 2009
VN Girls is a newly released app. There is a free version and a $1.99 paid version to download. But right now, you may be able to get the $1.99 version without…
2 August 2009
These are for grabs: 1. 9J6FJENMLKRL 2. TRYM6XY37YE4 3. 7P9RWLNMWYPE 4. LLYFKKK67YR4 Please leave a note if you used one of the code, and do write a review in App Store too.…
21 July 2009
There is no easy way to obfuscate Java classes of an Android app. This is no Eclipse plugin, nor even a working ant script. Maybe there are working ant scripts . But…
14 July 2009
If you want to build multiple versions of an application from a single Xcode project, you would want to cerate multiple targets. For example, when you want to release a free version…
13 July 2009
I have long suspected that iPhone could make human dumber, since there is is an app for everything. From the post Is the iPhone killing your Creativity? , a researcher asked a…
30 June 2009
"Why are you always in such a hurry, Mr Lipwig?" Mr Lipwig, chairman of Ankh-Morpork bank, was asked the question when he wanted the paper-money-printing-machines to replace the gold-coin-making-machines in the shortest…
25 June 2009
Operation Flower began in Japan in 2006, after a neighborhood watch organization reported that houses with flowers in front had less burglaries. It is said that more people will be keeping an…
9 June 2009
Good news! Five promo codes for Flowers will be given out! Promo codes are redeemable vouchers for paid apps in iTunes App Store. In other words, you could get a $0.99 app…
1 June 2009
Flowers streams random photos on the Internet with the theme "flower". It is a photography app to appreciating beautiful natural flora. You would get to see lovely flowers like these. If you…
26 May 2009
SG Girls display public photos on the Internet with the theme "Singapore Girls". This is an application to appreciating oriental beauties. It is a premium ($1.99) photography application and nothing else. What…
26 May 2009
SG Wireless automatically logs on to hotspots in , NUS and NTU. The app will remember your hotspot provider, username and password. Each time you start SG Wireless, the app will immediately…
26 May 2009
SG Blood is an iPhone application that I have developed for regular or new blood donors. I had this idea of developing blood donation app when I know about the Nuffnang blood…
26 May 2009
SG Toto is a software that checks the weekly Toto results from Singapore Pools. It gives you a better alternative to finding out the Toto results every Monday and Thursday. SG Toto…