Just a quick note: the folks at Rackspace created a pretty neat infographic to take customers through a simple decision making process on a route to the solution that’s right for them. Check it out and let us know what you think: Infographic by Rackspace Hosting
New Infographic: Hosting Decisions, From the Chalkboard
by Mobile Orchard Team on 31. Jan, 2012 in Uncategorized
How To Make Your App Stand Out With The New iOS 5 Appearance API
by tope on 28. Dec, 2011 in Uncategorized
This is a guest post by +Tope who is Vault Overseer at App Design Vault where you get stunning iPhone App Design templates for developers with a budget or lack of good design contacts. The App Store with over half a million Apps is now a crowded place. To succeed, your app needs to stand [...]
50 Black Friday Discounts – Everything You Need to Know
by Mobile Orchard Team on 24. Nov, 2011 in Uncategorized
We compiled a few lists from our sister site Inspired Mag, from themacURL & TouchArcade so you don’t have to roam the web for the best Black Friday coupons, codes and discounts. Check out the mega-roundup and leave us more suggestions in the comments and we’ll update the post. Apps Retro RPG Companions for iPad is down [...]
Bugs Reported in iOS 5.0.1
by Mobile Orchard Team on 15. Nov, 2011 in Uncategorized
While in general, the new iOS 5.0.1 operating system appears to be working well enough for prepaid phone services and most iPhones, other users are not as happy. It seems there’s a new Apple glitch in town and this time it’s affecting some mobile devices running off the iOS 5.0.1 system. The primary glitch appears [...]
Samsung’s request to see the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 denied
by Andy Crofford on 27. Jun, 2011 in Uncategorized
A few weeks ago Samsung requested to see Apple’s next generation iPhone and iPad, a request that has been denied. It is pretty obvious this request was made only because Apple requested, and was granted permission, to take a look at some of Samsung’s next generation hardware. The only difference between the two is that [...]
Mastering freemium game mechanics series: threshold alerts
by Matt Tubergen on 29. Mar, 2011 in Uncategorized
Matt Tubergen heads Recharge Studios, a wholly owned subsidiary of W3i that invests in the development and marketing/distribution of freemium mobile games. W3i is a market leader in distributing and monetizing apps with over 500 million apps distributed for W3i clients. Recharge Studios is actively seeking new investment opportunities, if you have a great idea [...]
How to Win the iPhone App Popularity Contest
by Andy Crofford on 22. Mar, 2011 in Uncategorized
Guest writer Matthew Palmer is an experienced online marketer for the technology industry, having created successful marketing campaigns for companies such as IBM and Intel. He offers more tips on how to successfully sell iPhone apps on his website, Marketing Your App. What if you threw a party and no one showed up? That is [...]
List of features for Apple iOS 4.3
by Andy Crofford on 03. Mar, 2011 in Uncategorized
Along with the the iPad 2, Apple is also going to release iOS 4.3 on March 11. Here are some of the features you can expect: A Configurable Slide Switch for IPad With iOS 4.3 you will be able to decide whether the hardware switch above the volume buttons on the iPad will control mute [...]
Antenna issues with Verizon’s iPhone surface
by Andy Crofford on 09. Feb, 2011 in News, Uncategorized
From the “Oh no, not this again” files is a report from Charles Starett of iLounge that the CDMA version of the iPhone suffers from the death grip. Here is what they had to say: In the course of conducting our standard suite of iPhone 4 performance tests, iLounge has discovered that the Verizon CDMA [...]
Android App Development: Activity Life Cycle
by Mina Samy on 26. Jan, 2011 in Android, Tutorials, Uncategorized
The activity is the core of an android application. Each application can have one or more activities. In this post we are going to explore the activity’s life cycle and understand the event handler of each stage through the activity’s life cycle. Activities in the system are managed in an activity stack (Last in Last [...]
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