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The bigger screen makes all the difference particularly when rendering web pages. You get a better experience compared to a smaller mobile screen and you get a full browser experience as you would expect from a laptop, without having to drag a laptop along. twitter integration. twitter is integrated into safari which means that I can easily share web content. Herein lies a caveat in that I don’t like the fact that I have to add the page title to the tweet, it does not automatically... Read Full Story

Should you still be doing it? Not such a simple answer really because the one constant in my daily life has become quite apparent – no matter what you do you are either going to succeed because you accept failure, or if you don’t accept failure and you keep things at the same level for a long period where you don’t lose. You will not improve whether you are a programmer or a writer. Think about it this way, if you are a chess player and you play to draw and not to win you can claim a... Read Full Story

Passion and a willingness to forego the immediate monetary awards and focus on pursuit of building something that you can be proud of. Pride is a sentimental thing and you would think that it wouldn’t have much place in a subject area as clinical as programming. Yet if all programs were written in the same manner pride and sentiment couldn’t be identified in the code you write. Read Full Story

I am writing my first blogpost from my ipad2 that I recently got from my bank. I also installed Ubuntu for a family member on an unused laptop and even though they will be the primary users of the laptop I couldn’t help but feel excited to use Ubuntu simply because it offers a totally different experience when compared to Windows. I also don’t support piracy – if I cannot afford it then I simply don’t buy it, but I also don’t look for a pirate copy from a neighbour. After installing Ubuntu it... Read Full Story

The fundamental question I guess is, how do I get my product to my existing customers and furthermore how do I convince my potential customers that my product is right for them. So now that you have that question answered how do you start answering the next question, what do I need a website for (is that a relevant question today)? Do you need the website to advertise product only or do you need to advertise product with a value proposition? The two are fundamentally different approaches to... Read Full Story

I have been thinking, today mostly, and indirectly a lot recently as well about my life and the way I live and how my perspective takes shape. Today and yesterday specifically I thought about superheroes and our incessant need in society to have the superhero effect in our lives and what I mean by that is that to me it seems as if we want ultimate or absolute solutions in our lives. You know where we are always in a winning situation and where we are strong enough to force whatever life... Read Full Story

I attended Internetix, an event hosted by Internet Solutions, yesterday with the theme focusing on commerce. Commerce as we knew it a few years ago will not be relevant in a few years from now, simply because our habits change. Our habits change for one main reason – cultural influence, which includes our peers. In my opinion a young person will more than likely adopt a habit because his/her friend has adopted it. Think smoking, drinking, drugs, etc. Other things like natural curiosity is... Read Full Story

I know it sounds weird but my thinking is that the majority of applications that are written are aimed at multi user environments and the majority of them use some form of data to build some sort of experience, so its only natural to think that they collect the data too. Google does it through its search and so does many other of the big tech companies. The value in collecting the data is in being able to disseminate user habits and find marketing niches. In my previous job I worked at a... Read Full Story

I really like the big screen, specifically the AMOLED display. Its crisp and bright. The user interface is very responsive, my only gripe being that the phone doesn’t always recognize when the phone is horizontal or vertical – I have had to tap it to get the correct orientation. I like the Facebook integration so far, specifically the fact that images from Facebook profiles can be found under pictures. Browsing the interwebs on a bigger screen makes it so much more pleasant to view websites... Read Full Story

I got myself a new WP7 device – the Samsung Omnia 7 which was released in South Africa recently and in particular through Vodacom. The price seemed decent, decent enough for me to take it on a contract – just so that I can experience the OS. iOS and Android are the main diet of mobile development these days and they also maintain the biggest marketshare, along with RIM, which might make it worthwhile to invest in the more popular ones. I already own a BlackBerry Bold, 9700 but there are some... Read Full Story