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Bilingual Baby

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:28:00 GMT

We've just created Bilingual Baby Flash Cards app, currently available for iPhone and iPad, and soon to be released on Android devices too.

This app is designed for a baby growing up in a bilingual environment, perhaps where parents speak two or more languages.

Bilingual Baby is currently available in 7 languages - English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Japanese.

We had a lot of fun creating this app. So if you know anyone raising a baby in a bilingual environment, send them this link

Download Bilingual Baby here

Steve Jobs, Apple and Adobe Flash: Our thoughts

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:31:00 GMT

First off, we've been Apple users for over 20 years. So we're not by any means Apple haters.

But Steve Jobs' decision to disable the ability to use flash in any of their products is real disappointment. There are some great websites built on Flash technology.

Steve Jobs' recent slamming of Adobe's Flash technology is a smokescreen. Adobe Flash provides hands-down THE BEST multimedia experience on the web today. And has done for ten years.

Now Steve Jobs wants to shut that technology out. He clearly has $$$ signs in his eyes. He wants users to buy all their games through the Apple App Store. Any iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, or even Safari 5 users cannot access any Flash websites.

As Web Developers we have used Flash (Once Shockwave Flash, then Macromedia Flash, and now Adobe Flash) since the very early days, and quite possibly know more about the technology than Steve Jobs claims to.

Sure, Flash can be heavy on processor speed, but this has been greatly improved. And it is up to developers to optimise their code. It is nowhere near as much of an issue as it used to be. And it will continue to improve over time.

We can say this with confidence when Steve Jobs claims that HTML5 and CSS3 are just as powerful as Flash. It is simply not possible to create a game with these technologies.

Flash is THE ONLY CROSS-PLATFORM game creation tool for the web.

That is, if you create a game with Flash, you can play it on any browser - except Apple's new Safari 5 browser. And on any platform - Windows, Apple or Linux/UNIX.

Steve Jobs, you're a bad sport.

Site of the Day: Nice Flash Website

Fri, 28 May 2010 01:28:00 GMT

This is a pretty nice flash site. Feeling a bit wintery? Build your own snowflakes @ Get Flurrious

Airlines on Twitter - website

Wed, 12 May 2010 04:24:00 GMT

Airlines are loving Twitter.

Just for fun, we built a site to track what Airlines are doing on Twitter. Using the Twitter API and Google Graphs, we can monitor how many followers airlines have, as well as what they're tweeting.

http://airlinesontwitter.com/

IPad as your car entertainment system - video

Tue, 11 May 2010 23:23:00 GMT

Youtube video on how to use your iPad as a car entertainment system.

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Apple's new iPhone - the iPhone 4G

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:22:00 GMT

So, a guy walks into a bar, drinks a few beers and leaves possibly the most awaited consumer product in history in the bar.

Shrouded in secrecy no more, Gray Powell, an Apple employee appears to have left his prototype iPhone 4G in a bar in Cupertino, Northern California, before its imminent release. The leak has appeared on Gizmodo.

Apple's new iPhone has a host of new features, including two cameras, for video chatting, and a flash for the main camera. Not to mention the new iPhone 4.0 Operating System, which has a swag of new features, including iAds, Apple's new Advertising network.

Cool JQuery library for iPhone developers

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:29:00 GMT

We cam across this great JQuery library today dedicated to making your website iPhone-friendly.

Check out JQTouch here:

http://www.jqtouch.com

iAds on the iPad - look out, Google Adwords

Tue, 11 May 2010 23:24:00 GMT

Steve Jobs' recent announcement of the iAd technology is nothing short of revolutionary for the Advertising Industry.

With control over the platform and the advertising network, Apple is really set to make some serious money. By Jobs' estimates by the end of 2010, Apple will be serving 1 billion ads per day. His calculations? 100 million users spend an average of 30 minutes a day in an App, and are served an ad every three minutes.

App developers are being encouraged to deploy the iAd technology inside their apps. Apple will retain 40% of the adshare, and developers will make 60%.

Who uses Social Media and Social Networking in Sydney Australia

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:51:00 GMT

We interview Sydney locals about their use of Social Media and Social Networking sites

Interweb the Rainbow - Skittles harnesses Social Media

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:27:00 GMT

Candymaker Mars Inc. recently launched a massive Social Media campaign, cutely titled "Interweb the Rainbow".

Rather than use one Social Network over another, they launched a full-on assault, using Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia.

Its Twitter account initially was bombarded with off-color tweets. But the online campaign also has drawn more than 1 million fans to Skittles' Facebook page, where they are trading thoughts on everything from Skittles-infused vodka to whether the tart candies are tastier than M&Ms.

The cleverness of the campaign is largely coming from its integrated and interactive approach to Social Media. First they created some catchy videos, then they stormed each Social Media site, turning their skittles homepage into a live feed from that social network.

Check out some of their videos

The future of Video and Advertising online

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:48:00 GMT

We chat to Viocorp about the future of online video and online advertising

SEO and Social Media Campaign Monetisation

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:27:00 GMT

We interviewed Dennis Yu from Blitz Local, a few weeks ago at SMX Sydney, about the monetisation of Social Media campaigns.
Watch the video.
Some really interesting comments in here...!

The future of Social Media and Google

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:27:00 GMT

Here we chat to Rand Fishkin, SEO Moz founder, about the future of Google, Social Media and Social Networking
Watch the video...

The future of SEO and Social Networks

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:28:00 GMT

We chat to Bruce Clay about the future of SEO, Google and Social Networks.
Bruce Clay runs one of the largest SEO companies in the world today.
Watch the video

Web 2.0, social media, social networking and browsers today

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:26:00 GMT

Flock started the Web 2.0 browser craze with many social networking tools built directly into the core of the browser. A new release of Firefox 3 on tuesday, has spurred another download frenzy across the Web, with downloads at nearly a million already. Now, 3rd party developers are leading the way on Firefox, with a rise in handy Web 2.0 style-addons being up uploaded onto the Firefox site Some of my favourites:

Shareaholic

offers an easy way to submit the sites you're browsing straight to Facebook, del.icio.us, Digg, Friendfeed, Google Reader, pownce, Stumbleupon and Twitter, as well as using the cool Bzzster 'Email to a friend' Web 2.0 App.

Clipmarks

gives you the tools to create your own online scrapbook from the websites that you browse.

PicLens

is one of my new favourites. Not strictly Web 2.0 (although it uses Web 2.0 APIs), this tool is very handy none-the-less!

Scribefire

is a great way to manage your blog. >