Slick UI seems to be the norm for most 'big name' iPhone applications on the AppStore. Twitterrific easily gets the top spot in terms of having attractive UI and navigation. However, UI and usability are not synonymous. When I use my phone, I want to accomplish what I want to do quickly and easily. ...

by Alex Hung on Jul 12th 2008 3:00PM

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The iPhone SDK has been out for couple of weeks now and I've been using it to develop an application for my work as a technology demonstrator. My experience thus far has been largely positive. I wasn't surprised by how well-made the SDK is, even at this beta stage. The amount of work involved in ...

by Alex Hung on Mar 28th 2008 3:00PM

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digg_url = "http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/01/27/dev-chair-a-geek-solution-to-the-writers-strike/"; As the Writer's Strike continues into the end of January with no real end in sight, most people are running out of quality TV programs to watch. Heck, we're even running out of quality-less ...

by Alex Hung on Jan 27th 2008 7:00PM

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digg_url = "http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/01/10/dev-chair-do-we-want-scientists-or-engineers/";Good computer science graduates do not make good software developers. Really, I mean it. But for the polar opposite reason that these two New York University computer science professors think. ...

by Alex Hung on Jan 10th 2008 9:00AM

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digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2007/10/22/dev-chair-faster-better-cheaper-with-agile/';As NASA starts to wind down their Space Shuttle activity in the next three years, the space agency's effort to return to the Moon has been ramping up quietly in the background. With their new ...

by Alex Hung on Oct 22nd 2007 9:00AM

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digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2007/10/01/dev-chair-what-can-green-do-for-you/';About a hundred years ago the Industrial Revolution transformed the lives of millions of people. The invention of steam power, telegraph, electricity and the like freed people from labor intensive jobs ...

by Alex Hung on Oct 1st 2007 9:00AM

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Two weeks ago we saw the first wave of third party applications for the iPhone. But because Apple has yet to open up the device and provides an API (Application Programming Interface) for software developers, making third party applications right now is not for the faint hearted or even regular ...

by Alex Hung on Aug 13th 2007 8:00AM

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digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/apple/Geeks_are_not_Apple_s_target_with_the_iPhone'; This last Saturday I had the good fortune of being in the middle of a passionate debate between Roy Singham and another ThoughtWorker over iPhone vs. other smartphones. Roy argued that the iPhone is not the ...

by Alex Hung on Jul 17th 2007 1:00PM

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iPhone day is upon us. Much has already been written about the iPhone despite the fact that only a handful of journalists have used it. One thing that is common among all reviews is the AT&T's EDGE network is slow. Perhaps it is faster now but EDGE is still no 3G. Earlier this month at WWDC, ...

by Alex Hung on Jun 29th 2007 5:00PM

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So Apple went and released Safari for Windows. It is interesting why Apple did this. Safari may be faster, as the Royal Steveness claimed, and provides a number of nice features that are not in IE7 or Firefox by default (e.g. Forms auto-fill and resizable text fields) but I am not sure it would get ...

by Alex Hung on Jun 11th 2007 10:30PM

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