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To Free or Not to Free? Paid versus Free Apps
If the goal of creating an app for mobile devices is to make a profit through downloads or advertising revenue, then there are many important decisions in the development process that should be considered early on to come up with a sensible pricing model. Why? Because knowing the pricing model might very well change how...
Know Your Business to Know Your App
For a moment, imagine if you owned a hotel chain. If you were going to create a mobile application for phones, should it make the focus on transactions? Should it make the focus doling out coupons and discounts to would-be customers? You’d think so, right? Not necessarily if your are the Ritz-Carton Hotel Company. While...
TechCrunch Visits Richmond to Foster Entrepreneurship
Last Wednesday TechCrunch, hosted a meetup in Richmond at the Snagajob.com offices to foster entrepreneurialism in the region. A widely respected and entrepreneur-focused technology blog, TechCrunch has a global audience is a must-read for many venture capitalists and technology moguls, so to have them visit was a big deal. So … Entrepreneurship and Richmond? Absolutely! TechCrunch’s...
Extending ti.box2d : Mouse Joints
It is common in physics based games to need to be able to drag bodies around. However, setting the position of a body instantaneously based on the current touch position can introduce excessive forces to the physics simulation, and break it. So we need another way to solve this problem… Enter Box2D’s mouse joint. In...
ADB with multiple devices
Have you ever had multiple emulators or physical devices or a combination of the two attached at once? It’s frustrating to shut off or unplug your devices in order to single out the one that needs to be targeted. Look no further, adb includes a command line switch to choose the specific device you want...
Tech Trends: March 2012
We have one word for you: iPad3 The roar around the arrival of Apple’s latest version of their market-dominating tablet drowned out pretty much anything else tech in the last few weeks. Even the buzz at SXSWi had a distinctly “when will I get my hands on my new iPad?” character. Most of the big...
March Mobile News & Trends
We’ve got some hot news: our buddies at Appcelerator won the GSMA Global Mobile 2012 Best Cloud Based Tech Award in Barcelona last week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The judge’s comment on the award announcement: ”Quintessential cloud, write once, deploy many times drives speed and cost reductions.” Titanium is indeed a powerful development...
Trends in Tech: Truth or Noise?
No industry has more hype attached to it than tech. Sure, the entertainment industry is known as hype-a-palooza, but they rely on technology to both create and hype their products, so we’ll stick with tech as the most hyped vertical on the planet. How does someone figure out what’s really worth it, and what’s the...
February Mobile News & Trends
The world gets smaller every time someone uses a mobile device to connect to the web. We celebrate that shrinkage here at Shockoe. In fact, we like to think we help enable it with our mobile web projects! We’re kicking off a new blog series on mobile news and trends that will post the first...
App of the Week | January 15th
iPhone/iPad iBooks / iBooks Author (for Mac) | Free As the key feature in Apple’s recent education event, iBooks 2 with textbooks as well as iBooks Author aim to be a game changer in the publishing world. Apple’s latest update of the iBooks app features a slew of new features especially for iPad users, including embedded...
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To Free or Not to Free? Paid versus Free Apps
If the goal of creating an app for mobile devices ...
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Know Your Business to Know Your App
For a moment, imagine if you owned a hotel chain. ...
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TechCrunch Visits Richmond to Foster Entrepreneurship
Last Wednesday TechCrunch, hosted a meetup in Richmond at the Snagajob.com ...
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Extending ti.box2d : Mouse Joints
It is common in physics based games to need to ...
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