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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...
App of the Week | January 1st
No one appreciates a good app more than our mobile developers here at Shockoe and we want to share our findings with you. Each week, you will post a lightning review of what we feel to be the most intriguing and innovative apps on the market, right here on our blog. Whether it be for...
Picture This!
Shockoe Bottom is a a metropolitan kaleidoscope among business districts of the mid-Atlantic. River and city intermingle to preserve pockets of time archived in vintage masonry and graffiti alike. This is an exciting place to work, live and play. As you hurry about your business take a moment to enjoy the beauty of your urban...
How to create a simple Kiosk app with your browser
We were tasked with creating an application that will be running on a KIOSK displaying a series of videos that were extracted from the film Note by Note (winner of various international awards). While brainstorming the different technologies that can be used to accomplish this, various options jumped out and made it to the whiteboard....
Client: Should I have an Android app?
We have quite a number of clients that are seriously looking at developing an Android Application. For the most part, they already have iPhone applications, and are looking at how to expand their reach to other users in other platforms. Android, Blackberry, nokia etc. So, does it make sense to build an Android Application or...
Technology Good Enough to Eat
You are what you eat – but did you ever think that would apply to your gadgets? It is a strange paradox that the aesthetic principles that make things look tasty can be applied to a variety of products. As proof, here are some creative endeavors that techno-chefs have cooked up to delight you. Mmmmusic...
Sweet Stuff Happening in Android and iPhone
At Shockoe IT development is a lot like baking sweet stuff in the best kitchen ever. It involves hard work and creativity, and the end result just tastes so good that you have to share it. Here are some cool happenings in Android Land that you can download for dessert. Defend Your Turf! Tower Raiders...
Using Stashboard for server monitoring
Stashboard is an open source status page developed by Twilio and graciously released to the general public. It allows you to give your users an information resource when a server or service goes down. (See: Comcast Network Health, OpenDNS System Monitor, Urban Airship Status, Rackspace System Status) One of the main benefits that Stashboard provides...
Move Over, Rosetta Stone: Mobile Language Apps Make Learning Fun
Apps aren’t just for teens and commuters, anymore. Parents interested in raising bilingual children will be interested in a wide variety of applications designed to familiarize infants and children with phonyms and word association crucial to developing multi-linguistic aptitude. We’ve found a few that are sure to be entertaining for the young and, shall we...
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