Third party solutions to making mobile apps

Posted on September 12th, by Liam in Blog, Cross Platform Apps. No Comments

This is a quick look at the more popular third-party programs and frameworks for making mobile apps (mostly iPhone and iPad), including PhoneGap, Sencha Touch, Appcel­erator, Corona and rhoMobile.


Looking to the future

Posted on September 3rd, by Liam in Blog, musings. No Comments

I’m looking forward to the future…

When no one makes any money from buying and selling .coms b/c no one really uses them anymore because apps are the new .coms and they’re available on any phone.

When we don’t need phone numbers.

When paper books are something special and digital stories only scroll or slide without the annoying fake page turns.

When something new becomes available and it’s not just in the US.

When data limits are irrelevant.

When I can download something — film. book, music, navigation, television — and I only have to pay for it once and use it wherever and whenever I want across a range of devices.

When I can make a TV show and my friends can choose to watch it in their living room.

When gigabytes become bits.

When computer screens are 1:1 with real life objects and no one under­stands what you mean by … Read More »




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