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When all phones become smartphones

Smartphones are an amazing phenomena which seem to grow at mind boggling rate. Have a look at the latest graphs from asymco to see what I mean.

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SeaHawk iOS 4.3 issue died out

Good news, the SeaHawk iPad issue with iOS 4.3 has not only been resolved (version 3.0.1 has been available for a couple of weeks now) but we are also no longer seeing users that are using the old version.

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Major issue on SeaHawk iPad and iOS 4.3

We have recently discovered  a major issue on iOS 4.3 with SeaHawk. For some reason the Google map grows beyond it’s boundaries and hides the toolbar. 

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Submitting Apps to Apple with a space in the name

Now Apple introduced a neat feature to archive your Apps before submitting. Neatly because it stores the symbol table, so it an App crashes you can download the logs from the Apple website and get a pointer right to the

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WordPress for iPad

Did the announcement from wordpress for iPad sound great to you to, but you didn’t have an iPad at hand to look at it?

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Is mobile ad business really business?

According to Gartner, about 81% of apps downloaded today are free. The way free apps are able to generate revenue is through advertising. 16 percent of application store markets’ $5.2 billion revenue was generated from advertising.

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iOS is catholic, Android is protestant?

Freely after the article: “The Holy War: Mac vs. DOS” By Umberto Eco, September 30, 1994: Friends, blog visitors, countrymen, I ask that a Committee for Public Health be set up, whose task would be to censor (by violent means,

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Custom overlays coming to SeaMap

News flash: you can now add geo-referenced images to SeaMap, just send in your maps as mercator images and they will be added to the next release.

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Three simple tips to improve MacBook battery life

Here are three simple tips to improve battery life on your MacBook or MacBook Air. Let’s assume you are on a plane watching some movie. You probably already have a smug face since you can watch a movie for a

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Which process is using my port ? (OS X)

Oh on linux you just run netstat -p but that won’t work on OS X. There is another path to take: lsof -i | grep LISTEN  

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