Check out my first iPhone app using Flash technology.

My first iPhone app to hit the app store using Flash technology. iNabaz

FREE application (Limited Time Only) for interaction with a Nabaztag rabbit. Send Text-to-Speech messages, select the rabbit’s voice style and control the ear positions. Find out if your rabbit is awake or not, send him to sleep if he is, wake him up if he’s not! Responds with messages indicating success of the action that has been performed.

COMING SOON – added features including choreography (put together a light and ear movement sequence to allow the rabbit to do a dance!), friend lists, and multiple accounts. IMPORTANT - rabbit not included! This application requires a Nabaztag rabbit to work! www.nabaztag.com

This week, Apple is flexing to impress. The iPhone-maker officially announced its tightly controlled App Store has surpassed the 100,000 mark when it comes to available applications. A hundred thousand — that’s a lot of apps, especially compared to other platforms’ far more limited offerings.

But, to revisit the age-old question, how much does size really matter? Does anyone actually need a selection of 100,000…of anything? In the case of the App Store, it appears that despite the impressive nature of its big and firm number, the way we use the catalog may count far more than any measurement.

Apple App Store Stats

The sobering statistics come courtesy of AppsFire, an app tracking and sharing service that caters to iPhone customers. AppsFire analyzed the 100,000-plus apps in Apple’s App Store to see how many were actively installed on users’ devices. Its conclusion: not very many.

According to AppsFire’s analysis, by the time you hit the 1000th app (as far as popularity), you’re looking at only 1.76 percent of users with the program installed. Once you pass the 2000th program, the number of active installs is barely a blip on the radar.

Yep — the overwhelming majority of apps are simply sitting unused.

Apple App Store

App Store Comparisons

All right, time for a reality check: Does this finding take anything away from the App Store’s success? Not in the least. Apple’s managed to build up an extraordinary array of high-quality offerings, and that’s something no raw number can assess. But does the finding take a bit of steam out of the company’s size-centric marketing push? You’d better believe it.

Bear in mind the timing of all of this: On Friday, Verizon’s Motorola Droid hits stores nationwide. The phone is already being hyped as one of the first serious iPhone contenders — but, despite its standout features, the size of the Droid-connected Android Market has been widely cited as a key limiting feature. The Android Market’s 10,000 apps, many have suggested, simply can’t compete with the App Store’s 100k-strong selection.

Seeing how few of the App Store’s 100,000 apps are actually in use certainly brings that idea into question.

Now, there’s still the notion of quality: Do the Android apps hold a torch to the iPhone’s when it comes to what they offer and how well they perform? That’s a subjective question you’ll have to answer for yourself. When it comes to sheer numbers, though, you may want to think twice before letting an extra zero make up your mind.

JR Raphael writes geek humor at eSarcasm, home to more than 100,000 tech-related jokes. He has never once had success using that as a pickup line.

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Came across this problem yesterday with my Nokia 5800. I wasnt able to edit my photos stored on the phone. I would click add effect and the phone would take me back to the gallery.

I tried a few ways to get around this but cut short it turns out the problem is with the memory card. All what you need to do is connect your mobile phone to a windows machine select connect as Mass Storage device, go to My Computer on your PC right click on the storage device > properties > tools > perform an Error Check on the memory card, there is probably something corrupts on your memory card.

I performed a soft reset and a hard reset until i worked out that is was nothing to do with the device its self and more to do with the memory card.

Just seen the first video from the new Nokia N900, The Nokia N900 runs Maemo5 (Maemo brings the power of computers to mobile devices. Designed with the internet at its core, Linux-based Maemo software takes us into a new era of mobile computing) a high-performance mobile computer with a powerful processor, large internal storage, and sharp touch-screen display.

Nokia N900

The latest offering from Nokia – The Nokia Netbook very impressive specs, if they price it right im sure it will do well in the netbook market. Check out the really cool video by Nokia, taking mobility to the next level.

Staff with mobile technology such as BlackBerrys work an extra 15 hours a week as they constantly check emails even when out of the office, new research found today. A survey of more than 600 employees revealed many were turning into workaholics because of the ability to receive and send messages and work online even when they were at home. The employment law firm Peninsula said the working day was being extended to about 55 hours for many people and urged employers to make sure their staff were not breaching working time regulations.

guardian.co.uk

Designers at top of their game

Published Date: 03 August 2009

MOBILE game developers at Lancaster University have won a coveted industry prize for innovation.

Their location-based game Big Game Huntr saw off competition from more than 150 entries worldwide to take the Adobe FlashLite Developer Challenge Innovation Prize 2009.

Big Game Huntr taps into rising trends in mobile gaming including social networking and user-generated content.

It enables to people to design their own location-based game to their local environment and around an activity of their own choosing.
Players are awarded points for taking photographs of objects or activities in their chosen location zone, which is illustrated as an interactive map on their phone screen.

For example, a required activity may be to perform a conga, and the location could be around Lancaster Castle.
Players are awarded points related to both the difficulty of the task and location.

Photographs are tagged with the co-ordinates of their current position, obtained from the phone’s in-built GPS and uploaded to an overall game server which produces an end of game map which can be added to their Facebook profile.

The winning team is Dr Paul Coulton, and PhD students Mark Lochrie and Kate Lund and the prize of $10,000 is being split between the two students, who intend to use the money to continue their studies.

Dr Coulton, based at InfoLab21, the university’s centre of excellence for ICT, said: “We are particularly delighted to receive the award for innovation as we believe Big Game Huntr represents a new generation of mobile gaming, which is designed specifically for the medium.

“Mobile games can take advantage of the fact that their players are mobile, free to move around and play in real time and real locations.

Big Game Huntr harnesses both this style of play and users’ creativity as the games are designed by the players themselves and it takes mobile gaming in an exciting new direction.”

Lancaster University is part of the Forum Nokia Innovation Network which focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of novel, uniquely mobile user experiences from games to social networking.

The UK’s Nokia Innovation Network hub is based at Lancaster University.

Article taken from Lancaster Guardian