An Overview Of The IPhone Dev Secrets 4 Week Video Course By Mike

iPhone Dev Secrets is a training course in how to develop an iPhone app or game and make lots of cash from it by selling it on the market place. iPhone Dev Secrets (also known as App Dev Secrets) says that it is a guaranteed method of making sure that you make cash by discovering how to develop an iPhone or iPad application/Game.

I have recently started learning how to develop apps for the iPhone myself and I became interested when I came across an online training system called iPhone application Dev Secrets. So I thought I would post a brief overview of what the iPhone app Dev Secrets course involves just incase anyone else is thinking about giving it a go and wants to know more about it.

iPhone Dev Secrets is geared towards teaching you how to be able to design your own iPhone app, with the intention of being able to sell it on the Apple iPhone store and make some cash from it.

The series is also designed for people with little to no programming experience. I am no expert in computer programming and have actually always found it pretty tough. However, this was not a big issue with the app dev secrets system as it eases you into it quite nicely I thought.

Here is the rough outline of what I was guided through in the is 4-week guide they sent me:

Week 1

They went instantly into creating an app, with no messing about. This was really great. I found it much easier than I had first invisaged. Make takes you through the essential fundamentals of iPhone application development so that you can learn how to make cash from these skills.

Week 2

This built upon week 1 and went into a bit more detail with some cool little tricks you can apply to make your iPhone Apps be more professional looking to help them sell better.

Week 3

In this week I was taught all about 2D and 3D graphics for iPhone app dev. This was only the essential stuff and needless difficult theory was not included, which pleased me no end as I always get confused with that stuff!

Week 4

The final week was really awesome. It is focused on marketing the app to make sure that you can make some decent cash from it. Mike has experience in this field and knows what is required for an iPhone application to sell well.

You also get a special bonus of interviews with specialized application developers who are currently raking in the money with their applications. I thought this was a great resource and I learnt some invaluable tips from this bonus.

I am currently attempting to make a search tool kind of app that extracts feeds from Twitter, Facebook and Google. The skills I learnt from Mike on this series is definitely helping me out with this.

To learn more about iPhone Dev Secrets visit the app dev secrets website.

Alex Osterwalder on Designing Business Models using Prototype Thinking

Content Farms and the Exploitation of Information

A growing number of firms are aggressively pursuing the market for information by providing material that answers online searches and employing strategies so their material appears high in search results.

These enterprises are providing high quantity, low quality material on topics designed to produce many search hits and driven by the desire to make money from advertising received as high traffic sites. Some are proving quite successful.

Demand Media, for example, uses about 13,000 freelance writers to produce about 4000 articles a day for which it gains about 95 million unique visitors with more than 620 million page views monthly. Its eHow.com site alone gets about 50 million users. Ask.com, Yahoo and AOL are also engaging in the market.

When you make a search and are taken to answer.com, dictionary.com, wikianswers.com or hundreds of other sites providing such information to the public, you encounter this mass produced content. The business strategy is working and many of the sites are among the top 25 sites in the U.S.

These producers and a whole range of similar organizations are producing material in content farms that rely on freelancers who are paid as little as $1 an article or get no payment except for number of page views for their specific work. It is a throwback to the penny-a-word days of journalism in the 19th century. The firms are increasingly seeking video producers, photographers, and graphic artists to provide similar material at similar levels of compensation.

Even established news organizations and other enterprises are starting to use the syndicated material produced by such content farms. Organizations such as Hearst publications and National Football League are relying on them for some content that appears on their sites, for example.

The implications of these developments on the quality of Internet information and the prospects for professional writers are clear and hardly encouraging.

Tom Hulme on How to Visualize your Business Model

Tom is a Design Director at IDEO in London, where he uses the innovation and design process to develop new business opportunities. In these videos he presents a way, very similar to The Business Model Canvas, on how to visualize a business model including the elements of growth- and competitive strategy.

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Charles Baden-Fuller on why business models are so important for business success

Professor Charles Baden-Fuller talks about the difference between value creation and value capture, robustness, sustainable competitive advantage today and tomorrow, and scalability.

In his recent article in Long Range Planning, Business Models as Models, Charles explores the question "Are Business Models useful?" where he points out that they act as various forms of model: "to provide means to describe and classify businesses; to operate as sites for scientific investigation; and to act as recipes for creative managers".

Tips for Choosing a Sound System that Has Good Quality Sound

There are a few tips if you want to choose a sound system rental or renting a quality sound system that produce quality sound and also there are some ways of choosing a sound system and how it appropriate in using a sound system that has been on leases of rental sound system that provides multimedia sound.

But, if you want to buy a good quality sound systems and other music merchandises with fair price (lowest price) you can consider my suggestion by visiting chucksaudiovideo.com. They are selling good quality of home electronics and audio merchandises with very low price. I have ever bought some of music instruments from them, 2 years ago and the products are long lasting until now. There have been no problems with the products until now.

We cannot arbitrarily choose a multimedia sound system or sound because by choosing the origin of the rental equipment sound system that produced sound cannot maximal sound rentals

Usually have some excellent tools from his rental sound. Here's the article as where choosing a sound system

1. Make sure that the speakers are already connected to the true power amplify

2. Make sure wiring is in the correct polarity "In Phase" when jumped

3. Do safe setting speaker but the audience, when the rigging, make sure all devices are in a position to hang it excellently

4. Show speakers dispersion to cover the audience area. FOH position itself must be in the position of the majority of the audience

5. Do not force drive the speakers to be outside the limits?

Listen distortion levels that occurred on the speakers, or strange voices that existed at the back cause speaker.

7. Don’t panic!

Water Skiing Aircraft - video

Sure we now know thata- but can a plane water ski??? Must watch video of the Flying Lions Aerobatic Team "water skiing" in South Africa using four T6 Harvard Aircraft.



Hat tip to my Dad for sending me this link

Future of design, games, loyalty and chips in your head

Not directly travel related but great presentation/video in the below embedded player. Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Jesse Schell, dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular "Facebook Games" era. Thanks to G4TV. 20 mins long but well worth it for the content and how to give a presentation using powerpoint (pictures not words)

PC Games - E3 2010 - Guitar Hero 5

Randy Komisar on Getting to Plan B

Randy Komisar, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, and co-author of Getting to Plan B (see review/summary here), discusses the main ideas from his book.



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Jeff Jarvis on New Business Models for News

Jeff Jarvis, professor of journalism at CUNY, on business models for news and hyper personal news streams.

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Dwayne Spradlin on The Power of Open Innovation

Dwayne Spradlin, CEO InnoCentive, on Open Innovation and the power of getting the crowd to work.

"Two skills that organizations need are:

1. They need to understand how to engage communities, communicate with them, build communities and trust, and that does require effort by organizations to do it well.
2. Organizations need to understand how to ask and how to process their own problems and prioritize those in ways that they typically never done before."

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