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		<title>A Basic Guide to Constructing Your iPhone Apps</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renjith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[App Store]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iphone]]></category>

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<p style="text-align: justify;">Among the most competitive markets in the world is the iPhone application industry and in being so personified it is a haven and menace to many. With hundreds of thousands of apps up on retail, a couple of other hundred thousands for free and a similar number in the works to be released sometime in the future, it becomes somewhat difficult to enter these waters and net a promising catch.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The fact that everyone has to start from zero and that there is now ay one can get ahead in such tough competition or that it is way too difficult and slow to do so discourages newcomers into this field. Setting all these factors is one piece of information; it’s the market demand for applications that is enough to kick start your wheel of revenue.<br />
What with all the readymade options available to users and easy to obtain technology used in the construction of iPhone apps? Surely one should not miss such opportunities and get on with it. After all it does not need an expert developer to create an app when all of the above are provided for. To start designing, creating then pushing our product (application) to the masses simply follow the procedure highlighted below.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Get Creative</strong><br />
Necessarily before starting off a development project, there is a lot of thinking and imagination involved. Normally something unique is the key to succeeding in a market spree of competitors all aiming to gain attention. Before starting the creation you would have to choose a niche. Then one can think of what a customer wants most and then working on it. If the choices are limited take the concept of one current application and give what you think overcomes its flaws or would make a better alternative.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Who are those up against you?</strong><br />
Onto the next step; this is where you learn the competition to your sphere and app. The more the competition there is the more difficult it would be to present your app. To start off you can simply choose a category with high rate of acceptance and minimum competition. However if you intend on going big and choosing that niche with major competition, you might have to work hard enough to come up with an unparalleled application.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Get your toolkit to the workbench</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">When starting off to create apps, one must have substantial knowledge of the tools involved and which software to would make your app more appealing. Evidently they are not for free and before you go buying off something inherent research is necessary. Visit developer forums and websites to find out what type of tools and methods would fit the style and design process. Remember with the right tools in hand it is never too difficult to create software.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Start designing!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You can be able to this all by yourself or you can hire some experienced or developers to accompany you on your mission of creation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Advertise your App</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">After the production period has gone through and the app is finally coming to shape, start advertising it. Get it onto the tabloids, blogs, and news or get some big wig site to sponsor you so that your baby would get enough exposure on release day. The marketing does not finish here, after the app is out of the pipe and in the app store, there is also a large amount of marketing involved.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Guest Post</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>About Author</strong>: Sarah Smith who is a professional Guest blogger. Writing for PC Keeper – useful software that also contains <a href="http://pckeeper.zeobit.com/" target="_blank">disk cleaner</a> and registry cleaner.</p>
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		<title>Wanna Know More About Steve Jobs? His Biography is coming soon!</title>
		<link>http://www.hackstacks.com/wanna-know-more-about-steve-jobs-his-biography-is-coming-soon/5064</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renjith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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Yes, a biography written by Mr Walter Isaacson and it’s published through the <strong><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/steve-jobs-walter-isaacson/1104099551?ean=9781451648539&amp;itm=1&amp;usri=walter+isaacson+steve+jobs" target="_blank">Barnes &amp; Noble</a></strong>. You can start the pre-order for it now but it’s expected to release by November. The book has 448 pages of story filled with 42 interviews from last 2 years. Isaacson has managed to gather information from many interviews and more than hundred individuals who is related to job’s as Family members, friends, competitors, adversaries and colleagues.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The book is going to be indeed interesting since Steve Jobs has never put any control as what has to be written on the book. Also jobs insisted everyone to speak freely to Mr Isaacson!</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Also Job personally noted, “I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that. But I don’t have any skeletons in my closet that can’t be allowed out.”</em></p>
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<p><strong>Also you can check it out the <a href="http://www.hackstacks.com/15-cool-things-you-didnt-know-about-steve-jobs-the-father-of-apple/1730" target="_blank">Infographics</a> posted about Steve Jobs</strong></p>
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		<title>Skype for iPad released in AppStore-Free Download</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renjith</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4749" style="margin-top: 25px; margin-bottom: 25px;" title="Skype-for-iPad2" src="http://www.hackstacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Skype-for-iPad2.jpg" alt="" width="230" height="200" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It was released on 1st of august but was pulled out from the store by saying this statement on their Twitter account “<em>To ensure your best Skype experience, we&#8217;ve temporarily removed Skype for iPad which went live prematurely today</em>.”. They have re launched it again with promising features for video chatting, instant messaging and audio conferencing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The free app is optimized for iPad users and it provided the feature for file transferring with your friends as well. You can freely do instant messaging and other activities you do on a regular messaging application. Apart from that when you pay some amount of money the app can do international telephone calls to both mobile and land-lines. With the new app you can seamlessly do communication with the skype loaded on iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Skype enabled TV&#8217;s, Pc and Mac&#8217;s. But on a condition that your device should meet the hardware requirement to get it fully functional.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>Skype Requirements</strong></em></p>
<ul>
<li>iOS 4.0 is the minimum requirement for the Apple devices.</li>
<li>iPhone4, iPad 2nd generation and iPod Touch 4th generation will be seamless for the new Skype app</li>
<li>But rest all the Apple device will have a problem while doing a video chat since those are not with dual camera.</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Visit the Appstore and <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skype-for-ipad/id442012681?mt=8" target="_blank">Download</a> it today.</p>
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		<title>CCleaner Beta released for Mac users</title>
		<link>http://www.hackstacks.com/ccleaner-beta-for-mac/3973</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renjith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CCleaner the best known system optimization tool for Windows operating system is extending its support... <a class="meta-more" href="http://www.hackstacks.com/ccleaner-beta-for-mac/3973">more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><img style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;" src="http://www.hackstacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Ccleaner-Mac.jpg" alt="" width="278" height="231" /><br />
CCleaner the best known system optimization tool for Windows operating system is extending its support for Mac users. The Mac version of CCleaner has released in Beta form for the users to test it on the Mac version running OSX 10.5 and 10.6. The company recommends the <strong><a href="http://www.piriform.com/mac/ccleaner" target="_blank">Beta</a></strong> release is for the advanced users as you might see some bugs on the program while running on your Mac. Also they adds a final public version of CCleaner for Mac can be expected in a month or two. If you are an advanced Mac user download the Beta and send them your feedback&#8217;s if you encounter if any bugs!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You may not find many of the options seen on the CCleaner for windows in Mac version. The beta edition currently has the ability to clean browser applications like Safari and Firefox cache. Also it cleans the Trash, Temporary Folder, Recent Documents, Recent Applications and Recent Servers.</p>
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		<title>Hassle free music file transferring to Apple iPod without using iTunes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 17:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renjith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s completely hassle free copying music, videos and images to and from an iPod to... <a class="meta-more" href="http://www.hackstacks.com/hassle-free-music-file-transferring-to-apple-ipod-without-using-itunes/3528">more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><img style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;" src="http://www.hackstacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Sharepod-logo.gif" alt="" width="278" height="231" /><br />
It’s completely hassle free copying music, videos and images to and from an iPod to a Computer. iPod is knows to be the best portable media player but over a period of time we will lose interest on it because of the music synchronizing music to it. Because Apple made it so proprietary and you will require their media player called iTunes to sync the music files to the iPod. ITunes is not so flexible as it won’t let you synchronize your device from multiple computers. Cannot extract music files from iPod if it’s connected to a new computer. Can’t add more media files if you wanted to add it from a 2nd computer. You will have to always depend one computer to synchronize the media files.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">That’s why I said over a period of time you will start hating your iPod when you don’t want to follow this practice. So for such users SharePod will be a solution to do the above tedious tasks to do in a simple way. SharePod comes as a freeware and it’s a lite and tiny application.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img src="http://www.hackstacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/SharePod-UI.gif" alt="" width="513" height="227" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>SharePod’s features</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>• </strong>You can add/Remove Media files from your iPod<br />
<strong>• </strong>You can Add/Edit playlists and album art<br />
<strong>• </strong>View and backup Images<br />
<strong>•</strong> Copy Any media to PC from iPod<br />
<strong>• </strong>Import media files to ITunes library without losing the personalized data<br />
<strong>•</strong> It support Tag editing and Drag and drops.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">SharePod is claiming the full support for iPhone and iTouch. When I try my iPhone SharePod was able to detect the device and explore the contents but importing to iPhone was not working on it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Get Sharepod from <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.getsharepod.com" target="_blank">here</a></strong></span></p>
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		<title>Apple iPod product time line-Infographics</title>
		<link>http://www.hackstacks.com/apple-ipod-product-time-line-infographics/3372</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renjith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Infographic]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_3369" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 619px"><a href="http://www.hackstacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/iPod-Time-Line.gif"><img class="size-full wp-image-3369 " title="iPod-Time-Line" src="http://www.hackstacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/iPod-Time-Line.gif" alt="" width="609" height="186" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Click on the Image to enlarge</p></div>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.digitalsurgeons.com" target="_blank">Source</a></strong></p>
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		<title>A new Social Networking platform launched for Smartphones-Color</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renjith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Smartphones]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a new Social Networking tool has released for Smartphones and its called Color.... <a class="meta-more" href="http://www.hackstacks.com/a-new-social-networking-platform-launched-for-smartphones-color/3264">more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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There is a new Social Networking tool has released for Smartphones and its called <strong><a href="http://color.com/" target="_blank">Color</a></strong>. The creator of Color is the famous Technology entrepreneur named Bill Nguyen. His last startup was lala.com and apple has bought it on December 2009. The Color is currently available only for iPhone and an Android app is soon to be expected.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Color has the social networking idea of creating public photo &amp; video albums and shared among your friend who is using the Color app. Color instantly publishes your photo and videos on the air without delay. Sharing with your friends are more easy then before. The group albums can be shared on Facebook and Twitter with your friends.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Like Color’s creators says</strong> “ <em>You won&#8217;t miss a single moment at the next party, night out, ball game or concert</em>”</p>
<p><em><strong>Bottom line</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>•</strong> The app is not so special in terms of features.<br />
<strong>• </strong>All your images are stored on Color servers.<br />
<strong>• </strong>Photos and Videos are by default shared as public.<br />
<strong>•</strong> In order to use Color service you need not require a username and password.<br />
<strong>•</strong> The application available for free.</p>
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