I started my first programming job, well trainee programmer in September 1989. Five people applied for the job and I ended up taking my TV and Atari ST to the interview to show them some stuff I had written in STOS Basic.
Got the job and started with dBase II on Concurrent DOS.
Got my son a Nexus 7 for his birthday and he loves it, am impressed as well (currently have a iPad 1). One thing I don't get though is how some top games are free on android and cost money on iOS ? Bad Piggies for instance, is 1.99 for iPad and free on Android and I can't see any ads on it or that it's a cut down version.
Love AppShopper, hope it's not effected. Have about 50 apps in my wish list, waiting to drop in price. Before I buy any apps on the store, I always go through AppShopper, presuming you get a small cut.
That site (betabeat) is impossible to read on my iPad, I could see the headline and scroll to the right for other headlines but couldn't get to the actual article.
My feed is very active but no one I know personally is on it. I follow about 10 people and have about 1700 in the hacker news circle.
Posted my resume on their for some feedback, didn't get one comment. Posted on Facebook, 10 comments instantly. I am presuming that is because on Facebook people know me personally.
Looks a really good app and I understood exactly what it does, just be first image and text.
What I would like though is a little tick box for it to not close apps that are already open. Also when creating a group, what space (think that's what they are called) it should open in.
My whole family uses my mac, so I tend to open all my apps in the second space and leave their apps open in the first. Be great if I could use your app to quickly open all my apps in space 2 and then when am finished close them all again.
Police in the UK have had these devices in their cars for a long time. I have spent time with the police watching how it works and it's pretty impressive. While sitting in the police car, a bus was travelling towards us and you should of seen the way the camera/software was scanning all the different numbers on the bus before it found the number plate. In the UK the police download a copy of a database before they leave the station and the software accesses that locally to determine if the vehicle should be pulled over. They check things like insurance, mot, tax and if the registered owner of the vehicle has a valid driving license.
Apparently they first started using them in London in fixed points around the city watching for known terrerist vehicles entering the city.
I use to be a press photographer (now develop mobile apps) and I can already think of some really useful apps I would love to have had on my camera to help with the job.
Big online company in the UK do something simular to Amazon, never tried it but looks a good idea. Basically they have collection points around the UK where you can have your parcel sent to instead of your home addresses and you can pick it up at your convenience. I checked my local postcode and near me it looks like mostly "off licenses" (simular to 7-11in US).
Chrome on iPad. The text is to low on the buttons at the top of the page, it looks odd. When reading a conversation the share tool covers half of it up and not only that but it moves with you when you scroll down the page.
I lived in the US for nearly two years and didn't make one friend. I had work buddies but never seen them out of work.
People in the UK always ask me why I came back to the UK but it's hard to explain to them how hard it is in another country with nothing to do every evening as you have no friends.
Got the job and started with dBase II on Concurrent DOS.