A new year often brings new ideas, especially for innovation-hungry entrepreneurs, the likes of whom we often develop apps for. When you first percolate a new idea for a mobile app venture, its easy to get carried away on daydreams of becoming the next Angry Birds or Instagram.  So before you rush out to buy that domain name and hire an app development team, take a deep breath and a lesson from us, because we have found a common thread among...

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Anyone involved in mobile apps over the last 4 years can tell you that great design (often called User Interface or UI) and usability (often called User Experience or UX) is extremely important.  No matter how good your development is, the UI and UX of your app are just as important. Maybe UI and UX are so important because you are working on such a small screen.  Maybe they are important because you tend to use apps for short periods of time...

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So you say your smartphone screen is too small and your laptop is too large to carry around easily.  Well, Goldilocks, your prescribed solution to your problems is a tablet. But what size tablet? When the smartphone screen has already proved to be too small for one’s uses, the 5 inch tablet offers very little increase in usable space. How about a 10 inch tablet? The so-called “10 inch” tablets actually range from 9.5 inches wide (Apple...

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This week we’re thinking very “meta.” We rounded up 3 of the best collections of the best apps for tracking the Olympics. That’s right – it’s a list of the best lists of the best apps. Confused yet? Don’t worry – just click the links and enjoy! 5 Essential Apps for Olympic Fanatics from Mashable The Best Apps For The London 2012 Olympics from Forbes Must-have mobile apps for the Olympics from...

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Less than a month ago, we posted about Apple’s annual developers conference (WWDC) and Apple’s iOS 6.0!  Last week it was Google’s turn to make a big splash at Google I/O, their developer conference, where Google announced the latest Android release and some interesting new hardware.  Android 4.1, aka “Jelly Bean,” was announced and will be released in July sometime for Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, and Motorola Xoom...

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