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Posted - February 24th, 2010

I saw this pod online. It’s inspired me to think about building something similar on the farm. Would look awesome nestled under the Pine hedges! I’d love to hear if anyone has built something similar – send a pic!

Check out http://www.archipod.co.uk/

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Posted - January 21st, 2010

imageJust for a laugh and in the interest of iPhone experimentation, I built a small iPhone app of the Julian101 blog and twitter feeds!

I do realise that not everyone hangs on everything I have to say, but for those out these who leap out of bed in the morning just to hear my thoughts on things, here’s your very own “Julian101 iPhone app!”

Keep me in your pocket! Show me to your friends (and followers)! And let me keep you updated with my latest ramblings! I’ll be sharing thoughts on business, design, creativity and to be honest, whatever comes to mind!

Download Now!

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Posted - January 14th, 2010

Here’s an interesting visualization of the Apple App Store stats and economy. Have a good read, the numbers are pretty interesting.

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Am I right in assuming that monthly…

  • 200,000,000 downloads p/m x 1/4 = 50,000,000 paid downloads
  • 50,000,000 paid downloads x Av $2.59 = $129,500,000 Income
  • $129,500,000 x 70% = $90,650,000 Income to Developers
  • $90,650,000 Income to Developers / 28,000 Developers equals…
  • Total: $3,237 per Developer
  • = $38,850 per year!

I’m not going to make any conclusions here but am keen to hear what other people think of this. Is that level of average revenue enticing enough to make writing iPhone App’s worthwhile? Would you quit your development job yet to develop iPhone apps?

Remember I’m talking here about average apps, not the odd successful iPhone apps that sell millions… Like this, this and this.

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Posted - January 7th, 2010

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Awesome! After about 6 months hard work and testing, the ProWorkflow native iPhone app is now live and available in the iPhone App Store!

I’m really proud of our ProWorkflow team and the dev team at Curious Media. Curious Media are PWF customers that developed the app in conjunction with the PWF guys. They all put in solid effort to plan, design, develop, test and document this app.

The iPhone app will add some awesome value to our user base and extend the ProWorkflow application’s use past the desktop to anywhere people are connected! This is a first release so we’ll be looking for feedback to develop the solution further.

Although there was significant cost to develop, we have decided to make this app free so it’s easy to download and deploy for all ProWorkflow users and their staff.

Richard has added an iPhone App section to our Help Center to help users get the iPhone app up and running.

Make sure you spread the word! Tell your workmates, friends, colleagues, business contacts, clients, contractors and anyone you can think of!

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Posted - January 7th, 2010

Over the Christmas break I was driving around Christchurch and came across this puzzling and slightly dodgy public toilet sign. As you can see below, a public loo opens to the main road and there’s a ‘Man/Woman’ sign on the wall either side.

I’m guessing they must have screwed the contractor who did the signwriting. Alternatively some twit added the small pics next to the bigger ones. Either way it’s pretty funny (and sad). Take a look at the pics below.

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And here’s the close-ups of the signs…

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Above: Women and very small kids with two heads.
Below: Men with scared, pleading children. haha…

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