Inexpensive part-time technology businesses to start for under $1000 – Part 1

As the US continues to struggle with it’s economy, it has become tougher and tougher for people to find full and/or part time jobs. This is a quick article describing basic part time technology businesses you can start and potentially profit from. Most of these opportunities have a low start-up cost for under $1000 and [...]

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Building a simple iPhone TabBarController application – Part 4

Ok, now in this part of our tutorial we will add the icon to our application. You will need a PNG image that is sized to a height and width of 57. Here is a sample image you can use if you prefer: Now lets add the image to our project by Right clicking on the [...]

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Building a simple iPhone TabBarController application – Part 3

Ok, as you see in the graphic above, we have created our two tab simple application in Part 1 and then added our splash screen in Part 2 of this tutorial. Now lets change the tab graphics and name to something that supports our application. We will start first by opening the MainWindow.xib in Interface [...]

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Building a simple iPhone TabBarController application – Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, we built a basic tabbed iphone application called LobbyTest. Now that we have our basic setup, lets add the meat of the application. We will start by adding the most simple part, the splash screen. The size of the iPhone splash screen needs to be a height of 320 [...]

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Top 2010 New Year Resolutions for Small Businesses

As we all know, the new year is a time to set goals and resolutions both professionally and personally. I think we have all seen the large crowd of newbies at the gym at the beginning of the year or heard the endless water cooler discussions about how people had just started a new diet. [...]

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HTC Hero Review – Using the Droid

I know many of you have seen at least one of the many commercials for the Droid. You know, those weird commercials with the freaky music claiming “Droid Does” while attempting to bash the iPhone on the sly. Well if you were or still are confused by these ads, let  me attempt to clarify. These [...]

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Building a simple iPhone TabBarController application – Part 1

I’ve been asked a few times how to create a tabbed iphone application with a lobby like feel like the Facebook iPhone app. There are ways to make iPhone apps without any programming experience but I assume your here to actually build your app with XCode. Therefore, here is a basic walk through that will [...]

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This week’s question

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Should I write a Technical Book or build an IPhone application

This past week I was contacted by a publisher to write a technical book on an open source technology. Since writing a book is on my list of lifetime goals, I decided to send him an outline along with the typical new writer questions. These questions included: What are the expectations of me? What are [...]

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