Google has released App Inventor to the public. What’s on earth is App Inventor? App Inventor allows you and your cat to create applications for Android without touching a single code. Oh, please disregard about the cat that can program an app, I just want to be cute like a cat! Anyway, all you have to do is to be creative and have a mental image of how you want to approach in formulating an application for Android. For an example, you want to allow a sound to play when someone taps on an image as to tell your little application to display the next image, you can do just that without touching any code using App Inventor. App Inventor developers boast that they have had created image versions of the codes for just about anything, and so you can mash the mashable objects together to form a complete Android application.
Yes, coding will always be a better form of poetry, but App Inventor is one quick way to form up an Android App without being too geeky! Imagine using App Inventor as a way to create a new whole puzzle from standard bits and pieces of the older puzzles. It’s way more flexible than a puzzle literally, because bits and pieces from real puzzles cannot be mashable unless those are from the same puzzles.
In a way, I don’t think App Inventor will allow users to create better Android applications. To create the more sophisticated applications, one has to get down and dirty by coding days and nights away. Writing poetry is not cake!
Even if all has failed, I still adore App Inventor for one reason only, and the reason is that it allows people without the knowledge of coding to form limitless number of Android applications that are uniquely compatible to the creators. Just a head up, don’t even try to avoid similar Android applications that will be produced by App Inventor factory. It will be a hopeless mission for you!
Give App Inventor a try here! To clarify, I have not used App Inventor yet, and so my words on this new thing are for show! Have a merry active mind in creating Android applications! Source.
iPhone and iPod Touch users won’t have a problem of downloading and installing an application that they like, but there are way too many applications for choosing. No one wants to waste time in looking through countless of applications, downloading the applications just to find out that those aren’t needed, and so programs like App Judgment from Revision 3 and websites that review iPhone applications were born to somewhat alleviate too-many-app-problem. Now we can add one more to the list of iPhone’s application review services, and it’s something we now know as Chomp.
Chomp is an application itself that you can download from iPhone’s App Store, and by installing Chomp on your iPhone, you be informed about other iPhone’s applications (iPod Touch compatible). Chomp allows you to review applications, read other reviewed applications in real time (sort of like Twitter), follow reviewers, search for reviewers and email addresses and keywords, see who is following you, connect to Facebook, check applications’ recommendations, and bookmark an application. If you somewhat are familiar with Twitter, you will find Chomp easy to use and informative. I think it’s not a bad application to have on your iPhone and iPod Touch at all. I recommend this! Still, I would love to hear your story about Chomp in comments. For an example, how you like Chomp? (What are the drawbacks and the strengths that Chomp has? So on and so on…) Source.
Not long ago, VoiceCentral was banned from iPhone’s App Store, because Apple disliked some of the applications using Google Voice’s APIs that had similar features and functions to iPhone’s core applications — VoiceCentral was caught as one of those. People loved VoiceCentral as it had prettier way to manage Google Voice, and that was one of those times that some iPhone’s users complained loudly.
The developers for VoiceCentral have a new plan though! They are developing a brand new VoiceCentral, but this time it’s not a native iPhone application. Instead of being a native iPhone application, VoiceCentral (the beta version) is now a web application which allows everyone who has iPhone to use it through iPhone’s Safari browser. The beta version will come off beta in 2010.
Although for not being a native iPhone application, it seems the web version of VoiceCentral does cover all the core features of Google Voice. Check out here for a few drawbacks when VoiceCentral is not a native iPhone application. After the jump, you can check out a YouTube demo video for this new version of VoiceCentral which is now called VoiceCentral Black Swan.
Has VoiceCentral Black Swan find a loop hole to Apple’s tight approval for its App Store’s applications? If VoiceCentral Black Swan turns out to be a big hit as its earlier version, it can be a model for App Store’s rejected applications. What a rebel! 
For now iPhone still rules the mobile’s application world, but Google’s Android has made things easier for mobile phone manufacturers and carriers to promise an equally or a better alternative mobile platform. Adobe sees that Android may has the momentum to change the landscape of mobile world, and so the company is quick to launch a mobile Photoshop version for Android. It’s unclear though that Adobe provides the application for free or you have to pay in order to use it. Source.
A study finds that only nine countries with broadband connections that are ready for the future broadband applications such as watching HD videos. Unfortunately, United States is not one of those countries, instead United States is in the list of countries that are comfortable for today broadband applications and demands. The study suggests that to be ready for future broadband applications and demands, the broadband connection needs to be around 11.25Mbps for download and 5Mbps for upload. Forget about that suggestion from the study, South Korea is promising its people 1Gbps by 2012. Can United States stay at the top of the game when come to technology considering that its broadband connection is not yet ready to meet the future demands? The nine countries that are ready for the future broadband applications and demands are South Korea, Japan, Sweden, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Netherlands, Romania, and Denmark.
Remotely depositing check to your bank is feasible? This is something that someone is fantasizing about? No, the answer is yes! A small bank named USAA is allowing their bank customers to deposit checks remotely by capturing the images of each check using iPhone. By capturing the front and the back of a check through the use of iPhone’s camera, and having USAA’s iPhone application on the iPhone to deliver the check images securely to the bank for depositing — this feast is surely easing the process of making a deposit.
The only real concern is that how securely is this process can be! Depositing check remotely through iPhone is definitely saving you some driving time to the bank, but capturing checks’ images onto iPhone can be somewhat unsettling. Imagining if your iPhone gets hack, then this process suddenly can become really scary! All your checks’ information such as check payers, organization names that the checks associate to, the addresses on the checks, and the amount of the deposits — all can be obtained by the hackers.
Major companies like AT&T, Apple, Amazon, and so on are actively denying certain applications from third parties to have access to their platforms. The recent uproar about Apple removed Google Voice from its App Store has caught FCC’s attention. FCC sent letters to ATT&T, Apple, and Google to get a clearer picture of this whole uproar. Apple’s fans who are using iPhone are complaining Google Voice is no more in the App Store. Internet goes beserk about this very topic too.
When big companies like Apple and AT&T deny third parties applications on their platforms can hinder a large number of population from accessing new useful software. This also may slow down the advancement of technology since the major companies are the parties that determine which technology they are down with.
Google for being a search company and a huge part of its revenue comes from advertising sees things in the opposite direction. Instead of promoting closed platform, Google hopes and supports the movement of open platform — allows all applications to be on all compatible devices. More applications that have access to Google Adsense in turn will provide additional source of income for Google. Google is definitely wanting to help more application developers generate some money from Adsense — at the same time Google makes a lot money from Adsense.
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