joelackner

does anyone know how the free app-a-day promotion is being handled? does amazon pay the developer 20% of the price for each free download?

you know what's funny -- this actually isn't completely unrealistic using AR and head mounted displays...

SEEKING WORK

Quality design concepts, website layouts, user interfaces & marks/logos/brands/icons. Only taking on concept work at this time, too backlogged with development.

http://celsius.ws

i was lucky enough to get my honeycomb app featured (DrawFree) and have been considered on the the few honeycomb specific apps -- i don't believe this is true. the market just doesn't offer a way to find honeycomb optimized apps.

also, android's method of scaling apps is far more usable than the way the ipad does it. visual quality doesn't suffer (mostly), just some minor usability issues with things being far too small.

this is about 100 times more useful than colour.com

no kidding -- what about the built in gps?

"duke never comes early"

cheeky bastards.

nope, you've just got an expensive one. that's standard issue. =)

i think this is a smart move by mozilla. i hope they see a significant uptick in browser share on those platforms.

i'm sure it wasn't easy to dedicate all the extra work up front and over the life of the project...

i downloaded tubotax for my ipad, fired it up, realized how much data input i'd be doing and how much of a chore it would be and headed for my desktop...

it's all about the right tools for the job, and i still believe that the ipad is best used for consuming.

programming is inherently a lot of typing, scrolling and adjusting. unless you hook up a real keyboard and/or a mouse or invent some damn elegant ui paradigms ... i'm just not seeing this being a strong tool in the programmers toolkit. reviewing code, perhaps? but the daily grind, not so much. at least not in the near future...

this is one area that android as an os is better at. it's ready to go out of the box, syncs data from your google account and upgrades the os over the wire.

who chose those colors? unknown & 1-5 % are practically the same, out of order and make it next to impossible to glance over the map without reading the numbers.

i agree. it's probably the most per transaction you can get out of this meme.

i don't feel your analogy works at all. if only 1 out of 20 designers (i'm just guessing at the average number of submitted concepts per contest) are getting paid for their work they are submitting, then 19 are losing out: it's called spec work.

cheap is not spec.

i'm only here to educate others on the business model and to stick up for the health of my industry.

while i applaud your charity efforts, i want to let all those non-designers understand how design contest driven sites like 99designs hurt the design industry as a whole.

to put it in perspective for programmers, it's like submitting a completed project (or at least a functional beta) with no guarantee of payment. it's up to the client to pick the best "code" and all the others lose their time/money.

for more info on how this is hurting designers: http://www.no-spec.com/

i like the cut of your jib, sir.

i'd quit.

this is what i do, a simple rename of the index with a contact message.

although, the "get bent" is awesome.

no issues, iPad iOS 3

however, if they get traction they can win big time in profits and vendor lock-in.

i agree with you, however.

email outbound! thanks for your time and effort.

i'm on the ground level of my own startup -- and need some engineering advice. i'm torn between php+mysql & rails at the time. hit me at joe@celsius.ws if you could.