Here’s a neat little add-on that I found on FireFox the other week. Personas! Although the ability to set a custom theme on your browser is cool (with “viva” being my favorite so far), I think my favorite feature is the slick functionality that they built in on the add on to preview. Once you’ve installed personas, just hovering over a persona on their http://www.getpersonas.com/ site or on the little persona head in the bottom left corner of your browser will automatically show you what the persona looks like on your browser. Very slick.
Apr
13
I just wanted to alert everyone of a great resource out there for iPhone development. If you have an idea for an application that you would like to make into a reality, this book is for you. Carla Kay White (she has that many sites, so I have to user her entire name 
) has written a book that is targeted towards every day average people that want to create an iPhone app, but don’t have vast amount of resources and/or are not developers themselves.
However, I think it can relate to everyone! Even if you are going to do your own development, there is information in this book for you. I started reading this, not knowing what to expect, but after getting about 5 pages in, I couldn’t put it down. Finally, at about 11:30 with an early morning ahead of me I figured I should get some sleep, but I was easily able to finish up all of the books after the next night. That is what made the books so valuable. The information was compacted into a short amount of writing interlaced with interesting experiences of the author, which kept your attention and made you wanting to finish the current page, just so you could read the next.
Everything is covered, from the basics of what you need to release an app to the iTunes store to ideas on how to market your application. The information is light, but also contains facts along with personal experiences to back up any ideas that are put out there. Finally, the $13.99 price tag is tiny compared to the amount that you will save and potentially earn just from reading this book.
So grab your pick axe and your favorite gold pan and jump into this modern day gold rush!