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By MikeH : 16 November 2009 - 09:38 AM

So if you are interested in building an iPhone app, but you do not want to learn Objective-C and Cocoa, you do have options. On our Open Feedback Publishing System (OFPS) we have a title in developmen...

By simonstl : 20 November 2009 - 02:13 PM

There are more than a thousand ways to optimize your website to maximize conversion rates. The following excerpt from Andrew B. King's Website Optimization explains one of the top 10 factors to maxi...

By msilver : 20 November 2009 - 01:50 PM

If your inbox's unread count has to be displayed in scientific notation to fit on the screen, you may be receiving more email than you can process. Consequently you're probably missing out on ...

By odewahn1 : 20 November 2009 - 12:30 PM

Presenting data is hard, particularly now that most people's attention span has shrunk to 140 characters. (Or less.) If you have to present some complex findings, it's a good idea to focus o...

By blackbear : 17 November 2009 - 08:11 PM

In a recent interview with Alasdair Allan regarding the iPhone sensor suite, he talked a bit about how the various sensors have to be used together to figure out how the phone is oriented. "Basical...

By jwikert3 : 20 November 2009 - 06:30 AM

Like most people, I've got more than one email address. When I access Google docs though I prefer to do so via my Gmail account. So when someone sends a Google doc link to my other email address...

By blackbear : 20 November 2009 - 04:50 AM

Eric Schurman manages performance for Microsoft's web sites. In this interview, he talked about how Microsoft uses small sets of their web site visitors to see how different changes affect user b...

By blackbear : 20 November 2009 - 04:46 AM

Eric Schurman helps manage web performance for Microsoft's web sites. In this interview, he talks about the ways that Microsoft tries to optimize performance. On the web, you've got differe...