iPhone App Development - ESPN 2010 FIFA World Cup

	ESPN 2010 FIFA World Cup View in iTunes
Splash Page - Great color and typography
Home Page - Really effective & functional, live scores on top section love the random background image
Did I mentioned a news ticker along the bottom of the screen
	Bracket View Smart use of landscape view, nicely design and interactive
Video recaps, and other footages from ESPN's coverage Live video-on-demand is only available in the US
World Cup tournament history dating back to 1930
	Extensive profiles of all 32 teams, great use of landscape view, really organized
Tournament stats and tables, nicely done!
	Profiles of all 10 host venues Love the interactive map
really organized again, great use of color for inside pages
Flawless! Functional and organized
	Latest US and global news and analysis
This is one of my favorite’s apps! It’s almost flawless. The app is really well-organized, with great information structure and nicely design.

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Great Marketing Ideas by Apple

Apple has been promoting the apps very successfully as a product. This is one of the greatest example of marketing.

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Making Every Possible Mistake!

Did you see the MacBook Air commercial yet? Quite catchy, right?

I decided to find the full song and guess what? I think there was hidden message there!

Listen to it and try to find what Apple marketing department was trying to tell you?

I’m a new soul I came to this strange world hoping I could learn a bit about how to give and take but since I came here felt the joy and the fear finding myself making every possible mistake...

• No disk driv
• Non-removable battery
• 2 GB non-removable ram, 4200 RPM 80Gb hard drive.
• 1 usb port, 1 headphone jack, 1 micro-DVI. $1799
• And...
  

Does it make sense now? DUH!

Apple iPhone + Subway Map

As you know you can take advantage of the iPhone's thumbnail system for your photos but what you need to know is that, you can do the same with your city's subway map! Basically this map includes few sliced images from the actual subway map in such a way that you can pan across the map with the forward and back buttons. Subway maps usually are available as a PDF file but navigating the few hundred kilo bytes PDF file on the iPhone is very slow yet (beside the connection!). Also some of the disadvantages by using these kind of maps is that sometimes they have so many details and a little bit complicated! And if you have low res images you can’t really use the map (distorted and pixilated images).

I just collected couple of links from different websites! You can download these packages below and upload the images to your iPhone and use them the same way you browse your pictures.

• New York City iPhone Subway Map by Clint Bagwell Consulting


• New York City iPhone Subway Map by Khoi Vinh


• London Underground iPhone Subway Map by Randy Plemel


• Washington D.C. Metro Map by Jack Barse

Also,

• Tokyo Subway System iPhone Map


• Greater Tokyo JR Railway iPhone System Map


• Santiago de Chile Railway iPhone System Map


• San Francisco BART iPhone Map


• Paris iPhone Subway Map


• Boston iPhone Subway Map

Other Option

Filemarks let you store high res images, text files, and PDFs on an iPhone! There aren’t any good ways to do this with the built in Apple tools - you can use iPhoto to copy images, but they’ll be scaled down and become unreadable. If you want to read a pdf on your phone, you have to either email it to yourself or browse to it in Safari. Filemarks store your file’s data inside a bookmark. When you want to view your file, you open the bookmark in Safari on the iPhone and you can view it, whether your phone is online or offline.

Basically Filemarks let you store much higher quality images than the built in photo application. Check it out,

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/Filemark-Maker.shtml

Thank you

Apple iMac Ad

After I saw Apple new iMac ad, I thought why the Mighty Mouse is on the right side? Usually it's on the left side, right? What Apple designers were thinking? After a while I realized why? Tell me which of these two pictures look better to you or let’s say which one is basically more obvious and usable for a 30 seconds ad!

However I would have done it like this. Everything is clear!

No offense, just a idea! Apple has the best designers in the world.

What do you think about my idea?

Historical Moments

Image of very embarassing moment for Apple Mac OS X and painful for me. Well I lost few unsaved documents. Anyway! Who said Mac doesn't crashes!

But at least looks lot better than when Windows crashes! Right!