top blackberry apps AND fun iPhone apps for learning - article reviews

Via itpromarketer there is a short list of the Top 10 BlackBerry Apps, Plus the 2 Most Anticipated - though I don't have a blackberry, sometimes we all bump into these apps. And - All these top blackberry apps are free!

Top 10 BlackBerry Apps, Plus the 2 Most Anticipated

1. BlackBerry App World
2. TwitterBerry
3. Instango
4. Facebook
5. BBFileScout
6. YouMail
7. iheartradio
8. Google Voice
9. Google Maps
10. BerryTorch
    

you will notice that in this list most of them are social media/online related: twitter/facebook/google/maps/radio online :)
Anticipated apps: SkyFire and Tweeteev
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Though I have read this article a while ago and checked out some of the apps listed here(even these apps are for kids, they surely are fun for older ones also!), now I am listing some of the 50 Fun iPhone Apps to Get Kids Reading and Learning - via the onlineultrasoundschool website. Put the iPhone and the kids together with some of the apps listed below to keep the kids busy as they prepare themselves for school! The apps listed below are by category:

50 Fun iPhone Apps to Get Kids Reading and Learning

• Animals - iPhone apps - ABC Animals, Animal Memory Match, Landleben, etc
• Art - Softick, Doodle Kids, Spin Art, etc
• Music - Midomi, MiniPiano, Ocarina, etc
• Problem Solving - Best of I Spy, Bobby Carrot Forever, touchPhysics, Where’s Gumbo, etc
• Reading and Writing - iWriteWords, Rulla, StoryNory, Word Scramble, etc
• Math - Basic Maths, Clock It Lite, Coin Math, PopMath, etc
• Study Aids - Brain Toot, iFlipr 1.11, Mental Case, StudyCards, etc
  

Continue to read this article - with the complete list of apps and some description to each - the 50 Fun iPhone Apps to Get Kids Reading and Learning.

5 things that can kill your site & How to create your first iPhone application

Continuing the series of just quoting the main points of some interesting articles, here are 2 of them: Five Things That Will Kill Your Site and How to Create Your First iPhone Application.

Five Things That Will Kill Your Site

A high availability website - It’s all about expensive redundant hardware with top of the line load balancers and an enterprise class SAN, right? Well, not necessarily. There are several cheap or free steps you can take to ensure uptime before you splash your cash on lots of kit. If you’re not taking these steps you are wasting your money on your redundant hardware. Here are my top five things that bring sites down, in rough order of likeliness:

1. Change
2. Unexpected load
3. Slow death
4. Time related issues
5. Hardware failure

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How to Create Your First iPhone Application

1. Have an idea – a Good Idea(Does your app solve a unique problem? Does the app serve a specific niche? Does it make people laugh? Are you building a better wheel? Will the app be highly interactive?)
2. Tools Checklist(Iphone Developer Program, get an iPhone, get a MAC, get iPhone SDK, etc)
3. What Are You Really Good At? - Skills Checklist
4. Do Your Homework: Market Research
5. Know the iPhone/iPod Touch UI
6. Determine "Who will use your app?"
7. Sketch Out Your Idea
8. Time for Design(use the iPhone GUI Photoshop template or our iPhone PSD Vector Kit)
9. Programming
   Developers & forums: Apple Dev Forum, iPhoneSDK (moderated by Erica Sadun), iPhoneSDKForum, iPhoneDev Forums, iPhoneSB
10. Submit your application to Apple Store
11. Promote Your App(Strategies for maintaining/boosting app sales: Incorporating social media, Pre-launch promotion, Plan for multiple releases)
12. Stay Focused and Don’t Give Up!

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cool links online

from link to link, from site to site, here are some cool links I discovered online:

• intrigued by this article, I found out more about GPS location applications for phones and smartphones, like:
  - where.com - location-based application chock-full of widgets that deliver essential information about what's around you; available everywhere - WHERE delivers the best in local information from Eventful, Yelp, GasBuddy, Zipcar, ShopLocal, Starbucks, Buddy Beacon and more. Download even for iphone! :)
  - loopt.com - transform your mobile phone into a social compass; connect with friends, share your location, and explore new places. Get started, download loopt even for iphone! :)
  - google latitude - See your friends' locations and status messages and share yours with them. See where your friends are, in real time; Enjoy Google Latitude on your phone, computer, or both. Soon on iPhone also!
• reading this article, I find out more about blinkx - video search, now with TV shows/channels search! To see the news or entertainment, business or sport videos, with the possibility of either watching pre-determined playlists or choosing your own topics - all online! The most viewed clips on youtube or the latest news - internet videos! Inform me, entertain me, give me my own channel - choose...

and more coming up....