What Makes One Mobile App Successful And Another Fail?

Monday, 1 July 2013 | Jason Slater

From reading press stories you might think being a developer of apps for the mobile devices is a gold-mine, and for some it may well be, but for many of us, sadly, it is not. For all those stories of … Read More

The Christmas 2012 Number One Is Facebook

Monday, 24 December 2012 | Jason Slater

This years App Charts belongs to Facebook and Google as they dominate the top “free” spots on iTunes this Christmas 2012.

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IT News: The Pi Shop Is Open

Monday, 17 December 2012 | Jason Slater

Hot IT News! The Pi Shop is open – or rather the Raspberry Pi Store is now open. There are currently 25 items listed on the Pi Store with a mix of free and paid for apps (only one paid-for app at present).

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Tip: How to search for an App in the Windows 8 Store

Thursday, 6 December 2012 | Jason Slater

Until we all get used to Windows 8, and its charms, many of us are likely to find certain things in the new Windows 8 somewhat unintuitive. They aren’t of course – we’re just used to doing things differently.
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Windows 8 Store: Dealing With “This Application Wasn’t Installed” Error

Thursday, 6 December 2012 | Jason Slater | One Comment

This morning the Windows 8 Store app said it had 15 updates to process and during the update process a number of application updates sat around in the “Pending” state then failed (including Mail and Video) with the message “This application wasn’t installed – view details“.
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