Recommended reading

• Kindle and iPad Displays: Up close and personal. | BIT-101 – I didn’t think to take such a close look at a Kindle
• Macsimum News – Greg’s bite: How to publish an Apple iBook – How to publish your own book onto iBooks
• How Oracle might kill Google’s Android and software patents all at once — RoughlyDrafted Magazine – You want a conspiracy theory about how Oracle is planning a death wish for Google – here it is
• Straight Dope on the IPod’s Birth – Fascinating article detailing the conception and birth of the iPod
• Snow Leopard: This Cat Has Fleas – An interesting discussion of some serious bugs that still exist in OS X 10.6 or Snow Leopard
• Mail.app: Showing my sent messages in thread view – Super User – Jeez that’s a useful tip!

Recommended reading

• The Technium: 1,000 True Fans – A very inspiring piece that suggests that artists and small businesses creating their own products actually only need about 1000 true fans to generate a decent revenue
• Mac & the iPad – Another really interesting and inspiring article about Steve Jobs, it gives an insight into his design process

Recommended reading

• Gowalla Adds Real-time Feeds and Activity Streams For Maximum Mashup Action – The implications of being to run feeds connected to alerts for specific venue checkins are quite cool, put on the thinking cap …
• A Freelancer Marketplace | Pick.im – Wow, nice site for finding freelancers
• Convert HTML to PDF | Online HTML to PDF API – Quite a cool API that allows you to transform HTML to PDF programmatically
• 9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere | Life Beyond Code – This is quite a thought provoking article and may help with some reality checks in terms of your career!
• Evolution: The Curious Case of Dogs : Observations of a Nerd – Fascinating article describing how natural selection has optimised behaviour of dogs in urban environments
• Fred Wilson’s 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps | Carsonified – Some solid ideas here about what drives success in web apps in 2010
• Hacker News | Ask HN: Interesting (Non software) books? – Book recommendations from the HN readers – added a few to my wishlist

Creating the interface for Beats, an iPhone app from Marc Edwards on Vimeo.

Here’s an article that explains some benefits of using Fireworks to layout iPhone apps.

Do you want to design your own iPhone app, but don’t know how to get started?

Well, Luke Kilpatrick not only runs Fire On The Bay, San Francisco’s Adobe Fireworks User Group, but he designs apps for a living. In this video interview with Robert Scoble, Kilpatrick shows how you can get started without writing any code or doing anything too hard.

Yes, it’s only a mock-up, but if you get it started like this, then you have something you can show your friends to see if they are interested before you spend a ton of cash on a development team.

Check out Fire On The Bay’s resource page here for some more tutorials and help.