Category Archives: Apps

iOS apps & Mobile Safari cookies – say bye bye

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According to Techcrunch, Apple has begun to reject apps that utilise cookie tracking, HTML5 first party cookies or sometimes called “Safari flip-flop” (I personally had not heard of that one before – see footnotes).

This is the action of taking the user out of the app to mobile Safari on first load and then taking them back. This action is being performed by the app to place a cookie into the Safari cache so that the user of the app can be linked up for further tracking.

If you haven’t seen this in action, here the Hotels.com app doing this (skip to 01:00 to miss the blurb):

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Joe Molloy is a freelance technical consultant, project manager and writer, based in London, UK.

Joe helps start-ups and companies convert their vision and ideas into real world products and services. Joe specialises in helping companies get it done.

Apps for Good Launch Event

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Weatherbirds at Apps for Good Launch EventWhat a fantastic day that was. The culmination of a ton of effort by seven different school teams, seven different developers, loads of mentors and everyone at Apps for Good.

This was the launch event for the Apps for Good 2012 award winners. Held at the top of the BT Tower, it drew in a large crowd of tech folks to applaud the efforts of everyone involved.

The views from the top of the tower were great too:
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Joe Molloy is a freelance technical consultant, project manager and writer, based in London, UK.

Joe helps start-ups and companies convert their vision and ideas into real world products and services. Joe specialises in helping companies get it done.

AFG Update – RMBme Kick off

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apps-for-good-logo3Another kick off meeting done today with the girls behind the RMBme app along with their developers Service2Media. Their app is a reminder app that will allow you to create the reminders with all types of media. In their opinion, whatever works to make that reminder memorable.

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The girls are very excited about winning and have become celebrities in their school. They were so eager to start working on this app, they have already provided some wire-frames ideas created in Balsmic. If you don’t know this app, its a great piece of kit.
It’s a paid service, but the lucky girls have full access due to educational licensing. Every company should do this for their software in my opinion.

 
 
 
 

Joe Molloy is a freelance technical consultant, project manager and writer, based in London, UK.

Joe helps start-ups and companies convert their vision and ideas into real world products and services. Joe specialises in helping companies get it done.

AFG Update – Promise Keeper Kick off

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apps-for-good-logo3Well all of the schools are back and the race is now on to channel all of that energy and enthusiasm into getting the app designs either started or finished.
The first kick off meeting I’m involved with was for the boys behind the Promise Keeper app along with Charlie and Chris from putITout. This is a very interesting app in that it could have only come out of a kids brain.

Joe Molloy is a freelance technical consultant, project manager and writer, based in London, UK.

Joe helps start-ups and companies convert their vision and ideas into real world products and services. Joe specialises in helping companies get it done.

Apps for Good update – meet the teams

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I’ve been working with the Apps for Good folks for over a week now and I’m able to say what the apps are and who they are being built by.

 

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  1. Feelings in a Flash being built by Plantpot 
  2. Mapp your Way being built by Codeten 
  3. Oyster on the Go being built by Novoda
  4. Promise Keeper being built by putITout
  5. RMBme being built by Service2Media
  6. Qbooks being built by QuickBlox
  7. Weatherbirds built by Fuerte International
I’m very impressed with all of these app ideas and I’m looking forward to meeting all of the brains behind them and the folks who will build them.

Joe Molloy is a freelance technical consultant, project manager and writer, based in London, UK.

Joe helps start-ups and companies convert their vision and ideas into real world products and services. Joe specialises in helping companies get it done.

Apps for Good

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I’m pleased to say that Early Adopter (my company) has been selected to help Apps for Good to deliver their award winning apps for a launch event at the end of the year.
 
The apps are all designed by school kids and are being built by professional companies. The apps were selected through a “Dragons Den” style competition AFG held at the Barbican in June.
 
It will be good to see how a variety of professional companies go about their development and see if I can learn anything from them.

Joe Molloy is a freelance technical consultant, project manager and writer, based in London, UK.

Joe helps start-ups and companies convert their vision and ideas into real world products and services. Joe specialises in helping companies get it done.

Zappd finally on iTunes

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zappdsplashI’ve been helping to develop the iOS version of zappd for the last few months. It’s been quite a challenge to get this app to where I and the client were both happy with it. The good news is that this has finally launched.

Zappd is a rewards based mobile application which allows users to keep track of points and redeem rewards. It works through either detecting where you are through geolocation and thus giving you a list of likely places you may be, or by identifying the shop / store through scanning a QR code.

 

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Joe Molloy is a freelance technical consultant, project manager and writer, based in London, UK.

Joe helps start-ups and companies convert their vision and ideas into real world products and services. Joe specialises in helping companies get it done.