My wife turned me on to using LoseIt on the iPhone to track out diets and this NY Times piece writes on that use by others. Personally, I’ve found this latest take at caloric tracking incredibly simple and because of that maintainable. In the past it was easy to tire of logging a meal or snack but LoseIt makes it simple. This process has shown some insights on my diet and shed a few pounds too.
Patient Money – Losing Weight the Smartphone Way, With a Nutritionist in Your Pocket – NYTimes.com.
Hoping to Make iPhone Toys as a Full-Time Job – NYTimes.com. Spring blog cleaning here; the fact that I’m an an inconsistent blogger is highlighted by this saved draft from 4/5/2009 regarding making iPhone apps a full-time job. Back then the plan was to write an iphone app (puts me is a small pool of people…ha), throw it out there for free, learn, promote, then make money with round two.
Looking back over the goal I set last year has been interesting. While I’ve made little strides in the development of this plan I have devoted time on the thought of my applications; and in that time the app world has changed and that changes my plan. MonoTouch is a Godfather horse-head in the bed for developing iPhone apps. I wasn’t likely going to use MonoTouch but I had downloaded and played around with their tools. With Apple’s latest headlines I’m certainly not swimming without objective-c now. Additionally, changes to the commerce model allows greater app flexibility and then there’s always the iPad. It’ll be interesting to see how the next year shakes out…
Check this out about iPhone Apps. iPhone AppStore Secrets – Pinch Media.
Shares some secrets, some tips, throws out some user usage stats and briefly talks turkey about an ad based revenue model. I’m working on a iPhone app for a little venture I’m working on and this will help.
