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I first heard this song in the season 2 teaser of series Nurse Jakie, on television. The song was amazing and I had to get the full version of this. After some search on Internet found that this song is from album “Save Me, San Francisco” by Train. The song is phenomenal and after reading some reviews it seems that this is the best song ever from Train.
Check out the official video of this song…
Video may not be great but song is awesome. Its a happy song and it makes me nostalgic, every single time I hear it
This video really gets your adrenaline going, every time you watch it, irrespective of whether you’re an iPhone developer or not. The presentation, quality, and the content of the video is worth noticing. With stimulating background score and perfect editing, it delivers what it is meant for.
First time I saw this commercial, it caught my attention. Amazing color combinations and the simplicity of the video remarkably matches with the melodious music.
This song, “Fly me Away” is sung by Annie Little (featured in the commercial) and her full song is available here for FREE download. A beautiful song worth listening…
Guys, just got back from the iPhone Tech Talk held today at New York city. This was the first year I attended the event. I was not confident that Apple will accept my registration as we’re just 1 app old in the App Store, but fortunately they approved and I got this chance.
Well, the overall experience was awesome and inspiring. The event was well organized and Apple folks were very supportive. The sessions were very informative. There were 15 sessions (3 each at a time), held post common kick off session, so I could attend only 5 of them. Wish I could have attended them all
I attended following 5 sessions today.
1. iPhone User Interface Design Essentials
2. Preparing and Delivering Video for iPhone
3. Integrating Web Content into iPhone Apps
4. Mastering OpenGL ES for iPhone – Part 2
5. Implementing Push Notifications
Out of these 5, I really liked #1, #3.
The first session about the UI Design Essentials was very well organized and delivered to the audience, and it covered I guess most of the topics required before designing the UI of an app. Especially for “small garage” developers (got this word from there ) like us, who have limited budget and resources for the UI work, this information can really help in not only creating an appealing app but also saving extra dollars/resources by getting only the precise work done from UI professionals. I had downloaded the document for this from iPhone Developer Center long back, but never actually read it. But now that I have realized the significance and impact of this aspect of iPhone development cycle, I am going to read that document along with my notes that I took today. I am sure this will help me think better now for our future apps.
For the third session about Integrating Web Content into iPhone App, during first 5 minutes I thought it may be boring but then when the speaker started about the CSS capabilities of WebKit and the comparisons with equivalent JS versions of code and their impacts, it turned out to be a mind blower. I knew about WebKit’s extra capabilities through CSS but to see it in action and those comparisons with equivalent JS code were just amazing. Can’t wait to try it out myself.
Rest of the sessions were good too but not much appealing to me, may be because I have not yet worked in those areas. But I do plan to start on them soon.
Again, the overall experience was very good. I look forward to attend more of such events in future. Thanks to Apple!
Finally got time to post about my jQuery plugin here!
I have been often asked by people who have visited my website, if the home page design was a Flash or how to create that kind of effect in HTML along with menus, etc. Well, considering the curiosity of my viewers and readers, I went back into my code and extracted the logic into a jQuery plugin called, ‘imJQMosaic’. With this plugin, user can create the desired mosaic pattern using an image.
Checkout more details about the plugin on one of the following links.
With the completion of about page, linking of the blog with the main site, and customizing the default theme to be consistent with the main site style, I finally completed this website.
Though, I already have a few additions and modifications in mind that I will be working on gradually. Till then, I invite readers to check this website out, review it and give their valuable feedback.
I am sure you will have a good experience. This is just the beginning. Have fun!!!
Here is an amazing article that I came across while looking for various photo effects. The author has really put together some of the best photo effects tutorials on web at one place. A must see article.
