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Whether you're building an iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Facebook or cross-platform app, this superb selection of tutorials will help you on your way... Via Martin (Marty) Smith 
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Apple is known for being a top of the line computer company. To no one’s surprise, they have decided to integrate a new display into their devices that is double the resolution of a normal screen. Images are sharper, crisper, and show more detail. The only problem is, this adds yet another problem for designers and developers. So, what is the problem? When we look at our crisp graphics on a normal screen, they look fine, but on the Retina Display, they appear to be blurry. Not only do web designers and developers have to account for different screen sizes across desktop computers, tablets, and mobile devices, but now they have to deal with double the resolution. This has left a lot of people scratching their heads, but there are a few options when designing to include the Retina Display.
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The Appification of Ecommerce
About a year ago I purchased a new MacBook Air. Seeing how my new laptop related to the world much like an iPad with apps and an app store was a revelation. Apps will rule the world.
This trend is why we are all app builders now and these tutorials are a must view. The trend toward apps is more than you think. A few days ago I shared a Haiku Deck about the future of web design 3.0 (http://sco.lt/7r6zkf).
I missed the appification of everything. Apps, the widget-like shrinking of code to Lego blocks, form the core of mobile programming. Since mobile is taking over the smart move is to "appify" everything.
This means thinking of websites as interconnected blocks responding to each other and our visitors in real time (as described in the deck). Best demonstration or analogy for this fluid app future is MIT's David Merrill explaining Siftable at TED http://www.ted.com/talks/david_merrill_demos_siftables_the_smart_blocks.html .
The way Siftables related to one another (they are aware other Siftables are present and have a desire to connect if code expressed as a toy can have desires) and link in order to create a sum is greater than the whole universe is a great way to think about the New Ecommerce.
The new ecom is location agnostic (capable of converting anywhere at anytime and with the merest snippet of Siftable-like code), socially self aware (capable of pulling friends and their influencers into the equation) and appified (small Lego-like blocks snapped together to meet specific needs).
Sometimes we will snap in the predictive analytics block sometimes we might now. Other times we will want the social share block other times not. Design, in this Siftables-like future, becomes a series of WHAT IF conditions and testing, always testing.
Going to be fun and why it is a GOOD idea to become an app builder.
Creativity, creativity, creativity