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Archive for June, 2009

ReignDesign Talks at Mobile Monday

Monday, June 29th, 2009

The RD Team
Nick and Matt are speaking at Mobile Monday this Monday (June 29th, 2009) at M1nt. They have two short talks for those in attendance, one on mobile UX and another on the 5 fails of the Apple App Store. We invite you to come by, enjoy the tech talk and a drink with the ReignDesign crew. You can get an invitation here. You can view our slides for the presentation after the jump.

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Let us show you our credentials

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Who are ReignDesign? How do we work? What are our passions? We made this presentation to help you learn a little more about our company and our team.
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iPhone OS 3.0 reaches two-thirds of iPhones in six days

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

3.0It's been six days since iPhone OS 3.0 software update was released. Todd previously wrote about some of the cool features for users and developers in iPhone OS 3.0.

The question is, should developers start taking advantage of these new features now? How many people have already updated to the iPhone OS 3.0 so far? We analysed metrics data from our applications on the App Store, including Bible Promises, Lovely and Spot the Difference! to analyse the uptake of iPhone OS 3.0 on both iPhones and iPod touches.
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Highlight your site’s hot content with the Google Analytics API

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Google Analytics logo Want to highlight the most popular articles, blog posts or media on your website? If you use the excellent Google Analytics to track the usage of your sites, you can use the Google Analytics API to create an automatically updated hot-list of popular content.

In this tutorial I'll explain how I managed to create the "hot trends" list on What The Trend?. This shows the most popular "trends" on the site from the last 3 days.
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What we’ve been reading – ReignDesign Link Dump

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

The RD Team

This week's link dump covers everything from the "Green Dam Youth Escort" to a DIY Oscilloscope to Porn (or at least that's the title). Enjoy!

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Design an iPhone app in 15 minutes… then build and publish it in a day!

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

At Barcamp Shanghai this weekend, Matt held a session called "Design an iPhone app in 15 minutes". After a couple of minutes of introduction, teams had to grab paper, stencils, glue and scissors, and mockup a concept for an iPhone app as quickly as possible! When the time ran out, each team had 30 seconds to present their idea.
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TEDxShanghai sponsored by ReignDesign

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

tedx ReignDesign is proud to sponsor the first ever TEDxShanghai on June 15th, 2009.

We listened to some inspiring speakers like Kris Krug, Mihela Hladin and Zhou Yunpeng.

You'll be able to view talks from the event on the TedX Tudou site.

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Video: Bible Promises 1.3 with healing verses, favorites and more!

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Bible Promises Logo Our popular iPhone Bible verses app, Bible Promises, has just been updated to version 1.3.

We created a short video of the new features.
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Can you Spot The Difference?

Monday, June 8th, 2009

If you have been listening outside our office recently, you may have heard phrases like this:

"I can finish in thirty seconds!"
"Come on, it's so tiny! How do you expect me to find it?"
"I can't see ANY difference!"
"My girlfriend loves this kind of game"
"Done!!! I told you I'm superman!!!"

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From bytes to beats, Digital to Analog Conversion using AS3-Arduino

Monday, June 1st, 2009

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Probably the simplest DIY way to create your own Digital-to-Analog Converter using the Arduino's Pulse Width Modulation output pins.

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