SyneRyder

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by SyneRyder 14y ago
For the alternative viewpoint, see "Amid Slumping Revenue, Punch Quest Switches To A Paid Game" over at Touch Arcade: http://toucharcade.com/2012/11/14/amid-slumping-revenue-punc...
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by SyneRyder 14y ago
The article says it cost $200,000 "in lost income". That's not quite the same as spending $200K, they're factoring in opportunity cost to make it sound more dramatic. It's also possible that some of the equipment (eg laptops & display
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by SyneRyder 14y ago
I worked 100% from home/remote for almost a decade. I found it via connections/chance... I'd emailed someone I read about in a magazine, we kept in contact, a few months later he asked if I'd like to help his friend with a small website
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by SyneRyder 14y ago
Have you seen the pricing on Windows 8? It's $48 here in Australia (roughly the same in USD) and I believe there's a $40 download-only version too. It sounds like that would suit your needs?
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by SyneRyder 14y ago
I wish all the authorized repair shops were like that - the last time I used one, it took them 2 weeks (literally) to repair my machine. I had a similar repair later when we got our first Apple Store - and Apple fixed it for free and compl
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by SyneRyder 14y ago
Mixergy gives away hundreds of interviews for free via their podcast feed (I subscribed via iTunes and my iPhone podcatcher, search for Mixergy), and transcripts of the interviews are still available via Google search. I'm not a fan of the
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by SyneRyder 14y ago
There's also the Buffer ecosystem; they have an iPhone app and they're already built-in as a sharing feature on many iOS & Android apps. It will take a while for Circular to match that. The more I look at what Buffer is doing, the mor
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by SyneRyder 14y ago
I find the Apple chargers ideal for international use, because they have interchangeable plug heads for different countries. When I'm traveling, I only need to take the chargers that I need, and swap the plugs as required. That seems to wo
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by SyneRyder 14y ago
FWIW my Australian credit card with Westpac charges foreign exchange fees, about 2.5% if I remember correctly. It's only recently that they've added those fees as separate line entries in the account.
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by SyneRyder 14y ago
The Australian Dollar is roughly at parity with the US at the moment (Currently $1 AUD = $1.03 USD) and has been for sometime... so if the observations from the study still hold today, the amount would be about equal in either currency.
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by SyneRyder 14y ago
The folks behind Discovr Music say they're at 77% iOS 6 adoption: http://discovr.info/2012/10/discovr-ios-6-adoption-tops-77-i...
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by SyneRyder 15y ago
I use Rescue Time, and I've seen some benefit. Specifically, I closed my Facebook & LiveJournal accounts after I saw how much time I was spending on them. But you don't need RescueTime to figure that out ;) Vitamin-R for Mac ( http://
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by SyneRyder 15y ago
It was made specifically for the restaurant business. Look closely at the last screenshot. You can see that it's a web app running in Chrome. The URL is visible, and the website is a "reservation service for restaurants". Also of interest
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Persuasion Techniques Of The Craziest Ecommerce Site: Lings Cars(econsultancy.com)
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by SyneRyder 15y ago
Looks cool, and your app might be landing at just the right time, considering Picnik is disappearing in a few weeks. Lots of people are looking for something just like this. As a user though, you lost me at the first screen. I run my brow
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by SyneRyder 15y ago
Not sure about web & mobile, but on the desktop Armadillo was a big player: http://www.siliconrealms.com/ Armadillo would handle code generation / management, while e-commerce services with Armadillo support would handle the other ha
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by SyneRyder 15y ago
TorrentFreak says that 1 Million plays of Lady Gaga on Spotify earned her a mere $167: http://torrentfreak.com/lady-gaga-earns-slightly-more-from-s... And InformationIsBeautiful has an infographic showing how many plays a solo artist woul
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by SyneRyder 15y ago
iHackerNews looks great, except it doesn't seem to go past the first page of HN. Or did I miss something?
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Cogent shares fall 19% ($160M) the day after Megaupload shutdown(bloomberg.com)
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by SyneRyder 15y ago
Don't forget Facebook. A lot of users would've used Picnik to edit and share their photos on Facebook. If it's all about Google+, then hurting FB is a bonus.