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First Impressions Matter 26% of Apps Downloaded in 2010 Were Used Just Once(localytics.com)
6 points by maguay 16y ago|1 comments
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by maguay 16y ago
Actually, for me, the WooThemes Playground was what got me to purchase a theme. The Playground lets you try out all of the the themes WooThemes sales for free on a temporary hosted WordPress blog on their site. If you like what you made, yo
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by maguay 16y ago
http://www.gigaom.com/ is a fairly good alternative. Balanced coverage of startups and new products from existing companies, though they do tend to cover more enterprise tech.
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by maguay 16y ago
I think it's the free updates that get WooThemes at least part of their loyalty. While some like the subscription model, many more want to buy a theme and know it will always work. With WooThemes, they can. In fact, they can buy a theme and
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by maguay 16y ago
Ok, right. I wasn't contradicting that the Air page is customized, just was saying that the menu is change. I see what you were meaning now. Sorry!
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by maguay 16y ago
True ... which is exactly why I think it's publishers, not authors, that stand to lose the most from this. When smart authors start selling eBooks cheaper directly on Kindle et al., that's when the real book transition will start. At the ve
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by maguay 16y ago
Or a more dark plastic look based on the top menubar. Out with the metal, in with the plastic?
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by maguay 16y ago
It's mostly the same, but the current Macbook Air page does have the new menu.
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by maguay 16y ago
The page background color is different as well. It was white before, now its #F2F2F2. The new top-level menu looks nice, too, but somehow it just doesn't look "Apple" to me. Maybe I'm just too used to the old site...
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The Most Lucrative Business: Repeated Purchases(woothemes.com)
34 points by maguay 16y ago|15 comments
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by maguay 16y ago
There's another way to look at it. eBooks sales, whether in Kindle, iBooks, or another marketplace, end up with similar dynamics to the App Store in iOS. People have paid $0.99-$4.99 millions of times over for apps such as Angry Birds that
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by maguay 16y ago
You've got a much nicer design now, and the live editor is rather nifty. However, I really can't see many people using it, especially not at $9. It doesn't take much HTML skill at all to make a single page like that, and then there's tons o
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by maguay 16y ago
I use FlashBlock, and block all Flash by default. Then I just override it for Flash elements I actually want to see. That, and, I do a lot of browsing on iPad now...
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by maguay 16y ago
You're 100% correct here ... That's exactly my experience of downloading Chrome in Thailand. Plus, even if you add Google serch again fresh, it doesn't do instant search from the address bar. It's maddening to say the least!
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by maguay 16y ago
Ah, true. Sorry ... I guess I just assumed you were using one of those two. But this is Hacker News, after all ;) So which is it: Linux, BSD, or your own hand coded OS?
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by maguay 16y ago
Hey, we still keep a prepaid Nokia around for basic phone calls. If you're just needing to call someone, they still get the job done, and oddly enough, the calling experience is often better (better sound) than on a smartphone. Plus, it has
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by maguay 16y ago
This really spooked me at first ... Just by reading the title, my first thought was that their servers got hacked maliciously and my financial data I just added today was compromised. I'm glad to see it was something more innocent :) Talk a
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by maguay 16y ago
Ah, ok, I see. Now how did it become a dead post? Really odd ... I didn't use a referral code in the link, so you wouldn't think there was anything about it that would get people to flag it. Very odd. I've commented on very old posts before
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Ask HN: Why can I not comment on one post?
2 points by maguay 16y ago|2 comments
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by maguay 16y ago
This was the first time I've used LivingSocial, but we all can usually find a way to use $20 at Amazon, right?
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by maguay 16y ago
Postbox is a nice alternative, though it is made from Thunderbird code by many of the people from the Thunderbird team. Still, they made the user experience much better... Check it out at http://www.postbox-inc.com/ , and there's a free, E
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by maguay 16y ago
There's only a handful of apps on iOS that include a save button, and even of those that do include one, DocsToGo is the only one I can think of that uses a floppy for a save icon. It might be gone before you know it ... though I'd guess y
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by maguay 16y ago
I'm in my early twenties, and one of my earliest memories of computers was my Dad trying to get a book of stamps out of the floppy drive on his Amiga. Plus, who could forget installing Windows 95 from, what was it, 20 floppies? And now we
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by maguay 16y ago
Actually, programming isn't the only thing with the innocence problem. I think he same thing happens with almost every creative work. From playing music to writing to designing sites, most have experienced similar feelings in other projects
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by maguay 16y ago
Mine are cliché, but they really did help me in 2010 and hopefully will continue helping me in 2011 and beyond: Rework - Jason Fried and David Hansson Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? - Seth Godin
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by maguay 16y ago
If you have any interest in it at all, I'd recommend working on making very modern apps for PCs. Make some useful, beautiful apps for Windows 7 and you'll find a ton of fans ... PCs are really lacking new, exciting apps nowadays. Find som
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by maguay 16y ago
So how long will it take hackers to get Windows 8 running on an iPad? Will definitely be interesting...
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by maguay 16y ago
The multiple pages feature in mobile Safari definitely needs improving; half the time it reloads the page when I go back to it. Actually, improving mobile Safari, especially on iPad, should be Apple's #1 focus right now IMO.
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by maguay 16y ago
I use it all the time. That said, I got my first iOS device after iOS 4 came out, so I've been using it by default from day one. I recently got an iPad, and it really makes the flow from Pages to Safari to a research app nice.
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by maguay 16y ago
Here's a Ruby job I just saw on Twitter: https://twitter.com/clintnelsen/status/22043010749435905 . It's for a 10 hour job working on a voting page for startupweekend.org. Hope something works out for you!

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