Cameron Moll's Blog, page 62

Camera+ for iPhone: $253,000 in First-Month Sales

Camera+ for iPhone: $253,000 in First-Month Sales:

tap tap tap's Camera+, which sells for $1.99 in the App Store, sold 217,000 copies in its first month. That's a quarter-million dollars in one month of sales for an app that sells for two bucks.

Is it surprising to anyone that, right now, any mobile platform other than iOS is "largely out of the consciousness of your average developer"?

BTW, the article, written by founder John Casasanta, contains lots of good advice for those hoping to...

Is CSS the New Photoshop?

Is CSS the New Photoshop?:

John Nack, Photoshop's principal product manager:

As people can do more and more in code, it makes sense to ask whether even to use Photoshop in designing Web content.

I think Adobe should be freaking out a bit, but in a constructive way….

As for Photoshop, we could either teach the app to speak HTML natively (via live HTML layers), or we could translate Photoshop-native artwork into HTML (e.g. 'copy this button/text as HTML/CSS'). It's not yet clear to me...

Inc. Magazine: How to Design and Build a Mobile Website

Inc. Magazine: How to Design and Build a Mobile Website:

In which myself and several others offer advice to those diving into mobile.

"Google is Bringing Android Software Development to the Masses."

"Google is Bringing Android Software Development to the Masses.":

It's called Google App Inventor for Android, and how's this for user testing:

User testing has been done mainly in schools with groups that included sixth graders, high school girls, nursing students and university undergraduates who are not computer science majors.

The chances of anything extraordinary coming of this? About the same as me writing a course for nursing students. Or about the same as useful, elegant websites

Fracture Custom Glass Printing

Fracture Custom Glass Printing:

This is a unique idea: Print your photos on a sheet of glass, ready for mounting. I found out about Fracture's service through their listing on Authentic Jobs for Web Developer / Visionary / User Interface Guru / Design Master. Pricing is affordable, from $8 for a 5"x7" print up to $25 for 11"x14". And they're located just a few hours away in Gainesville, Florida to boot. (Go Gators!)

homewrk

homewrk:

homewrk is a photographic "collection of workspaces, art studios, craft rooms, offices and all the little beautiful things that fill them up."

Douglas Quin Letterpress LP

Douglas Quin Letterpress LP:

This is some beautiful letterpress work by Studio on Fire. Favorited.

The Scent of Search

The Scent of Search:

Essentially a list of recommendations for searchbox, search results, and query refinement design and layout, this should be unsurprising reading for anyone experienced in designing for search. Nonetheless, it's a good overview blended with links to related resources.

Hard Candy Case for iPhone 4

Hard Candy Case for iPhone 4:

It's thin, comes in a few colors, and — most importantly — it's not rubber. This may be the perfect fix for my Bumper woes.

/via @carlpeterson

WebINK Font Embedding by Extensis

WebINK Font Embedding by Extensis:

Another entry into the font embedding market, this one by Extensis. Fonts foundries currently include Mark Simonson Studio, Porchez Typofonderie, TypeTogether, URW, and exljbris.

One nice feature seems to be the ability to control kerning within your font settings rather than just through the letter-spacing CSS property. I'm not certain, however, that kerning should be set off-site rather than within the CSS. (Though admittedly, the current CSS/browser...