Blender and Collada
Lately I have been playing with 3D graphics and earth models; and with great amusement, as to that. Cocos3D is an incredible open source tool you can use, together with Blender, to accomplish astonishing results.
Here a tutorial about how to do basic texture mapping in Blender and here about exporting to POD by means of the COLLADA plug-in for Blender .
How much does an iOS app cost?
A question that comes up each time someone is interested in building an app for iPhone or iPad is about its cost. This question becomes soon an issue with the customer due to the fact that somehow the world has come to believe that iPhone app are cheap. Well, they are surely cheap to buy, most can be even got for free, but they are definitely not cheap to develop.
Catalan English Spanish Dictionary for iOS — dic:ph
dic:ph is a new concept of multi-dictionary for the iPhone.
Android, Google, and Free software
One thing must be admitted about Google and Android: that the PR effort aimed at making Android appear as a system based on free/open software has been hugely successful. Indeed, I am ever more amused at the number of non-technical-savvy people that candidly tell me: “I prefer Android, because it is free.”
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