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http://www.promiscuous.com http://deal.gameweaver.com http://www.itheme.com http://www.psd2html.co.uk http://guessem.gameweaver.com http://hotkeys.gameweaver.com http://sequence.gameweaver.com http://ghosttrain.gameweaver.com http://smagic.gameweaver.com http://yourethemoon.gameweaver.com http://www.gameweaver.com
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QuantumDoja··on EBay Files Patent Application for Bitcoin Currency Exchanger
Bookmarked! + Nice work!
QuantumDoja··on Ask HN: Trying to pin down both algorithm and problem it solves ...
Reminds me of a server thing, where addresses are hashed, then sorted, I think it was for storage, gah, now I can't even remember it!
QuantumDoja··on How much money are you earning from your software products?
Hi, Can you tell us what it is?
QuantumDoja··on How much money are you earning from your software products?
Hi, How are you making money form this? ~ curious
QuantumDoja··on Ask HN: Making a living selling software components, not SaaS?
I'm a developer, I remember one time I needed to have a particular piece of functionality in an app. I could have built it, but I found that someone was selling what I wanted for $3.00 on the internet, it was a no-brainer. I paid with something like gumroad, downloaded and plugged it in within a matter of minutes, vs the few hours I would have spent writing/debugging.
QuantumDoja··on FiftyThree - Bring Ideas to Life
Beautiful
QuantumDoja··on South Korea's Simple Way to Indicate Vacant Parking Lots
I like the simplicity of it.
QuantumDoja··on How To Get Great Ratings For Your Mac App
Thank you for posting this.
QuantumDoja··on Rumor: Google negotiating $1 billion acquisition of WhatsApp
I really thought Skype would snap this one up.
QuantumDoja··on Video - Change your app design in realtime, from my website.
Hi,

I live and work in the UK, my designer friend lives on the other side of the world.

Whenever he has a new design for an app I'm making, he sends me the PSD files, I cut them up, export the images, add them into the app, compile and send him a new version of the app. Rinse & Repeat.

This is a crazy way of working. By allowing my designer friend to login to itheme.com, he can create different layouts of my app and test them in realtime.

I can then look at, and try out the different themes.

Thanks

Chris

QuantumDoja··on Video - Change your app design in realtime, from my website.
Hey Thanks for your comment,

If you have a look a the code, there is a whitelist of controls that you can allow to be edited.

This is just the start really, I think being able to change images/CALayers etc can be added in quite easily.

QuantumDoja··on Cheddar is For Sale
Just because I think this is relevant, here are the three founders talk(http://5by5.tv/founderstalk) podcasts Sam did:

Part1: http://5by5.tv/founderstalk/38

Part2: http://5by5.tv/founderstalk/39

Part3: http://5by5.tv/founderstalk/40

They really are a great listen.

QuantumDoja··on Moonbase: A plug and play engine for making web animations
I really like the fact that you provoked an action out of me to connect the dots.
QuantumDoja··on Show HN: Deal, HyperLocal Buying & Selling
It's a HyperLocal service, the point is buying&selling things around you at that moment in time.

Thanks for your comment.

QuantumDoja··on Criticized for overpriced parts, company gives away 3d schematics instead
I have a huge business crush on Teenage Engineering, I think they have handled this situation extremely well. I don't know of any other company that has done this with their products.
QuantumDoja··on Show HN: Markupwand, magically convert your photoshop files to HTML & CSS
ah! - Thank you! I will get them sorted as soon as I can.
QuantumDoja··on Show HN: Markupwand, magically convert your photoshop files to HTML & CSS
As the developer of www.psd2html.co.uk I can honestly say I am very happy that someone else out there is doing something similar to me...you might ask why?

When I launched Psd2Html in late 2010, I was unable to get on the front page of HackerNews, or any other website for that matter, I was down-voted to oblivion. I had insulting, slanderous comments posted on the Mac App Store which were untrue.

I was ridiculed by "hand coding only" services like www.psd2html.com, the employee lots of people and don't want to make people redundant, but the problem with this approach is that they will never move forward.

I was certain, and I'm still certain hand-coding will go the way of the Dodo.

So Markupwand, thanks for re-validating the idea, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the idea was worthwhile.

I can see that I need to enhance my service/business model/add relative CSS positioning as an option.

I hope we'll be good competition for each other.

Thanks

Chris

QuantumDoja··on Ask HN: Books for Software Developers on Electronic Circuit Design
Cool, thanks for that!
QuantumDoja··on The Journey to HotKeys
Hi,

I'm Chris from GameWeaver and HotKeys is my new app.

I've got some promo codes, so if you're interested, please let me know and I'll send you one, As you're probably aware I only have a limited amount.

QuantumDoja··on TechCrunch As We Know It May Be Over
I'd really like to see a timeline graph of:

(real startup stories) vs (product reviews/facebook news) over time

That's where you'll find the problem, I have a feeling it will be sloping in a certain direction.

QuantumDoja··on Oh, Adobe... read the copy, then view the source.
Q. How many of your visitors look at your pages source code?

Q. How many times do you inspect the compiled assembly to see what it generated?

One day these tools will be perfect, it's just a shame for me that Adobe have copied what I've done for the second time: http://blog.gameweaver.com/2011/08/16/has-adobe-copied-anoth...

QuantumDoja··on Adobe Muse promises code-free Web site design
Has Adobe copied another one of my ideas?

Mine: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/psd2html/id402518556?mt=12 Theirs: http://muse.adobe.com/index.html

Mine: http://hotkeys.gameweaver.com/ Theirs: http://www.photoshop.com/products/mobile/nav

QuantumDoja··on What are the missing features in App Engine?
1. At first for me it was a centralized database, If two apps want to access the same data, what are you going to do? We got around it by making an API.

2. A module for google checkout, I'm still trying to find a Python one for PayPal.

3. +1 For the HTTPS on custom domains

4. +1 To import and export databases

QuantumDoja··on W3C HTML5 Logo Unveiled
Reminds me of Transformers
QuantumDoja··on I got a bad review from TechCrunch, lessons learned
First thing, TechCrunch isn't the be-all-end-all of tech sites. Number two, Mike Butcher's self proclaimed description of himself is "Butcher by name, Butcher by nature"

It's a real shame that a lot of people think TechCrunch is the place you need to go to "Make It"

So you got a bad review, pfff

My only advice would be, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and try, try, try again.

QuantumDoja··on Ask HN: Trademark it yourself?
I've got my own Trademark a few times in the UK, you can do it all online. There is even a new "Right start" system where you only pay half until its accepted, then pay the other half.
QuantumDoja··on GetACoder.com: Solve P Vs NP
What am I missing? I can see the solution for those 6 numbers {−2, −3, 15, 14, 7, −10} or is that the point, the more numbers you add, the longer it takes to solve and p=np is that it should get all the answers instantly?

Confuzzled!

QuantumDoja··on Ask HN: How in the world do you optimize iPhone app promotion?
I wrote about this a while ago,

Apple currently does not offer any in itunes analytics, for instance, how many people view your app page, how long they spend, do they click the images, do they click buy, if they click buy, do they complete the purchase etc. I'm sure they are working on it...aren't they?