1.     Come up with something unique that will stand out

There are numerous apps out there. For your brainchild to stand out amongst all the others, you need to ensure that it will not merely be a copied idea from another app.

2.     Find a Mac

Apples iPhone tools used for development purposes are currently only available for those who use the Mac OS. To be able to load your idea to the Apple store, you will need a Mac. You can get a Mac mini affordably if you do not have one with you.

3.     Submit your application as a developer with Apple

You need to have official membership with Apple Developers if you are looking to use the tools by Mac. The registration needs to be done once and with is, you are set to come up with iPhone apps for those devices using Mac.

4.     Get the tool for Software Development for iPhones; SDK

You can only get to download the SDK once you have confirmed your status as official developer. Ensure though that you get the right kit for the OS you have in use. The download is quite sizeable for it contains all the tools you will need and this only means that you need to gear yourself for quite a wait.

You may then wish to look for tutorials from ManiacDev which will guide you a great deal along this path.

5.     Get the XCode

This is an IDE that comes with full features which enables source code edition, steps for building and compiling as well as a graphics debugging platform. With this quite heavy download, you may not have to leave the source code.

6.     Build the app using the SDK templates

If you have a draft of the app in paper or even on Photoshop, you could start the designing of the app. You will have a lot of apps to choose from.

7.     Get your way around Objective C

Those with a love for programming will have an easier time grasping this objective which is very crucial. If it proves very difficult, you could get the help of one who has the knowledge.

8.     Program the App

This is done on the Objective-C platform and will take as much time as will be influenced by the depth of the app you wish to have. There are some apps which will take a short time to program while others may really take ages.

9.     Take advantage of  the simulator

There is the iPhone simulator which comes with the SDK. The more the bugs you try, the more the solutions you will have to any way the user of the app may try to use it.

10.    Load the app onto iTunes

You may need to make a payment of $99. If the app is a good one, you will get the payment back. Have some people try the app so that you can get the bugs you may have missed so as to fix them. When you are sure of the app, submit it to iTunes to get approved.

Check out iPhone 5s release date web page to get more information on iPhone 5S

The problem with Admin control panel / API should be resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better.

Google is just awesome and they really value their users. Within just 2 and half hours they have tracked down the issue rectified the same. All of the common services has come to the stable state and performing well. – Thank you Google

As we stated with the post before that the main problem may be within the Google Application API service and this is causing trouble to all other services. Google said that they would be updating us by 8:30 PM again about the status.

According to google app status dashboard (http://www.google.com/appsstatus) lots of services are down at the moment. It seems the main issue is with the google’s application API. At 6:30 PM IST, google informed (http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1366223399000&iid=bb886daf880ab16f9a8b5f8bbe2f34b0) that they found the bug and their engineers are working on the issue and we are hoping to get it restored soon. They said that they will be providing the next update at around 7:30 IST.

PHP is one of the powerful & challenging language in today’s world. With this language one can build his/her website in just couple of hours, sounds crazy but its true nowadays with the evolution of open source language like wordpress, joomla, magento, os commerce,etc which are built in php, it’s just so easy, that’s why php is gaining popularity day by day & so the demand of php developer is also increasing on same trend.

It’s now so easy for php developer to built a website, if it’s a website which will be used as a blog then for that certain open sources like wordpress, if it’s a ecommerce site then for that magento, os commerce, etc & if it’s a cms one for that joomla , drupla, etc. are there. First we need to think what website we want to create, after that we have so many options available in today’s market. The credit must go to all the crazy php developer who worked together to build these open sources.

Open sources are things which are very user friendly, one without being a php developer can easily create a website using this open sources, he/she just need to be go through each and every options of the open source and then it’s so easy. Isn’t it crazy that one person who doesn’t know php but still can develop a website built in php.

The way php, php developer & its open sources are growing up after 5 years each one of us will have two to three websites as we have two to three mobile phones now. Then there will be no facebook no google plus no social networking, then no-one will tell that “I have 1500 friends in facebook or I have 1000 connections in Linkedin “they will only say that I have 100 websites of my own, one for high school friends, one for college friends, one for family, one for girlfriend, one for watching online streaming, one for shopping. The world will become crazy day by day with this so called crazy language php.

Joomla is now widely used as content management system by millions of users. Being a content management system, hardly some of the users realize the importance of upgrading Joomla to higher version. When I asked some of my clients to upgrade version of Joomla, I got a common response from them as “Why do I upgrade the Joomla when my site is running fine and I am comfortable with its admin panel ?” But in real fact, there are many terms which may affect your website if you are wondering to go with old version of Joomla.

Many third party extensions are no longer supported for Joomla 1.0 to Joomla 1.5. These extensions rather support Joomla 1.7 to 2.5 and the latest versions. The components already installed on your website may work fine but if you look to enhance your website with other components then you will definitely feel the importance of upgrading Joomla to higher version.

With older version of Joomla, you are inviting hackers to your website. Older Joomla version kills security level your website and your website becomes more prone to hacker’s attack. You can’t even run Joomla 1.0 over secured channel i.e https. If anyone is still using Joomla 1.0 and is thinking to protect your website form hacking then I would simply suggest them to upgrade the Joomla version to higher than 1.7.

Another important factor is SEO. Google does not give importance to lower Joomla version websites. All best SEO components available for Joomla provide support for Joomla 1.5 or more. If your site is still using older version of Joomla then you will be one day out of Google rankings. You should recommend a Joomla website development company as soon as possible to seek their support for upgrading Joomla and getting proper SEO for your website.

Being a Joomla developer, I will highly recommend you to switch to higher Joomla version to protect your website. Now after reading this article, if you are thinking to upgrade your website’s Joomla version then switch to the latest 2.5 version of Joomla. Upgrading Joomla is not a tough job but it is recommended to hire Joomla developer before you start upgrading your Joomla. If you have already upgraded your Joomla then keep an eye on the latest news from Joomla as release of joomla 2.6 is expected soon.

Again after a certain period of time I am writing this article. Previously I wrote few articles on E-Commerce and Open Source Platforms. This article also falls in that category as well. In this article I’ll focus on some key points which you must analyze accurately while planning to build your online store with Magento. Before I go ahead and tell you about the key factors, I’d like you to tell you a bit about Magento.

In my point of view Magento is the most robust e-commerce platforms amongst the available e-commerce platforms. Magento is opensource and the possibilities of tweaking Magento are endless. The architecture is well designed and takes the full advantage of MVC pattern. As it is a robust platform, so obviously it is complex as well. The files / folder structure is really complex. But there is a reason behind this complexity, they have split the work flow in a much detail oriented way. This gives us the opportunity to tweak or customize any part of it easily without touching the core. Beside its architecture and programming (I mean the core product), it has got a great developers’ forum with huge resources available for the Magento Developers and has a library with loads of useful extensions. Extensions are basically plugins or piece of code, which can be plugged (installed) into magento to add more features above the core features of Magento. As it is built using MVC pattern, changing or customizing Magento theme is really easy, but for this you must get onto a talented Magento Developer who knows Magento well, else it will be trouble and time consuming to build or customize a Magento theme by searching and reading the developers’ guide documents.

Now I’ll try to point out some key factors that you must read and understand properly before you jump into doing your e-commerce store with Magento.

1. Does Magento suits your need?

Well, this is the most important question that you must analyze carefully. May be you have heard a lot of high words against Magento and you are overwhelmed with such a high reputation and so many beautiful features of Magento. But does Magento really suit your project and budget? We know that it is a great platform, but at the same time it is complex too. So if you are planning for a tiny store then my opinion will be not to make it complex unnecessarily. It does not make any sense if you build your store with Magento, and then you find that most of the features are useless for you or your business. So it is a good idea to consult with one or more companies who are providing Magento development services and seek for their advices.

2. Design / Theme Customization

Though Magento is highly customizable and it has got theme based architecture, still being a well organized platform it has got some limitations towards design. You must follow Magento’s overall theme structure while designing or customizing a theme for your store. If you are too much fascinated about design and you want customization up to a very high level in your store design then it will cost you a lot customizing or doing a Magento theme. If you don’t have budget, then go for a custom build solution and not for Magento. On the other hand if you are more into functionalities and if a moderately well designed theme works for you then go for Magento.

3. Cost
This is the top most factor for everyone who are planning to buy something or invest money in doing a business. Being a robust platform and highly customizable Magento costs you much more than other e-commerce solutions. It is obvious that to purchase something good you need to put in more money. So only choose Magento if you think your store needs to be a huge one with many functions and a robust admin panel and off course you have the budget, then only go for Magento. On the other hand if you are planning to build a small start-up store just to sell few items, then go for a cheaper solution like OSCommerce or ZenCart.

4. Maintenance / Support

You need to also think of the maintenance of your project after production. Without a good supportive Magento Developer by hand it is stupidity to go into production with your Magento Store. If anything breaks or stops working on your live store, it is required to fix that issue instantly, else you will lose sell and customers. Also as it is open source, you must keep your store updated with all the patches that Magento community releases from time to time, else your store will be vulnerable to the hackers. Having a talented Magento Developer to maintain your store in contractual basis is quite costly, whereas if you go with a custom build or other smaller platform then it will cost you less for maintenance and support.

Those were my thoughts and findings on who should use magneto and who should not. It does not mean that my point of views will match with all the readers, but I think these points or factors are worthy enough to think of before taking the final decision on using Magento to build your store.

There is very good news for both the iPhone users and iPhone application developers that Apple Inc finally unveiled the iPhone 5 on 12th september 2012 ,with the support of world most update featured and more user friendly six the generation mobile operating system iOS 6 . This is the first major launch of the iPhone and iOS after the death of the “Father of iOS Device family” legendary Steve Jobs and more important that it is the last project where the legendary Jobs has been worked.

There are some most amazing feature of the iPhone 5

1. This is thinnest and largest ever iPhone model from its start up edition unto. It is 18 % thinner and 20 % lighter from previous iPhone 4S.

2. This edition of iPhone supports 4 inch of Retina Display , but it on;y increase in height not the width so easy to use in one hand.

3.Performance and graphics are faster up to 2x for new A6 chip.

4.The new iSight Camera with 25 % smaller and 40 % faster , new panorama mode and better low light performance.


5 Ear pods in new shape which defined by ear geometry for best sound.

6. Passbook like application which have Retail Coupon , boarding pass , movie tickets , loyalty cards etc all in one place.

7. It supported world latest wireless technology and connected to more networks all over the world

8. Supported by next generation mobile OS iOS 6 .
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Mobile Application Development service is one of the first growing business outsourcing of today’s world. This type of service provider company mainly driven by virtual economy. These companies are more invest in intangible capital rather than structural traditional capital. Intangible capital are consist of human resource, relative capital like customer relation, customer care etc.A outsourcing business model are stand with highly skilled human resource ,a skilled set of developers, designers, testers are the key of service which you are provided to the client. One of the other aspect of outsourcing is customer satisfaction.

iOS and Android application development are the most preferable solution for mobile application service outsourcing. Among the iOS and Android , iOS is the most featured user friendly next generation mobile OS in today’s world. If we make an application specially iPhone/iPod , a developer don’t need to do extra work for iPad. iOS rendered a iPhone Application automatically to the iPad, where for Android application a developer have to make graphics and appropriate change in programming in order to support different screen size of android. So for cost perspective mobile application service providers are more tend to the iOS application development.

Now we talk the virtual economy of an outsourcing company , virtual economy is the value driven , knowledge driven know how based economy. A real asset of an outsourcing company are the highly skilled developers, designers and testers, a highly organized competent human resources workforce. Value of these human resource cannot calculated by just their salary or other parks, the real value of them the knowledge base , know how which gave the company the competent edge over their competitor. For example we can say a skilled iOS development team can develop a iPhone Application within target based timeline with better quality of code, graphic standard. These qualitative approach can only be achieved when company have skilled human resource who give the strategic gap from the competitors.

We have very small iOS development lab in AM Infosystems Pvt. Ltd. but it consist of developers who have years of experience in iPhone application development for iOS device family. Our highly skilled iOS development team can design any type app for better user experience. So if you want to transfer your complex idea into application with better app experience, AM Infosystems Pvt Ltd is your ultimate outsourcing destination who develop the app with industry based expertise and customer’s cost based approach. Our iOS development team will be taking care of all ideas, to bring that ideas in reality and push it to the Apple App Store, which is your ultimate goal.

There is tough time for the global economy. In every sector of economy is today face shrinking profit and growth. Every Company is trying optimize their operations in order to reduce the overall cost of the business and proper use of resource. In time of company driven economy , the companies are set the product price. The pricing procedure is to first set the profit level and add the cost to it. But in present time economic situation, company’s profit is shirking . The economy are more market driven. The company are set the price on the basis of Target Cost Where the price is first set on the basis of feedback of customer, than company selected price level are deducted from the price and cost is deduce. As cost is set by market force the company’s have to use their resource optimally in order maintain their profit level.

Mobile application development now is one of the emerging service sector of outsourcing business. There are many mobile platform where the application project are out source. They are iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry and J2ME , but among them iOS and Android are most wanted mobile technology for business as the most users are used these two mobile platforms. Among these two mobile technology the iOS is better than the Android. Current iOS version is the fifth generation of mobile technology , which support the features like real time tracking system , facetime video conferencing, 4G enlightening speed network and many more. In short we can say iOS is the most featured user friendly next generation mobile operating system where a company can invest their investment in order to ensure their return.


Company’s in order to maintain the level of profit and also cost leadership among the other competitor companies have to match the market driven target cost. To match the target cost companies are outsourcing some projects. The outsourcing service provider company who provide these type of service have to match these cost target in order to get the projects.


There are the advantage of the Mobile Application Development companies who develop maximum projects in iOS. As the biggest advantage of the iOS application development is if any application made in iPhone it automatically render in iPad , iOS itself render the application.There may be some graphics problem for iPad rendering, but this problem can be overcome by only use of another set of graphics for iPad. But this type problem arise when only for games and entertainments applications.


So we can say, the outsourcing service provider companies who provide mobile application development service are gain the cost leadership over competitors if they target iPhone Application Development as their core competency of business.