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Wikia Search — first impressions

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Today, January 7, as promised, was launched search engine Wikia Search , still only in alpha version. ( edit Angela Beasley at 06:58 UTC or 09:58 Moscow time.) Of bugs: when searching in Russian (for example, the word habrahabr ) there are errors with the coding, although it seems that everything is in utf-8. Users who have an account on Wikia, you can login with the same username, but properties users flew in Wikia Search Alpha, and on the Wikia website. About search: while search (English queries), you can create ministate (miniarticles). Next to the search result indicates the number like 1.26 (something like pagerank'a or TIC), clicking on which shows how it was counted. When you hover over the number next to it shows the stars, which don't work (looks like that will be implemented by the ranking of results). It is unclear how results are ranked, because the query " George Bush " first gets a website "George Bush Is A Crackwhore!" wit

Sales experience in the App Store and the first $12500

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Tell about your personal experience of release of an iPhone app Pocket Lists , whose sales for the first two and a half months was $12500 USD. Application category: Productivity. The app developed by a team of two people. I hope my experience will help you navigate the indie developers who plan to produce your own application and do not have large financial resources to the promotion of applications in AppStore tops. the the First month after the release the Application was released on 1 December 2011. They say that December and the Christmas week is the best time to release apps and what new apps easier to go to the top. It's probably possible to navigate, if together with the planned release of a massive advertising campaign, but in our case it was not. Immediately after the appearance of this was a great app lost among the others. New applications Productivity category was not visible even on the first screen when you sort by release date (update). Neither

Search service Jibros

walking through the BBB came across an interesting service. Decided to share with You. Jibros , he dibros a search service for users of social networks, blogs, forums and similar online resources. The key to look for is contact information for the users of ICQ numbers, emails, nicknames, names, addresses, blogs, etc. you can also search people by their interests and personal information like age and place of residence (advanced search). The authors write: On gebroe you will never find a closed or semi-legal information, like data from the telephone service database. We are looking for information on only those data that people leave about themselves. It's about all I found. an Interesting feature of the service: Each value in the output profile is matched to the likelihood of membership of this value to man. The probability is a number to the right of the values and color coding: values are less likely to appear more faded color. If the probability is 100%

The story of the Panda and iOS

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the Idea the Idea of creating games we with the colleague came at the end of 2009. Not even an idea, and the desire to create a game for the mobile platform. That is to say to try to create a finished product and sell it. Here we have to mention that on the debt of the current work, though, and related IT directly by coding. Programming experience is present, such as Java and ActionScript, which is very useful later, but with Objective-C previously crossed we don't have. Nevertheless, the development platform chosen was the iPhone OS (iPhone OS). We already had iPhones and it would be strange to buy the device, for example on Android, in order to write an application for it. Remember the genre we were predisposed to the "slasher". However, wanting to make the game to the max on their own, without the involvement of third parties, estimated that the real would be to dwell on the less dynamic genre of puzzles. In the process of finding ideas were enumerated "

Taxi jet every driver for each passenger

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"to Call himself because not decided, before the phone, he felt helpless, he could yell, to throw up; K. closed an important way. K. indecision irritated his companion. "Who says? — he said and added: — I would be very obliged if there is less than called, only that we have called"". The picture is not very similar to our daily lives, especially since the phone has to use less. However, if you want to call a taxi, use have to. And well, if you have the number of a pair of three proven tixotherm, but in rush hour and it might not work, besides, from the conversation with the dispatcher not to get out – and here again, the pickup address, destination, again, hard to hear, how many will arrive, how much and so on. Fortunately, there are mobile technologies that are already in a hurry to deliver us from such inconveniences. Not a phone and not even a phone call So, in Moscow for the last six months, there have been several applications for smartphones,

TimeTracker — keeps track of time

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A month ago I decided that I would go to graduate school. For admission are required to pass three exams: Logic, Informatics, English. I set up a weekly schedule and allocated training days. But soon noticed that not going to get any of the items. So I decided to track what I spend my time. Searching the market, I have not found anything sensible that could solve my problem. It is not much. the the Create tasks the Create tasks under the same label the Tracking time spent on task the Easy viewing schedules time spent The result here is a simple app Using the app is very simple. Add tasks by clicking the plus button in the tasks section. Newly added tasks will appear in the timers, where you can launch them by pressing the and stop also. Now you can learn graphics for his time spent. The app is available in market price $ 1.99 $0.99. I will be glad if someone could share their thoughts on the account application. UPD test

Webinar: how to start automation?

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This is the first webinar in the series of free webinars on automation testing. The video (duration 52 minutes): Topics and details of the video under the cut the 00:00-04:10 Introduction. Familiarity with a coach and independent consultant Michael Polarusa , co-author and co-owner of the community portal Automator automated-testing.info the 04:10-06:39 the Essence of Your automation. The goal of automation and testing goals. the 06:40-07:18 On the agenda: Initiation, knowledge and Skills, Process, Tools, Trends, Three steps forward, Books the 07:19-10:55 Example automation client / server application developed by a team of 10 developers and 3 testers. Why is it necessary to implement the automation? the 10:56-12:59 Initiation. How to introduce automation. The solution to the problems of low product quality. the 13:00-16:49 How to sell "automation". In the context of product and outsourcing companies, IT department