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jTribe helped South East Water to develop the “Lone Worker App by iota – iota Services”. The app won the WorkSafe Australia “Best Solution to a Specific Workplace Health and Safety Issue” award (that’s a mouth full) Read the full article on the WorkSafe Website The utility app helps keeping remote workers safe. A multitude of iPhone sensors are used to...
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We seem to see more clients coming to us and ask for help getting their off-shore app development back. : The major complaints we hear our clients about offshore development are: It takes too long. Management overkill. Clients needs to spend more time managing their offshore development then they thought. Code quality Changes are hard We do not know if those problems are caused by the client...
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It’s September 12 and today Apple will have their media event. There should be no surprised around iOS 6 as it was already presented in June at the World Wide Developer Conference. One feature of iOS 6 caught our special attention. The new Passbook app that keeps all your loyalty cards, store cards, boarding passes and tickets in one app. Since Daniel and I returned form San Francisco we...
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Passbook on iOS 6 will make it easier for consumers and retailers to make loyalty cards actually work. With services like passbrite.com passes can be created, distributed and scanned. This will change retail.
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We are excited to be involved in developing a service for Apple’s Passbook. We are in the last phase of the project that implements a self-service system to produce loyalty cards that work with Passbook on iOS. The PassRocket will launch with Apple’s iOS 6 and Passbook app – PassRocket.com Please visit passrocket.com to learn more or sign-up for a...
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Will the new iPhone come with NFC? As Apple is getting closer to it’s new iOS 6 release rumors are bubbling up that the new iPhone (aka iPhone 5) will have an NFC chip [source: 9to5mac.com] How strategic is Passbook for Apple? Analysts have quizzed Tim Cook about the importance of Passbook during Apple’s quarterly earnings call. When asked whether Apple’s new Passbook app for...
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A mobile web app/competition promoting workplace safety on building sites throughout victoria.
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jTribe worked with Metlink on their iOS app last year and completed initial development in December 2011. Since that time we have not been involved in any further development or the rollout of the version of the iPhone app that was released on the iTunes store. We were not aware of when the new PTV (previously Metlink) iPhone app was going to be released to the iTunes App Store. We would like to...
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The OpenHub has currently 5 desks available right now. If you are a Tech startup company Designer Mobile app developer And if you want be part of a community of UX experts iOS developers Android developers Digital marketing experts GIS startup Designers Ruby developers Flash developers Then apply for a desk at the...
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Happy Easter with this app from jTribe! EggRaider is an app developed by jTribe to show case the latest in mobile technology. We combined augmented reality, Facebook and game concepts to create a local mobile app for Melbourne. With the free app kids and adults alike can explore the city of Melbourne and find hidden 3D Easter eggs that are attached to landmarks around Melbourne. The app...
read morejTribe’s been working on our own iPhone and Android project, EggRaider. It’s a marker based Augmented Reality mobile application based around Melbourne. We’ve made markers around the city using Melbourne’s signs and unique landmarks. How to demo our EggRaider app Open our EggRaider app and go to the Radar screen Pull open the camera on the right hand side of the...
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jTribe has worked on an iPhone enterprise app project with South East Water on a couple of occasions over the last year. Initially South East Water were after a basic enterprise iPhone application for their employees to be alerted about sewerage and water leaks and quick access to trend data for different site locations. Late 2011 jTribe began working on an update with South East Water to improve...
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jTribe has developed a mobile advertisement platform for truly local ads that are relevant to the user. Google and Apple use a traditional advertisement approach with banners in mobile apps. It seems that users don’t respond as well to this kind of advertising that works so well on the web. On mobile devices things are different. Screens are small and giving up 10% to advertisement has...
read moreLogging has always been important when debugging software. Although the debugger in XCode is very useful sometimes logging helps to get a bigger picture what is going on in your code. The basic NSLog is sometimes too chatty and dumps too much into the console. With more complex iOS apps we need an approach that allow us to switch on and off logging per module/class. DLog – the must...
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At our iOS training courses I tell the students that designated initialisers are good. I notice after a year of telling people that it is good that I never really explained why. It seemed intuitive to me but I should really explain why. So, here is why designated initializers are good… Wrong way Learning from Apple’s sample code means that most of the time there is a default...
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we've recently been working with a start-up with quite ambitious plans. We helped developed several end-to-end solutions on the mobile and on the server.
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jTribe is currently supporting research that enables blind users to effectively consume complex information using an iPad. The approach for the project is to develop a haptic feedback device that allows the user to “feel” information on the screen. Apple has already some good support for blind and deaf users on iOS5 with their “Assistive Touch” technology. Apple’s...
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2011 was an incredible year for jTribe. We have been working hard on some impressive apps and met some great new people along the way. 2011 Highlights We started the year with some great work for the Australian Open event. We then did more corporate consulting work for iOS and especially for Android. Some great apps came out of this for large brands. We are proud that some of those apps...
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Beanhunter helps you hunt down good coffee whenever and wherever you are. You can add and read reviews on coffee around the world to filter out the "Coffees worth travelling for".
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jTribe’s foreign exchange service client was after an Android & iPhone application for currency conversion on the go. We worked on the iPhone & Android apps with Sydney-based OzForex remotely. It was a great bonus working with a start up that has grown drastically – Forex is now across Canada, US, UK, NZ & Australia. The applications have a live currency convertor where...
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