App Inventor Tutorial

About a month ago, Google announced App Inventor, a great service to build Android apps without any coding skills. I was all over it from the start and very happy when I received my beta invite about two weeks ago. Together with Mark Visbeek, a proper designer, I decided to take a leap of faith and build an app for Overdose.am in one night. And one long night it was, and then another one. But I’m quite pleased with the result. Let me tell you how we did it.

Why I love my Kindle

So back in December '09 I bought Amazon's best selling product, the Kindle, as my new toy gadget. I'm not much of a reader, but like anyone who's trying to be successful in his career I need to read books. And most of the time I already lost interest in the book I bought before it hit my doorstep. So the Kindle definitely helped me to tackle this problem. And as I hoped, I am reading more books then ever before. The weird thing that happened is that a couple of months later the...

Stuff I bought and loved

The Guru Gear section shows a dynamic selection of great stuff that I bought in the last couple of months (bad buys not included). I've put it up there so you can have a look at all the things that have inspired me to write the articles on this website. Among the products are a couple of great books and of course a number of unmissable gadgets and apps. If you buy the stuff through the Guru Gear section, you'll help me spreading the word of mobile!