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The football world remains united in hope for stricken Bolton player Fabrice Muamba.
As it was revealed Muamba will spend at least another 24 hours in intensive care after medical staff took two hours to get the 23-year-old's heart beating on its own following his collapse during an FA Cup quarter-final with Tottenham on Saturday, former team-mate Gary Cahill led the tributes.
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"Fabrice Muamba remains in a critical condition in intensive care in the Heart Attack Centre at The London Chest Hospital," read the statement. "He was admitted to the hospital yesterday evening after collapsing at White Hart Lane, where he sustained a cardiac arrest during the FA Cup Quarter Final against Tottenham Hotspur.
"Fabrice received prolonged resuscitation at the ground and en route to The London Chest Hospital, where his heart eventually started working. As is normal medical practice, Fabrice remains anaesthetised in intensive care and will be for at least 24 hours. His condition continues to be closely monitored by the cardiac specialists at the hospital."
As a steady stream of supporters headed to the Reebok Stadium to lay flowers and offer their support to Muamba, the former Arsenal and Birmingham player was visited by members of his family on Sunday morning and Bolton officials and players, including manager Owen Coyle, and other famous footballing names later.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Renditions of "La Marseillaise" and chants of "Allez les bleus" are likely to ring out at the Australian Open over the next two days after four Frenchmen advanced to the last 16 of the year's opening grand slam.
It is the first time since 1998 that France has celebrated such an achievement at Melbourne Park, though one of the quartet, Jeremy Chardy, was at a loss when asked for the secret of their success.
"I don't know," said Chardy, who provided the first upset of the men's draw when he beat sixth-seeded Juan Martin del Potro in five sets on Saturday. "We have a lot of good players. I think everybody start to play well this year.
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Now, Chardy, Tsonga, Gasquet and Gilles Simon remain of France's contingent.
Tsonga made the fourth round with an effortless 6-2 6-1 6-4 victory over Slovenia's Blaz Kavcic, while Gasquet was pushed by Croatian Ivan Dodig before he emerged from a taut match in four sets.
"I think I started very bad," Gasquet told reporters after he dropped the first set. "He was starting good, the condition was fast, so it was a bit difficult for me.
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"Then I fight and I return better. The third set was the key of the match, and I think in the fourth he was a little bit tired.
"But I fight as much as I could, and played well. At the end of the match I play better."
The 14th-seeded Simon beat compatriot Gael Monfils 6-4 6-4 4-6 1-6 8-6 in a marathon four-hour, 43 minute match on Hisense Arena.
Both players took injury timeouts during the match, with Simon suffering from leg and forearm issues and Monfils needing treatment for grazes to a hand after taking a tumble.
The injuries seemed to affect their mobility, and it led to several lengthy rallies in which both barely moved from the center of the baseline and looked more like they were hitting in the local park than playing a grand slam third round.
"I was almost dying after the end of the second set," Simon said. "I thought it would be difficult to win the third set and Gael was playing really well.
"I was just trying to run, to find my rhythm and make him run, and I think I did in the end."
Unfortunately for French supporters, Tsonga and Gasquet will meet each other in the fourth round, and Simon will face world number three Andy Murray.
Despite his, and his compatriots' success, in Melbourne, Chardy, who next faces Italy's Andreas Seppi, said he still preferred his home grand slam in Paris.
"I love to play in Roland Garros," he said. "Always my family and my friends come to watch my game in Roland Garros.
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A Second Shot: Windows Vista SP1by Ryan Smith on February 27, 2008 12:00 AM EST
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Bug fixes are a big part of any Microsoft service pack, but not just for the bugs being fixed specifically by the service pack. Microsoft has released numerous hotfixes since Vista launched, correcting a number of issues declared significant enough that they need to be fixed before the next service pack, but minor enough that they're not worth a full deployment and the kind of massive regression testing that entails. The result is that there are a number hotfixes already out that can potentially fix specific issues certain users are having, but because they aren't well-tested they're instead well-hidden with only a small number of users with extreme problems usually getting their hands on any given hotfix. Now that a service pack has arrived, Microsoft has rolled up all of these hotfixes into the service pack, in essence approving them for wide release and full support.
Among the 24 pages(!) of hotfixes that have been rolled into Vista SP1 are favorites such as the virtual address space fix and a fix for a conflict with NVIDIA's USB controller and >2GB of RAM. Other additions include fixes for ejecting iPods, a fix for HybridSLI/HybridCrossfire (which is why the launch of these technologies is tied to SP1), and a fix for AMD Barcelona processors causing system reboots during Windows installations. While we could rattle off the entire 24 page list of hotfixes, the important thing to note here is that there are a number of small issues that have been "fixed" prior to SP1 but are only now being widely corrected. We're going to spend most of our time going over the biggest and most noticeable fixes in SP1, but please keep in mind there are many more things addressed in this service pack than what we're looking at today or are listed in Microsoft's consumer-level product literature.
Among the most significant fixes to Vista in SP1 is Microsoft's work on further refining the User Account Control (UAC) prompts of Vista. Even after already being scaled down between the betas and Vista's launch, these prompts are still rather prolific at times. An adjustment to the folder creation is the most prominently touted of these fixes, with the number of folder creation prompts (when creating a folder in a protected location) falling from four to one. Microsoft doesn't list any further reductions in UAC dialogs, but as far as anecdotal evidence is concerned it certainly feels like they've done a bit more than that. This won't change the public perception of UAC (or Apple jokes on the subject), but any reduction is welcome and perhaps will stem the tide of Vista users who are completely turning off this critical system feature.
Another significant fix appearing in SP1 is a partial resolution to the conflict between the MultiMedia Class Scheduler Service and networking. As we've talked about the issue a bit before, the Vista audio stack is now in user space, which has lead to a change in how it operates. MMCSS boosts the priority of multimedia processes to real-time levels so that lower-priority processes can't interrupt multimedia playback. During this time many other operations are interrupted or delayed so that they do not themselves interrupt the audio stack. One area that is dialed back involves the network interfaces, which are limited to 10k packets per second as a precaution.
For SP1 we were hoping for a complete overhaul of the MMCSS so that it ceased adversely affecting network performance, unfortunately what we're getting is something about mid-way towards that. With SP1 it is now possible to control the amount of network throttling that MMCSS does, which means that throttling hasn't been removed completely nor has it even been adjusted as far as the defaults are concerned. A quick test with Microsoft's NTttcp tool shows the throttling level remains the same post-SP1 as it was pre-SP1 (roughly 70Mbps on a 1000Mb connection), which means SP1 will not be bringing any immediate relief. Furthermore there's no GUI component (or real documentation) for this tweak, so users will be left to directly modifying the registry, a very uninviting situation.
What we do know is that this tweak only affects network receive performance, with a key apparently dictating the maximum percentage of the amount of network traffic allowed while the MMCSS is actively working. The key:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile\NetworkThrottlingIndex
...defaults to 10 (for 10%) and can be adjusted to between 1 and 100, with the system requiring a reboot between adjustments. We did some quick testing with this key and were easily able to set it to 70%, which got us around 550Mbps of bandwidth through NTttcp, and we probably could have gone higher - especially on multi-core platforms.
Default throttling (top) and throttling with an index value of 70 (bottom)
While this is a solution to the MMCSS throttling issue, it's not a good solution. The default value still makes for rather anemic performance on gigabit networks and the nature of the solution means that there is no single correct value to use to maximize network performance while not interrupting the audio stack; the highest value is highly dependent on processor performance. As a result power users wanting to correct this deficiency will have to a lot of experimenting on their own to find the highest value their system can tolerate without affecting multimedia playback. Had this value at least been auto-sensing we wouldn't be so disappointed in Microsoft, but at the end of the day this isn't a great solution. We'll fully admit the problem will only affect a small number of users (those with gigabit networks who need high network performance while using multimedia applications), but then we're exactly that kind of user.
For what it's worth, we did inadvertently discover that the MMCSS throttling process doesn't engage when audio streams are using APIs other than WaveOut and DirectSound (i.e. aren't directly routed through the user-mode audio stack). OpenAL and ASIO do not trigger throttling, which means it's possible to have both unthrottled networking and proper multimedia playback under Vista, as long as there's hardware present that can deal with these APIs. This may very well be good news for Creative Labs in particular, whose DirectSound-to-OpenAL "Alchemy" wrapper can be used to have DirectSound applications routed to OpenAL instead and preventing throttling.
|NTttcp Performance
MMCSS Active
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Moving on, SP1 also introduces a few interesting fixes for the user experience. For anyone who has a system running a 32-bit version of Windows and 4GB of RAM, they will be well aware that in 32-bit mode not all of that RAM can be addressed, and that Windows reports the amount that can be addressed accordingly. With Vista SP1 Windows will now be reporting the amount of RAM in the system, and not the amount that can be addressed. The advantage of this is that it will reduce the number of computer owners thinking something is wrong because Windows doesn't "see" all of their RAM; on the other hand this is clearly disadvantageous because they will no longer be informed that Windows in fact isn't using all of their RAM, nor will there be an easy way any longer to tell how much RAM it is capable of using.
Another user experience change with SP1 is that password
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Administrator account is no longer active by default, so Microsoft has done
something about it. Password hints are now mandatory for all user accounts so
that forgetful users are less likely to forget their passwords. How that will affect people that then forget what their hints mean remains to be seen.
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7Enigma - Thursday, February 28, 2008 - linkIt's probably to prevent all the tech calls saying, "Gee golly, I have 4 Giga-bites of RAM, but the screen only says I have 3! Where'd the other one go!".
I don't see a problem with doing this, as if you care enough to know how much is actually addressable you probably already know the rest of the story anyway. Reply
sprockkets - Thursday, February 28, 2008 - linkAny word if you can use a non sp1 key with a sp1 disk?
Most of us hate vista for some reasons, like it for others. It just happens to be that the reasons why we hate it are more than why we like it, such as the way you have to pick how audio is sent to outputs (i.e. analog or digital, but not both at the same time as in previous versions, also that darn cdrom audio input I need), UAC, the fact that after your initial install of Vista that those 80 updates will then cause it upon shutdown to process, then upon restart will spend even more time processing the updates (albeit it only happens once and sp1 will do it for you, for now that is), and of course, everyone's favorite, why the hell did they have to change things like how to remove programs?
Did SP1 restore the cdrom audio input? Probably not. No, I use it for my TV tuner card which Microsoft feels I no longer need to use, which I can still buy.
And for UEFI, perhaps now we can take control of features that should be in the BIOS, yeah, right (I'm looking at you Intel for not putting in S3 standby support on your D201GLY v1 and 2 boards!). Reply
7Enigma - Thursday, February 28, 2008 - linkMany people use nLite or other programs to slipstream a service pack (among other programs and hotfixes). You can then burn this as a new .iso cd and use that in place of your original disk. Short story:
I have a 3 year old system that I never reformatted (I know, the shame). When I built the system SP2 had just come out so my XP disk already has sp2 included. But obviously in 3 years quite a few (100's?) updates and hotfixes have come about and it would be a real pain to reformat and then have to go through all the reboots and installs. Not to mention the chance that during this my system could become compromised from a previous exploit.
So I started hearing about "slipstreaming" and spent some time reading about it. These programs basically create a custom installation disk with exactly what you want (and excluding what you don't want), so that you can reformat the drive, install the slipstreamed version of XP or Vista, and have only a handful of updates (I think I had 8 updates total, and required 2 reboots). This is a fantastic way to start from scratch without spending a lot of time.
RyanVM (at least for XP) keeps an infrequent update pack that I used with my SP2 disk to enable the reformat I described above. Once SP3 for XP comes out you could slipstream it to your existing disk in 20min and be ready to reinstall. Really I'll never go back to the old-fashioned way of hosing a system.
HTH (and I apologize if you already knew this) Reply
kdog03 - Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - linkWell? Reply
Ryan Smith - Thursday, February 28, 2008 - linkNo. That's a fundamental limit of 32bit operation, it can't be fixed. Reply
mcnabney - Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - linkIn regard to the network throttling to make room for audio. A gigabit connection will be trimmed back to 80Mbs, 8% of capacity. Anandtech writes:
"We'll fully admit the problem will only affect a small number of users (those with gigabit networks who need high network performance while using multimedia applications), but then we're exactly that kind of user."
Hmmm. Lets think. What might need more than 80Mps while using audio? Hmmmm. How about, playing HD video off of a local media server? Reply
HaZaRd2K6 - Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - linkI just recently bought an eSATA enclosure for backups (FAST!) and in the article you mention "The only significant loser here are file operations over high-latency high-bandwidth links". Would eSATA be included in this list? Any chance of some numbers to check eSATA performance? Reply
trparky - Sunday, March 02, 2008 - linkThe only difference between eSATA and SATA is the connector. Everything else is the same, even the data encoding used to transmit it across the wire. Reply
ellis - Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - linkDoes anybody know of any good benchmarks made measuring the multitasking performance on Vista? (vs. XP?)
And I'm not talking about the ability for multi-core optimized applications ability to distribute it's load on several cores, but on the ability to run several demanding single threaded applications in parallell nicely distributed on the avalable cores.
So does anyone know of any test that has focused on this aspect of utilizing a multi-core CPUs?
Perhaps comparing dual-core with quad-core, on XP and Vista? Reply
Griswold - Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - linkI cant think of a single benchmark for this other than the "benchmark suite" they use here at AT sometimes (bunch of apps doing certain things creating alot of load and timing it). But I wouldnt really need that as vista always felt more responsive with multiple heavy load tasks than XP - and it even does so on this almost 1 year old install.
I would like to expect MS being able to improve on the far from perfect task scheduler that comes with XP for their new flagship OS. As far as i'm concerned, they succeeded. Reply


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Justin Bieber's Home Skate Ramp Features Miley Cyrus' Face [PHOTO]
And yet another way that Miley Cyrus' tongue has been immortalized.
Justin Bieber paid homage to his tonguetacular and twerking pal by painting her face and her signature expression –eyes wide, tongue out— on the backyard skate ramp at his Calabasas crib.
Really? Yes, really.
That way, Da Biebs can cruise all over Miley's image and likeness with his board while he practices his moves.
A huge rendering of Cyrus' visage – it's not exactly flattering, but it's meant to be a caricature, allowing for an element of warpedness and of humor—is spraypainted on the ramp. It's just her head and her tongue.
We wonder if Miley will dig this, uh, tribute. Hey, at least it means that The Biebs is thinking about her, right? He has had his share of graffiti issues in recent months, causing trouble while out of the country.
The Biebs seems to be into skating lately, as he landed on his rear end and shared the video on Instagram.


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TMC wrote:I don't know if I agree with that "you gotta try more before commiting" point of view. I mean, I agree, but you gotta take it on a case-by-case basis. It's usually true, but I've also met a few (not many, of course) couples that haven't been with anybody else and they're perfectly happy. And that's all that matters, ain't it?
As I said, it's not the usual (hasn't been my case, and, as I said, there ain't many couples like that)... but if it works for certain couples, I don't see a problem with it.
yep, that's what I was trying to get at, a couple of posts above there. they are rare but it does happen. most people need to get their ya-ya's out though first.


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Actually, there is nothing over-the-top about it. Creating a government controlled system of 'censoring' anything, legal or not, puts it at their fingertips. All that would be stopping them is their self-control, which is proven to be less than reliable lately. It's best if we don't touch this with a proverbial 10-foot pole, the potential for current, more or less future, abuse is very real and very threatening.
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As 2010 looms, we're continuing our series of cases here to develop interesting, engaging and useful discussions for our new sub-site, IT Innovations. We're looking for insights that might help IT managers stay informed and keep their operations competitive.
For this case, we're looking for your predictions for the upcoming year for data centers or IT management. What changes do you anticipate for 2010? What are you most looking forward to? What trends from 2009 will really pick up in 2010? What events are you planning for in 2010? These are just a few of the questions we'd like to see answered. It's hard to look into the crystal ball and predict the future with certainty, so if you want to evaluate past predictions and correct the predictions of popular IT pundits, feel free to do that, too. Our main goal is to try to offer an insightful and practical outlook for the year ahead.
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2010 is going to be all about the rise of US to dominance in the global wireless industry. The convergence of social networking, wireless, video and devices will bring a new era of computing. by Kishore Jethanandani
Saturday, December 26th, 2009 @ 8:48AM
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|Much of the business value of mobile cloud computing, unified messaging, multi-media communication and social networking will be mobile collaboration and the higher productivity it will yield. More people are on the move and geographically dispersed and need to remain connected even when they are not in close proximity of their colleagues.
APIs are the new job for CIOs by Johan Hjelm
Saturday, December 26th, 2009 @ 7:55PM
Widgets and the iPhone are changing the game for data centers. Making mashups with other applications, such as Facebook or the Google ever-extending suite, is becoming easier and easier. Adding the crucial sauce which makes the company add value is most important function of the data center in the future.
Companies are realizing that it is cheaper to change the widgets, the platform, and the back-end logic separately. APIs will have to become more persistent, or extensible, and that is an area where there will have to be a lot more development. In a mass market, the experience from the last few years should be that you can not just hope that all users will change the application when something changes. Automatic updaters work, but only to a limited extent (and not, so far, for widgets). There will always be some users who refuse to change, and who will require backwards compatibility at some level - there is a reason that browser updates are concurrent with PC updates.
Managing the API will become the central function of the CIO and IT management in companies, and then a modularized (and virtualized) back-end can be upgraded slowly, moved to locations which work best, from whatever perspective may be most relevant for the organization. That is another big thing that happened this year: Data centers became location-agnostic. Power, network, and a friendly location is all that is needed - and then they can basically move anywhere on the planet. This has been possible before, this year it became evident.
Managing the API also means managing the mashed up resources. If you built a company around a sales application that all of a sudden disappears, what do you do? Managing the network becomes a crucial task, as does managing the resources used - the mashued up resources. But how do you make sure the cloud does not go away? It means getting assurances from the resources used that they will continue to exist and be usable, whatever happens - they must have their own data centers, with hot standby and all the old mainframe mainstays.
Modularizing mashup resources, placing portions in the data centers of corporate customers, will be one possibliity (essentially, becoming the cloud). Another possibility is that the cloud operators will be trusted and trustable, so nobody has to have their own data centers. But that is hard to believe. More data centers, better managed, with new software features as software development continues (and new protocols to communicate between them) is more likely - and a more interesting problem and possibility for data center managers.
5 Things to Watch in 2010 by Joshua Howe
Sunday, December 27th, 2009 @ 6:22PM
Heading into 2010, there are five things to watch which will dominate the field of technology. There are some significant issues which have developed in the last few years, and 2010 will see these come to a head, if not a resolution.
The Cloud
As we head into 2010, the cloud will continue to dominate the scene of technology. This will be hastened by the development of mobile devices. Its real traction will depend on the accessibility of wireless and broadband services. At the end of 2009, urbanites are enjoying the availability of low cost broadband services, while rural area still struggle with getting access to affordable high speed internet. Secondly, the cost and terms of data plans hold back the development of additional technologies and services.
Net Neutrality
Internet providers continue to test models of making money, and 2010 will see the rise of not so good models, and government stepping in and drawing some clear lines of authority over service providers and how services are provided.
Access to Broadband
As various European countries toy with plans to combat piracy by using 3 strikes type laws, the United States will look towards drawing bright lines of whether access to the internet is a luxury or necessity. Falling with the latter, the US will need to make significant investment in infrastructure to ensure rural areas get access to reliable low cost internet.
A perennial issue, privacy will continue to top issues of 2010. As users become more aware of how their information is used and shared and the value of their information, they'll become increasingly fickle about companies which abuse their good will.
2009 saw the rise of the e-book, while 2010 will see that field broaden initially with the cream rising to the top. The market will face many of the issues which music has been facing of the years, ownership, distribution, resale rights and DRM. We will see some companies moving to more proprietary formats and locked down systems, forcing users through their channels to access or add data to their readers. However, those companies which embrace open accessible formats will gain broader acceptance by users, though may fall afoul of publishers. The seeds of these issues have been sewn in 2009 and 2010 will see them blossom.
2010 promises to be an exciting (and interesting) year in technology. We will see whether grass roots efforts can beat out the strength and money of the telecom companies, and whether privacy, openness and accessibility really are important to users.
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|Since the US is so large geographically, to Broadband is quite the challenge (especially here in Texas). About 60-70% of Americans have broadband access.
The answer to these rural areas, where it's not logical for ISPs to spend thousands to bring lines to homes, is definitely terrestrial wireless solutions. This market is still very young and untapped and competition for rural customers will heat up in the next few years.
These small business WISPs are much more efficient, logical, experienced, flexible, and tested in these rural markets compared to large ISPs or government stimulus backed projects to expand to rural areas.
The Train Called Cloud in 2010 by Ben Hwang
Monday, December 28th, 2009 @ 8:41AM
This past year has been one heck of a shift for computing in general. But the big factor has been in cloud computing. While not a new technology by any means with distributed computing going back at least a thirty in academics, the idea of providers having a huge resource as an "entity" and users can just use what they wish from it is a fresh new consumer model.
In fact, before 2009, Amazon had already began its conquest in the supply chain side with AWS which currently dominates the cloud environment and in 2010, they're focusing on provision of private clouds. Formerly known as Mosso, Rackspace Cloud is also on the rise in providing a great environment although they don't quite have the vastness of Amazon.
Another ideal move in favor of cloud computing has been both with the Android OS and netbooks. Many applications now are driven by Google's online presence and the wide popularity of netbooks will continue to drive the cost of hardware down and assist in convincing the general populace where to store their data next. Even with cell phones that run Android OS are now downloading a copy of the contacts directly from online and syncing up instead going through the hassle of shifting from cell phone to cell phone and having to move those contacts through cabled software.
With these types of suppliers springing forth with strong capital backing, analysts are already forecasting a shift in the paradigm of computing with many applications moving from standalone to cloud. And this train has only just left the station.
IT 2009: The Silver Lining of Cloud Computing by Joseph Hunkins
Monday, December 28th, 2009 @ 5:03PM
In broad terms I'd argue that a major story of 2009 and perhaps *the* major story is the near total acceptance of the cloud computing paradigm as a powerful approach to building infrastructures and solving many IT problems.
Although "the cloud" was hardly a new theme for 2009, widespread acceptance of the versatility and cost effectiveness of this approach has only come in the past few years, and 2009 was arguably the first year when this approach has enjoyed very widespread acceptance.
Few enterprise IT managers would now balk at the idea of running large scale solutions from within the cloud, where even a few years ago this approach might have been rejected as too risky or unstable.
Many factors have contributed to this widespread acceptance. In economic terms the cloud has enabled more effective cost management and resource allocations as computing becomes more of a utility expenditure and companies can more easily scale their computing to meet their changing needs.
Sourcing even major enterprise applications to external data centers has become commonplace and in many cases the obvious solution, especially for startups or modest sized companies that cannot yet afford a robust internal infrastructure. Even for companies that can afford this it may be advantageous to use the stability and scalability of alternative "in the cloud" solutions for most of their IT needs.
However I think that an excellent record of stability has been the key reason for the widesread acceptance of cloud computing. Avoiding downtime is arguably the biggest and most conspicuous IT challenge. Where the "old" cloud often offered more risk than in house alternatives, the current infrastructure in most remote IT centers offers nearly perfect uptime records thanks to a variety of hardware and application improvements such as load balancing routines and superior virtual server software.
Finally, I think the cloud forms an important backstory to other major IT developments of the year such as the phenomenal rise of Twitter and Facebook as key social mechanisms for a rapidly evolving online world. Although social networking does not require a cloud infrastructure, the existence of the cloud has created much more fertile conditions for the development and fast spread of services like Facebook and Twitter. Both have development ecosystems that benefit from low costs and scalability cloud computing has brought to the online table. Also, users have quickly come to rely on applications such as gmail and Google docs where their information is no longer held captive on a single machine and is available from our growing number of devices and available for work or social collaborations.
In no small measure thanks to the widespread acceptance of the cloud we've seen in the past year we will be better prepared to usher in a cheaper and more interesting IT 2010.
Happy New Year!
The Big IT Story of the *Next* Decade: Artificial General Intelligence by Joseph Hunkins
Monday, December 28th, 2009 @ 7:33PM
Artificial General Intelligence - AGI, is for many the holy grail of computing. Humans have enjoyed consciousness and "self awareness" for some time, but to date no machine has attained a comparable level of intellectual ability despite huge advances in specific fields like gaming and math where computers dramatically surpassed human abilities long ago.
No longer relegated to science fiction, many now believe that the question is not whether or not humans can develop an artificial intelligence with human-like intellectual abilities, the only question is "when".
Ray Kurzweil, author of "The Singularity is Near" and the upcoming film "Singularity" is among the most optimistic experts on the topic of general AI. He sees general AI developing in the twenty five years, probably followed in very rapid succession by an "explosion of machine intellect" and a "Technological Singularity" which will deliver a world of almost unimaginable technological sophistication.
Last year I had the chance to speak with several brilliant insiders about the topic of "conscious computing" which many would argue will be similar in form and function to "AGI". I was surprised by the diversity of opinion, though all seemed to agree that it was only a matter of time before we are likely to see machines that think much like we do.
Marissa Mayer of Google, whose graduate work at Stanford was in AI, suggested a time frame of about ten years for conscious computing. Mayer noted that Google researchers were intrigued by some of the current algorithmic outputs from the search routines which are obviously not AI but do in fact look like the type of output you'd expect from an intelligent agent. Her optimistic timeframe is consistent with Kurzweil's notions that computing hardware and software improvements are proceeding at exponential rather than linear rates and therefore we are likely to see major gains happen over shorter and shorter timeframes.
Matt Cutts, a prominent Google Search engineer, was not as optimistic as Mayer, suggesting it could take "45" years given the incredible complexity of the algorithms needed to duplicate human style intelligence. However Cutts also noted his background is not in AI.
Perhaps not surprisingly the most vague answer I got was from Google's own AI legend, Peter Norvig, at the Convergence conference in Mountain View in 2008. He was not even comfortable that we could define "consciousness" well enough to use it as a milestone, so to him the question of "when" was in some ways irrelevant. However, I think even Norvig would agree that human quality intellect is not likely to remain only within the human sphere too much longer.
Two of the most promising projects in the field of general AI are Darpa SyNAPSE and Blue Brain. In simple terms these projects highlight two different approaches to developing a human-like artificial intelligence. For SyNAPSE the AI algorithms and software and computational power are the key focus IBM recently announced the project had essentially created equivalent computational power, and arguably thus the "intelligence" of a "cat brain" using their IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer in Silicon Valley.
Challenging IBMs assertion was Dr. Henry Markram, the architect of the Blue Brain project of Lausanne, Switzerland. The Blue Brain approach is more along the lines of reverse engineering the functions of a human brain, incorporating various human-like signals as well as the massive processing power of an IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer.
Regardless of the mechanism of development it's reasonable to assume humanity will have a conscious, self-aware computer developed with the next few decades. Although some fear the advent of an "unfriendly AI" that would threaten the very existence of its creators, I think the lesson of our own intellectual development over many centuries is that intelligence is likely to spawn greater compassion and perhaps even bring the solutions to problems that have heretofore seemed insurmountable given our feeble human intellectual constraints.
Hope and Concern by David Cassel
Monday, December 28th, 2009 @ 11:56PM
Here's two predictions for 2010. First, in general security will get much better - but the challenges for IT managers will also get much more complicated.
The year ended as Barack Obama finally selected his own cyber-security czar -- but that's just part of the federal government's plan to modernize their role in the security of the internet. In October the Department of Homeland Security opened the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, promising "a 24-hour, DHS-led coordinated watch and warning center that will improve national efforts to address threats and incidents affecting the nation's critical information technology and cyber infrastructure." And meanwhile, the Pentagon has even established a new Cyber Command.
But the federal government has been also leading the push to protect private information. Back in 2006, the Office of Management and Budget mandated that government agencies encrypt all the data on that's stored on mobile devices. And mre than half the states in the country have beefed up federal privacy laws with their own new state privacy regulations... But ironically, one of the biggest factors in improving security may have been: dramatic news stories about weak security. In 2007, there were 800,000 social security numbers that were stolen when a 22-year-old intern lost a back-up tape he'd stored in the back of his car -- and a few weeks later, data was also stolen for every National Guard soldiers in Idaho. Later that year, the security administrator at the Oregon State Treasury joked to me that some organizations were implementing stronger security protocols simply because "People like to stay off of the front page!"
I've wondered if there might be fewer breaches at datacenters in 2010 as an indirect result of the financial bail-outs in 2008. Public anger is high, and it's being directed at nearly every institution in the financial industry. So it's the worst possible time to have to explain to customers that your data's been breached -- and I predict managers will take data security much more seriously. And if not for their customers, then for potential business partners -- since the obvious result of the financial crisis has been mergers and acquisitions.
I predict IT managers will face a more complicated environment -- partly because of the growing adoption of mobile devices. The popularity of the iPhone has spawned high-powered competitors like the Android, and more and more end users are going to have them. But if the future is mobile devices, that means more users trying to connect to the corporate network with unpatched and potentially virus-infected personal data accessories. If you don't have a good network access protocol, you'll be facing a whole new class of threats -- and users also need to be educated on the dangers of using their new mobile devices to transport sensitive work data out of the office. The growth in mobile devices may also lead to a great emphasis on encryption -- to protect data from the careless habits of end users. but IT managers also need to focus on network access control, to deal with threats that arise when those same users try to re-connect!


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Dr. Fouad is Professor and Chairman of the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. He teaches and conducts research in the area of reinforced concrete structures and concrete materials, and has published numerous technical papers in the field. His research efforts have led to the development of national standards and specifications for a number of sustainable green concrete products and building systems. Dr. Fouad currently chairs the PCI committee on Prestressed Concrete Poles and the ASTM committee on Autoclaved Aerated Concrete. He is the past chair of ACI committee on Cellular Concrete and the founding chair of its subcommittee on AAC. . Dr. Fouad is a fellow of ACI and ASCE and has received a number of prestigious awards due to his professional services in the civil engineering field. Dr. Fouad's research expertise in green materials and construction methods has a global perspective. He recently held three National Science Foundation (NSF) workshops in Cairo, Egypt (December 2007, March 2009, and June 2012) on Sustainable Green Building design and Construction. The March 2009 conference was attended by more than 400 scientists, architects, and engineers and included experts from the U.S.A, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
Dr. Fouad has been working in the area of highway sign and traffic signal supports since for the past 20 years. As principal investigator on several NCHRP and DOT projects, he led a team of experts from U.S. universities whose efforts culminated in the development of the current, newly and totally revised, AASHTO Standard Specifications for Structural Supports for Highway Signs, Luminaries, and Traffic Signals. Continued research efforts in this area resulted in revising the AASHTO Standard Specifications a number of times, and the recent inclusion of fatigue provisions for the design of highway signs and traffic signal support structures.


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The updated selective online Supplement 2003 to volumes I-III of the Coleridge Bibliography was released on December 12, 2003. The last to be prepared by Walter B. Crawford and Ann M. Crwaford, it contains a revised Preface and more than 400 annotated items (many illustrated), including about 70 added since the 2000 edition. It can be found at:
Supplement 2003 is hyperlinked to and from the Crawford Coleridge Collection Website:
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To make it easy for the users of this Supplement to discover what items have been added, revised, or updated since the 2000 edition, a section has been added listing just the identifying first line of each such item, enabling a user to determine quickly their location.
Librarians, scholars interested in the English Romantics, Coleridge scholars particularly, and those teaching graduate students most particularly, should pay special attention to the revised Preface to Supplement 2003, and most especially to the paragraphs looking forward to volume IV of the Coleridge Bibliography.
The Crawfords express their gratitude to the many persons interested in Coleridge who have sent them information for the Supplement as well as materials to be deposited in the non-circulating Crawford Coleridge Collection, where this material will always be available to scholars—including future bibliographers—and others interested in Coleridge. Such contributions have been noted in the Supplement as well as acknowledged by the Dean of the Library of California State University, Long Beach.
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Effects of attention and working memory on perception
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Selective attention refers to perceptual selection and working memory refers to the active maintenance of mental representations. Selective attention and working memory are believed to be two of the most important functions in human cognition and have been intensively investigated in cognitive psychology. However, it is quite recent that the link between attention and working memory has been systematically researched. One question that remains controversial is the effect of working memory on attentional control with inconsistent results reported in the human psychophysical literature, despite clear and strong evidence from physiological studies with nonhuman primates that working memory is the main source of top-down attentional control. The main goal of the current study is to provide a plausible solution to the puzzle of attentional control by introducing the concept of goal-specificity and competition between working memory representations. I hypothesized that the strength of the biasing effect of working memory on attention depends on the specificity of representations in working memory, and developed an experimental paradigm (the goal-specificity paradigm) to test this hypothesis using psychophysical and neuroimaging methods. One of the most important manipulations in the goal-specificity paradigm is how specifically targets in different tasks are defined. The results demonstrate that there is competition between items in working memory for attentional control that is influenced by the specificity of each representation as well as task relevancy. Also, it is shown that the effect of goal-specificity is present in both spatial and temporal domains as revealed by visual search and rapid serial visual presentation tasks. The results suggest the possibility that the negligible effect of working memory in some previous studies may be due to insufficient specificity of the objects in working memory or to the presence of other specifically-defined information in working memory. Furthermore, based on the implication from the current study that goal-specificity has a significant influence on attentional control, I expect that the experimental paradigm introduced in the current study can be utilized as an objective psychophysical measure of attentional control.


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A new feature from appFigures that lets you easily share your App Store reviews with anyone. Review Cards look great in every browser and on every social network. They utilise Open Graph so will automatically render beautifully when shared. When you share a review, you can also optionally translate it to a language of your choice. Anyone viewing the review can also change the translation language on their own. There's also built in stats so you can see how many people visited it, from which countries, and from what sources.
An add-on for Google Sheets that lets you automatically import App Store data from iTunes Connect and Google Play. AppStoreMetrix offers you a simple way to download your app statistics for in-app purchases, app installs, earnings, crashes and more, on a daily, weekly or monthly basis without manually downloading and transforming the raw data into a suitable format. Once downloaded you're free to use all of Google Sheets' features such as filters, charts, and dashboards to analyse and visualise your data.
A platform of tools that help you improve your App Store Optimisation strategy. TheTool tracks everything related to ASO including installs, keyword rankings, chart rankings, user ratings, conversion rates, revenue and more. You also get a personalised ASO report including an ASO score, checklist and recommendations. TheTools uses data directly from iTunes Connect and the Google Play Developer Console, but it can also integrate with a couple of attribution services and AdMob for ad revenue tracking.
A simple iOS app to view all your App Store reviews. Reviews for iOS lets you add your favourite iOS and Mac apps, pick which territories you're interested in, and it will give you all your ratings (for current and all versions) and reviews in one place. You can also translate international reviews into your own language or choose to get a push notification when new reviews are added.
An online service and SDK that aims to optimise your Apple Search Ads bids to increase revenue based on keywords that lead to actual in-app purchases. Kitemetrics will attribute keywords to premium app purchases, in-app purchases, subscriptions, or eCommerce purchases, then calculate the Total Revenue per keyword, the Average Revenue per User for each keyword, and provide suggested CPT bid amounts for your Search Ads. It also has Apple Search Ads integration so you can view reports and modify bids directly from Kitemetrics without having to switch platforms.
An online App Store Optimisation tool that aims to increase downloads for mobile apps on iOS and Android. App Radar uses its AI based ASO helper to analyse all your app's metadata and localisations and find improvements to optimise your store listings for better discoverability. You can view daily updated keyword rankings, historical data to see your result over time, popularity and traffic estimations, and compare your competitors rankings. It also has Slack integration to give you handy ranking reports on a daily or weekly basis.
A simple service for creating a good looking website for your mobile app. Snappykit lets you find your app in the App Store or Play Store to import all the details before picking from a number of great looking templates. You can then use the editor to makes changes and customise every single element of the template and launch it as a stunning app website. The final website includes all the features and options you'd expect including Google Analytics, social accounts, custom domains, SEO and adaptive layouts.
A hand-picked collection of resources to help engineers market and grow their products. Marketing for Engineers includes a wide range of different resources from articles and videos to services and tools. The resources are broken down into several categories that cover the entire marketing lifecycle including user research, social media marketing, email marketing, psychology, pricing and loads more. Marketing can be one of the hardest parts of creating a product for a developer, so this list is invaluable.
An online tool that helps you create App Store keywords. App Keywords.io lets you enter a keyword or a few letters and it will auto-suggest app keywords from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Results are grouped alphabetically and you can select your favourites before copying to the clipboard as a comma separated list or downloading as a CSV. You can also view trending searches by country and get access to advice on how to pick the best app keywords.
A collection of useful tools for app developers and designers. App ToolKit replaces the previous LaunchKit that was acquired by Google and now includes: Screenshot Builder for creating custom App Store images; App Website Builder, a tool that creates and hosts a mobile-ready website for you app; Review Monitor, a service that checks the App Store for reviews and posts them to Slack; Super User Dashboard in-app analytics; and Cloud Config, a utility that lets you remotely adjust settings and features in your app.
A super simple Apple Watch app that lets you keep track of your app's App Store ranking from a complication on your watch face. RankWatch gives you an iPhone app to search for your app by name, country and category which is then visible on the Apple Watch. The complication shows the current ranking as well as how much is has increased or decreased by.
A simple widget that helps convert your website visitors into App Store downloads. Textpuff lets your website visitors text themselves a smart download link from your website. Clicking the link takes them to either the App Store or Google Play Store based on the device they are using. From the TextPuff dashboard, you can track how many website visitors converted to app downloads, from where and how many times the links that are sent are clicked.
An online ASO tool that helps you check and improve your app's visibility in the App Store. AppCodes gives you up to date rankings for up to 200 App Store search queries to see the effectiveness of your app's keywords. You can also track your competitors including their press mentions and keywords from their App Store descriptions. You also get access to tools that can help you identify new keywords and measure phrase popularity and competitiveness, to improve your ranking with your next app update.
An open source Mac app for downloading and viewing App Store sales, reviews and rankings. AppWage gives you quick access to information such as the number of downloads, in-app purchases, promo codes and refunds. You can track your rankings allowing you to see where and when your apps change position in charts, and download reviews from each and every country, and have them translated into your local language. You can also add your competitors app to track their reviews and rankings as well.
A simple, minimalistic and free online tool for generating good looking screenshots for the App Store and Google Play Store. App Store Screenshot lets you use your in-app screenshots to generate professional looking screenshots that will match the App Store's and Google Play's requirements. You can pick a background colour, choose from ten different device images, and add text with custom font and styling, before previewing and downloading ready to be upload to the App Store.
A Mac app that gathers your ratings and reviews for all of your apps, from all countries, and all major app stores, and displays them in one simple feed. Review Command supports iOS App Store, Mac App Store, Google Play, Amazon App Store and Windows Store. In addition to your main feed, you can filter a specific app's feed by country, date, and phrases mentioned. Easily see what users love (and don't love) about your app. It's available for a one-off price, with no subscription fees and your account passwords are only ever stored locally on your Mac.
A Mac app that makes it easy to convert app preview videos ready to be submitted to the App Store. Preview Video Converter will convert your video to meet iTunes Connect's very specific set of requirements so you don't have to waste time trying to solve the issue. It will re-encode your audio and video into the ideal format; guaranteed to upload successfully and it will export separate files for iPhones, iPads and even Apple TV. You can also use the app to trim your video to ensure it fits within Apple's length requirements.
A 15 page PDF guide from Dan Counsell outlining the 10 most important things you need to do to get your app featured as well as how to get in contact with Apple. The guide covers all the best steps you should consider when releasing your app including using the latest Apple platform technologies, localising, planning around big events, and more. Getting featured by Apple is never guaranteed, but if you're clever about it, you can increase your chances, and this guide can definitely help.
A Slack bot that gives you app reviews delivered to Slack. ReviewBot will monitor your Android and iOS apps on both the Google Play Store and Apple App Store then send you notifications in Slack or by email whenever new reviews are posted. It's free to use for one app, but paid plans let you monitor more and also gives you quick reply links for Android app reviews.
A OS X app for keeping track of your App Store sales. Suborbital Reports downloads all your App Store reports and visualizes them in a clean and neat manner, without any cloud services - everything stays secure and private on your Mac. You can view clear and easy to read graphs for your revenues, downloads, updates and refunds, and make comparisons and predictions based on actual stats. It supports iOS, Mac and In-App Purchase sales, using the official iTunes Connect auto ingestion API, so doesn't rely on web-scraping. It also has no subscription fees - you pay once and own it forever.
A simple OS X app for reading App Store reviews. Sachsen is a standalone app so, unlike many similar services, it is not dependent on a backend and there is no need to create an account. You can add multiple apps by title, iTunes ID or publisher and all reviews are downloaded to view offline. You can then do a full-text search of filter by read or favourited state, user rating or app version. Sachsen also offers a one-click translation service powered by Google Translate and Microsoft Translate and you can make notes for a specific reviews, share them, or compare ratings across app versions.
A set of plugins and themes for Jekyll to create a static portfolio website for app developers to showcase their work. Apollo differs from most other showcasing tools which focus on a single app, by creating a portfolio for multiple apps. Its minimalistic theme and playful animations make it perfect to display the amazing apps you have made and the responsive design means it looks great on desktop and mobile. It also comes with a set of plugins and custom Liquid tags to help make writing an app's page easier.
A free and open source guide to launching an app. The App Launch Guide covers everything you need to know from planning, pre-launch, marketing, and product development to QA and launch. It aims to combine the concrete product development schedule with an equally concrete marketing schedule into a single timeline, so that you can plan for both the marketing and product cycle in tandem. The complete guide is open source on GitHub to the author is also accepting contributions if you have something to add.
A review trading service that helps you get more genuine, quality reviews for your apps on the App Store. With ReviewsMotion, you earn points for every app you rate, which will allow you to receive reviews for your own apps. In order to register a review properly, you have to take a screenshot of it and upload it onto the platform. Once uploaded, you will receive 1 point. When someone reviews one of your apps, you lose one point. In other words, for each app you rate from other users, you will get one review for yours. Simple.
A useful utility that helps you get insight from your users' App Store reviews. CrowdChunk scores apps by what reviewers actually have to say. They've processed every English language app review ever submitted to the Google Play and iOS App stores and given scores based on the positivity and negativity expressed by reviewers about several key qualities such as performance and value. CrowdChunk also lets you view your app's score over time to find trends in your customers' opinions.
A huge list of contact details for the places where you might be able to get press coverage for your app. Submit.co lists over 300 different publications and websites, each with a link to their main website, twitter username, follower count and Alexa rank. Many of the publications also include a direct link to their submit pages and are tagged by category, region and platform. Contacting any of the sites listed doesn't guarantee press coverage but this list may be a good place to start if you are looking to generate a bit of buzz.
A site for creating great looking landing pages for your apps for free. All AppLandr requires is your App Store URL and it will automatically take all the data it needs directly from the App Store, so your page will always be up to date. The generated pages look really professional and include everything you would want on a marketing page including big screenshots, price, app description, ratings and links your your other apps. You might not want to use AppLandr as your permanent marketing site, but it's a great option to get something up really quickly.
An OS X app for creating cleaned up Apple Watch screenshots. WatchScreenshotMagic lets you quickly generate perfect App Store ready Apple Watch screenshots by just dragging and dropping a screenshot from the 42mm simulator. It will automatically remove the charging indicator from the status bar and change the clock to read 10:09. If you provide it with a Glance or Notification screenshot it will cleverly use a colour mask on black content to overlay the screenshot on the blurred watch face.
An app for OS X that provides a widget that displays your iTunes Connect download figures right in Notification Centre. DailySales works locally and downloads your download figures to your Mac directly with no third-party servers involved. DailySales makes use of the official API that Apple provides for iTunes Connect. The DailySales widget can be customised in many ways including sorting by units, proceeds or percent change, changing the colouring, and hiding less important products.
With all the recent stories of apps being removed from the App Store, rejected and then allowed back in, it's difficult to keep track of what is allowed in and what's not. App Store Review Guidelines History is a site that keeps track of all the changes made to Apple's App Store Review Guidelines. Currently, the history goes back as far as March 30, 2014 with each update made to the guidelines highlighted green for additions and red for deletions. You can also sign up to receive an email whenever they make an update.
A simple new OS X menubar app from Supertop that gives you quick access to your App Store sales figures. Top Hat shows up-to-date daily sales figures for your apps. Revenue from In-App Purchases is aggregated to give you a single total for each app, with weekly figures available by holding ⌥ as you click the Top Hat icon. Top Hat is brilliantly simplistic and is certainly the fastest way of checking how much money your app is making.
An open source, standardised privacy policy for mobile app developers to use and customise. If your app is for children, offers user registration or a keyboard extension, or uses HealthKit, HomeKit or Apple Pay you are now required to provide a privacy policy, and it's recommended for everyone else. Docracy's Mobile Privacy Policy is provided by experts as a a good starting point for many common app types that you can customise for your app. Docracy can also host your completed privacy policy and provide you with a mobile URL to include in your App Store details.
An App Store Optimization service to help you optimise your app's visibility in the App Store. Sensor Tower lets you automatically track daily keyword rankings for your app and its competitors to identify which are working the best. You can also get tips to improve your existing keywords and suggestions for new keywords that include search traffic estimates, and competitiveness difficulty ratings. Once you've found keywords that are working well, Sensor Tower can help you translate them into 20+ different languages to improve your rankings in other countries.
A drop in replacement for UIWindow that adds circular views to the screen as visual representations of all touch events. SmudgeKit is ideal for creating app preview videos or screenshots so that viewers can see exactly where touch events are happening. There is practically no implementation needed to use SmudgeKit - you just need to replace your root UIWindow with SmudgyWindow. If necessary you can also change the appearance by editing the SmudgeLayer implementation.
A command utility to quickly add device frames around your iOS screenshots. You just have to navigate to your folder of screenshots and run 'frameit' to add a perfect device frame to every screenshot in the folder. FrameIt currently supports iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 5s and iPad Air in portrait and landscape for both black and silver devices. There are also couple of other setup steps you need to take to download the device images from Apple as they are not pre-packaged for legal reasons, but the steps are simple and only need to be done once.
A command line utility that dramatically speeds up the process of creating localised App Store screenshots. Snapshot lets you create hundreds of screenshots in multiple languages on all simulators. To configure which screenshots to include just profile the app with the Automation Instrument. From then on you can run 'snapshot' from the command line to recreate all your screenshots in all supported languages. Snapshot even automatically waits for network requests to be finished before taking a screenshot and generates a web page, which shows a preview of all screenshots on all devices.
A website that lets you create an alternative landing page for your iPhone app using the info you've already submitted to the App Store. Just paste in your App Store URL and a page will be created with you app icon, description, screenshots and average rating. You can then either copy a shareable URL or fork the page on GitHub ready to host on github.io or your own domain. The page even includes a Smart App Banner when displayed in Safari on iOS. If you are yet to release the app to the App Store, the creator has provided instructions and scripts to get the data from iTunes Connect.
A Mac app that helps you create app preview videos, tutorials, and explainer videos for your app. AppShow works in the same way as QuickTime for creating app previews - you just need to connect your device to your Mac, but AppShow makes the process of creating a professional looking video much easier by breaking a complex process into bite-size pieces. You can choose a template that fits your app, record into each segment, and you've got an amazing App Preview video. AppShow can also add music, transitions, and touch events. AppShow is currently in beta but most of the features are already working.
An iPhone app to monitor reviews and ratings for iOS and OS X apps, iBooks and podcasts on the iTunes Stores from all countries. Review Kit is free to download but a monthly subscription is required for most features including saving favourite apps, viewing all available reviews from iTunes, background review refreshes with alerts, filtering by rating, translating reviews and more.
An app review exchange service where developers can get free and unlimited reviews for their apps. SmoothReviews supports free and paid apps, and you can get started with up to 2 apps for free. Once you've signed up, visit SmoothReviews on your iOS device and start reviewing the apps shown. For each review, you earn a point. Your app will then show up for another developer to review, and you'll have spent the point.
A marketing tool that helps you find out where your users are coming from. Tapstream provides a drop-in SDK that allows you to track which clicks or impressions were responsible for app installs, app engagement and even in-app purchases. You can also use Onboarding Links to reduce your app abandonment rate by enabling the app to respond differently to users from different channels.
A Mac app for managaing your apps in iTunes Connect. iTunes Connect is pretty terrible - it requires multiple page loads to update the data you want and often fails causing you to lose your udpates. Jack is a native app that allows you to edit your description, drag and drop screenshots, and add a price changes in a much better interface than iTunes Connect. Also, it uses the iTunes Connect Transporter command line tool to communicate with iTunes Connect so doesn't use any unreliable site scraping and seems to be pretty stable.
A simple but really handy utility from Bjango that lets you preview how your App Store description will be truncated on the iPhone and iPad App Stores. It's useful to know how your description will appear on iOS so you can make sure potential users get everything they need to know about your app without having to tap the "more" link.
A super simple menu bar app for creating quick screencasts. You just select the area of the screen you want to record then capture up to 5 minutes. Once finished the screencast is automatically uploaded to Recordit and a URL is copied to the clipboard. You can also create animated GIF versions of your screencast - great for creating quick demo promo videos for your app.
A service that helps your free app get more reviews in the App Store. AppReviewMe works using a karma system where to get reviews for you app you have to earn karma points. To earn karma points you review other developers apps. Therefore, the developers that give the most back to other developers receive the most reviews. It's a simple system but should be a better way of getting more honest reviews that bugging your users in the app.
A free service that helps you get your app noticed in the App Store. MobileDevHQ will monitor the App Store Top Charts and search rankings and send you daily email reports with your app's progress against competitors you choose. The paid plans extend this by including keyword suggestions to help your ranking. The MobileDevHQ blog is also worth checking out as they regularly post good App Store optimisation advice.
Turns your computer into a AirPlay receiver so you can wirelessly mirror your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch screen to any Mac or PC. Reflector allows you to make recordings of your iOS device including realistic looking frames so it's great for making walkthroughs of demo videos for your apps. It also lets you mirror multiple devices at once or add password protection to limit access.
A service that helps you create attractive product screenshots in realistic environments. You can choose from over 200 "stages" that cover a range of different devices before uploading your screenshot to include in the image. You can also create animated GIFs to simulate workflows in your app and they have a Mac app. Prices start at free for low resolution but you can pay if you need higher.
A service that helps you create a fully hosted custom landing page for marketing your mobile app. You just enter your app details and screenshots in the simple form and it creates and hosts a fully responsive web page for your app. You can also use your own custom domain name or the default carp.io subdomain.
An App Store analytics and conversion tracking service. Once you've signed up for a free account you can track downloads, revenues, rankings, reviews, and ad revenues using the website or app. You can also use AppLinks and the drop-in SDK to start conversion tracking. AppLinks provide a cross platform download link that you can share, creates a nice app landing page and redirects to the App Store. Distimo also offer a service (for a fairly hefty fee) that provides tracking of estimated downloads and revenues of any app in the App Store. They claim that 54% of apps are estimated with a margin of error below 3%, 95% are estimated with a margin of error below 10%.
A simple tool that makes distributing multiple promo codes to unknown recipients (such as a giveaway) a little more "civilized". You just upload the file you receive from iTunes Connect and you get a single, private url to share via email or on Facebook, Twitter or App.net. Your users get to request a code without trying multiple times only to find out that they've all been used.
Turns your Mac or PC into an AirPlay receiver. Not strictly a development tool as it is advertised for education, gaming, home entertainment and business, but I use it to make screen recordings of apps running on my iPhone and iPad. Great for making promotional videos for your app's website.
Recently updated from AppViz 2, the all new AppViz 3.0 is a Mac app for tracking sales, rankings, reviews, and ad data for your apps. The app is free to download and the new pricing model allows you to track one app for free, with very reasonable subscription rates if you need more.
Another useful treat from Dave Verwer, this site tracks the average App Store review times for both the iOS and the Mac App Store using data crowdsourced from iOS and Mac developers on Twitter using the #iosreviewtime and #macreviewtime hash tags. You can also follow the Twitter account for a daily tweet with the latest averages.
A free service that emails you your daily App Store reviews & features. You can track apps and publishers to view stats for any app in the Mac and iOS App Stores. You can view stats and reviews on the website and also get a customisable widget so you can display your App Store reviews on your website or Panic's Status Board app.
Promotee is a Mac app to create professional looking promotional artwork for iOS, Mac and Android apps. You can drop your app screenshots onto one of the many templates or add your own templates. Promotee is great for creating images for the App Store or your app website.
A really neat little Mac app that makes generating, sharing and tracking App Store promo codes really easy and convenient. It means you don't have to deal with iTunes Connect anymore for generating promo codes and it's makes it really simple for reviewers to redeem the codes as well.
A mac app for adding perfect status bars to your iOS App Store screenshots. Import screenshots from your iOS device and Status Magic will either overlay a clean status bar on top with options for all the icons and indicators or allow you to easily remove the status bar all together.
Tracks ranks for every app on the App Store. Without an account you can see the current ranks for every app. Signing up gets you access to historical data and ratings data. Providing access to your iTunes Connect account (creating a custom account with limited permissions is recommended) enables tracking of your apps' downloads and revenue.
Tracks sales, rankings, reviews, and ad data for your apps. You need to give them access to your iTunes Connect account, but this concern can largely be mitigated by creating an account with limited permissions. Sales tracking is free, although you'll have to manually sync reports. The other services require a subscription.