Erwan Macé – Passionate Geek

Whether you’ve just switched from an iPhone to an Android phone or own multiple devices, you may feel frustrated to own iPod and iPhone audio accessories (alarm clocks, audio docks, car stereo, etc…) which you can’t use with your brand new Android, Blackberry or Windows Phone 7 device. Although it doesn’t seem to work with every accessory (ex my Parrot Zikmu by Stark), here is a quick and illustrated step-by-step guide to make your own 30-pin iPod connector to audio jack and micro USB charger adapter. If a little bit of soldering doesn’t freak you out, you may continue reading… Read more…

Global mobile Internet usage is expected to overtake ‘desktop’ within the next 2 years and has already  been leading the race in regions such as South-East Asia. Although native mobile apps are still able to exploit more of the ‘lower level’ hardware and system API, modern mobile browsers such as Mobile Safari, the Android 4 browser or Chrome for Android are progressing very fast. The mobile web is technically ready for apps, living the ultimate “native vs web” choice to developers, business and end-users.

If you’re a developer interested in some best practices to design and build better mobile web apps, here is the presentation I recently gave a Buzzcity Developer Garage in Singapore.