As Heritage App draws closer to being submitted to the App store I thought it time to give a brief update to where I am currently with development of other things.

Facelist is ceased from a development point of view, the downloads and documentation will continue to be found on this web site, but I shall no longer be actively supporting the project.

Expanse CMS is always going to be an ongoing project for me, it is my CMS of choice, and is going from strength to strength, a recent inclusion of a tumblr style flume feed module has been built, which you will soon be able to see on this site. Development time will be going into making a mobile version of the app, most probably using Sencha technology.

Floorfillers.fm still only a brain child, I am still actively looking for developers who share the same vision, if your interested in finding out more, please contact me. 

This site is currently having an overhaul in the background, to be ready in time for dConstruct which I shall be attending this year, along with my business cards. See you there.

Varied Media and Varied Ads are still in development, you can see some of the ads on my sites, there has been some improvements recently, watch this space for more ways of getting involved.

I am just building the associative website for Heritage App now, before I submit the app to the store, logo has been completed with the criticism of Dribbble followers, Once the site is completed, ill direct everyones attention to the url, and divert my energy on updating the web view for the properties, which may take me longer than expected, but we shall see. The App will hopefully be the fastest of its type, with minimal web look ups, it maps heritage locations across England, and in later updates Scotland and Wales too. It will be in the App store for free soon.

With the announcement of Google’s latest version of their popular Chrome browser with built in flash, Google decided to offer a simple flash video powered game, where the viewer watches a ball travel along various obstacles, and you interact by helping the ball along its way by answering simple questions related to Googles primary business, fast searching, live twitter results, and translation.

If you have come here expecting a cheat to get the fastest time on Chrome Fastball, then sorry, your not going to get any. I beat you with my score, and i’m not going to help you beat me.

You can play for yourself at You Tube ChromeFastball. Enjoy, and good luck

Dribbble is show and tell for designers, developers and other creatives. Share sneak peeks of your work as “shots” — small screenshots of the designs and applications you’re working on.

Dribbble works on an invite only basis, it helps to be recognised as an influential web designer. Few people know that I have recently redesigned the National Express website to conform to their brand guidelines. I designed the website for Craig Walford Estate Agents, who offer an honest ground breaking service when selling and buying homes in Rugby. I have recently completed websites for a local company who have started to go global; Challs with a number of mini sites within its frame, as well as their self funded charity National Plughole Week and this years mini site promoting it all Bottle for Change in association with Oxfam. 

I would actually love to be a part of Dribbble, despite my previous blog posts, I want to be recognised for the work I do by my peers and those I follow, I want to show off my work to a heavy user base of quality designers. 

But I saw an open market for Dribbble, an iPhone implementation. The site as is, is a little difficult to navigate when viewing on Safari Mobile. So picking up the RSS feed for Everyones shots, I built an iPhone web app for Dribbble called Drool. Check it out. 

And if you should have an invite, send it on over to me! Contact me on twitter @iantearle.

A brand new app and a brand new service hit both the Apple App Store and the consumer market today. Square will change the way individuals and businesses accept payment for goods and services forever.

Imagine taking credit/debit card payments anywhere. On the streets, at events, in shops, at the burger bar (The square advert on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBieYjxUj5Q portrays this perfectly). 

This is not just an Apple gizmo. Square works with anything any device with an audio input jack, including your mobile phone. Obviously Square have added some great iPhone and iPad apps to the App Store, but they even made one for Android too, so which ever device you prefer, they have you sorted. I am sure they will be developing even more applications to run this on, I personally would like to see a desktop/laptop application. 

Square is affordable too. With payment process charges similar to that of PayPal at 2.75% + 15¢ and no contract, setup fees, monthly minimums, just pay per transaction, bargain. This gadget and service will change the way small business owners run their shops and restaurants. Check out Square’s website for more details.

The only downside to Square at the moment. It is not available in the UK currently. But if you are in the US and you have used this product, I want to hear from you.

It doesn’t matter who you are going to vote this year, as long as you vote. I have heard so many times in the last four weeks; "I don’t need to vote, it never makes a difference anyway". To those who are saying this, you are wrong. Your vote does make a difference. No matter who’s policies you do or do not agree with, make a decision, lets see some sort of change in this country, its time to make a difference.

I am going to be voting the Conservatives party this year. I agree with 95% of their policies, and they are seemingly the best option to get some change in this country, whilst I agree whole heartedly with UKIP, I do not think they will make a big enough hole in the top three parties voting figures in order to make a big enough difference to the outcome. And I certainly do not want Gordon Brown and Labour to be in for another term, especially as Gordon didn’t even get voted in the last time the space became available.

So role on David Cameron, and make a real change for this country. Lets see Labour step aside and allow this country to get back to some sort of order. 13 years of uncertainty and unnecessary poor decisions about where the British people should be taken has taken its toll for far too long.

But essentially I ask you all, to get to the Polling Station and have your say.

Things have been very busy over the past few weeks, therefore there has been no real updates from this part of the web for a while. But I thought I would start back by showing you one of the websites I have been working on.

National Plughole Week helps raise awareness and money for children and families in Africa who cannot get a clean supply of water. They, with help from Oxfam provide valuable water filtration buckets to the many families who have no access to safe drinking water, without such 5000 children die every day.

I designed two sites for the awareness week, which officially starts 10th-17th July 2010. The first National Plughole Week which helps promote the week, provides information about who is behind the week and the history. And the site that promotes the theme this year, a mini site if you like Bottle for Change.

I would love to hear if you are supporting the week, or if the bottles of water have made it to where you are in the UK? Answers in the comments.

Ok, so probably a little slow on the uptake here, but wanted to document this to remind myself and let anyone else know how to send emails from Apple Mail with image attachments that do not embed themselves into the content when viewing on Windows mail clients.

Like I said, I am slow on this one, and am sure many Apple users have already done this or know of it. But to be able to send images as attachments to Windows mail clients you simply have to make sure that;

1. Always send Windows friendly Attachments is ticked
2. Always insert Attachments at end of message is ticked

You can find these two options under Edit->Attachments->
Hope it helps at least someone out there. 

Apologies for the short blog.