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Building Apps, Saving Lives: How One Aussie Developer Gave Parents Peace Of Mind

Gizmodo’s Developers Cubed series offers a behind the scenes look into Australia’s up and coming dev scene. This week: Peter Watson shares with us the story of how he created an app that gives parents of young drivers peace of mind and eyes in the back of their head.


Developers Cubed: Unlocking The eVault

Gizmodo’s Developers Cubed series offers a behind the scenes look into Australia’s up and coming dev scene. This week: Ron Voon from Rocket Innovation Group explains how he shifted into app development after spotting an all-too-rare gap in the market.


Developers Cubed: This Is How Thorsten Heins Now Pays His Bar Tab

Gizmodo’s Developers Cubed series offers a behind the scenes look into Australia’s up and coming dev scene. This week: Greg Taylor from Clipp explains how paying bar tabs can get a lot easier with the right app.


Developers Cubed: 99 Problems And Your App Should Solve One

Gizmodo’s Developers Cubed series offers a behind the scenes look into Australia’s up and coming dev scene. This week: we chat to James Dumay who advocates building simple apps to solve simple problems for users.


Developers Cubed: Hack Your Relationship With WeSync

Gizmodo’s Developers Cubed series offers a behind the scenes look into Australia’s up and coming dev scene. This week: we talk to the developer of a new relationships app released just in time for Valentine’s Day that helps couples work on their relationship. Inside he gives us great advice about the next big thing, turns out that it doesn’t have to be for everyone to be a success.


How Gotye Made His Grammy Award-Winning Album: In A Barn In Victoria

Aussie music sensation, Gotye, yesterday picked up three Grammy awards for his awesome tunes, including one for his chart-topping hit, Somebody That I Used To Know. That you already know, but I bet you didn’t know that Gotye got his start in his parent’s barn, tinkering with synths, old tape recording equipment and some of the weirder sounds known to music to record his album Making Mirrors. This is Gotye’s musical journey.


The ABC Wants A Game Designer For A ‘Major New Initiative’ This Year

Mention “Ultimo” and “video games” together and your first thoughts go immediately to Team Bondi, the now-defunct developer behind 2011′s LA Noire. But that’s the past. In the present, we’re associating them with the ABC and the game designer role it’s looking to fill. The ABC? Making games? Interesting indeed.


Inside The Warmest 100: How These Guys Predicted Australia’s Biggest Music Countdown

Every year on Australia Day, it is a cultural tradition that folks from around the nation gather around their barbecues, eskies and pools to listen to the Triple J Hottest 100 countdown. Voted by the listeners, the Hottest 100 is the premier music countdown in the country, and when Triple J added social sharing features for voters to share their picks, four guys figured out they could track the countdown. This is how x guys went from being ordinary developers to the Nate Silvers of Australian music, picking 92 out of the 100 tracks.


The Couple That Codes Together Stays Together

Meet Matchmaker Millie: the brain child of married couple Chen-Po Sun and Ee-Leng Chang and their indie dev label, Games for Gummie. They went into the app business together and this week, Developers Cubed investigates if their relationship helps or hurts their endeavours.


Developers Cubed: How To Fight App Rejection

What happens when your precious app, the one you’ve been slaving over, gets rejected by the market you’re trying to list it on? We spoke to developer Dan Nolan about how he fought rejection and won, topping the iTunes App Store charts in less than 24 hours.


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