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		<title>Laying out your App</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you use LocalBeacon, you&#8217;re able to design your home screen layout anyway you like. A common question is how much space do I have. We&#8217;ll cover each screen type in this short post. iPhone The iPhone&#8217;s screen resolution is 320px wide and 480px tall when held in portrait mode. The tab bar takes up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-Learning on the iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The tablet form factor, and specifically the iPad, have made a huge impact in people&#8217;s day to day lives. The iPad is a great tool for delivering content, and is especially suited for many different types of e-learning. Recently, LocalBeacon was used by a large medical device company to deliver e-learning content to physicians that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bigforge.com/e-learning-on-the-ipad/</link>
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		<title>Mobile Commerce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We get quite a few inquiries about building apps for both small and large retailers and e-businesses. Often, they are stuck in the mindset of &#8220;Let&#8217;s put our catalog in an app!&#8221;. Well, that&#8217;s fine, and you can certainly do that, but if that&#8217;s all you want to do, you&#8217;re not taking advantage of what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bigforge.com/mobile-commerce/</link>
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		<title>Sales and Marketing Apps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are your reps just using Powerpoint to sell your product? Consider what kind of marketing material you could put together if you could build a custom iPad or iPhone application for your salesforce. With LocalBeacon, you can quickly create rich applications cost effectively and with no programming. Using our platform, you can easily build the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bigforge.com/sales-and-marketing-apps/</link>
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		<title>Setting up Cloudfront with a Custom Origin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our CDN provider, SimpleCDN, looks to be going through some hard times (http://admin.simplecdn.com/), so we&#8217;ve had to move our content somewhere else. Immediately, I brought up a new EC2 instance and fired up Varnish to keep things running for now, but that&#8217;s hardly a CDN. Since the content that gets served is very dynamic, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bigforge.com/setting-up-cloudfront-with-a-custom-origin/</link>
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		<title>Push Notifications on LocalBeacon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re happy to announce that we now support Push Notifications on our custom applications. We&#8217;ve been working on a lot of features behind the scenes, including some cool tour guide and medical apps. We&#8217;ll be releasing more features soon. Let us know what you need, and we&#8217;ll add it to the list!]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bigforge.com/push-notifications-on-localbeacon/</link>
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		<title>SXSW Party Planner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re getting ready to launch our SXSW Party Planner. The app has been submitted to the app store, but since LocalBeacon doesn&#8217;t REALLY need to go through the App Store to be usable, why not try it out right now by visiting http://www.bigforge.com/sxsw/ If you have events that you want to publish in the app, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bigforge.com/sxsw-party-planner/</link>
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		<title>LocalBeacon 2.6 Released!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LocalBeacon 2.6 has been released. This version adds photo galleries and tons of minor bug fixes! UI Improvements too. Check it out. We&#8217;ll be working on push notification support next. Watch for it!]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bigforge.com/localbeacon-2-6-released/</link>
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		<title>64 bit fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I was recently given a hard time for having more content in my TOC than in the blog, I&#8217;ve decided to put this space to good use. I&#8217;ll be posting various short posts about things that I&#8217;ve run into and my workarounds. First one&#8230; I recently installed Snow Leopard. Since all of the web [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bigforge.com/64-bit-fun/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Integration And More</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Future functionality includes turning Facebook Fan Pages into iPhone app with one click and we're looking for newspaper partners that want to do more robust integration with our publishing platform.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bigforge.com/facebook-integration-and-more/</link>
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