The iPhone has been somewhat of an interest to me for some time, i often read stories about developers getting millions of downloads and making big bucks. So in February i decided i wanted to learn something new, this is what i've learnt.

You read about developers making big money from iPhone apps but to people on the outside it seems very unbelievable that someone can make a living from just one iPhone app, i know i did, but after giving it a go for a few months my views have changed, massively.

In March 2010 i received an email from V Festival who didn't want me to carry on development of an iPhone app i had been working on, in these emails legal action was mentioned in an effort to scare me, this is my story.

I personally don't think it is an unfair assumption to believe that most big corporations use questionable methods to make the little people, who threaten their profits, go away. Methods that i'm sure everyone back in reality would see as bullying, a way of throwing around their "big boy" name to make you stop what you're doing.

You would have to do something rather special to get yourself into a position where a big company would want to stop you from doing something they thought could damage them financially, something quite sizeable to even be noticed by these people.

Apparently i've managed to get myself into a real pickle of a situation with Virgin Media because of an iPhone app i created called iFestApp something that, at the time, seemed innocent enough but apparently threatened a few pennies in V Festivals pocket.

So let me tell a little story about a nice young developer who just wanted to share his love for a music festival with like-minded people through the "geeky" means of iPhone App Development.

Well the V Festival 2010 lineup has been started off, Virgin Media have announced the first set of bands destined to play the awesome festival in summer 2010 including the headlining bands.

The bands so far are…

Virgin Media Stage

Hyland Saturday/Weston Sunday

• Kings Of Leon
• Stereophonics
• Paul Weller
• Editors
• The Courteeners
• Passion Pit

Weston Saturday/Hyland Sunday

• Kasabian
• Faithless
• The Kooks
• Paolo Nutini
• Madness
• Skunk Anansie
• Pixie Lott

I thought it would be super-chill of me to go ahead and just make some straight-up educated guesses to who will be playing V Festival 2010 at Weston Park and Highland Park. That way when the time comes (March) and the bands are announced i can look like some sort of mystic type, like mystic meg.

Possible Headliners

So i have a few guesses to who will be headlining V festival in 2010 so i thought i would just explain them a little better, i may not agree with them, but it's a guess not an opinion.

Muse

They have luckily had one of the most over-rated albums of 2009 and there new material is of questionable awesomeness.

Kasabian

They had a major release last year and were not luckily enough to get invited to V Festival so my guess is this year they may pull it out of the bag.

Kings Of Leon

They had a great year last year with songs like "Use Somebody" and "Sex On Fire" and both songs were lucky enough to be played constantly on the radio and then when they appeared to be going away they were reinserted into the UK charts again.

I'm sure you will agree the bands are much headliner material, i could name 3 bands i would love to headline but like i say, i'm using my education to guess and not my opinions.

I'm not dead, just haven't posted anything for a while because, well, i've had nothing to say. However i thought i needed to post about something that was brought to my attention last week regarding TunesPro, apparently the service is not as legal as i thought it first was.

I have contacted the marketing people who sent me the e-mail regarding TunesPro and after a few e-mails to check the legality of the service i stopped getting a reply. After this and other evidence i found on other websites i have come to my own conclusion that the service isn't legal.

This theory is backed up with other evidence i have found online that suggests TunesPro does not pay royalties to the record labels, which explains how charging 19 cent a song is doable.

So i think from this evidence it is fair to say that buying anything from TunesPro is as good as piracy, if not worse because you are paying to steal. If you really like the music that much, support the artists by buying from iTunes or streaming for free on We7.

Anyone who has purchased from TunesPro as a result of my article i can only apologies.

As many of you may see i like to write about music on this website, without music the world would be pretty boring and i love to share my musical taste with random members of the public, kind of like how i stand on street corners shouting band names and songs at passing cars.

In this post i'm going to review a website which is quite new to me called TunesPro, it's like iTunes but much cheaper, in fact much much cheaper, like more than 50% cheaper than iTunes, it may as well be free it's just that cheap.

So TunesPro sell music through their website, the music you download is 100% DRM free which means you can put it on your iPod, Zune (Pfft) or other MP3 player and it will work a treat. The site has over 5.5 million tracks to download from all of your favourite artists from past and present.

I wouldn't say i was the only person on the internet who has a problem and tweets about it in the hope that venting the anger will speed up the resolution, it never does. This type of action is something i find interesting because lately tweeting about your problems can help resolve them quickly.

This article is about how Twitter can be the tool that saves your brand as a company, it is also an article about how Twitter can help you solve problems faster, and lastly it's a post about the damage Twitter can have on your brand.

The inspiration for this article comes from my experience with companies on Twitter and personally the majority of companies i have had contact with have been very helpful and their help has restored hope in their brand, for others it has not been quite a picnic.

I was introduced to we7 earlier this year and has since become one of my frequently visited websites because it offers free streaming music from its website with no need for additional software.

Since using we7 I have seen little change in the way of features and some of the features we7 doesn't have annoys me a little, however it is a great service so who could stay mad for long.

we7 is very similar to Spotify in that it offers free streaming music supported by advertisements, the difference is that we7 works through your browser and Spotify requires a download in order to work, this is why we7 is better because you can be anywhere and listen to your music, including work or college.

With over 1 million tracks to stream for free including some unreleased albums we7 is massive and just last week we7 was the most visited music website on the internet according to official statistics of internet usage, a rather big milestone for legal free streaming websites.

I thought it would be a great idea to post some of my ideas for improving we7 in the hope that someone over at we7 would see the post and hopefully work on some of the features, features that i think would really improve the service for everyone.

Recently i made a post about the features that Apple could implement into the next iTunes to make listening and purchasing music a more social experience. I talked about social networking features and public features that would allow your music tastes to be shared with the world or just your friends, i did not however talk about iTunes features that would affect you in the physical world.

In this article i will discuss some features that i believe would make iTunes a more enjoyable feature in a real world social environment. Once again this are only a suggestion and ideas and are not features that have in anyway been rumoured or created already.

iTunes is a massive product and has millions of users and the iTunes experience is quite enjoyable for home users, but once you leave the home you leave behind your library and your taste in music. So if you go out to a bar, club, party or restaurant you listen to what the DJ wants to play, which is not always what you enjoy.

In this post i discuss the new Google product Wave and share some ideas for how i think Google Wave will change the internet as we know it.

Google is clearly the king of the internet and i think it is safe to say that no matter where you go online you cannot hide from the empire of Google. They have their fingers so many pies like statistics, blogs, advertising, publishing and then they have a full hand in the search pie.

As Google have grown by sticking their fingers in more and more pies they are trying new things and most notably lately is their move into the conversation tool, called Google Wave.

When iTunes 8.0 was released last year (September 2008) i wrote a blog post about the future of iTunes and how iTunes would incorporate social networking features into its software to help people discover new music which would inevitably increase iTunes sales.

Since then iTunes 9.0 has been released and it didn't really implement anything new into the software, the software is still the same old iTunes with a nicer interface and couple of new features and i honestly don't believe these small changes deserve a full new version release, instead it should have been called iTunes 8.5 at the most.

Recently Lily Allen made a splash in the online media when she started a blog where she posted a letter regarding music piracy and how it affected smaller artists, she then went on to post replies she got from other artists.

The letter raised some interesting points from the perspective of the artists which is a new perspective because normally you only hear from the ISPs and record labels. The main point the letter makes is that piracy is not alright (probably why the blog got its name) and it only damages the music industry making it hard for smaller artists to make it big.

With any blog successful blog it is all about finding your audience and keeping them on board, however one problem a lot of blogs have is that the audience simply doesn't find them.

This is a problem i have had previously with this blog and it is what forced me into taking serious action to increase the readability of my posts, the feedback and lastly increase traffic to the blog.

Incase you didn't know already i'm a web designer (and developer) and something all web designers come across at least once during the design of a website is cross-browser compatibility and i'm sure you can ask any website designer what they think of IE6 (Internet Explorer 6 - keep up with the acronyms) and they would throw so many obscenities at you that you would most likely cry.

It's no lie that web designers hates Internet Explorer especially Internet Explorer 6, simply because it has trouble rendering the simplest of things and when it does it normally renders them incorrectly. Below is my breakdown of common problems i face with the 3 versions of IE.

I recently wrote a forum post on the ekmCommunity forum, a forum for ekmPowershop customers, about the positives of Twitter in the e-commerce sector, a post which was inspired by a blog post i drafted about 4 months ago. The post is on a private forum which means it benefits no one other than the people inside that group, so i have decided to rewrite the blog post and adapt it to my new Twitter findings here.

This post is about how you can utilise a fast growing community of internet users to hopefully increase your businesses profit. This is based around my research and knowledge of Twitter and obviously ecommerce and will hopefully provide information to help ecommerce website owners drive traffic to their site and increase sales.