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Is it really that time of year again…?

With projects as varied as the contents of Santa’s sack, 2009 has been a very productive year.

This year Whodeani has managed to somewhat live out his dream of becoming a rock star with his first commercial musical release in around 15 years titled ‘Tweet Me’.

Dean has re-discovered his passion for music so in 2010 expect to see some more Whodeani tunes come to life including a 2nd single due for release February/March 2010 and 'hopefully' an album which he has half written and expects to complete over the Festive Break.

On the movie front, the film Dean is producing and co-writing has made some steady progress this year. With completion of the story due early 2010, fingers crossed the movie will shoot mid next year for a late 2010 release.

In other Whodeani news the printed version of the Better Sports Pocket Golf Guides was released to retail late in the year so you may notice them popping up on the counter tops of Golf Clubs and various stockist around Australia. The iTunes version of the guide is also quite popular and if you haven't downloaded it as yet, head over to iTunes now, it's available for free (http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/golf-guide/id305594968).

The Marketing e-Book, written by Dean along with co-writers Richard Mataska and Tim Giles, is nearing completion and will be available 2010.

On the corporate front, yesterday it was announced on the Australian Stock Exchange that agreement had been reached to recapatilise The Swish Group (ASX:SWG) and that Dean is as of now the companies new Managing Director. Damian London, a long standing partner in many of Dean's ventures, also joined the board of the company.

Lastly, Dean has recently invested in a stealth start-up company by the name of HotShot Media based out of the US. We could tell you what it's about... but it wouldn't be stealth then would it. Watch this space in the New Year.

For Whodeani in 2010 there will never be a dull moment. The New Year is shaping up to be a biggie creatively, personally and corporately.

Merry Christmas and we say cheers to much success, good times and great health for you all in 2010.

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Late last year over a few beers with friends I decided I would enter the iPhone App market, that is to develop 1 or more mobile phone based applications to sell on the booming Apple iTunes store.
 
A few more beers later and I had come up with more than 10 applications that I would at the very least like to further develop conceptually, with a view to then building out... then commercialising the better ones.
 
I decided that the first app should be relatively straightforward to develop yet contain content that users would find valuable enough to want to 'buy'.
 
Some time ago I developed with my father a compact guide to the Rules of Golf in printed form (see below) that I believed would both work 'now' as a printed guide and an iPhone application.

To convert (and update) this guide to work on the iPhone would be a relatively straightforward exercise from a development point of view 'and' a great way as it turned out to learn the ins and outs (and there are many) of developing and submitting an iPhone application for sale in the Apple iTunes store.
 
Aside from developing the application itself we had to contend with Apple's terms of service, what pricing 'tier' the application should reside in for the various regions it would be sold in, how we would manage support (including being required to provide a separate support page within the applications website)
 
On the development side my father and I decided to hand the projects conversion from content to a working iPhone application to a family friend in the space... Paul Wilson.
 
He runs a web development business in Melbourne (you can visit his site here... http://www.sct.com.au) and despite this being his first iPhone application, I reckon he has done an amazing job... not just on the application itself but also in managing for us the process of working the application through Apple's approval process. No mean feat as anyone whom has developed an iPhone App will tell you.
 
The iPhone application was recently completed and uploaded to Apple's iTunes Store.
 
If you are interested in Golf and would like to have the most commonly used rules of Golf handy on your iPhone, then you can purchase the 'Better Sports Pocket Guide to the Rules of Golf' iPhone app for $1.19 AUD or $.99 USD (is also available in other regions for a similar price converted to 'that' regions local currency.)
 
Simply visit the iTunes store directly http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=305594968&mt=8

... or you can visit the 'Better Sports' website here...
 
http://www.bettersports.com.au

... and click on the iPhone link to take you to the iTunes store.
 
Once downloaded, the app will look as per the following image.

If you like the Golf Guide app once downloaded, please post a positive review. Much appreciated.

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