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Koombea is a full service design and development shop that specializes in making web and mobile apps. For the past 4 years, we’ve been using agile methodologies to build lean startups. Recently, we’ve taken our same process to public companies to keep them fast and efficient. We’re on the hunt for great new clients looking to build amazing products.

Over the past 18 months we’ve seen our clients raise a combined $50M+ in early stage funding. We’ve seen an even larger figure in acquisitions. Right now, we’re working with some amazing companies in elite tech incubators such as Y Combinator, TechStars and AngelPad, just to name a few.

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The guys who made this video were rumored to have been canned for it.

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Woot?

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Vlad Savov at the Verge, on the new Apple Store iPhone App:

It allows you to scan the barcode on “select accessories” into your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S and then pay right inside the app, walking out of the physical Store without having to ever trouble a sales assistant. The Personal Pickup option is rather more self-explanatory, as it allows you to order up an item via the app and pick it up at your designated Apple Store, typically within an hour of placing the order.

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I joined the guys from the FatDads podcast for episode 42, in which we discussed the iPhone 4S, cell phone carriers in Canada and my new house.

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New in the knowledge base:

Apple may provide customers a replacement adapter if the power adapter shows signs of strain relief.

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Ben Brooks:

The MacBook Air and the Mac Pro are polar opposites: one a marvel of engineering — the other a marvel of brute strength.

I don’t think the Mac Pro is going anywhere, but I also don’t think it is something that Jony Ive’s team has spent much time thinking about.

While I agree that the Air and Pro are opposites in many ways, I think that they are both marvels of engineering.

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I got bored this afternoon, so I made this:

Click on the image for the full-resolution version. It’s Retina Display-ready.

Update: Here’s an iPad version and one for use “inside” your iPhone, which works way better if you don’t fill up the bottom row.

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Editor’s Note: This post is written by my buddy Myke Hurley.

Oh, Hello there! Yeah, I’m over here on this tiny island that’s considered a world superpower, with a pretty big economy and trade presence. Yep, that’s the UK, baby! But for some reason we quite frequently get ignored.

My current state of annoyance stems from the fact that I am unable to submit a project to Kickstarter for funding, as I am not a US resident and nor do I have a US bank account.

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The Big G:

In life we connect with all kinds of people, places and things. There’s friends and family, of course, but there’s also the sports teams we root for, the coffee shops we’re loyal to, and the TV shows we can’t stop watching (to name a few).

So far Google+ has focused on connecting people with other people. But we want to make sure you can build relationships with all the things you care about — from local businesses to global brands — so today we’re rolling out Google+ Pages worldwide.

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Neil Hughes at AppleInsider:

Chris Whitmore with Deutsche Bank issued a note to investors on Monday in which he revealed that a poll of about 30 retail stores revealed Apple is experiencing daily stock-outs of the iPhone 4S at most of them. He said that between 85 percent and 90 percent of stores polled continue to run out of inventory.

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If I were to go back to Android today, this is the phone I would buy. However, as Nilay Patel points out, there’s a problem:

Lastly, we should note that all of these tweaks and extensions to Android mean that the RAZR won’t get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich until sometime next year. That’s hard to take, especially since we’re expecting Verizon will launch the Galaxy Nexus with 4.0 in the next few weeks. And even when the RAZR does get ICS, you’ll forever be stuck with those four capacitive buttons at the bottom of the screen as Google moves Android away from them entirely. Yes, ICS will work with them, but they’re not at the cutting edge of the platform. It may or may not matter to you, but it’s definitely something to consider.

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