Monthly Archives: September 2009

Apple rejects health care app for being “politically charged”

Posted on September 30, 2009 by alec

Even more shame-worthy behavior from Apple. I thought it was being mean to politicians that Apple didn’t like—apparently now, it’s being “politically charged?” What the hell are Apple’s standards here? Whoops, I just said “hell,” which in the iPhone’s Disney-like …

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Polishing new iPhone app with spittle.

Posted on September 29, 2009 by alec

So close, just waiting on a little animation from a certain animator. Here is a hint, if you don’t already know.…

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Snow Leopard: some warnings.

Posted on September 28, 2009 by alec

After all the hype and excitement about Mac OS X 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”), I am not sure if I am seeing any benefits and have had two immediate problems after upgrading:

1) my TIme Machine backups stopped working. I am …

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Freedom Time “more important” rejection than Google Voice

Posted on September 21, 2009 by alec

Jason Grigsby wrote an excellent article on Cloud Four about the significance of Apple’s rejection of Freedom Time that anyone who is interested in Apple’s App Store policies, or corporations and censorship should take a look at.

Thanks Jason, I …

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mySQL to SQLite cheatsheet for iPhone developers

Posted on September 2, 2009 by alec

Although I started writing this as a cheat-sheet for myself (after many hours of struggling with this by trial-and-error), I figured it would be helpful for other iPhone developers who’d like to take a mySQL database online and migrate it …

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