Juggleware Developers' Blog http://www.juggleware.com/blog news and random thoughts from your friendly neighborhood independent developers at juggleware, llc Tue, 01 May 2012 22:26:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=397 Walkthru video for Sol: Sun Clock http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2012/05/walkthru-video-for-sol-sun-clock/ http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2012/05/walkthru-video-for-sol-sun-clock/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 21:14:18 +0000 alec http://www.juggleware.com/blog/?p=475

Sol (Sun Clock) Walkthru on Vimeo. It’s also available on YouTube.…

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Sol: Sun Clock from jjnww on Vimeo.

I’m hoping …

]]> http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2012/04/sol-sun-clock-official-trailer/feed/ 0 Sol: Sun Clock is now available for iPad http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2012/04/sol-sun-clock-is-now-available-for-ipad/ http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2012/04/sol-sun-clock-is-now-available-for-ipad/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:54:35 +0000 alec http://www.juggleware.com/blog/?p=454 The latest update to Sol: Sun Clock, the personal daylight utility and alarm clock for iPhone, now makes use of the new iPad’s hi-res screen.

As a developer, I was happy that 98% of Sol:Sun Clock’s codebase had to be …

]]> http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2012/04/sol-sun-clock-is-now-available-for-ipad/feed/ 0 Just Say No to Payola, or Why I’m Not Paying For a Good Review. http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2012/01/just-say-no-to-extortion-or-why-im-not-paying-for-a-good-review/ http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2012/01/just-say-no-to-extortion-or-why-im-not-paying-for-a-good-review/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:50:00 +0000 alec http://www.juggleware.com/blog/?p=446 Continue reading →]]> http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2012/01/just-say-no-to-extortion-or-why-im-not-paying-for-a-good-review/feed/ 5 Why I made Sol: Sun Clock http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2012/01/sol-sun-clock-for-iphone-now-in-app-store/ http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2012/01/sol-sun-clock-for-iphone-now-in-app-store/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:57:30 +0000 alec http://www.juggleware.com/blog/?p=406

We’ve been working on this one for months and I’m happy to announce that Sol: Sun Clock, our lastest iPhone app, is now available in Apple’s App Store.

It lets you look at the day’s sunlight times, quickly …

]]> http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2012/01/sol-sun-clock-for-iphone-now-in-app-store/feed/ 2 A Farewell to Steve Jobs http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2011/10/a-farewell-to-steve-jobs/ http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2011/10/a-farewell-to-steve-jobs/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:44:04 +0000 admin http://www.juggleware.com/blog/?p=389 When I heard that Steve Jobs was resigning from Apple, I suspected that he wasn’t long for this world. But I was still taken aback to see how quickly the end came. He worked pretty much up till the end, …

]]> http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2011/10/a-farewell-to-steve-jobs/feed/ 2 Drawing Text on an Arc in CocoaTouch http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2011/08/drawing-text-on-an-arc-in-cocoatouch/ http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2011/08/drawing-text-on-an-arc-in-cocoatouch/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:41:41 +0000 alec http://www.juggleware.com/blog/?p=381 CoreText is available now in iOS, but it’s not an easy framework to use. After trying several other approaches to draw text on an arc at this Stack Overflow page,  I adapted Apple’s sample code  CoreTextArcCocoa for Mac …

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The app uses a special chart-drawing library that we developed to display the (seemingly ever-increasing) price of gold, silver and other …

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