Sol: Sun Clock
Now at version 5.0, our chart-topping daylight forecaster and solar alarm clock will change the way you spend time outside.
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Sunset walk
My wife Christy and I were home yesterday evening after work when my Golden Hour alarm went off. I have Sol: Sun Clock remind me when the so-called Golden Hour starts each day. That way, I can go for an …
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Sol: Sun Clock — official trailer
Kudos to Josh Warren, co-designer of Sol:Sun Clock, for producing this excellent 60-second trailer introducing our new app for iPhone and iPad, now available in the App Store.
Sol: Sun Clock from jjnww on Vimeo.
I’m hoping …
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Tagged App Store, by Juggleware, clock, demos, iPad apps, iPhone Apps, Sol: Sun Clock, videos, weather
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Sol: Sun Clock is now available for iPad
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 …
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Tagged App Store, by Juggleware, clock, iPad, iPhone Apps, Sol: Sun Clock, weather
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Just Say No to Payola, or Why I’m Not Paying For a Good Review.
I have a strong distaste for even mild extortion, especially when it comes to the "free" press, and I for one won't be buying my app reviews.
Posted in iPhone Apps, iPhone Development, marketing, Sol: Sun Clock
Tagged advertising, ethics, extortion, iPhone Apps, marketing, reviews
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Why I made Sol: Sun Clock
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 …
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Tagged alarm, App Store, apple, by Juggleware, clock, dawn, dusk, equinox, iPad, iPhone Development, Sol: Sun Clock, solstice, sun, sunrise, sunset, timer, twilight, weather
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Drawing Text on an Arc in CocoaTouch
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 class for …
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Tagged apple, Core Text, iOS4, iPhone Development, Objective-C
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Psychic Summit: Aquarium 2 app approved
There’s been lots of App Store news here recently, but this one is extra special to us because Juggleware was so heavily involved in the design as well as the programming of this one (with Communal). It was a …
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Gaia Herbs app also in store (belated post)
Somehow, another client job that we completed this year and has been in the App Store since July didn’t make the Dev Blog, so I am going to try to correct that oversight now.
Juggleware was contracted to do the …
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MOPED app approved
Today we got an email from Rob Hudak, Interactive Creative Director at Zehnder Communications, that MOPED, an iPhone app on which we recently completed programming work, was accepted by Apple and is now in the App Store.
It …
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Climbing the (psychic) summit…
I’m putting the finishing touches on our latest app, which is being produced for HD audio/video outfit Psychic Summit.
All I can tell you now is: think Brian Eno’s iPhone apps, or the Buddha Machine……
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