Author Archives: alec

Apple: Only “professional” satirists can make fun.

Posted on September 9, 2010 by alec

Well the Freedom Time controversy has long passed from my mind, except when some other story pops up that reminds me.

Today I had the chance to read Apple’s new App Store Approval Guidelines (registered developers can read them here…

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Radio Backporch Revolution updated to v2.1

Posted on August 12, 2010 by alec

The streaming radio iPhone app we developed for New Orleans musicians’ collective Backporch Revolution has been updated to 2.1.

Features:

  • Better caching resulting in fewer sound drop-outs
  • Auto-reconnect on temporarily dropped connection
  • Compatibility with devices running legacy OS 3.x
  • Animated
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How to get the Return key to dismiss a UITextView

Posted on July 15, 2010 by alec

Need to dismiss they keyboard in a UITextView? Changing the Return key to read “Done” doesn’t make the iPhone keyboard to go away.  Put this code in the delegate for your UITextView and your return key can behave more like …

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Radio BPR v2 update submitted to app store

Posted on July 14, 2010 by alec
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plist > JSON > XML

Posted on July 12, 2010 by alec

Having developed 4 or 5 iPhone apps now that download remote XML data from servers and populate tables view and other content, I can tell you without reservation that it is the slowest way to go.

Performance using JSON is …

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How To Place a UIWebView inside a UIScrollView

Posted on July 9, 2010 by alec

To display several pieces of content on a screen, I needed several views. A scroll view (UIScrollView) was necessary to encompass the headline, photo and story text; I had the headline and photo at the top in a …

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Xcode installation woes.

Posted on July 3, 2010 by alec

iPhone developers: if you install Xcode 3.2.3 to start developing iOS4 apps you may be surprised to find that all prior SDKs and Simulators before 4.0 for iPhone (and 3.2 for iPad) get removed. Trying to build using an older …

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There You Go Again, Apple: Reagan App Hits App Store

Posted on December 5, 2009 by alec

As you all know by now,, Apple banned our Bush countdown timer for being political: lightly satirizing an almost universally despised leader was in the word of Steve Jobs, potentially offensive to half his customers. That smacked of censorship to …

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Dump mySQL database design into OmniGraffle

Posted on November 9, 2009 by alec

Check out this blog entry on Designweenie if you are a Mac user that uses OmniGraffle to design mySQL databases.

One important note: you will need to run AppleScript Editor in 32-bit mode if you are using Snow Leopard (Mac …

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Pocket Troll 1.0 now in the App Store: free for one week!

Posted on October 22, 2009 by alec

If you didn’t catch it already, our latest iPhone app, Pocket Troll, is now available in the App Store. And we’re making it free for one week.

App Store link

More on Pocket Troll: juggleware.com

For developers who are keeping …

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