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Pocket Troll 1.0 Has Been Submitted to the App Store

We’ll let you know here when it’s approved. Thanks to Dave Rhoden for the hilarious animation, and to everyone who helped with the word and syntax selection.

For more info, go here: http://www.juggleware.com/iphone/pocket_troll/

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Right-wing Propaganda OK in App Store

So, it’s not acceptable to poke gentle fun at a politician, and it’s not acceptable to make an app that helps people promote health care reform.

But it is perfectly all right to make an app that spreads …

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Apple Takes a Stand, Resigns From Business Lobby

Kudos to Apple for resigning from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. I’ve been critical of Apple in this blog and I want to make sure I also give them the thumbs up when they do something right. Global warming is …

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Adobe Flash as iPhone development platform?

Apparently Adobe has developed a way to make iPhone apps with Flash—apparently without Apple’s consent or help. It will be interesting to see what Apple does with this; clearly they didn’t want Flash movies (SWF files) running in the …

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Apple rejects health care app for being “politically charged”

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.

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.

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

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

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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Next iPhone App almost done

At Juggleware, we specialize in making lemons (or a Ramos Gin Fizz) out of lemonade. Although our first app was rejected, denying us untold millions and a yacht in the Bahamas, it’s time to pull ourselves up by our …

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