Category Archives: iPhone Development

Topics of interest to the iPhone developer community.

The Last 10 Reviews of Sol: Sun Clock.

As an independent software dev, it’s easy to feel like a small ship adrift in a vast ocean. In the mobile app world since the iPhone was launched, this quickly developed from being a vast, exciting new frontier where any …

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Sol: Sun Clock 2.0 for iPhone 5 and iPad hits the App Store {press release}

Sol: Sun Clock 2.0 for iPhone 5 and iPad hits the App Store

Sunlight tracking tool and alarm clock by Juggleware appeals to photographers, travelers, scientists, and more

NEW ORLEANS, August 7, 2013 – Chicken farmers, wedding planners, biologists, sleep

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Sol: Sun Clock 2.0 — it’s Alive!

Yep, it’s on the App Store… Update or download now.…

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Sol: Sun Clock 2.0 has been submitted to the App Store; current version now 1/2 off.

We are pleased to announce that the new version Sol: Sun Clock has been submitted to the App Store. To celebrate, we are making the current version half-off for 2 days.

A lot of work was put into Sol:

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What’s Going On? Conqueror for iOS and more…

For those of you wondering what we’ve been up to as of late, I’ve got a lot of interesting news. We finished up a couple big projects for clients in the beginning of the year, and with that behind us, …

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CoreTextArcView for iOS now on GitHub

Well, I’ve been using git for about a year now, so I was overdue to put something on GitHub.

By popular demand (well 2 people on StackOverflow asked for it anyway), I am putting on GitHub my adaptation of the

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Marketing’s a Bitch: Lessons from the App Store

After months of obscurity, Sol: Sun Clock rose to #11 on the Weather charts the night of the solstice, and the next morning, when Apps Gone Free went live, it quickly rose to #2. Downloads went from around 10 a day (paid) to the peak of 21,042 in one day. That is an increase of over 2000%! Over a period of three days, Sol topped 30K downloads.
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UIColor-expanded

Here’s some handy code to extend UIColor, based largely on code by Erica Sadun, but with a couple of fixes and handy (to me) additions. Let me know if this is useful……

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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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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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