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Category Archives: iPhone Development
Streaming Radio app approved
Fast on the heels of the last post, we are pleased to announce that Apple has approved Juggleware’s latest app, Radio Backporch Revolution.
Initially we received a rejection letter from the App Store review team, saying that the app …
Posted in App Store, iPhone Apps, Radio BPR
Tagged App Store, developer, iPhone Apps, iPhone Development, music, radio, rejected, streaming
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Apple v. Satire, part 17.
Pulitzer-prize winning satirist Mark Fiore had his app rejected by Apple because it “ridicules public figures.”
Regular readers will remember that Juggleware’s own app Freedom Time was actually the test case of this unwritten and up-til-then unknown policy, which had …
Posted in App Store, Freedom Time
Tagged App Store, apple, censor, defamatory, developer, Freedom Time, iPhone Apps, iPhone Development, parody, rejected, satire, steve jobs
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Juggleware app mentioned on NPR
NPR ran a story yesterday about Apple’s new iPad which just hit stores, but critics say that the “walled garden” approach (just like the iPhone) makes the Internet a less free place and could spell the end of the net …
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Tagged App Store, censor, Freedom Time, iPad, iPhone Apps, NPR, steve jobs
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Making annotations fit on a Map View.
After struggling with formulae that convert degrees longitude and latitude to meters, I found a much better way to get annotations to fit on a Map View, thanks to this site:
http://codisllc.com/blog/zoom-mkmapview-to-fit-annotations/…
Helpful Core Data debugging
Core Data is really great, but if your app crashes without warning it can be a major headache. Replacing the default error handling code with this more involved approach saved me hours of time debugging:
http://www.designcodeexecute.com/2009/08/28/iphone-sdk-coredata-debugging-error-1560-1570…
Can not use an object as parameter to a method (Obj-C errors, part 2)
This is an easy one to seasoned X-coders, but one that tripped me up a few times when I first got started.
BAD CODE:
-(void) makePhotoFromImage: (UIImage )image;
ERROR:
can not use an object as parameter to a method
TRANSLATION…
Objective C compiler errors: translations for newbs
I’m pretty new at Xcode and Objective C, so there may not be a one-to-one correspondence here between errors and the most probable cause, but this helps me so it may help you.
This will be a work in progress; …
There You Go Again, Apple: Reagan App Hits App Store
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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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 …
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 …