iOS and Mac developer
I’m starting to work on enhancements for the next version of PicSlide. The major change is that it will now count the number of moves as well as the elapsed time.
I also plan to add a scoreboard and a way to share your best scores online, most likely with FaceBook Connect.
I’m joining Jonah Grant in a protest this weekend by raising the price of ICanHasCheezburger Pro & iDjembe to $10 and removing ICHC lite from sale until Monday.
You’re surfing through the App Store and come across an awesome app, and then you see the price tag, $.99. What do you think? Way too expensive? Should it be free? or are you willing to pay the price for a great piece of software?
This is the biggest problem in the App Store. People these days are so used to seeing a cool app and then downloading it for free and then they get used to it, not paying developer for their work. They don’t understand that these cool little things take time and money to make, yet they still don’t pay for these utterly cool products that people devote time and money to.
When I checked my app store stats for the first day, I noticed that the only PicSlide sales were from my blog & promo codes I gave out. On further investigation, I discovered that it suffered the same fate Craig Hockenberry described here: the release date was set to Sept. 24, which is the day I submitted it, rather than yesterday, when it was approved. As a result, it wasn’t listed as a new application.
I went into iTunes Connect and changed the availability date to tomorrow, which will probably cause it to disappear until then, and hopefully be listed as a new application. If you want it now, leave me a comment to get a promo code.
After more than a month, PicSlide has finally been approved. You can download it here.
WordPress for iPhone 2 is now available in the app store! Although it’s free, it’s a separate application, not an update to the original WordPress app, so you’ll have to download it from the app store.
The user interface has been redesigned and it’s really beautiful. A set of tabs makes it easy to switch between managing comments, posts, and pages. The comment screen now shows Gravatars and author URLs.
Overall, the application feels a lot more polished and more pleasant to use than WordPress for iPhone 1.x.
Today I received the following press release:
Venice, Italy, 26 October 2009. MobFarm announces availability in few days of PUSH my Fart on Apple App Store.
PUSH my Fart is a revolutionary joke application for iPhone and iPod touch. Using Apple Push Notifications you can let fart your friends devices from anywhere in the world. It’s priced 0.99$ (Tier 1) and will be available in few days worldwide.
PUSH my Fart uses the latest sdk api to share contacts with friends like Bluetooth, e-mail and obviously Push Notifications, it integrates with Facebook for unique user experience.
Here a PUSH my Fart brief description.
Fart on your friends wherever they are, whenever you like with PUSH my Fart!
Make their iPhone or iPod touch ring with a loud, rolling fart when they are enjoying a beer at the pub or while in a staff meeting!
Or just at the bus stop or even in the elevator!
Thanks to the most advanced technologies, Apple’s Push Notification Service and Facebook integration, PUSH my Fart allows you to make jokes with extreme simplicity, but surefire success.
Just select you friend, choose the fart and… FART!
Features:
– Make your friends fart with just a tap!
– Choose between 30 different high quality farts to send or play directly on your device.
– Add friends with Bluetooth or trade contacts through E-mail
– Find even more friends from around the world with Facebook Connect
– Send farts thanks to Apple’s Push Notification Service
– Send farts from the Web through Facebook on http://apps.pushmyfart.com/pushmyfart/
Become a fan of PUSH my Fart on Facebook and help spread this amazing application, or just find more unwitting victims of your jokes!
Visit http://pushmyfart.com for ideas and jokes to play on your friends, you’ll find amusing videos and nice gags.
Notice:
Sending and receiving Farts, and Facebook Connect, requires Internet connection.
Bluetooth doesn’t work with iPhone 2G and iPod touch 1G.
PUSH my Fart is localized in English, Spain and Italian with many languages coming soon.
PUSH my Fart will be available on App Store
PUSH my Fart has a dedicated Website http://pushmyfart.com
There’s a support e-mail support@pushmyfart.com
PUSH my Fart is also a Facebook application with the ability to send farts to your friends’ devices directly from the web.
It’s now exactly one month since I submitted PicSlide and it still hasn’t been approved. I haven’t heard anything at all from Apple in 2 weeks now.
Apple just sent the following email to iPhone developers:
In the future, perhaps I can use that to upgrade the free version of ICHC to Pro features instead of requiring a separate purchase, although I can see some logistical problems with it. In order to allow current paid users to receive updates, I’d still have to support both versions. I don’t want to require them to purchase 2.0 again when I release it.
Updates are now available for both free & paid versions of I Can Has Cheezburger, version 1.5.3. There are no new features or visible changes – it simply fixes a crash several people were experiencing related to FAILblog.
I just got a rejection letter from Apple for PicSlide, not for the application itself, but for the keywords I used.
Thank you for submitting PicSlide 1.0 to the App Store. We’ve reviewed PicSlide 1.0 and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store at this time because of inappropriate ‘Keywords’ used to identify your application. We cannot post applications that contain terms, product names, brand names, or entities that are registered trademarks in their search criteria. It would be appropriate to remove [redacted] and [redacted].
Please visit iTunes Connect, Manage Applications to remove the inappropriate ‘Keywords’, and resubmit your binary for review.
Note: Keyword terms must be related to your application content and cannot contain offensive terms. It is not appropriate to reference other applications. Keywords can be single words or phrases; keep in mind the text field is limited to 100 characters. All Keywords must be separated by commas otherwise the system will see it as one keyword.
It’s actually a good thing, because it let me change the secondary category to photography, which I had wanted to do.