Using Xcode-select and bash aliases
Here is how I have set up Xcode 4 and 5 on my Macs and how I switch between them.In my Applications folder, my main Xcode is always the latest. This makes for easy updates and is where Apple expects to...
View ArticleTest Device Tango
With the release of iPhone 5 and Apple dropping support for arm v6 (so, effectively dropping support for anything that won't run iOS 4.3) we have to shuffle some things around.The iPhone 3G and iPod...
View ArticleReferencing a UIViewController After Embedding
The UIStoryboard is a timesaver. However, as with everything else, there are always little tricks that befuddle us all. Today, I had a regular modal segue that went from one UIViewController to a...
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Setting Up a Folder Action
The Automator application on OS X gives a good drag-and-drop way to have the computer take over some repetitive tasks for us. Things that Automator can be good for are: combine a bunch of PDFs into a...
View ArticleDevices for Testing iOS Software
For the next few months at least it's going to be a pain to test in iOS. Recently I had to test an app on 4 different devices and it behaved differently on all four. So, here is the set-up I used to...
View ArticleiOS 5 Support for dismissModalViewControllerAnimated
Fixed an odd bug today and submitted v1.3 of Caroline's Cat Game to the store. Turns out that calling dismissModalViewControllerAnimated: for the [self parentViewController] basically stopped doing...
View ArticleSetting Up Xcode to Support Old iPhones
The iPhones from v1 to v3G all use the armv6 architecture The iPhone 3GS and above all use the armv7 architecture (this is why it is not a really big deal that Apple has decided to continue to sell the...
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Supporting TextExpander in My Application
Overview:With version 2.0, the Massage Therapist Notebook now supports TextExpander snippets. A great deal of information about a session can be recorded just by dragging stones onto various parts of...
View ArticleMassage Therapist Notebook 2.0 Submitted for Review
We have submitted the latest version of the Massage Therapist Notebook to the store for review. Hopefully it will get approved without requiring any major changes.There are three big, new features of...
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Chakras in Massage
Some of our customers of the Massage Therapist notebook use chakras in their practice. For them, the three stones are not enough to represent all of the different chakras as well as other interest...
View ArticleOur Philosophy on Apps for Kids
Caroline's Cat Game hasn't even been in the App Store a whole day and we already got our first complaint: why are you charging money for this app?We don't believe that apps aimed at children should...
View ArticleNew Podcast We're Listening To
We've started listening to British Mac. Our favorite section is definitely the Pussycat Club section. Where we have learned the new toast "Chin Chin". This podcast is more of a computer user level and...
View ArticleUsing the Facebook API and Contemplating Seppuku
A lot of our TapLynx and related work requires us to get RSS or Atom version of content. For classical blog platforms this is a pretty easy thing. Even if the authors do not have RSS explicitly...
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Greek Financial Crisis
In light of the recent events in Greece it seemed like a good time to add a Greek Coin to Carter's Coin Flip. So, version 2.2 has been approved by Apple and will hit the App Store on Thursday, June 23...
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Back to the Cat Game
A little girl is having her 10th birthday next week. What she wants for her birthday is for the cat paper doll app we've been tinkering with for a year or so to be in the App Store. This will be a hard...
View ArticleMaking Screen Shots
We sell out apps in countries where the primary languages are English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish.Localizing the buttons and the text in the app is something we've always done. Now, we can...
View ArticleQuote from Today's MacTech Magazine
"you may find yourself struggling to achieve something, and then later find that there's a Cocoa class that does it for you." - Edward MarczakStory of my year so far.
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The Long Tail of the App Store
Today, there are 1321 iPad Apps in the US App store in the Business category. Massage Therapist Notebook is in the top 200 ranked by popularity and by Gross. At times this month it's been in the top...
View ArticleGoogle Translate Saves the Day!
The Massage Therapist Notebook has been selling in other countries and we have been getting it translated into German, Japanese and some other languages. A different post on that process. Today we got...
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MapKit Custom Images and Offset Issues
Much thanks goes to user Georg who sent us this image of how he was trying to use our TA_MapKitPlugin for TapLynx in his app. He noticed that if we zoom out to a world view, that the custom pin images...
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