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Shaun Austin just made an interesting comment today on Twitter. I cannot comment that this is true, but I certainly hope it is. Because having to wait one week for an update sucks and having to wait one month for a first release does suck too. Of course, you know about that old trick that [...]

I was lucky enough to be accepted to make a presentation last monday, november 23rd in Nivelles. My presentation was made using Viewfinder, the great app from ConnectedFlow. That really added content and quality to my presentation, as I decided to go the new way : no content on slides, only ideas. But the bad [...]

Contrary to most people, I think that many iPhone apps are crap because this is what people want. It is not Apple’s fault. Instead they write long guidelines to explain how to do great apps. They spend some time sending evangelists around the world to provide developers with advanced insight on the platform. It is [...]

If you want to mix your app’s sounds with the iPod music in Os 3.0, you probably already know you should use an audiosession category to do so. But with that setting, the volume level of your app and the iPod are paired. If you want to lower the volume of the iPod to give [...]

Désolé. Je crois que c’est il y a 6 mois que j’ai commencé cette catégorie. C’est toujours quand on se vante que l’on va faire queque chose que la chût est plus dure. J’aurais donc mieux fait de me taire. Donc plus de promesses. En tout cas vous pouvez vous rendre compte que je passe [...]

Or : Do you own more than one iphone/iPod in your family? Between my wife, my son and I, we have 6 different devices (I have a lot, because of tests). If you have an iPhone, you want your wife/husband to have one too, but you don’t want to pay twice for apps, so you [...]

It’s no secret, I’m working on updates to 321run. In next big new update, I wish to make the app more accessible, so that even the visually impaired can use it, even if they need some help to run (I guess they run with other people in that case). Following Martin Pilkington’s pledge to make [...]

Creating a great product when you’re not a great interface designer takes a lot of work, sweat, experiments. And I’m not a great UI designer, sorry. So I am able to talk frankly about making mistakes in UI and how you need to rethink the graphic interface over and over and over. 321run is the [...]

J’ai reçu un cahier de design pour faire des jolies images pour l’iPhone. Et comme je dois être un des premiers à l’avoir reçu, j’en ai fait une petite revue. C’est un achat que je recommande. A l’occasion, si l’on se rencontre à cocoaheads ou autre, je l’aurai. Regardez la sur YouTube

I’ m getting close to the one year anniversary of my first submission to the AppStore, so I may write a little more on that blog to tell stories, share my experiences etc. In the meantime, I’m having some kind of baby blues, or “post-release depression”. I’m not totally immune to rejection, but I hope [...]