Category: iPod and Apple Platform

iPad – uh yeah great name

By Tom CTO, January 29, 2010 11:17 PM

Open letter to Mr. Steven Jobs:

Steve,
This isn’t a pile on session, I’ve seen the ignorant bashing you incessantly.   I’m too tired). I’m not here to do the same.  Well of course I am. Its fun, its the NEW new thing to bash Apple for not providing everyone their own personal spaceship to Mars (see previous blog post).
iPad: This name, sucks. Continue reading 'iPad – uh yeah great name'»

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NO JOY. An OS 3.0 upgrade story

By Tom CTO, September 5, 2009 10:05 PM

Went to the iTunes store to upgrade one of my iPods to the OS 3.0 SDK to see if we can monetize the crap out of it. Hey, I’ve BEEN BUSY, so shutup.
Anyway, No joy. An UNKNOWN ERROR occurred on my transaction.
I will report back on this when I solve Apple’s problem (again).
Update and FIX:
The error was “An Unknown Error Occurred (1004)”. Continue reading 'NO JOY. An OS 3.0 upgrade story'»

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HOLY CRAP BATMAN SNOW LEOPARD’S GOT ME

By Tom CTO, September 5, 2009 10:03 PM

Face (our undead President) close your eyes and skip this rant.
Ok folks, spent the whole $25 in cheeseballs on the OS X upgrade.
Those *beep* *beep* *BEEPITY* *beeps* (edited by Face) at Apple have completly wiped my XCode links to the SDKs. NOTHING BUILDS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOLY **** Batman!
I’ll update here about this crap. GREAT! Like we need MORE WORK. Of course WE’LL be blamed for this. Those BEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep (edited by Face).
-T-
Update:
Ok my fault, when I upgraded, I should have put XCode 3.2 into A NEW PLACE!!! otherwise it “upgrades” your existing install (assuming you used the defaults) by erasing all your SDKs! How intuitive. Yeah if I RTFM. Ok so the way out is to download the OS 3.0 SDK which “doesn’t have all the 2.x SDKs”. Hmmm Let’s see nope. No more ranting. By this time you want answers.
I’m doing that right now and its taking 20 minutes for 404MB.
The original solution is to install the new 3.2 Xcode into A NEW PLACE and DO NOT UPGRADE the existing installation. Well they at least got that part correct.

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Create an iPhone app splash screen

By Tom CTO, July 10, 2009 10:53 PM

1-Create a .png file with Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, Gimp, or any of the graphic programs out there.

2-Name it Default.png.

3-Add it to the Resources tab of your Xcode project.

This will add this splash screen automatically to your program when it runs, and will place this graphic on the screen as your app loads into memory and runs.

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Codesigning Kumite #92,232

By Tom CTO, July 10, 2009 9:05 PM

Real world example. I’m updating our Lite version of Trisaic to reintroduce to the app store.
In Xcode but of course.
Choose distribution.
Select trisaiclite under the “targets” Continue reading 'Codesigning Kumite #92,232'»

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Codesign error number 5,202,203,023. Frustrated but undaunted.

By Tom CTO, July 10, 2009 8:48 PM

The AppID in the Dev Central is setup with a specific application id code.
Ex. hc124g12.com.joroto.agauge
My app had the product name ${PRODUCT_NAME} as aGauge.
The capital ‘G’ was the problem. Do you see it? Yep neither did I, Continue reading 'Codesign error number 5,202,203,023. Frustrated but undaunted.'»

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Replacing graphics files in XCode

By Tom CTO, July 10, 2009 8:42 PM

I wanted to replace some graphics files under my resources in the Xcode environment. They are currently symlinks. I wanted them to be actual files in order to zip up and send to other developers. I thought an inexperienced user may appreciate this content.

Select the graphics files with a click, Continue reading 'Replacing graphics files in XCode'»

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aGauge now available for iPhone & iPod

By John Boukis, June 20, 2009 3:01 PM

aGauge is now available for the iPod and iPhone! Test your accelerometer with this utility. Super Cool!

aGauge WEB SITE

Or visit the Joroto iTunes Store:

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iPod/iPhone “No provisioned device” error in XCode

By Tom CTO, June 14, 2009 6:01 PM

In the Organizer in XCode you notice that your iPlatform device (iPod/iPhone) is not recognized as a provisioned device. The little “light” is not green. However iTunes can sync with it and give it a great big kiss.
Cause: I believe this is due to the iPlatform device being plugged in when the computer goes to sleep.
Solution:
1) Unplug the iPlatform device from the USB.
2) Hold down the top power off and the circle App Exit button at the same time, then release at the same time.
3) A slide switch appears saying “Power off”. Do so. This is a hard power down of the device.
4) Now you can just plug the device back into the USB cable. XCode will see it and use it now. This has happened many times to me and this is the exact solution to that.

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Joroto, Inc Releases Trisaic for the iPod and iPhone

By John Boukis, March 13, 2009 9:07 AM

Today Joroto announced the release Trisaic, a puzzle game for Apple’s portable devices, the iPod and iPhone. The game board for Trisaic is full of pairs of adjacent triangles that the player must match. The player selects the objects and cycles through their various designs in order to match the design of an adjacent object. The game quickly becomes difficult, and a great memory teaser, as the number of possible designs for each triangle increase with each new level. A handful of objects will have no match, making the game even more challenging.

Find all Joroto products at the following web page:

PRODUCTS

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