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Kamelot Project Testing

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:48:00 +0100

Kamelot wants to hear from you =D

The following application is my final year project and I am looking for some feedback. It is a PDF manager that can help you organise your PDF files.

The application is compatible only with Mac OS X leopard 10.6.

Please if you are interested to contribute to my “Testing section” of my documentation grab a copy and let me know what you think.

You can propose new ideas.
or identify bugs.

Thanks a million,

Patrick

Statistique news

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:37:01 +0000

Hi everyone ;)

I have been wondering what to do with Statistique for a long time. At the beginning the project was more than good. It wasn’t just a tracker but a utility for freeing the memory of your iPhone/iPod.

For those who haven’t heard or didn’t notice, all the “Memory” utilities removed this functionality. Apparently Apple force everyone to do so… More here.

Anyway!

Statistique will go free as soon as Apple update it!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/statistique/id326158054?mt=8

Thanks for your support so far! Any ideas for improvements please let me know!

Cocoa Quickies

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:15:00 +0000

Well since I am working a lot with cocoa lately, I came across two things that you may like. Let’s start…

1) Have you every tried to print out or display the percentage ‘%’ sign with Cocoa? ;) I haven’t and it was quite tricky, although after 20 minutes (hehe) I found a way to do it… so here we go:

NSLog(@"Here is my percentage sing %%");

2) I wanted to implement a method that will go through all my files in my home directory. I couldn’t believe how easy that was. I have done it in C before and it was really really hard! Thanks God, cocoa does it with a few lines:

NSString *path = [NSString stringWithFormat:@”%@/”,NSHomeDirectory()]; 
NSFileManager *manager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
NSDirectoryEnumerator *dirEnum = [manager enumeratorAtPath:path];
NSString *file;
 
while (file = [dirEnum nextObject]){
	NSLog(@”%@”,file );
}

BTW… NSThread rocks!!!

Pretty smart right? Source: Foobar

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:23:00 +0000

Pretty smart right?

Source: Foobar

Website

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:02:00 +0000

Stranger: New web design?
Patrick: Yeah, this time is minimal :P
Stranger: Link please....
Patrick: http://www.nscoding.co.uk

Greek Radio 1.20 rejected

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:15:00 +0000

Reason:

Dear Mr. Chamelo,

Thank you for submitting your update to Greek Radio to the App Store. During our review of your application we found it is using a private API, which is in violation of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement section 3.3.1; “3.3.1 Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs.” While your application has not been rejected, it would be appropriate to resolve this issue in your next update.

The non-public API that is included in your application is underPageBackgroundColor.

Please resolve this issue in your next update to Greek Radio.

Regards,

iPhone Developer Program - OMFG!!!

I hate you annoying bug!

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:05:00 +0000

HI once again…

Is been a long time since my last post but university and some other things limited my spare time. Anyway here we are!

There was a really annoying bug with Dock Spaces 3.05 and Snow leopard… I am 100% sure that if you used it, you came across this overriding bug.

Simple Dock Spaces was replacing e.g. ‘Dock 1’ with ‘Dock 2’ and that was making the software completely useless…

I was trying to figure out what the heck was going on! Seriously, an application that was working properly with 10.5, how come and has such an issue with 10.6?

It took me quite time to find out that the problem wasn’t in the code!!!

YES it was the Dock.app itself. What do I mean?

Simple, while I was killing the Dock process and copying the new dock configuration file, Dock.app was overriding the plist file with the contents of the latest Dock without reading the new configuration…

Hopefully now is fixed with one of my magics!!!

TADA… ;)

- Dock Spaces Screencast

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:51:00 +0000

Dock Spaces Screencast

ESA conference

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:32:00 +0000

Me and My poster :)

Dock Spaces 3.01beta

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:24:00 +0100

Here we are…

The new version is out trying to resolve overwriting issues and support Snow Leopard.

You can find the new version on the website and drop me an email if you want to support the project.

That’s all for now,

Patrick

PS: Anyone who is interested to help with the design?

Statistique (Is out)

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:13:00 +0100

Yes!!! It was about time… Really frustrating procedure of accepting a utility app. Apple wanted to remove “Free Memory” and they manage to spent 2 months on postponing the release!!!

I don’t know why… but those two months belong to the past. Now to make it up to you, I’ll spare few licenses to the lucky ones!

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Download Version 1.00 for iPhone

Regards,

Patrick

Statistique (In Review)

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:32:00 +0100

It seems that statistique will take a while to be released!

Apple rejected it because of the “free memory” functionality. I had to remove the “free” button so I can be accepted. More like a tracking utility of memory and battery.

Anyway…

“Your application, Statistique, is requiring unexpected additional time for review. We apologize for the delay, and will update you with further status as soon as we are able.”

I assume that it will be out soon…

Progress...

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:04:00 +0100

Hello again…

Few things before I go…. (Yeap back to Greece via Heerenveen :P)

Greek Radio Mac - An update will come soon (64bit,Snow Leopard compatibility)
Greek Radio iPhone - It will take a while but the update will have custom artworks to improve UI and more station most likely.
Dock Spaces - A small update to fix user interface issues with Snow Leopard.
iDMG - Nothing new…
Get - Small update for few issues and suggestions that you have.
Statistique iPhone- Nothing from Apple yet… We are waiting….
Statistique Mac -> There is a plan, We seriously considering.
Website - Yes, We will change it, sooner than you think.

I finish working on the Laboratory, it was an amazing year-out and now I am back to university. I really want to say “Thank you” to my University (DMU) for giving me the opportunity to study and furthermore, to work on their research lab.

Anyway, hopefully free time will come to work in all the apps…

Have fun ;)

- Patrick

AppStore Approval time

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:33:00 +0100

A really painful procedure and I think you notice that everywhere…

Due to number of apps that are submitted to the App Store, it’s taking some time to check the apps and approve them or worst reject them depending on there criteria.

They currently say that 88% of the submissions are checked within 14 days.

So, they need about 16 days for 100% = (88/14) * 15.9090909091

Am I right? Who’s Fooling who???? Statistique is day 18 ;)

Get a promo code :)

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:51:00 +0100

I woke up in a really good mood today, it’s one of these days (15 of August) that I am usually in Greece but not this year due to my work in the university… so I will share 10 promo codes for Greek Radio. ;)

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JAJ9MRRWJFX6
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K66HY4HWRPX6
X99FTHYKNTPH
EXLM69XRRKWX
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Feel lucky to read the post first… and have fun…

Greek Radio iPhone - Requests

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:30:00 +0100

The purpose of this post is to explain few things about Greek Radio.

So far I received dozens of emails with similar (kind-of) requests!

Let’s start with WMA/ASX stations. The application doesn’t support these kind of streams and the rest of the Greek Streams (Mainly stations from Athens) are encoded on a windows media format. I am trying to inform the owners of the stations and convince them to stream on different format as well.

I am still waiting for responses, I don’t know whether they consider it or not, but the amount of potential listeners is huge. (If you want to know the exact number you can contact me.)

The other request is to make Greek Radio play on the background!

I wish I could, but is impossible, Apple forbids background processing and there is nothing I can do for that.

Thanks for your time…

Announcement - Have you ever donated @ nscoding?

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:47:00 +0100

Well if have donated on the past on any project here at nscoding you can request for an App store promo code (I think is US only, but still there is a way to use it outside US) for Greek Radio or Statistique (check the post below) that will be out soon.

Yours faithfully…

- Patrick

Statistique website

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:42:00 +0100

Here it is ;) the website is almost ready and the application is in “review” by Apple. (You know what that means, endless waiting…)

http://statistiqueapp.co.uk/

You can see a short preview of the application! Any comment will be great, if anyone reads this blog anyway, ;)

Stay tuned for promo codes ;)

A short story...

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0100

When I first got my first Mac (Mini intel, a gift from my beloved aunt), apparently I wasn’t that experienced to code for the Mac but the purpose was to start with Java or C and eventually “try” to learn Cocoa.

When there isn’t anyone around you to show some basic stuff, not code but how to use Interface builder and Xcode, it can be a pain…

So a mac mini was great to start trying to develop and also install windows to work on my visual basic assignments for school. After a certain period of time my Mini had other issues, it was extremely slow and it couldn’t handle my pressure (metaphorically).

Then, my parents got me a Macbook Pro as gift (I know, like a dream came true) and the price of the computer somehow affected me (in a good way) and I’ve started to trying even more.

Finally, success…

Yeah, I wrote my own app (iDMG), it was fantastic, I was so proud that I was wasting every free minute just for that. But there was a bad side-effect because of that. It was during my exams and I didn’t revise… ;)

I still remember developing iDMG 1.25 till 7:30am while I had an exam at 8:00am. The exam went well but it could go better.

My point:

I am trying to find out if a developer needs a high-end computer or not? It seems like a no to me, my brand new macbook ‘hehe’ is doing perfectly so far…

User interface or Functionality? (iPhone)

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:19:00 +0100

iPhone development, when it comes to Application (not Games) usually there is not any lite (trial) version for people to have a chance on trying a product before they even buy it.

As a result, people having a bunch of apps and I assume, they realize that they don’t use many of them… They just have the apps in the itunes list…

What are the criteria?
Name -> Icon -> Screenshots -> Reviews

It seems to me that Promotion and User Interface are the keys for success? Am I right? I don’t know, but I tend to figure out soon…

Best marketing?
Pretty obvious is the iTunes store. If you have the chance to be in a list like “new and noteworthy” or “top paid” is the best advertising you can ever have…

Functionality?
Is it the approval process from Apple that ensures functionality?