http://jamsoftonline.com Software for a minority... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:02:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I submitted my first app to the App store a little over a year ago. That app was Hangman. It was one of those things - I'd written a quick hangman game on the Mac, wanted to learn to develop for the iPhone  and so I started with Hangman. I never ... http://jamsoftonline.com/paid-vs-free-apps-on-the-itunes-app-store Things have been pretty busy here at JamSoft. Besides juggling every day life, a daytime job, and bug fixes for Hangman, I've been working on a new app that should be ready for release very soon. I'm not going to give much away just yet, but it's another simple game, but with ... http://jamsoftonline.com/busy-busy-busy I've just be browsing some of the reviews of Hangman on the US App Store and the outlook is not good. People request a qwerty keyboard? I give it to them. But then I get a bunch of 1 star reviews saying that qwerty confuses them (Wow, how do you manage ... http://jamsoftonline.com/i-cant-win-lessons-learned Today has been an interesting day. I received my first monthly report of how my apps on the App Store are doing. Would you believe that within the US, the EU and the UK alone Hangman has been downloaded over 560,000 times!? It's true according to Apple's stats! Not only ... http://jamsoftonline.com/hangman-progress-update Hey guys. Long time, no post. Well, I did it. I published my first app to the App Store on iTunes! Hangman has been received extremely well, it seems. It managed to stay at number 1 in the Top Free applications (in the world) for more than a week and a ... http://jamsoftonline.com/hangman-iphone I just published a page on the writenum program I wrote for a job application. The page contains a link to download the program and the source, so you can check it out and play with the code and such. The job application included a task with the brief to write a ... http://jamsoftonline.com/writenum Just posted up the latest application I've written. Just a quick hangman game written on the spur of the moment. Source and download are available on the Hangman page. http://jamsoftonline.com/hangman I'm not normally one to cross post, but this sorta fits the genre of this blog, and I thought it was important enough to post it to my personal blog too. There are screams echoing over the interwebs that Apple is mass-rejecting applications for the iPhone Developer Program. However, this is a ... http://jamsoftonline.com/iphone-developer-program-status I've added up new pages for Timeout and IMDummy. Two pieces of software that were written as tests/simulations in order to help me learn in Cocoa. Go check them out. I've also decided to change the theme for the site. It's basically just the K2 Wordpress theme with a random header ... http://jamsoftonline.com/new-additions So I've now manged to get the Willish Translator uploaded and displayed, and I've also finished migrating the SVN repository over from jasarien.com. That's it for now, I'm going to sleep. I will upload and present a couple more apps after I sleep. http://jamsoftonline.com/svn-migrated