Author: Conor
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New DiscoGS Authentication Requirement
Discogs will start requiring authentication for searches starting August 15th. Unlike the previous image download authentication requirement that was implemented without announcement, this change has been announced via email to developers. This gave us plenty of time to work the needed changes into the upcoming releases. Especially important since the review time on the Mac App…
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New Web Design
The web page finally got a make-over after two years of patiently waiting on our to do list and several months of work and careful planning to roll it out simultaneously across the main web site, the store, the blog and the forum. All of which run different software so we had to coordinate several…
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Pocketpedia iOS 7
Pocketpedia 3.2 with an iOS 7 interface is finally out. Took us longer than expected as we tried to keep backwards compatibility with previous iOS versions, but in the end it was too time consuming. The changes in iOS 7 are too many, so going forward all the new versions of Pocketpedia are iOS 7+.…
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Samesunged!
John Gruber linked to a Universal Studio commercial that is a copy of Apple’s Christmas commercial with a few changes: the protagonist is a girl instead of a boy, the location is Universal Studios and not a family home, the creation is a photo album and not a movie and they are using Samsung phones…
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Customer Support and the Empty Inbox
We are always pleased to be complemented on our customer support. Often the complement comes with a request for advice on how to handle a large volume of email efficiently, be it at work or home. The trick is an empty inbox. This does not mean that our inbox is empty on the contrary, it…
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EVP_… Calls Deprecated
For a while now (since OS X 10.7) EVP_ calls in OpenSSL have been deprecated. But Wolf Rentzsch’s article has recently stirred developers to look for replacements for these calls in Common Digest. Most developers only use the EVP_ functions in order to validate a Mac App Store receipt hash, as it’s used in the…
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Pocketpedia and the Taller iPhone 5
With the launch of iPhone 5 today we wanted to let you know that the upcoming version of Pocketpedia will support the extra 176 pixels. For data driven apps like Pocketpedia the extra height is a great addition since more of your collections, items, results and details will be visible. Specifically, this means you get…
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isNotEmpty a Short Objective-C Code Snippet
Today Brent Simmons improved the developer pool of reusable code by posting his code for testing if the value of an object is empty. Most programmers start down this path with NSString where for most purposes an empty string is the same as nil. From there it grows to include NSNull which JSON parser will…
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Night Sky and Dictionary We Are Coming for You
In the same fashion as the Pedias on the Mac App Store, Pocketpedia has risen to meteoric heights on the App Store. When it comes to cataloging items, nothing is more important than keeping those constellations in order, but right after that is knowing the definition of a word and info about your books, albums,…
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Pocketpedia 3
We are extremely excited to announce the immediate availability of Pocketpedia 3 on the App Store. It took three people working two years to make this possible and we are very proud of the first version. We’ll be making videos in the future for new users to see Pocketpedia in action before downloading it. But…