Author: Conor
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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…
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Totally Unrelated Recipedia (Actually a Bit of a Relation)
A childhood friend has released his first iOS app and has named it in honor of the Pedias. Recipedia comes to fill all your kitchen organizing needs. We attended my friend’s wedding last year and we expected a different kind of announcement a year later but that just goes to show the rise of iOS…
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Sorting Titles Without Articles Fast
Mark Dalrymple wrote an interesting article about the speed difference between isEqual: and isEqualToString: methods. Choosing between these methods is a small decision programmers make everyday. The article should reaffirm readers beliefs that concentrating on readability is more important than performance. The short of it is that he runs the methods 10 million times to…
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Adding Page Numbers to Print Templates
Some of the Pedias’ printing templates add an automatic page break after a certain number of entries. Starting with version 5.0.2 of the programs, this page break can be used via CSS to style in a page number at the footer of the page. To add a page number add the following CSS code to…
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Statistics 5.0
The new statistics in 5.0 use a monochrome palette of blues to blend in with the muted tones of Lion. While some users have requested the return of the brighter colors used previously, the customization options remain flexible. Since our programs are based on a number of open technologies, including HTML and CSS to render…
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Top Apps in The Mac App Store
The response to the new version 5 has been incredible awesome. We are thrilled that users are sharing our excitement and showing it in the Mac App Store to boot. Three of our apps have taken 1, 2, and 4 top paid app spot under reference category: For the all encompassing global category we are…
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Are There Any Commas Out There?
With version 5.0 of the Pedias several more fields have been turned into multi value fields. These are values displayed by a surrounding blue bubble. It makes it clear what is a distinct value and allows the program to leverage this information, an example is providing a better statistics count. The character that creates a…
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I Don’t Want to Be Counted, I Just Want Links
I am an avid Google user and even though the quality of results has suffered in the last few years, I still use Google almost exclusively when researching a topic. When the question is simple, a visit to Wikipedia or Stackoverflow will suffice but when things get complicated I tend to open several of the…
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Detecting PPC Code Before Mac App Store Submission
Since the Mac App Store is Intel only, developers have to submit applications that are stripped of all PPC code. Slowly more and more developers are building their applications Intel only, given that the latest versions of OS X, Snow Leopard and soon Lion, are Intel only. The Pedias rely on a large number of…
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A Modern Apple Tree
Today we had the rare opportunity to see where Apple devices are born. Luckily we were allowed to take a few pictures and with the sun just right, it was a magical moment. We decided to take the office outdoors on this sunny Sunday afternoon. (Click on the images to view larger.)