Gary Longsine

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EyeSpy 2.0.3 update available now on Mac App Store

We've released the latest update to EyeSpy on the Mac App Store. This release improves the user experience for the purchase process and improves the robustness of the icon badge which shows the available updates for your In-App Purchases. All EyeSpy customers are encouraged to update to EyeSpy

EyeSpy - now available on Mac App Store

This week illumineX shipped an all-new version of EyeSpy to the Mac App Store. Remember the fun little toy where cartoon eyes watch your mouse cursor as it move around the screen? The concept goes back to the earliest days of graphical windowing computer systems, at least as early as

Gamification is a big, big deal

Number of the day: By 2010, people had spent a combined 5.93 million hours playing World of Warcraft. See this fascinating TED Talk by Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world. Game playing builds optimism and social bonds. The World of Warcraft wiki at the time was the

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iBlogger Pro 2.1.0 released!

The Velvet Underground iBlogger Pro 2.1.0 is on sale this week to celebrate the new release!  iBlogger was approved for release today and is available for update or purchase on the iOS App Store. This release includes improved compatibility with iPhone 5 series phones (4 inch Retina Display)

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iBlogger Pro

Dinosaur eggs and flowers iBlogger 2.1.0 has been submitted to the iOS App Store.  This release delivers the following improvements to the product: * improved compatibility with 4 inch Retina Display (iPhone 5 series) * stability enhancements * more robust Picasa account creation (login would sometime fail even though the password

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iBlogger 2.0.2 available now!

iBlogger 2.0.2 runs on iOS 4.1 and higher, including Verizon iPhone iBlogger 2.0.2 was just approved and is available now on the App Store!  iBlogger 2.0.2 includes stability and performance enhancements, and runs on iOS 4.1 and higher.  iBlogger is compatible with

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iBlogger 2.0.2 - Verizon iPhone

IBlogger 2.0.2 runs on iOS 4.1 and higher, and runs great on the Verizon iPhone. iBlogger 2.0.2 has been submitted to the App Store.  it will be available for update or download once approved, which normally happens within 3 to 14 days. What's

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iBlogger 2.0.1 is available now!

iBlogger 2. See something cool.  Blog it.  (Doorway in Pittsburgh, a very cool city.) iBlogger 2.0.1 is available now, on the App Store! iBlogger 2 brings the most requested features, raising the bar for mobile blogging. * Picture posting at Google Blogspot/Blogger, via Picasa * Picasa integration, with any

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iBlogger CSS, Picasa and more!

Firetruck in Missoula, MontanaiBlogger 2 is so hot, it set the neighborhood on fire, during testing! With image captions, Picasa integration, support for fancy display of full sized images with Lightbox, and full styling with CSS, you'll love the new iBlogger. Runs cool on iPhone and iPod Touch.

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iBlogger 2.0.1 submitted to App Store

Images should have captions.  iBlogger makes it easy for you to caption any image you post to your blog. If you like, you can tinker with your CSS to make your captions look any way you like. iBlogger 2 was submitted to the App Store a few days ago!  It

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iBlogger II - Golden Master Seed

iBlogger II Golden Master Seed is ready!  Wanna sneak peak?iBlogger 2 has reached Golden Master and will enter the final round of beta testing, tonight!  It brings several of the most requested features, and provides the most advanced mobile photo blogging on any platform - only for iOS 4.

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iBlogger's 841 Pixels of Fame (Times Two!)

This is undoubtedly entirely random, as we don't have any contacts in the art department at Apple, but iBlogger happened to show up in Apple's WWDC graphic today, in their announcement of the availability of the videos from the WWDC 2010 Sessions. Two hundred thousand applications

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ecto 3.0.2 released

ecto 3.0.2 was released today via the built in software updater. The ecto 3.0.2 release includes the following fixes: * updated Amazon plugin * updated Flickr plugin * include Atom03 plugin by default (mostly for older Japanese blog systems) * fixed a URL redirect handling bug * minor documentation updates (link

iBlogger 1.0.9 Submitted to App Store

iBlogger 1.0.9 was submitted to the App Store today! It should be available for you to download within the next two weeks, when Apple has a chance to review and approve it. What's new in this release? This update provides improved stability and performance. * HTML Auth

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iBlogger 1.0.8 submitted to App Store

iBlogger 1.0.8 was submitted to the App Store today!  It should be available for you to download within the next two weeks, when Apple has a chance to review and approve it. What's new in this release?       This update provides improved stability and performance. * over 151

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iBlogger II - photo blogging mania

iBlogger:  incredible photo blogging, for iPhone iBlogger 2 will enter beta testing this week.  It brings several of the most requested features, and provides the most advanced mobile photo blogging on any platform - only for iPhone. • Photo services hosting with Google Picasa, compatible with any blog.  Take photos with

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Aye, Tee and Tee

It's pretty sad that nearly every person I know who loves their iPhone, would nonetheless finish the dangling sentence at the end of the Wall Street Journal teaser (for their interview with AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson) with the clause: "for his resignation." AT&

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A better sample gitignore file for XCode Cocoa projects on Mac OS X (iPhone, too)

When we switched to git last year (from Subversion) we took a little time and beefed up our ignore file. While working on another project recently, I realized that most of the example .gitignore files for Cocoa/MacOSX/XCode on the web are really not terribly complete, and the results

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iPhone Rumor Convergence 2009

Both The Register (Rumor rubberizes iPhone 3.0) and Wired (Next-Gen iPhone Specs, Launch Date Revealed) are running iPhone rumor roundup stories. Both blindly missed two obvious and likely candidates for coming new iPhone features. * 802.11n, which is a natural and obvious next step in the platform's

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How to find the Mac OS X SoftwareUpdate package

With each update to Mac OS X, a few people receive an error message from the Apple Software Update utility, similar to the following: The update "Mac OS X Update" can't be saved. The digital signature for this package is incorrect. The package may have been

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Data Recovery from bad RAID 1 mirrored volume on Mac OS X

If you're reading this page, it's because you are trying to find good advice on how to recover data from a bad mirrored drive, also known as RAID 1 (one) on Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server 10.4 (Tiger) or 10.5 (Leopard)

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Twitter

Twitter and iBlogger can both be considered micro-blogging systems. Somehow, though, I suspect that iBlogger isn't likely to inspire this kind of creative satirical genius.  iBlogger isn't sufficiently annoying. Our Twitter nick is:  illumineX.  Feel free to follow.  It's low-traffic, and mostly related to

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Attention to Detail

Apple has set an extremely high bar with respect to attention to detail in every aspect of the interface between the company and the customer. Yesterday I purchased an iPod for one of our beta testers, who was also a substantial contributors to iFlinger (an iPhone application that would let

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Raven Zachary: FAIL

Raven Zachary, holding his iPhone upside-down, in the banner at his web site... where he markets his iPhone expertise. FAIL. Raven Zachary, holding iPhone upside-down

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ectoize - bookmarklet for ecto

We received an interesting email from an ecto customer recently. Here's what they asked us about: "Hello, Any text that I publish using the "ectoize" bookmarklet appears on my blog entirely in italics, indented, with a vertical line on the left side of the text.