Archive for January, 2009

Hello, iDraft!

January 31, 2009

iDraft is a new application that my friend, Jon Walsh, and I put together to track information toward the upcoming NFL draft. I put together the UI and application, and he is using his years and years of experience as a football game designer to create projected draft order, write up bios on players and teams, and pull together more information than even the most die-hard of NFL fans can handle!

Best of all? It’s free!

Bye-bye Wi-Fi!

January 30, 2009

Well, after months of back and forth, I’ve finally gotten definitive word from somebody at Apple – my WiFi application will not be able to be updated. And since there’s a trademark issue with the current name, I’ve had to pull it down from the App Store.

Thanks to everybody who downloaded a copy – over one million copies is pretty darned amazing and was a lot of fun!

On naming and updates

January 19, 2009

I was recently informed that the name WiFinder is a name still in use by another company. Anybody got great ideas for other names? Most of the obvious cool and fun ones were also used during the dot-com-bubble, and I’m loathe to run into this problem again :-)

BTW, check out the awesome icon work that Serge from LemonMedia did for the program! It’s been in submission for over a month and a half, but hey, that’s Apple for you, and this is Pretty Dangerous Stuff. WiFinderNewIcon

Will they, or won’t they?

January 3, 2009

Well, in the continuing saga of WiFinder updates, they’ve rejected another update… and approved two from the newer applications. I’m not really sure what to do with the application at this point. With grad school, I barely have time to work on it as it is. I really don’t enjoy the every-update procedure of discussing back and forth with the AppStore review people on whether or not they should allow me to continue making this kind of app.

I really wish they’d just decide “WiFi is ok” or “WiFi is a no-no” and be consistent with their review decisions!