Rick's World

Last Year, I attended Apple's WWDC for the first time.  Below are some suggestions for new arrivals based on my first trip there. Pilgrimage to the Mothership Every year someone plans the annual pilgrimage to the mothership, i.e. a visit to the Apple… more »

I decided on Monday of this week that it was time to get serious about this App Store thing, so I decided to establish a corporation and move all my apps over to that corporation.  Below is a description of the whole process I went through, step by step… more »

On January 29, 2010, I wrote a blog article about how the iPad had just been announced.  I wrote in that blog that even though my first impression of it was a bit negative, I was still going to buy one.  On February 2, 2011, just a couple days over a ye… more »

A couple of days ago, Apple finally revealed the tablet computer that they've been rumored to be making for a long time.  It's the iPad. My first thought upon seeing it was, "That's weird.  It's square!"  iPhones and iPod Touches have a much more wides… more »

Here's a quick tip for if you want to have an iPhone application that targets both an earlier version of the iPhone OS and the new iPhone OS 3.0. Juse use the __IPHONE_3_0 precompiler define to compile specific code for iPhone 3.0. i.e. #ifdef __I… more »

Just found a quick website with some snippets of how to do various things with the iPhone SDK. It's called iphonesdksnippets.com more »

It's up! My first iPhone app - LOL Maker, is up for sale as of this morning on the Apple App Store! Let's see what happens.... more »

Amazing Yesterday, Microsoft announced the rules for how developers can develop applications for the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The only problem is, the way these rules are currently written, Microsoft has no prayer of ever beating Apple's iPho… more »

Shipped! A few minutes ago, I submitted my first application for sale in the iPhone App Store. I've been working on this app off and on for the last couple months. Now to wait for Apple to accept/reject it and put it up for sale. Let's see how thi… more »

A few months ago, I bought and downloaded season 4 of Lost in HD from iTunes. I've been on a serious Lost kick lately, trying to catch up to the fifth season, which just started a few days ago. I watched all the episodes (or so I thought) and finished… more »