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Make Me Laugh!

Yes, we are a full service shop here at Trollwerks; not only do we write your application for you, we’ll shepherd it right through the publishing process for you as well. And tonight the first application we’ve done that for is up!

Well, actually, it’s not the first one we’ve done that for — but it’s the first to actually get approved. We’ll have some choice observations on that. But anyways. This is published on behalf of WindyTown.com, who had the excellent judgement to have Trollwerks take care of their debut iPhone application, Make Me Laugh! And it … well, eponymously enough, it makes the iPhone laugh. Wildy and crazily.

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You may have noted if you follow the App Store rankings that the, ah, anthropomorphic audio reproduction shall we say? class of application has had quite spectacular sales success. So hey, there is absolutely no doubt we’ll see Make Me Laugh! enjoy the same. Go ahead, click the button and buy it. You know you want to!

Make Me Laugh!

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FEB
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Categories: iPhone, Portfolio, Trolls

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The first 5 months

In case you missed it at the beginning of the month (yeah, yeah, we’re catching up quick as we can) there’s a fascinating update over at O’Reilly Radar on the first five months of the App Store. Definitely worth just clicking over there and reading the whole thing yourself, but here’s a couple quick highlights as of the end of November:

- About 9,800 unique applications, 22% of which are free;

- Sale prices of Top 100 apps continue to decline, currently average $2.60 and median $1.25 or so;

- Games and Entertainment continue to dominate the listings

Some excellent graphs on percentage by price point, free/paid share by category, etc. to be seen there as well, so we’ll just repeat our advice to go read the whole thing.

And hey, here’s your brain teaser for the day, since we’ve got all these cool trip pictures to share: Where was this shot taken last week? Hint: It was used as the Massassi Outpost on the fourth moon of Yavin in a little movie you might have heard of, name of Star Wars.

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Gimme hint: It’s in Guatemala. You can figure it out from there, I’m sure.

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DEC
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Categories: iPhone, Trolls

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iphonekicks.com

Here’s a new site for you to bookmark to keep up with news of the iPhone programming world:

http://www.iphonekicks.com/

What is iPhoneKicks.com?
iPhoneKicks.com is a community based news site edited by our members. It specialises in iPhone SDK development techniques, technologies and tools including Xcode, iPhone Simulator, Instruments, Interface Builder, SQLite, OpenGL ES, Cocoa.

Individual users of the site submit and review stories, the most popular of which make it to the homepage. Users are encouraged to ‘kick’ stories that they would like to appear on the homepage. If a story receives enough kicks, it will be promoted.

So basically, we’re talking a digg clone focused on the iPhone SDK. Well hey, we can never have too many of those, can we?

And yes, it’s been quite a while since the last post, we know. We were off adding the Caymans, Honduras, Belize and Gautemala to our places visited list. Hey, we’ve got less than 600 places left to go now!

Welcome Alex Curylo!  Your MTP ranking is #450.  You have visited 158 places and have 599 remaining.

The Troll’s top trip travel tip: If you’re in the area, do not miss Stingray City off Grand Cayman. Seriously.

No, that is not an aquarium. That is the open sea. And no, they will not give you the Steve Irwin treatment unless you do something really stupid. Barring that, they’re completely blasé about being swam with, petted, and so forth. The worst they’ll do is butt you if they think you’re not being generous enough with the treats … they have a taste for calamari sashimi. Enough of a taste to put up with the tourist crowd!

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DEC
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Categories: iPhone, Programming, Trolls

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Is it chilly in here?

My, it’s nippy out today. Brrrrrrr. That’s strange … ah, that’s what happened, Apple finally promised to drop the Fantastic NDA!

We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.

We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect…

However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released software. Developers will receive a new agreement without an NDA covering released software within a week or so…

Well, that’s certainly good news! From no longer having to worry about how to use Open Source software in development when the opened source would conflict with the NDA through being actually able to write something on this allegedly iPhone development focused blog without risking our livelihood by way of actually being able to form a public community of developers and authors around iPhone development without casually disregarding our signed word, this is certainly a bright day all around.

Not that we can blame the Fine NDA’s chilling effect for the loooooong gap in posts that some of you who actually follow this instead of just showing up here from Google have probably noticed. No, we decided September was time for a nice break, so we headed up even further north to visit some serious middle of nowhere, like this Alaskan place that calls itself The Salmon Capital Of The World,

even though of course we all know that’s actually Campbell River on Vancouver Island not some USian tourist trap. But hey, now that we’ve been to both Salmon Capitals Of The World we’re set for sure.

As well, we hit The Land Of The Midnight Sun,

although we didn’t get quite far enough north for that, bah, it was still dark at midnight for us. However, a visit’s a visit, and that gives us a nudge up at mosttraveledpeople.com:

Welcome Alex Curylo!  Your MTP ranking is #405.  You have visited 149 places and have 549 remaining.

Oh yeah! At our rate so far this year we’ll be done … in February of 2283 A.D. OK, guess we have to work a little faster then…

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OCT
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Categories: iPhone, Programming, Trolls

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Shipped! Mystery App

So, another project launched successfully yesterday; unfortunately, private label for A Very Big Company, so we can’t say what it is exactly — and believe you me we’re not doing anything else on those terms from now on! — but we would like to give a shout out to icon designer par excellence Swami Gattas, who graciously provided us with this Mystery App’s icon, which we have got approval to reproduce here for your tantalizement:

Swami\'s icon

On to the next challenge!

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APR
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Categories: Portfolio, Programming, Trolls

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Shipped! D-Star Play MPE Player

And in the first of what will certainly be a veritable plethora of posts on this humble blog announcing shipment of our manifold wildly successful development projects, tonight we bring you news that the d-Star Play MPE Player is now available to members at the d-Star MPE website. This is the Australia and New Zealand partner edition of the Play MPE Player which we first shipped a couple years back for Destiny Media Technologies, whom we’ve had a long running relationship with going back almost a decade and a half now, beginning with the port of the Giger-inspired Dark Seed II adventure game to the Mac. Yes, we build enduring relationships, indeed we do. And what is Play MPE, you ask? Well, here’s an ad for you:

Play MPE ad

Essentially, what they intend to do is eliminate the use of physical CD singles for promotion by the record industry. Their description is:

Play MPE™ Secure Media Delivery System is a secure, fast and cost effective method of digitally delivering music and music videos to radio, reviewers, media, music supervisors, industry VIPs or internal staff. The system provides ease of use while maintaining a high level of security. Registered industry professionals are able to receive promotional or pre-released singles, music videos or albums directly from the content owner as broadcast-quality digital audio and video files. The Play MPE System currently supports PC and Mac, and is available in both English and Spanish languages. It is the only digital delivery service that provides its customers with a choice of audio file export options including WAV, Scott Studios WAV, WMA and the licensed AAC (iPod) file format.

If this sounds interesting, you will no doubt be entertained and amused by their “Play MPE vs CD” commercials done in that striking “PC vs Mac” ad style. Check those out here!

Unfortunately, this is a desktop Mac application only; the Play MPE player isn’t a shippable iPhone project…

… yet.

(more…)

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Categories: Portfolio, Programming, Trolls

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Welcome.

“What’s wrong with being a troll under a bridge?” he said. “I was brought up to be a troll under a bridge. I want young Scree to be a troll under a bridge after I’m gone. What’s wrong with that? You’ve got to have trolls under bridges. Otherwise, what’s it all about? What’s it all for?”

     – Terry Pratchett, Troll Bridge

Welcome to Under The Bridge, created today with Technorati Authority rank 10,280,644. These are the chronicles of your humble host, Alex Curylo, widely known as ‘the Troll’. Expect to find herein a compendium of iPhone and iPod touch news and resources of interest to Cocoa Touch and Mobile Safari developers harvested from the wild Web; the annals of the development initiatives towards which the Troll bends his mighty efforts; and whatsoever other gallimaufries may be found piquant.

Enjoy your visit!

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APR
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Categories: Blogging, Trolls

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