This will be me blogging about Minamisenju. I’ve been living here for more than two years now and so far, it has been good. Having a reputation of home for day-laborers slash cheap accommodations for backpackers allowed Minamisenju to provide a location that is relatively cheap but is still close to the heart of the…
Playing Tennis in Tokyo
Tokyo is not really the ideal place if you want to play tennis on a regular basis. Tennis courts are hard reserve and they can be expensive, especially the private indoor ones. After living here for more than four years, I found several ways to satisfy my craving to play tennis. Enroll in Tennis schools…
Latin and English
Just as Latin eventually diverged into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and French… English will eventually diverge into British, American, Canadian, and Australian. It has already began…
New Blogger Templates
It’s about time Blogger updates it’s templates! For the longest time, WordPress has been the runaway winner in this regard but I think with the new Blogger templates, Blogger is giving WordPress a little run for their money.
iAd goes live on July 1st
I want to be one of the firsts to offer an iAd-enabled app come July 1st so better start working on the free add-supported version of Message Scrambler. I believe Apple will start accepting apps later this week. iAd, here I come.
iPhone Supported Fonts
Here is an interesting blog/article, with code example, on how to list all supported fonts on the iPhone. Click here.
NSUserDefaults not getting my Settings.bundle defaults
I had an problem earlier this week, where the first time I install my app on the simulator or on the device, it would not get the settings from my Settings.bundle. All the strings would appear nil. I would only be able to get the strings correctly if I modify the values from my app’s…
Orientation Lock For The iPhone
Finally! Apple is working on orientation locks and it looks like it’s going to be a feature for iPhone 4.0, which is due this summer. This feature first arrived in Beta 3. This has been a common problem for people who like reading news and articles while in bed (me! me!). More details here.
iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 3 Again
It appears Beta 3 is out again! The guys at Apple HQ in the US must have stayed up the whole night trying to fix the problem with the Beta they released earlier today and now it’s ready. I’m currently downloading it as I write this. It’s a good thing most of the western world…
iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 3
Was so excited to hear it was out today, but when I checked the Developer site to download it, it wasn’t there. Looks like it was pulled by Apple because of some issues. More details here, including a hack to download the Beta 3 firmware if you really really want it, although personally, I wouldn’t…
"Upload Received" to "Ready for Sale"
My first iPhone application, Message Scrambler, is now ready for sale!!! Looking at the status history of this app, it took only eight days from the day I submitted it until the day it was approved. April 22, 2010 – Upload ReceivedApril 22, 2010 – Waiting For ReviewApril 28, 2010 – In ReviewApril 29, 2010…
Waiting for Approval
Searching the web how normally it takes for Apple to approve an application and the usual answer I get is 2 weeks. I’ve been waiting for one week already. One more week to go. Can’t wait. Apple, hurry up! 😀
Enrico in Tokyo 