My thoughts on iPhone OS 4.0

Update April 15 :
I stand corrected on a couple of the points below:

Push Notifications will still remain the mean of delivery of asynchronous notifications from external servers; Twitter, email and Messenger apps will still need to use these; so Urban Airship is safe
OpenFeint announced they’ll migrate their platform to build ON TOP of Apple’s [...]

Promo Code of the Day

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Every couple of days I’ll be posting promo codes for my best selling paid apps; One promo code per post, on a first come, first served. Make sure you subscribe and come back often, to be the first one to get the code and use it. If you are not from the US, [...]

Promo Code of the Day

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Every couple of days I’ll be posting promo codes for my best selling paid apps; One promo code per post, on a first come, first served. Make sure you subscribe and come back often, to be the first one to get the code and use it. If you are not from the US, learn [...]

How to create a iTunes/AppStore US account without a credit card

This article is addressed to those of you with iTunes/AppStore accounts in other countries than the US.
Why would you need a secondary, additional US AppStore account:

to download free content from iTunes US (occasionally free episodes or free songs become available on iTunes US)
to use a promotional code to get a free sample of a paid [...]

AdMob rant

There once was a fellow called Midas
Who turned into gold all he touched
Now Midas is dead,
but there’s Google instead
and all Google buys turns to ass
There you go, my first limerick. An awful one, I know it. I only have as reference the limerick that Hugh Grant told in ”Bridget Jones Diary”. Compared to it, mine [...]

Sticky items in Box2D

Since I couldn’t find much reference about this online, and since it’s extremely simple and intuitive once you think about it, I’ll write here in case it helps others as well.
Some forum says that you should edit b2Settings.h file and change b2_velocityThreshold to 0. Don’t! It’s a stupid hack and affects the entire box2D world.

Warning

Don’t say I didn’t warn you: if you are one of the developers who downloaded iPhone SDK 3.2 beta trying to get a head start in developing for the iPad, you should know that the included XCode 3.2.2 beta has a weird issue: it will throw out around 2000 build errors when trying to compile [...]

1 million downloads of Vault Breaker Free

Yesterday was a great day. No, the iPad had nothing to do with the greatness.
The number of downloads of my iPhone/iPodTouch game, Vault Breaker Free just went over 1 million. That is, 1 million iPodTouch or iPhone owners have, at some moment in time, played my game.
That’s really cool.