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The new TopJam App

Ole — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:28:14 +0000

After being in development for months (on and off) I am happy to announce that my new iPhone App TopJam is finally nearing it's release. The App lets users watch the Youtube music videos of the most popular songs from iTunes for free. A high accuracy is ensured by the power of crowd-sourcing. Everyone who uses the app helps improve the experience for the other users!

Check out the app's website topjamapp.com or take a look at the video below. You can also follow @topjamapp on twitter to get the latest news and have a chance to win a free copy before everyone else can buy TopJam on the App Strore.

New Apps: CPH/BLL/AAL Flights

Ole — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:15:03 +0000

My 3 new applications showing flight schedules and updates for Danish airports are now live in the App Store. CPH/BLL/AAL Fligts cover Copenhagen, Billund, and AAlborg airports respectively. All apps seems to be doing fine in the App Store with CPH Flights being the best selling (currently the 7th best selling in Denmark). The first review reads (in Danish):

"Super. Hurtig og nemt og lige hvad jeg har ventet på, kan alt hvad det lover." (5/5 stars) - Jørgen

The plan is to continue to develop these flight apps and add new features. What feature would you like to see in an update?

iTunes links: CPH Flights BLL Flights AAL Flights

Apple now taking it easy on Private API rejections?

Ole — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:52:01 +0000

While the last weeks have been a bit frustrating for many iPhone developers because Apple suddenly started to reject apps that use private APIs (or had method names similar to those of Apple), it now seems Apple is loosening the grip a little. I received this response after my app had been in review for 14 days:

Dear Ole Gammelgaard Poulsen,

Thank you for submitting your update to Toginfo to the App Store. During our review of your application we found it is using a private API, which is in violation of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement section 3.3.1; "3.3.1 Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs." While your application has not been rejected, it would be appropriate to resolve this issue in your next update.

The non-public API that is included in your application is initWithWindow.

Please resolve this issue in your next update to Toginfo.

Regards,

iPhone Developer Program

So the app has been approved even though it used private APIs! I haven't seen reports of this practice before now (I might just be slow?). Anyway I think this is great and indicates that Apple actually does care about the iPhone developers even though it sometimes seems like they don't.

New update of Toginfo

Ole — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:38:03 +0000

Today an update for the free version of my popular app for tracking of Danish trains, Toginfo, hit the App Store. The new version has more information on the current status of S-trains as well as bugfixes. Get it for free in the App Store: iTunes Link.