Archive for March, 2009

Beta testers for iphone app needed

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

I’m looking for beta testers for a new iphone app. If you’re interested, please sign up here

Megawords is now available on the app store

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Megawords has finally got approved by Apple and is available on the app store here

Automating screenshot cropping and conversion for iPhone app store submission

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

If you develop applications for the iPhone, one of many tedious aspects of submitting to the app store is making the application screenshots for upload.

You have to:

  • Take snapshots on the phone
  • Grab them with iPhoto
  • Crop the status bar on each image
  • Convert from PNG to JPEG for each image

This is especially soul destroying as you have to do it every time the application changes.

Well, the good news is that Gregory Furmanek has put together a nice little ruby script that automates the last two steps for you using RMagick, and makes web thumbnails while it’s at it.

Sweet.