This short 10 question quiz will try to categorize your political leanings (left liberal, right conservative, centrist, libertarian, or statist). A great conversation starter!
CheckPlease the most downloaded tip calculator on the AppStore is now available for the iPad for $0.99.I told several people I was going to be submitting 3.1 of PocketMoney to Apple this week, but an issue came up with the syncing to the desktop version of PocketMoney that needs to be fixed so it is delayed for a little longer. More news to come.
PoketMoney 3.1 delayed
July 29th, 2010PocketMoney for Desktops 1.0 beta 5
July 28th, 2010I’ve posted information about PocketMoney for Desktops 1.0b5 to the forums. See this post:
Today! 1.0.1 and Today! with Ads available
July 12th, 2010Mail, Messages, and Phone all show a badge when you have things to do in them, but Calendar is missing this crucial piece of information so that allows you to quickly view what you have left to do today without needing to open Calendar. Today! gives you this info and more…
❑ Red badge on icon shows you at a glance how many appointments you still have.
❑ Shows all information you need about appointment time, location, and notes for the appointment without needing extra taps.
❑ Integrates with Maps so you can tap on location to open the route to your next appointment.
❑ Pick which calendars to show in appointments for today.
Note1: Location Services are used to figure out your current location when plotting your route in Maps.
Note2: If you make changes in Calendar for appointments happening today, then you should reopen Today! so it can get the new changes.
Buy Today! $2.99 (no ads to get in your way)
Download Today! with Ads (FREE, supported by advertisers)
Today! – appointment counts, map integration,
June 29th, 2010[Update: I've removed Today! from AppStore due to a bug many users are experiencing. We think it is related to users with a large number of calendar events coupled with an inefficient query we were doing to cause the startup to take too long which results in the iOS terminating the application. When version 1.0.1 is approved by Apple, then I'll make it available again.]
Take a look at Today! on the AppStore
Apple’s AppStore review process better, but still takes too long — harms customers
June 29th, 2010PocketMoney users recently experienced one of the negative side effects of Apple’s long AppStore review process… which recently happened after users upgraded to iOS 4.0 and installed version 3.0.6 of PocketMoney that among other things fixed some issues related to iOS 4.0, but a very serious bug was also introduced in 3.0.6.
This bug that caused transactions to switch accounts is my fault, and version 3.0.6 should have never have been released with this bug, but it was released and now I need to learn from my mistakes.
The mistakes that are in my control can be fixed to a certain extent with the proper testing, and I plan on adding notifications to my applications so I have a way to directly communicate with customers when serious issues happen.
What I don’t have control of is the AppStore review process, and it is something that after 16 years in the software industry I still trying to adapt to. Typically if a serious bug arose in any of my apps on other platforms I’d release a fix immediately and very few users would ever be affected. But, the AppStore’s “review lag” takes a serious bug is turns it into a disaster for not just a few customers, but for multitudes of customers.
Requesting Apple to expedite the process helps, but still isn’t fast enough. It must be immediate. I’m willing to pay $10k or something to Apple to be able to instantly approve updates. Yes, make us send new apps through the review process to make sure they conform with all of Apple’s guidelines, but put updates post-approval process so we can get urgent updates out immediately.
PocketMoney 3.0.7 for iOS has been approved
June 28th, 2010PocketMoney 3.0.7 for iOS has been approved – fixes the transactions switching accounts bug among other things. (see this post for details)
My Wedding is this Saturday
June 24th, 20103.0.7 of PocketMoney is submitted. I’m logging off the computer. Packing my car. Hoping I don’t forget anything and driving to VT to get ready for my wedding on Saturday.
To do list:
Thurs:
Pick up tuxes
Pick up Will from airport
Have drinks with the guys
Friday:
Golf
Rehearsal dinner
Saturday:
Paintball
Wedding
Sunday:
Watch USA in World Cup.
Bring Will back to airport.
(In there includes doing any running around that Heidi asks of me, and still checking work email and forums.)
The wedding gets lost in that whole list of stuff. 
(there now bold, italic, underlined, and colored)
PocketMoney 3.0.7 submitted – fixes transactions moving between accounts
June 24th, 2010I have submitted 3.0.7 of PocketMoney and PocketMoney LITE to Apple. I have also requested a priority review for the full version of PocketMoney. Apple doesn’t like giving apps priority reviews often, and hopefully they will grant one for PM 3.0.7 even though they recently gave PM 3.0.6 a priority review due to the keyboard issue. I will have 4 other apps in the review queue at the same time so I made it clear I only need PM with priority review and not any of the others.
Fixes in 3.0.7 of PocketMoney
• Fix for the auto complete transactions switching the account of transactions (See this post for full details and workaround)
• Fix for email partner feature causing a crash
• Fix for deleting a split entry causing a crash
• Backwards compatibility for iOS 3.1.3 devices.
• Sub-sub-categories rollup in reports (along with a preference > display > reports to disable subcategory grouping)
• Fixed mime time on PocketMoneyDB.sql backup file when emailing.
Auto-complete transaction issue in 3.0.6 of PocketMoney
June 23rd, 2010There is an bug in 3.0.6 of PocketMoney that many users will experience. It’s my fault for rushing to get the fix for the keyboard released for iOS 4.0 and one of the features I added at the last minute was sufficiently tested.
If you are entering the payee to autocomplete a transaction, and PocketMoney finds a transaction that matches the payee in a different account than your current, it will pull the info into the new transaction like always, but the transaction that it matched will have it’s account changed to your current account too. This will cause both your account balances to become screwed up.
There are two workarounds to this until I get 3.0.7 out.
1). Enter the transaction. Then go back to the transaction that got moved to your current account and move it back to the original account. This can be bothersome if the transaction it matches happened long ago or if you don’t know what account it came from.
2) Probably the better solution is to create a new transaction and modify the category field first. This will cause PocketMoney not to try to do a transaction lookup and then you can enter enter the To/From and the amount.
3) If you duplicate a transaction and then modify the duplicated transaction it will also not try to do the transaction lookup.
I’ll have this bug fixed in 3.0.7 and I will also have 3.0.7 backwards compatible to iOS 3.1.3 so that original iPhone and iPod Touch first generation users can continue to use PM.
MPG 1.3 submitted to Apple for review
June 19th, 2010I submitted MPG 1.3 for iOS to Apple last night for review.
Fixes decimal point keyboard bug on iOS 4.0.
Fixed posting transactions from MPG to PocketMoney that had & in the transaction.
Initial support for iPad, but a lot more coming.