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20 Feb 2009Filed under: Tips and tricks , App Store Just about every conversation I have with an iPhone developer who’s had any level of App Store success eventually (usually sooner rather than later) includes the question, “what worked for you?” I’ve been trying to distill some kind of pattern — a sure-fire marketing tactic — but there are just too many variables. There are the ones which developers can control (to some extent): the general timing of a release (give or take a month), pricing , quality, external promotion, and certain aspects of the marketing process
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19 Feb 2009Filed under: Software , How-tos , Tips and tricks , TUAW Tips TJ Luoma recently shared the solution to an annoying problem. Specifically, he wanted to keep Backup’s icon from frantically jumping in the Dock like so many hepped-up toddlers in a bouncy castle. The Backup icon typically bounces in the Dock for a minute two before it even begins backing up any data. We know what you’re thinking, “Just go to the application’s preferences and disable the Dock animation.” The problem is that Backup has no preference pane! Fortunately, TJ found a fix
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17 Feb 2009Filed under: How-tos , Tips and tricks , Odds and ends You can create some wonderful visual effects with Keynote ‘09 ; good enough, in some cases, to make experienced After Effects artists say “You did that in Keynote?!,” which is always very satisfying. Despite Keynote’s power for presentations, there are a few things that it doesn’t do natively — play video during a transition, for instance. Fortunately, some of these tricks can be accomplished by a long-honored approach known as “faking it.” If you have a video playing in the background of a slide while you trigger a dissolve transition to the next slide, ordinarily you’ll see a distracting freeze of the video playback as the transition effect runs. The way around this, usable for many (not all) slide transitions, is to pull the transition forward into the slide with the video
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