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by rbritton 16y ago
I believe the effectiveness of Facebook advertising in general depends totally on what you're trying to sell. We tried it briefly for about a three-month stint and didn't get a single conversion. We targeted engaged women in the 20-30 age b
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http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#qa/qa2010/qa1588.htm...
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I've tried to do this with my own app before. I ran into difficulties doing it, if I remember right, because the orientation data is not fully initialized at the point in the launch sequence that you need it. It always reports the default o
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by rbritton 16y ago
With regard to your first paragraph, have you tried disabling "Safe Sleep"? I do this on all my MBPs because I find it makes sleep more flakey. http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2007030221032892...
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I'm less concerned about the usable I/O life than I am with the ability (or lack there of) to recover if and when flash memory fails -- data recovery is very grim on flash memory in my experience. We recently had a CF card die in the time b
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by rbritton 16y ago
The product ordering software for every photographer-centric company I've ever dealt with is written in Java. Given that a large portion of photographers use Macs, this could have a big impact there.
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If you do option 2, you will have to eat the transaction costs with most credit card processors.
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by rbritton 16y ago
I've been toying with it a bit today, and it's definitely the best recipe manager I've tried out on the iPad. In no particular order, some notes: - When entering the recipe name consider changing the autocapitalizationType property on that
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by rbritton 16y ago
An increase in claims from 2.8% to 4.7% sure sounds a lot higher when phrased as "iPhone 4 owners are reporting accidents 68% more frequently than iPhone 3gs owners". It's enough to make their following claim of "the iPhone 4 had 82% more b
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by rbritton 16y ago
I make more from my iPad app Portfolio ( http://ipadportfolioapp.com/ ) than my other source of income. I could definitely live on just the app sales alone if it keeps up.
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by rbritton 16y ago
Just one small nit: Website Payments Pro was raised to $30/mo a little bit back. We used this for some time and it worked reasonably well, but there are other options that don't cost as much. We use a combination of our own merchant account
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Think of what great software activation schemes they will make!
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The end of life of Windows 2k in July hopefully will mean this will change soon. Thankfully many companies will upgrade once there is no support whatsoever for their current OS.
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The most important question for me is have they improved the compression and resizing quality at all? Historically Facebook's treatment of uploaded images has severely degraded them, often to the point where an originally sharp image looks
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by rbritton 16y ago
My experience with Netgears has been that once you reach a certain level of bandwidth usage, the router is unable to cope with it, freezes up, and requires a hard reboot. I've hit this point with a WRT54G running dd-wrt as well, but I've n
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by rbritton 16y ago
Don't forget the times when it just puts up some mysterious error that requires you to re-enter the store and try again. The whole thing has become the poster child for feature-creep. Have you ever tried just browsing the App Store? It's
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A human can be the endpoint for responses to that machine though. Our ordering system sends machine-generated emails for receipts. The From address delivers to us, and in the event someone hits reply (in which case you can usually get the
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I received an email this morning from someone thinking of buying my app but saying this: "Yours seems like it is headed in the right direction, but I am unwilling to shell out $15 considering the UI and stability issues that some users are
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No sign of a SDK for it yet that I can find, unfortunately.
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Your experience echoes mine. There are only two situations where I use the full-resolution image, and I had to go to great lengths to make sure NOTHING else was loaded. The rest of the time it uses pre-rendered representations at various
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I haven't done any real investigation on the whole thing, but the general feeling I get about the whole thing is that over time, system-related processes may hold on to more and more memory. I don't know what specifically is doing it or wh
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I don't know. But it'll usually give you the memory, send the level 2 memory warning (level 3 is kill), and then kill you shortly after. The memory warning is supposed to be a warning to release cached data, so it's sort of hard to releas
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In my experience the #1 cause of "crashes" is being killed by the memory watchdog. An app I publish deals with photos, and I ran into such a problem with people trying to load in massive photos that I had to enforce an artificial pixel-siz
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$60k would be great if that were all income, but the majority of it isn't. After everything is accounted for (product cost, equipment depreciation, studio space, updated samples, advertising, etc), the profit amounts to 20-30% of it We sp
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The pricing for a weddings-only photographer is largely based on the number of bookings they will do in a year and their demand. All else being equal, the $6k one is likely in more demand than the $3k one. That demand is almost entirely b
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Decent, though I'm personally not a fan of the faux coloring or the frequent tilting that seems to be the trend lately. But, she's in the Bay area. That's one of the most saturated markets in the US, and some of the best photographers I k
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$170k for a photography degree is asinine. I am a photographer, and the field is more like 90% business and 10% photography. If nothing else, the years of running the business have taught me that people don't necessarily want the ultra-ar
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Here's one then from a 15-year Mac user: The printing system sucks. I have a large selection of printers, most of which cannot print the same paper sizes that the others can print; one of the sizes most commonly lacking is a #10 envelope.
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We have Comcast at our business location and they do something similar. Internet is something like $63/mo and Internet + cable is $68. We switched over to them after Qwest notified us that their DSL rate was going up 20%: $65 for 1.5 Mbps
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I think there needs to be some sort of middle ground. Brides are a very unique set of users and quite a bit different from the average user set of any given site. They will picture themselves in your pictures if possible, and pretty pictu

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