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Earlier today I received a phone call from an Apple representative. He was very complimentary about Eucalyptus. We talked about the confusion surrounding its App Store rejections, which I am happy to say is now fully resolved. He invited me to re-build and submit a version of Eucalyptus with no filters for immediate approval, and that full version is now available on the iPhone App Store.

Since my previous post, I've been so pleased with the overwhelmingly positive articles, blog posts, comments and tweets - and also the emails from ...

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Update

The situation has now been resolved. Read more in my later blog entry.

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If you're wondering why Eucalyptus is not yet available, it's currently in the state of being 'rejected' for distribution on the iPhone App Store. This is due to the fact that it's possible, after explicitly searching for them, to find, download from the Internet, and then read texts that Apple deems 'objectionable'. The example they have given me is a Victorian text-only translation of the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana. For the full background, a ...

If you’ve missed my frantic Twitter announcements, check out eucalyptusapp.com to see what I’ve been up to.  I hope you like it.

That’s all for now.  More from behind-the-scenes of Eucalyptus to come here in the future

“150-300 ms - Occupant becomes aware of collision.”

Catching up on my RSS reading, my eyes were drawn to this article, from the excellent “Mind Hacks” blog (which you really should subscribe to if your feed selection could do with some broadening). The drive of the article is just how slow a human is to react to a fast-changing situation - that a person in a car crash is not actually aware of it until after it’s ‘complete’. Their timeline of a crash, however, also gives an amazing insight into just how much self-analysis a modern car ...

“The Application “Application Name” was not installed on the iPhone “iPhone Name” because it could not be verified.”

I seem to have the worst luck with creating ad-hoc-provisioned iPhone apps. Fresh from discovering this when trying to release the last beta version of my app, I was hit with another problem with the same outward symptoms this time. Here it is, for web-posterity too, in the hope that it may save others from the hours of frustration and completely unnecessary futzing with certificates, keys, and the iPhone Program Portal site:

Don’t have files with colon characters (‘:’, displayed as ‘/’ ...