Spam is getting more and more targeted. With contact details blurred to protect the, erm, guilty...

I love how they insinuate that this in response to some enquiry I made, somehow hoping I'm so busy I'll presume I forgot about it or something.

I'm tempted to try to get an SDK and some hardware samples out of them...

Just a quick pointer to this post by my alter-ego on the Other Things blog. The first apps using the reader from Eucalyptus are out now, they're, insanely greatly, the full Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy trilogy (yes, all five books!), and I'm delighted with them. It's also been a pleasure working with everyone involved.

You really should buy them - I'm heartily enjoying rereading the books. And I swear I'd say that even if I wasn't involved in their release :-). "More enhanced" editions with additional "extras," - which will be free upgrades - are also coming soon.

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I try not to talk about things here and on the Other Things Blog at the same time, but I think this is cool enough that I'm going to make an exception.

The promotional notebooks I had made for Eucalyptus arrived today, and they're great!

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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 ...