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AppStore Piracy Prevention
As a developer it’s extremely frustrating when you’ve worked on an app for months upon months and after release on the app store as a paid app, you find it cracked and free for anybody that doesn’t want to pay. I made this mistake on the first application I released on the app store, a week or so after release I found version 1.0 scattered all over the web.
It would have been best to implement piracy checks from the beginning, but this had to be part of the 1.1+ update. Since 1.0 I have released versions 1.1 and 1.2, and have only seen version 1.1 ‘cracked’ and uploaded to websites, but I have tested this out myself, and my piracy checks do exactly what they are supposed to do, crash the app rendering it useless. Continue
Posted in General Thoughts, How to guides, Reviews
Tagged anitcrack, appstore, crackulous, hackulous, ios, iPad, iPhone, obfuscation, piracy, prevention
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Here’s our first Vlog !
So here at b2cloud, we decided to start a video blog to basically interact with our dear readers through video as well as text. You’ll get to know us all a little better, and keep posted because we have heaps of cool videos coming up!
Internet Scams 101
There are many nasty things to watch out for when using the internet, but unfortunately some people are still unaware of many basic ways to stay safe while online. Last week somebody I know had their email account hacked due to a phishing email that was circulating. I have compiled a list of things to look out. Continue
Kaching App Review (well…kind of)
A couple of weeks ago I caught a glimpse of an advertising banner for Commonwealth Bank’s new iPhone App called Kaching (pronounced ka-a-ching not cacheing). What caught my attention was that you could pay for goods from your transaction accounts, by simply touching your iPhone to a PayWave receiver. Really???? I thought this was only for cards and RFID. I couldn’t resist seeing this in action, but I’m not a Comm bank customer. So a quick stroll to the local branch, signed up a basic account, agreed to a $4 a month fee and I was ready to roll with … Continue
Posted in Reviews
Tagged app, bank. comm bank, commonwealth, commonwealth bank, fail, iPhone, iphone app, kaching, Review
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Improving iPhone battery life
Over the last couple of weeks it seems my iPhone’s battery has been running dry a lot quicker than before. I knew a lot of different ways to improve battery life, but mine was still draining faster than I was used to. I decided to dig around to find out what the problem was, which turned out to be a location services issue. Continue
Specifying keyboard type for web forms on mobile devices
Who gets annoyed when they have to switch their mobile keyboard over to the number pad each time they have to enter a phone number in a web form? With some very simple HTML5 code I am going to show you have you can enhance someones user experience with your web forms so the right keyboard for the job shows up automatically. Continue
Retain Loops and Delegates
When using delegates in an object in Objective-C it is important that the delegate is only assigned within your object, and never retained. The reason for this is to prevent a retain loop, where two objects retain each other; they will never be released. The fix is simple, but can catch you off guard if you want to create an array or dictionary of delegates (using an NSDictionary or NSArray). Continue
Posted in How to guides, Tutorial
Tagged array, dealloc, delegate, ios, iPad, iPhone, mac, memory leak, nonretainedObjectValue, nsarray, nsvalue, objective c, release, retain, retain loop
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Lets lose the extra holiday calories
Many of us are already making diet plans for the rest of 2012 while others are still in holiday mode. Either way, there are some guidelines you have to keep in mind in order to achieve your dietary goals.
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Tagged calories, carbs, diet, fat burning, gym, protein, weight loss
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A Client Server Affair
Damien from AgentPlus talks about a recent experience with the b2cloud team in developing web services. Continue
Posted in General Thoughts
Tagged Agentplus, app, encryption, guid, iPhone, JSON, memberID, payload, security
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A tribute to Adobe Flash
Some of my fondest technology memories came from Flash. Here I write about some of the memories while we begin saying our goodbyes to a technology that inspired us all. Continue
Posted in General Thoughts
Tagged Adobe Flash, cancelled, finished, gabocorp, jobs, mobile flash, mobile web
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