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iPhone App Store Ratings Confuse Me

Monday, December 29th, 2008

OK…the iPhone App Store rating system confuses the hell out of me.  First of all, one my apps shows almost 2000 reviews, but when I go to look at them, all I see are 186.  WTF?!?!?!  Also, in order to even see that many, I have to sort by “Most Recent”.  Also, one my apps show that I have 9 reviews with an average rating of 3.5 stars.  When I look at the ratings…first of all, I can only see 5 and all of them are 4 and 5 stars, no matter how I sort them, so my rating should be 4.5 stars, correct?  I obviously can’t see the 3 and lower reviews, but I must have them or else my rating wouldn’t be 3.5 stars.  UGH!!!!!

Just venting.  Thanks!

Updates coming soon

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

I have some big updates for all apps coming soon.  I have been battling with time and am trying to focus as much toward my apps as possible.  Darn life getting in the way of stuff!!

Plaxo is awesome!

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Here is the scenario…I put a new contact into my computer this morning.  All I had was the person’s first name and email address.  I did not know the person’s last name and I thought this could pose a problem in the future, but it wasn’t THAT big of a deal.  So, back to the story…I put the first name and email into my address book and didn’t think much of it after that.  I also use MobileMe (the old Mac.com) and was looking at the phone to see if the “pushed” data was working.  I expected to see the name and email in my phone as I had entered it.  This was not the case.  What I found was the person’s full name, title, company and email address…all the information I needed.  I was briefly amazed, and then quickly surmised what had happened.  I also have Plaxo installed on my Mac.  What had happened was that I entered the information into my computer.  Plaxo immediately synced my address book with my online address book on Plaxo, recognized the email address I had for that person and checked its database for any matches.  It noticed that it had a match and then automatically updated my address book on my computer.  Being that I have MobileMe contact info pushed directly to my phone, the updated information was also placed on my phone.  Amazing!!  Plaxo is awesome!

Welcome!

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Hey, everyone!  I think I’m finally ready to start getting my site together. Hopefully I’ll have the generic WordPress theme updated to my actual design soon.  The purpose of this site is to post some of my thoughts on things I’m interested in and hopefully some of that information will be worthwhile to others as well.  I’m big time into all things Apple, so I’ll probably tend to talk a lot about that.  I owe everything that I have been able to achieve in my career to my Apple knowledge, so it’s obviously something I’m passionate about.  I am a web-developer too, so I plan on putting together a nice little library of things I have done and, again, hopefully they will prove useful to others.  I’ll keep it at that for now.  I look forward to adding many more articles soon.  Later!!