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Baby sale

Aleksandar Vacić — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:48:13 +0000

My family web site will soon be updated :)

A 57cm, 3.95kg cute little package has been delivered, with both mom and the baby boy (no name yet) doing just fine. To celebrate, I have dropped the prices of all my apps down to $0.99 for the next week (until Aug 14).

Please share and re-face, re-tweet and whatever else:

Best App Ever Awards 2009

Aleksandar Vacić — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:22:41 +0000

People at 148apps.com are organizing this year’s Best App Ever Awards, in as much as 55 categories, tripling what’s available in the App Store. The way it works is that any app can be nominated, by anyone, in the appropriate category. And then you can second the nomination by visiting the appropriate URLs.

Editing sequence in Run Mate

I first heard about the competition through this post by Dan Grigsby of the Mobile Orchard fame, when I started reading blogs again after finishing initial Quickie development.

What

I nominated Quickie in the Best Productivity Enhancer category and Run Mate in the Best Outdoor Use App category. These are the links for nominations:

Quickie nomination
Run Mate nomination

If you like our apps, please visit these links to help us spread the word.

Why

Since its inception in July, Run Mate is still (to the best of my knowledge) the only running trainer app that allows you to fully customize your running plan and individual sessions. As such, I can say — with no faked modesty — it’s a welcome change in the sea of similar apps that offer hard-coded single plans. With the planned feature upgrades in the next several months, I aim for the Best running app on the store, period.

Lists view in Quickie

Quickie on the other hand is as simple as simple can go. Combining beautiful interface with simple and fast execution, Quickie is (again) a welcome refresh in the sea of GTD-monster apps. Experience tells me that most people don’t need full GTD productivity and only need a simple list of items that can be checked off and possibly an alert (n.b. alerting feature is coming in future upgrade). Quickie is a young app, but already indispensable in my daily routine — I built it because I needed it. I’m certain there’s a bunch of people that would also find it extremely useful.

Updates, updates

Aleksandar Vacić — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:43:54 +0000

Today is the 24th day since I sent Run Mate 1.1 to Apple for approval. It’s still not published, obviously. I asked Apple, they told me it’s “taking unexpected additional time for review”, will let me know when status updates etc. Whatever that means, I can only wait.

In the meantime I have completed the feature set of the 1.2 version and I’m tweaking the UI, not really satisfied with what I have now — too cluttered, too easy to make a mistake and change you might regret as user of the application. That’s all general regular work.

Main issue I have is that enduring this long wait times is really hard and discouraging. I can’t possibly send 1.2 for approval until 1.1 is live. Then I need to wait at least few weeks after 1.1 is live, in case there’re bugs and issues I missed, so I can include them in 1.2. And that means that anyone actually having issues could potentially wait over a month for a fix — unless he/she contacts me and I give him ad-hoc build to install (this is an option, please contact me if you have serious problems running the app).

So, I have not forgotten you nor abandoned the app. Things are largely out of my control here and can only further test my patience with the App Store.
Hoping for good news in the following days…

Update: 1.1 is approved on 30th day. Feedback more than welcome