I’ve had to increase the price of Wasted Time across all platforms to $0.99. Currently if you buy for one platform you have access across all (except for VisionOS). I am hoping to add a new feature for a fall launch!
Author: Michael Rowe
Greet Keeper – how it works
I realize that my design is not always intuitive so I decided to put together a simple (ha!) video of how my latest app works. The app is both simple and powerful. The basic premise is you have control of what types of cards (or events) you’d like to track. You create your own galleries […]
Greet Keeper for VisionOS Submitted
This year I plan on making sure that any app I work on is available on at least three Apple platforms. To that end, I have updated my Greet Keeper application, which tracks greeting cards, to run via SwiftUI on VisionOS. I know it doesn’t yet really take advantage of Spatial computing, but I wanted […]
WWDC 2024 Impressions and insights
As expected, WWDC 24 was all about AI. Of course we are talking about “Apple Intelligence”. This week is my yearly “education-vacation” and it has been overwhelming in the complexity of some of the sessions I have gone through. While most of the keynote was about cool new features and better integrations of App Intents […]
Open Sourcing Greeting Keeper
While my post about Greeting Keeper being available had somehow got stuck in draft, I am posting a second blog entry to talk about the challenges that the app has had and what I am trying to do about it. First, shortly after releasing the app, and buying the first copy myself, I put out […]
Greeting Keeper Released
Well, after writing, rewriting, refactoring, and replatforming for six year, I have finally released a personal project to the App Store. Greeting Keeper has gone thru UIKit, SwiftUI, CoreData, CloudKit, and SwiftData to become a pretty useful app. It does, however, have two major bugs, that crept in during the release, and I am trying […]
A VisionPro-ductive Week
It’s been a solid week now with the Apple Vision Pro. When I got it last Saturday, I provided a before and after view of the experience as part of my Weekly Podcasts Games At Work dot Biz (you can find it here Episode 452 – Before and After ). Since then, in order to […]
Always learning new things
Yesterday I went to #Unwrap Live 2024. This online, all day, SwiftUI programming class by Paul Hudson from Hacking With Swift fame, was all about the Apple Vision Pro this year. I love the way Paul explains code, techniques, and APIs. The other valuable thing is, he is willing to rathole on a question that […]
Wasted Time Pro – Launch Date
Well, I’ve finally done it. I have submitted an app that will launch on the same day as a new piece of Apple hardware. I have taken my simple application – Wasted Time, and did a total re-write over the last year to better take advantage of SwiftUI and the latest Swift APIs. I changed […]
SwiftData / SwiftUI Combo Frustrations
The last few posts have been about my re-write of my personal application to address greeting cards. This has been a very frustrating effort as I’ve tried to restructure the app’s UI to better adhere to Apple’s design principles in order to allow the user edit both a recipient’s Address and to add their own […]