Category: blog

Is the Triangle really an App Hotbed?

I was reviewing a study that I heard Leo Laporte talk about on MacBreak weekly, that claims that the App Economy has created 466,000 jobs in the last few years.  The article can be found on cNet.  I downloaded the report from TechWeb and saw this graphic – . According to this study North Carolina […]

Twitter integration for Wasted Time

So, now that we got the persistance across sessions and meeting restart functions approved and on the app store, it’s time to really focus on Twitter integration.  We are glad we hadn’t gotten to far before this time, since Twitter has officially shut down all apps that are using simple integrations.  So now we have […]

Latest Updates

We think we are only a couple of days away from submitting the next version to Apple for the App Store.  Data storage and retrieval between running session is within sight.  Trying to decide if we should wait for twitter integration or submit this version first.

Data Persistence Across Platforms

We are currently looking at Android for a version of WastedTime…Today when you purchase the iPhone app, you get a fully functioning iPad app two, not some cheap pixel doubling app.  Given this, you may find yourself, like I do, having to chose between the iPhone and the iPad version for all your meetings during […]

Clocks and Calendars

Ok, two graphics so far… Not really happy with the calendar, but really like the clock.. thoughts?? comments???   These are early drafts… and the days of the week on the calendar are not consistent.. (learning new tricks in Photoshop – may need to get a book 🙂 ).

Ideas for graphics

In the last post, we indicated we were working on improving the graphics for Wasted Time.  Here are a couple of suggestions we are working with… Feedback is appreciated: 1) For the toggle on hourly verses salary rates A) Hourly would be represented by a clock.  B) Salary would be represented by a calendar 2) […]

What’s going on in 1.2?

So, we continued to have slow and steady sales so far.  It’s pretty cool to see where our next sale is coming in from each day.  In the mean time, we are working on more improvements to create version 1.2.  These include:   Disallowing the paste feature – some of our users have been playing […]