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		<title>Just buy it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever some software shows up that might make my job easier, my initial, gut reaction is &#8216;no, I can do fine without it&#8217;. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not alone in feeling that, and I&#8217;m sure plenty of people listen to that reaction and go on to make do without.
But that is wrong. I have learned to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://majicjungle.com/blog/?p=444</link>
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		<title>Chopper 2 Postmortem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
In the past few months, I often stopped coding to imagine this very moment. When times got tough and the end looked to be getting further away, I imagined sitting on a deck chair by a pool in the sun, Chopper 2 sitting in the App Store top 100, beer at my side, and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://majicjungle.com/blog/?p=283</link>
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		<title>Making of the Chopper 2 trailer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve made a number of iPhone videos in the past couple of years. One of the first was of DuckDuckDuck
That was so awful I tried again. Notably it claims to be &#8216;Better Quality&#8217; which is a bit of a joke. The focus is perhaps a little better, but it&#8217;s still terrible. The DuckDuckDuck 2.0 trailer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://majicjungle.com/blog/?p=273</link>
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		<title>Launch orientation in iOS 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is just a very quick post, showing code I found I needed to deal with the way my app was launched on iOS4. In a nutshell I was finding that iOS4 would launch my app upside down (UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft) when the iPhone was being held in the UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight orientation. I then wasn&#8217;t ever getting notified that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://majicjungle.com/blog/?p=270</link>
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		<title>Color profiles and pngcrush</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve wanted to do this blog post for some time, but have been a bit hesitant, because it&#8217;s a complicated subject, and I&#8217;m not 100% certain on all the details. But I have had enough frustration and learned enough from it that I should be able to pass on some useful knowledge. If I do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://majicjungle.com/blog/?p=264</link>
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		<title>Obligation games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a user I have stayed away from all these games. I&#8217;ve still never played Farmville, and I didn&#8217;t play &#8216;We Rule&#8217; for ages. I could see what they were about, and knew they were just a drug.
But as a developer, I should have looked at them a lot earlier. I have spent hours over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://majicjungle.com/blog/?p=261</link>
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		<title>Put links in your lite versions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hope I&#8217;m preaching to the converted here, but I made the mistake, so chances are someone else might too.
Chopper Lite has been available for nearly a year now. It is getting between 1000 and 3000 downloads a day, has been for months, and before that it was getting many more.
How many sales does that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://majicjungle.com/blog/?p=259</link>
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		<title>Movies are awesome but&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Movies are awesome to watch in the theatre… but…
Why make all the effort to go to the movies, when you can watch HD Blu-rays at home a little later, only a little worse, and eventually a little cheaper. A PS3 and a decent sound system isn&#8217;t far behind.
But I don&#8217;t pick up many Blu-rays. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://majicjungle.com/blog/?p=252</link>
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		<title>App Store gifting scam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE &#8211; I had made the incorrect assumption that apps could be gifted using an account balance loaded from gift cards. This is not the case. Gifted apps require payment by credit card, as kindly pointed out in the comments by Zeno Popovici and verified by myself. I regret the error, and have modified this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://majicjungle.com/blog/?p=246</link>
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		<title>Universal iPad Apps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I am writing this blog post, the iPad is less than two weeks from launch. Developers have three days to submit iPad apps if they want them considered for the &#8216;Grand opening of the iPad App Store&#8217;. But us developers are a little unsure on one thing.
To be universal or not to be universal. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://majicjungle.com/blog/?p=242</link>
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