December 2011
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“Hi, I have an app that I feel is pretty good, but has a shit name (Saline). I’ve...”
– unled in response to my previous post
I absolutely don’t think that would be spamming the App Store. Even if you keep the old one in for a bit to do a little A/B testing. As long as you drop one after a bit, or differentiate the two apps in some meaningful way (i.e. functionality).
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App Store Spam - 28 identical apps
In August, iOS developer George Talusan put 22 identical copies of the same app in the App Store. That’s 22 times, under 22 different names.
When I discovered this, a few months ago, I reported it to Apple immediately. Since then, he has put the same app in another 6 times, with a slightly modified UI. Apple does not seem to have responded.
I stumbled on this honeypot of apps while...
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Compile Calcurse on OS X Lion
Download calcurse-2.9.2. Later versions probably work.
Open the Terminal, cd ~/Downloads/calcurse-2.9.2.
./configure CFLAGS="-fnested-functions"
make
sudo make install
Edit: after playing with calcurse for a brief period of time, I’ve moved on to wyrd which seems like a better system.
It’s based on a unix app called remind. The only thing that bugs me is that downloading and...