Just wanted to send a thanks for all of them though, they’ve been VERY helpful in my iPhone development

- Stephen

I’ve been scouring the net for some ideas when I stumbled on your site your iCons look amazing, I was wondering if there’s a chance you can help me, I need to make a payment iCon, for banking but I’m so lost. Can you lend a hand?

thanks a bunch in advance,

Rod

Then in CJSONScanner in the scanJSONObject method I added a check at the end to see if the user wants custom objects, and that the outObject is an NSDictionary. If so I call my customObjectForDictionary method which looks like this:
{
// if the dictionary has a value for the customClassIdentifier we’ll try to
// create a custom object from it
if([theDictionary valueForKey:customClassIdentifier]) {
// we need to change the string into a class identifier
NSString *classname = [theDictionary valueForKey:customClassIdentifier];
Class class = objc_getClass([classname cStringUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]);
// test to see if the class is known to the Obj-C runtime
// and check to see if the class implements the needed method
if(class != NULL && [class respondsToSelector:@selector(objectFromDictionary:)]) {
// the class should return an autoreleased instance of itself
return [class objectFromDictionary:theDictionary];
}
}
return theDictionary;
}

This is the only approach I could come up with that made sense, and it has worked well for me. The main downside is that I have to keep my changes up to date with any changes in TouchJSON. The upside is that I keep all my custom object creation in one place.

Yes, for the really “crappy” apps that appear abandoned by their devs (made their million and ran?); or ones that have bugs that never get fixed; or ones that never get updated for 6-9-12 months; or ones that should never have been approved by apple in the first place! (such as Not Including a Cursor for Typing!!!) oh don’t even get me started, lol.

Frankly, Most of the apps are pretty bad (is it beyond devs to include all that is needed in ONE app so we don’t have to buy 3-4-5!?); or the apps are re totally shallow, mindless, and frivolous baloney (adding to the already evident “dumbing down of America”), imnsho. :-/

Another app peeve are the non-detailed Descriptions!! Plus lack of dev contact info, & on & on it goes.

I’m totally against the “New World Order Police State,” but apple needs to hire some “App Police” to go through the growing useless apps mess!

And that’s just the apps! Now let’s go after The App Store itself!! Grrr

HUGE apple BLUNDER: No “save basket” or “shopping cart” on/in iPhone app store. If you are scrolling down long lists of apps (& have to tap More several times), when you see an app you like & go buy it — because there is no place to save/store it — you Lose Your Place in the list of apps you were scrolling down & now have to go back & start over from scratch, re-tap More and More and More, etc.

Absolutely Miserable Experience! Multiply that times ever how many apps you stopped & bought that day!

SECOND HUGE apple BLUNDER: The iPhone app store Search is not worth half a cent! It does not search app descriptions but seems to only search app titles! So unless you know exactly what the title is of the app you might want, your chances of ever finding it are low, or it could take you all day. Add to that the fact devs do not always Name Their Apps to include what they do, so they don’t even show up in apple’s search!

Example: Earlier today I was hoping to find a better email app that includes bold, italics, underline, font size/style choices, colors, etc. Naturally I searched the word EMAIL and then MAIL. Zilch (except for the one that has NO CURSOR as described above!). Now at a loss of word to search for next, Editor came to mind (as in Rich Text Editor) and this time an app showed up with title of HTML MAIL! Hmmp! So why didn’t that show up earlier when I searched for MAIL? It would have saved me wasting a buck on the No Cursor email app. :-/

To end this rant on a productive note, everyone send ALL your gripes to apple via their iPhone feedback link here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html. I sent them a long list the other day.

Additionally, I make good use of the “Submit A Report” option at the bottom of every app in the app store, even if there’s not a bug, you can check the option “My Concern Not Listed Here” & enter whatever you don’t like about the app (of course you have to have bought the app to be able to do that; ditto for leaving a Review, which helps other customers but does little to let apple or the dev know of your concerns, bugs, or peeves.)

BTW, what’s wrong with google? (aside from its Big-Brother-like data-mining capabilities). Can’t see apple and google hooking up anyway, or did they kiss and make up?

OK, enough for one day, eh?

Other than that, I’m super LOVING this cute little iPhone-BLOG of yours!! I want one!! I’m thinking, forget the hassle of a real website, & just have instead several mini stores & mini blogs on the iPhone; & then get you guys to make Pheeder apps for each!

So what’s a mini iPhone blog cost to set up?
And a mini iPhone store site? (I see the iWebKit download let’s people build their own little store, not sure about blogs, though.)

Larger font size would be a necessity, though, for us 55 over types. . And definitely livelier colors for us females vs black/grey.