One of the things I was most looking forward to when I first began writing iphone apps was to see what sort of awesome tools apple would have for me to use to track my sales and trends.

So far I actually couldn’t be more disappointed by what’s on offer. Maybe I’ve just gotten spoiled by things like google analytics, but it’s very weird that everything is in a dry table view with no graphs or pretty charts whatsoever. No sorting or grouping, even! Perhaps I’m supposed to use excel or something. Maybe later on I will....

Today is a pretty special day for me. I just came online to check my email and waiting for me were two emails from Apple letting me know that the two iPhone applications I submitted to the App Store have been approved and their statuses have changed to ready for sale.

The two applications, called Clax and BCD Clock, were my first ‘real’ iPhone applications, and the first ones I’ve submitted to the App Store....

Like every other go-go 80s dollar jockey, one of my first actions on my iPhone was to setup my email accounts.

This is where I ran into a problem. I’d select GMail from the list, but for some reason POP was required, and no matter what I tried I couldn’t use IMAP....

Today my wife and I felt it was time to throw away our crappy LG Chocolates in favor of some iPhones.

My initial thoughts were that the iPhone was far better engineered than the lowly Chocolate. I mean, come on, why would you put touch sensitive buttons in the exact same area that your cheek goes if they aren’t disabled at key times? An even better question is why this new trend in sliding phones exists? None of them have any sort of a locking mechanism, and thus all of them will freely slide open in your pocket and the precious touch sensitive buttons on the outer face plate will get abused raw. Anybody for modified contacts by denim?...