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Swap It named “Best App for Beaming Text and Photos”

Robert Hodgen — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:25:57 +0000

O'Reilly Best iPhone Apps

Swap It, my iPhone App for swapping pasteboards (clipboards) using Bluetooth has been featured on O’Reilly’s Best iPhone Apps site and named Best App for Beaming Text and Photos.

It is an honor to see Swap It rated as a Top Pick by a well known site and media outlet such as O’Reilly.

Read O’Reilly’s Best iPhone Apps post of Swap It here.
Swap It’s official website.
Get Swap It in the iTunes Store.

Apple featured my iPhone app Swap It

Robert Hodgen — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:54:49 +0000

So Apple has decided to feature my latest application for iPhone and iPod touch, Swap It. This is the second time Apple has featured software that I’ve written, albit this is the first time in iTunes.

Swap It Featured in iTunes

It is currently under the New and Noteworthy category, which is highlighted on the App Store page in iTunes. It’s also visible about half way down on the iPhone’s App Store app under Featured.

For anyone who’s reading my blog but hasn’t yet heard of Swap It, read more about it at SwapItApp.com. Swap It is my take on pasteboard sharing for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Swap It is in the App Store

Robert Hodgen — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:43:30 +0000

Like I previously mentioned, Swap It was approved by Apple earlier and it just went live in the App Store a few minutes ago. Be sure to check it out in the App Store http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=333177120&mt=8. It costs 99-cents and I hope you’ll check it out, and should you purchase it that you’ll enjoy it.

My new iPhone App, Swap It

Robert Hodgen — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:35:27 +0000

Swap It Icon

For the last several months I’ve been working on my next iPhone app for iPhone and iPod touch, Swap It. Swap It is an App that lets you swap or share your iPhone’s pasteboard (clipboard) with another user of Swap It.

Swap It is scheduled for release on October 12, 2009 (tomorrow). Look for it in the iTunes App Store.

My iPhone App has been featured on TUAW

Robert Hodgen — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:57:53 +0000

TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) featured my iPhone and iPod touch application Calcutipr in their recent series of posts for WWDC Demos. While I was in San Francisco for Apple’s 2009 WWDC I went by and gave a demo for a blogger from TUAW, who was asking developers to come by and give demonstrations of their apps. I took advantage of this opportunity to get the word out about my app.

I can’t claim TUAW’s post as a review of Calcutipr, it more or less just mentioned it while sending a shout out to all tip calculators in the App Store. My app shared the post with another tip app, Gratuitous. You can read TUAW’s post on tip calculators here.

It seems like most comments on blogs or in App Store reviews I read of tip calculators almost always get the “I don’t need one” response. While I cannot say these comments/reviews are constructive, they have nothing to do with individual applications, I do understand where these commentators are coming from, I simply offer my app as an option. I must admit I do not always use my own app, sometimes it can be easier to do math in your head, sometimes its not.

My first (public) App is in the iTunes App Store

Robert Hodgen — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:15:37 +0000

My first public iPhone/iPod touch application is now available in the iTunes App Store. My first app, “Calcutipr” is a simple and free Tip Calculator for the iPhone platform. It is the first application that I have polished enough to be ready for distribution.

I haven’t been working on it long, but after rewriting it a few times to mess with different ways of making it work I’ve gotten it to the point it is at now. I plan on updating it and adding new features to it as I come up with ideas for implementing new features.

Give it a try, its Free and you’ve got nothing to loose! iTunes Link.

The transition has started, a new blog is born.

Robert Hodgen — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:44:08 +0000

I have started transferring more over to Robert.Hodgen.me in the past days. The main motivation behind this is my iPhone and iPod touch application distribution and support section of the new site, Apps.Hodgen.me which has gotten its first application added, Calcutipr.