IP Scanner version 2.5 is now available. This minor update includes some performance enhancements, as well as a new option to display the devices list in a larger font.

Download the latest version here

The much ballyhooed introduction of static analysis tools to the App Store review process has added new layers of headache for many iPhone developers (us included), but there are signs that this process is being eased a bit. Our most recently accepted update (for our file-sharing app, DropCopy) included the by-now usual ‘unauthorized private methods’ rebuke but this time Apple chose NOT to reject the app. Instead it encouraged us to take care of the unauthorized method issue in our next update. Since these ‘unauthorized private methods’ are almost entirely false-positives at this point (methods that we ourselves created that have analogous names somewhere in Apple’s gargantuan code-base) this is a welcome change of policy on Apple’s part.

DropCopy 1.9 was finally approved in December, 2009!

Our 1.9 release of DropCopy Mobile, including a number of new, oft-requested features (saving to the PhotoRoll, emailing files, and more) and performance improvements, has unfortunately just received its 4th consecutive rejection at the App Store. The first 3 involved the use of Apple-trademarked images (such as representations of the iPhone itself), which many developers have been affected by recently as Apple tightens its submission guidelines. Now, as noted here, Apple is also cracking down on the use of unofficial function calls, such as handy calls to format a date into human-readable form (the officially sanctioned way thinks dates should only ever look like this: “2001-03-24 10:45:32 +0600″). There is a nice function called “descriptionWithCalendarFormat” that lets you specify what parts of the date you want to show, but, well, that’s off-limits.

For many of us long-time Mac OS developers, this is particularly frustrating since many calls that exist for the Mac also work on the iPhone. Unfortunately, since they are not part of the official iPhone SDK, they are disallowed for use in iPhone development. Since these calls are part of code snippets we’ve been using for years, we are often not aware that we are ‘breaking rules’ by using them. As always, all we can do is make the changes that Apple requests and resubmit, which we will keep doing. We’ll keep you posted…

More Info About Mobile DropCopy

DropCopy is now at version 1.5.8. For those of you on Tiger or Leopard, this is a maintenance update, fixing a few bugs that affected individual users with special network situations. For those who have upgraded to Snow Leopard, this release is more urgent as it addresses many of the visual glitches that appeared with Snow Leopard. Please let us know if you still experience any unusual behaviour when running this release under Snow Leopard.

Download DropCopy version 1.5.8

Mobile DropCopy has been updated to 1.8 (App Store approval pending).

This update brings a host of features that tie into the 3.0 firmware update. As promised, you can now transfer clipboards back and forth between iPods, iPhones and Macs. But we’ve also added some new interface goodness in the form of image previews for image files, and the ability to save a DropCopied image to your iPhone’s camera roll.

Interesting side-note: the most frequent use of Mobile DropCopy, according to our users, is to wirelessly transfer images taken on the iPhone to their computers. Whatever works!

More Info About Mobile DropCopy

We’ve started working on the next version of DropCopy for iPhone and are happy to say that iPhone DropCopy users can expect to be able to share clipboards back and forth between mac and iPhone as soon as the 3.0 firmware arrives this summer! In addition, you’ll be able to take advantage of the new adhoc networking in firmware 3.0 to swap files between phones even without a wifi network.

In fact, there are so many synergies between what we would like to achieve with DropCopy on mobile devices and what Apple is creating with the next iPhone that it feels almost as if Apple asked us here at 10base-t what features we would like to see in their next iPhone revision and then went and implemented them all!

More Info About Mobile DropCopy

DropCopy is now at version 1.5.3 - most of you will be alerted and asked if you would like to update automatically the next time DropCopy is launched. This is a maintenance update, fixing a few bugs that affected individual users with special network situations. In general, however, this version is more reliable at finding and connecting to other DropCopy users across a wider range of network configurations than previous versions, and is a recommended update for all users.

Download DropCopy version 1.5.3

DropCopy is now at version 1.5.2 and IP Scanner has been updated to 2.33.
Both are available for download now. Get ‘em while they’re hot!

PS: If you are a user of mobile DropCopy on the iPhone, we definitely encourage you to upgrade your desktop version to this latest version - you’ll get support for sending iWork files (with previews) and sending entire folders of files.  Note - with great power comes great responsibility: large numbers of files in DropCopy mobile will slow down your iPhone syncing with iTunes, as it will try to backup all of your DropCopy data as well.

Download DropCopy version 1.5.2

Download IP Scanner version 2.33

Like many others, we’ve had our share of false starts when submitting new apps to the ’store. While the reasons given have generally been understandable, they do set your product launch back by weeks or more.

In light of the lack of public criteria for acceptance into the iTunes App Store, we’ll start compiling a list of known rejection criteria in our developer area (starting with the ones we ourselves have received). Please add yours in the comments and we’ll migrate them into the main list.

Click here to check out our Unofficial App Store Rejection Criteria and add your own.

The long and arduous approval process for the App Store is finally paying off. Two of our apps have just been approved. New York based “jailbreak” users may remember our NYC crosswalk calculator and subway map app CrossWalk - now it’s on the App Store, and better than ever with beautiful custom maps and service advisories for all MTA subway lines!

A new app, also New York oriented (hey, we’re New Yorkers!), gives you Manhattan’s Central Park on your iPhone, complete with Points of Interest and a ‘Locate Me’ feature…cool!

More Info About Central Park

More Info About CrossWalk

More Info About Mobile DropCopy

More Info About Paris Métro