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The Past – Hello Again

Part 1

Amazing how the web does not care but still does not forget.

If I had to tell anybody when my first iOS apps were released into the App Store, I would have a hard time getting to anything better than “it was September or October of 2013. Definitely, fall 2013”.

The web (and specifically the nice website AppAdvice) knows better than me: November 4th, 2013. It still has traces of so many minor things, even of my first apps!

This is something unexpected that I noticed on a casual Google search, just after seeing the natural ‘Hello World’ post starting this blog go live, a few days ago. This blog takes the name from those apps.

I was stunned by the still familiar look of all the screens, icons and graphics of my first apps, that have filled so many of my days quite some time ago.

Since then I never thought I would ever see them out of a Google search. Ever.

And yet, there they are, been always hiding just a Google search away.

On top of this surprising flashback effect, the AppAdvice web page that shows the most expensive one (iBat Pro) in my telephony suite of four apps, looks -still today, imho- way better than the small website I had to painfully setup to get past Apple’s minimal approval requirements for apps publishing.

I am amazed about the effect of rendering one of the app’s screens on the picture of an iPhone 6, just to make the page more lively.
It looks real!

Even more surprising, because while the iPhone 6 did may be existed as an advanced hardware prototype in the secret rooms of the industrial design group at Apple back in 2013, certainly it was not in my hands to see how slick my very coloured, skeuomorphic icon graphics would look on that giant screen.

I had still an iPhone 4 in 2013; I only got an iPhone 5s in early 2014 to replace the stolen older one. Finally, I got the iPhone 6 just late in 2014 when the iBat Apps were already frozen in (my personal) history. But this is another story…
As a matter of fact I never saw those apps on that big screen. Until now.

So, I am very happy -after so many years of third party apps development- to see a couple of very ‘well known faces’, again…


Hello Again, iBat Apps

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Again & Louder: Will It Blend?

That is the still question!

The first blending attempt did not show any result. So, as with any software testing situation, you:

  1. Go back to square one
  2. Fiddle with code / configuration or other obscure aspects of your system
  3. Feel finally confident that you made a change and that the change will make a good impact
  4. Compile and Run

So, here we are: Compile and Run (aka: Publish) this post!

Fingers crossed!

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Will It Blend?

That is the question…

As in a circus, any new post is a new challenge. Luckily without risk.

In a relaxed setup, like that of a blog where at some point I will begin the discourse over the topic I am interested in, testing can be done without the safety net.

A failure is simply the way to understand how some aspect of WP really works.

In this post the goal is to see if the picture I selected will really show up in my Instagram account, be it as a post by itself or as a reference to this post, that anyways shows the picture.

Fingers crossed!