Jason Lancaster

I learned about an interesting petition from Google’s blog today. www.freetheairwaves.com is attempting to get people involved to free whitespace between broadcast television channels. What’s wonderful is how they make it so easy to get involved. So if you read my site, go take a second and sign the petition. It’s a good thing.

Wordabble is live! I’ve submitted requests for reviews in few places. I’ve talked about it a lot in the past few posts, so I’ll keep this short and sweet to simply say: If you have an iPhone, buy Wordabble!

One of the more useful iPhone applications I’ve found and used goes beyond Apple’s SDK by installing a quick-glance menu on the iPhone’s “locked” screen. In it, you can add calendar items, mail, sms, or a variety of other things. It’s a great idea and something the iPhone is desperately missing.

So you can imagine my dismay when, after installing on my pwned (hacked) phone and thinking to myself, “this is a good product, perhaps I should buy it” I ran into a brick wall:

No. Not happening. You just can’t do this, no matter how cool your software is! This screen says two things to me:

1. Developer is overly confident that their software is the bomb, will never fail, never break, never act differently than a user might expect.
2. Developer wants distance from the users of his/her product because users like me are dumb and will contact them about stuff they just don’t want to be bothered with, like their bomb-less application crashing.

It’s great developers are finding an outlet outside of Apple’s App Store to sell applications but this one is not for me.

As Adam wrote on his blog, Wordabble is now in review on Apple’s App Store.

Once the application is available, I’ll be contacting lots of people in attempts to get reviews and (hopefully) positive talk about the application going around. If you have an iPhone or an iPod touch, I hope you’re excited to play!