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After a lot of work, the ACUVUE® EyeSuite iPhone application has finally been launched.

I was the developer on this project (working with the great creative folks over at McCann Sydney) - it was loads of fun to work on.

Go ahead and download it now from the iTunes app store - it’s FREE.

Aaron Hillegass talks about the Cocoa Text System:

http://vimeo.com/4793853.

Not much time to blog lately - things have been fairly hectic the last few weeks.

I’ve finally left my job and gone Indie in an attempt to concentrate on Mac/iPhone development FT - we’ll see how long my mortgage agrees with this new working arrangement

I’m also working on a book which is turning out to be way more work than I expected. I now have a lot more respect for authors (not that I didn’t respect them to begin with!)

Connoisseur version 1.3 is now available for download.

This version is a free upgrade for existing Connoisseur users.

Update It’s available now.

After many requests, I finally got around to adding currency conversions this morning.

Currency data is downloaded from Yahoo! each time you start the app, and is available for 48 currencies.

The update should be available in a couple of days once Apple have approved it.

If I’ve missed a currency, please feel free to contact me and I’ll add it in the next version (assuming Yahoo! offers currency data for it of course).

Update: Looks like it’s finally been approved, 2 weeks after I initially submitted it.

Hopefully I’ve changed the UI enough to no longer look like a Polaroid:

Unless of course scotch-tape complain about the use of the piece of tape..

I’ve just received this followup email from Apple:

“We received your application named Face Dial Pro, which appears to include features that resemble Polariod photographs. Polaroid has previously objected to other applications that include features that resemble Polaroid photographs, and believes that such Polaroid features infringe its rights.”

Apparently having a white border around a photo is copyrightable (Apple has almost exactly the same interface themselves in iPhoto ‘09).

Unfortunately this means the recent bug fix I posted about below will not be available until I make some UI changes and resubmit the application - sorry folks!

I just got the dreaded “your app is requiring unexpected additional time to review” email from Apple…

The ironic thing is that this is just a simple bug-fix to Face Dial (it wasn’t saving contact page numbers correctly) and no new functionality to the current version live on the app store - literally 5 lines of code difference.

It will be interesting to see how long this takes - apologies to all those users out there who are dealing with the bug. Hopefully it’ll be available soon.

I just released a small update to Conversion, adding a plus/minus key to the custom keyboard (something it should have had to begin with - sorry!):

You can grab it here.

Is it just me, or does the new iPhoto “Faces” feature look *very* similar to the Face Dial UI:

Apple:

Me:

They even use the same font for the name on the photo…