This release continues to do album shuffle on the iphone (and touch). New in this release are an auto-shuffle option, an option to disable “shake to shuffle”, a nicer icon, some bug fixes, and separate screens for the settings and filters.
AlbumMixer 1.3 Now Available
October 22nd, 2009Juana’s Salsa
October 3rd, 2009This is a classic tomatillo salsa. Don’t be afraid to add a little water: if you skip that, it can set up like cement.
- 10 dried japanese chiles
- 15 tomatillos
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1/2 tsp salt
Husk and rinse tomatillos, and simmer in a medium saucepan filled with water. Toast the chiles in a dry skillet until they become aromatic, tossing occasionally. Rinse the chiles and put them in a blender with the garlic and salt, adding just enough water to cover. Puree, then add the tomatillos and blend again, adding more water if the salsa is too thick.
Chill and serve. It’s good with chips, or tamales, or tacos, or a spoon.
AlbumMixer 1.2 Now Available – Shuffle those Albums (and playlists and genres)
October 1st, 2009AlbumMixer 1.2 is now available. This update includes features that users have requested: a “next album” button, and the genre-based shuffle, and playlist-based shuffle. The UI is also much nicer, IMO. And the basic album shuffle still works, too.
Besides all that, this update includes a change in the official app name to “AlbumMixer – Shuffle by Album”. Just a few minutes after that change went live, app store searches for “album shuffle” began to show AlbumMixer as the third match (finally!). So there’s a lesson here for iPhone developers: if your keywords might be confused with an existing app, embed them in your application name.
Shadowclan? Riverclan? Grassclan?
September 29th, 2009Evangelina continues to be a star on this intarweb thing (see these cat clans linking to images here). She is flattered by the copious praise for her fighting and hunting prowess (sadly nonexistent unless you count insect kills), but she does wish they’d learn how to tell a tom from a moggie, and what color her eyes really are. And if those riverclan people are implying that she’s fat… well!
I’d add that some of the writers might benefit from further acquaintance with the humble comma. And what about “rouges”? Do they mean “rogues”, perhaps?
AlbumMixer and the search for “album shuffle”
September 28th, 2009Apple finally responded to one of my numerous iTunes Connect inquiries. I keep asking them why AlbumMixer, despite having keywords “album,shuffle” can’t be found by searching for “album shuffle” in the app store. Until now I’ve heard no response whatsoever.
But today there was a reply via email in my inbox: “If you do not see a resolution within 3 business days, please let us know.” Apparently they’re responding to my most recent inquiry, of 26 September. I wonder if that means all my previous messages were lost? Or ignored? Or are they just being terse?
Today’s search for “album shuffle” still doesn’t match my app. I’ll give them until 2 October, as requested (that’s really a full week from my latest report, and close to four weeks since I first reported the problem). In the meantime maybe they’ll approve AlbumMixer 1.2: I’m still hoping that changing the app store name to “Album Mixer – Shuffle by Album” will fix the problem. Either way is fine with me: I have this crazy idea that there are lots of iPhone users out there who want album shuffle, and it’s frustrating to think that they can’t find my app.