Rejected! The app review team rejected Faceover because one of my screenshots was "objectionable". Apparently the screenshot of my sister in her "Arab man" Halloween costume is not appropriate for all ages. Isn't that funny? Fortunately they didn't reject the app itself so I just had to remove the screenshot and reply back to their email. After that you'd think the app would be approved, right? Nope. The status changed back to "In Review". :)

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It's been 7 days and about 5 hours and my application status just changed from "waiting for review" to "in review". Supposedly the "in review" part of the process takes about 24 hours so I might have an app ready for sale tomorrow!

Last night I worked on a Faceover bug that has really been bothering me. The problem is that whenever part of the image is copied, the visual quality of the copy degrades slightly. This is especially noticeable for low resolution images. After spending two or three ...
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Yes, here I am six and a half days after submitting Faceover with iTunes Connect still showing "waiting for review". They haven't even started reviewing it yet! Oh well, when I submitted Lexify last year it took a total of nine days so maybe it'll still be done before then. <sigh>

Since I'm blogging anyway...here's an Obama Faceover:


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Two days after submitting my first iPhone app to the App Store, my financial contract has been changed to "contract in effect". Both Lexify and Lexify Lite show "in review" for their status but this is no surprise. I'm expecting the review process to take about a week.

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In August 2008 I decided I wanted to teach myself to develop software for the iPhone with my limited amount of free time. I decided to buy a MacBook which happened to be the first non-Microsoft computer I had ever owned. After nine months and $100 for an iPhone developer license, I finally have something to show for it--assuming of course that my app (Lexify) gets approved by Apple for distribution on the iTunes App Store.

As I was doing the actual app submission last night and today, I decide...
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