In-app purchases

[Danny Tuppeny]

Hey all,

I'm putting together ideas for an app I'm about to start. One of the
discussions is about using in-app purchases vs separate apps. Eg. Tap-tap
has different apps, like "Tap Tap Aerosmith" rather than just having an
Aerosmith pack you can download from a single client.

I wondered if anyone has used the in-app purchasing stuff, or had avoided it
for one reason or another. Either way would work well for my app, and I'm
leaning towards in-app purchasing (since it seems easier for someone to
click Buy in the app than to go back to the app store), but if it's going to
be a pain to get working, I might avoid it for now!

And on a slightly unrelated note, does anyone have opinions on whether to
install Snow Leopard clean, or just upgrade? It's a fairly new Mac, I'd like
to wipe it and start over, but wonder how much effort will be involved in
getting it all set up again for development!

Danny

[Caius Durling]

On 2 Oct 2009, at 13:17, Danny Tuppeny wrote:

> And on a slightly unrelated note, does anyone have opinions on
> whether to
> install Snow Leopard clean, or just upgrade? It's a fairly new Mac,
> I'd like
> to wipe it and start over, but wonder how much effort will be
> involved in
> getting it all set up again for development!

Clean install. I might be biased though—I'm currently on a crazy
system that dual boots 10.6 and 10.5 (badly) and desperately need to
clean install it.

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[Shaun Bohannon]

How did you get on with your Express-card SSD Caius? Is it sufficiently faster?

As for 10.6:

I just upgraded, made sure I repaired permissions before doing so though. Haven't had any issues thus far and it was noticeably quicker post upgrade. My reason for upgrading is purely for time constraints as I can't afford to set everything up again. I had only had my laptop for 2 months before Snow Leopard was released anyway.

Just thought I'd mention that for the quick path. Clean installs are always going to be 'cleaner' but I really haven't noticed any disadvantage with simply upgrading!

Shaun.

[Caius Durling]

On 3 Oct 2009, at 00:14, Shaun Bohannon wrote:

> How did you get on with your Express-card SSD Caius? Is it
> sufficiently faster?

I'm happy it's sped stuff up yeah. One of my (rails) test suites went
from 38 seconds down to 19 after I moved all my code / executables /
mysql databases onto the SSD. (The other suites sped up too, but not
quite as much.)

I did some (unscientific) tests compiling iTerm on various disks, I
think the SSD came out milliseconds faster than a 3.5" 7200rpm disk
connected via firewire 800, both of which were quite significantly
faster than the internal 2.5" 7200rpm disk.

I've left the OS installed on the internal HD and just symlinked
things like /usr/bin, /opt and my code disk images across to the SSD.
Don't think I'd gain that much from installing the OS on the SSD and
leaving everything else on the hard drive.

[Danny Tuppeny]

Thanks for the replies about upgrading. I opted for a clean install, but
discovered there was no option on my £7.50 upgrade disk. There was a
"restart" button, which I clicked, which *looked* like it was doing a clean
install.

It booted up asking me to create a user, but when I entered "danny" it was
unavailable. There was no optin to not create a user, as if it was a clean
install, but it still had my old user there somehow.

So, I got the OS-X disk out that came with the Mac, did a clean install of
that, and then an upgrade to Snow Leopard. I guess it's as "clean" as I can
get, though now I wish I'd upgraded ;-)

On another unrelated note - is there no way to eject the CD from a Mac Mini
without being on the desktop?

Danny

[Caius Durling]

On 3 Oct 2009, at 10:20, Danny Tuppeny wrote:

> On another unrelated note - is there no way to eject the CD from a
> Mac Mini
> without being on the desktop?

* Eject button on your keyboard (top right on any recent apple keyboard)
* Hold down the mouse button as the machine restarts.
* Open Disk Utility and eject from there.
* Open /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/Eject.menu and use
the menu item to eject the CD.
* Use the command line to eject it, `hdiutil eject /dev/diskX` I think.

Hope one of them helps :)

[Edward Hartley]

On 3 Oct 2009, at 10:20, Danny Tuppeny wrote:


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>

> On another unrelated note - is there no way to eject the CD from a
> Mac Mini
> without being on the desktop?
>

Yep if its stuck and the mini is still alive you can force an eject on
reboot by holding the mouse button down.
There are other ways described in various posts on boot up options.
If its dead then I have removed a disc by opening the mini and drive
up which if it's alive don't do.
I posted on geekup at length on that one but main point was after
replacing memory both drive and mini lived.
> Danny
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[Danny Tuppeny]

> * Eject button on your keyboard (top right on any recent apple keyboard)
> * Hold down the mouse button as the machine restarts.
> * Open Disk Utility and eject from there.
> * Open /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/Eject.menu and use
> the menu item to eject the CD.
> * Use the command line to eject it, `hdiutil eject /dev/diskX` I think.
>
> Hope one of them helps :)

lol! I don't have a mac keyboard (MS one) and the last three also need to be
logged on (when I said at the desktop, I meant logged in), but holding down
the mouse button might work :-)

[Edward Hartley]

Is the screen lit at all? If not then wrist strap, craft knife and new
putty knife time!
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