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The app is complete… time to push it up to iTunes.  For this we go to iTunes Connect:  https://itunesconnect.apple.com/WebObjects/iTunesConnect.woa Manage Your Applications Once you log into iTunes Connect you’ll see, off to the right, a Manage Your Applications link.  Clicking this reveals a list o

This post is a 30,000 foot view of my experience creating my first iPhone app.  The spirit behind this is that hopefully it will help someone who is thinking of getting into the app business.  I’m not going to teach the programming language… hopefully I’m just shedding some light on the process.  Wh

Problem: Once upon a time someone buys a house valued at $190,000.  They put 10% down ($19,000) and finance the remaining $171,000 at 7%. A few short years later the economic system stumbles… unemployment is over 9%, raises are not given, bonuses fade away. Now $168,000 is owed on the house now and

www.vslcomputers.com Do you wish to learn iPhone programming?  Well so do I.  Let’s try with Xcode 4. I saw an Apple video where they claim that over 14 billion apps have been downloaded or installed for all of their products (iPad, etc).  All of them written in Xcode. Xcode 4 is the latest version

Check us out at http://www.vslcomputers.com/ We learned, once upon a time, that the smallest element anything consisted of was an atom.  Dogs made be made of 20 bazillion atoms while humans are made up of 2,000 bazillion trillion atoms… or something like that. In the computer world the smallest piec

Check us out at http://www.vslcomputers.com/ This is a 650 word, 3 or 4 minute must read that explains “need to know” computer info. Many people think of a computer as they would a solidly built piece of furniture.  They think that with little or no maintenance they’ll be able to use it for ever and

Check us out at http://www.vslcomputers.com/ Windows 7 libraries are a cool addition to the operating system and best shown by example.  A library is simply a collection of shortcuts to folders located on the computer. Right click the Orb in the lower right hand corner of the desktop… this used to b

Check us out at http://www.vslcomputers.com/ We should begin this post by describing “Social Engineering”.  Social engineering, as it relates to this discussion, is the process of the bad guys fooling good guys into doing something unwittingly. A popular example of this is when you supposedly receiv

Check us out at http://www.vslcomputers.com/ Defragging a hard drive takes fragmented files, files that are split into more than one piece, and puts them together so that the files are in one contiguous piece or chain. Imagine taking your favorite 300 page book and throwing it up in the air and havi

Check us out at http://www.vslcomputers.com/ I have come across users that have switched to Firefox or Chrome or some other browser to try to avoid the exploits in Internet Explorer (IE) in an attempt to make their system more secure. If you have decided not to use IE there are a couple of settings