If you need to work out what’s going on and how to fix it, head over and check out the post describing it. In the mean time I’ll be releasing an updated 0.5.2 later this evening with that fix and maybe a few extras.

1. Tweetdeck – Possibly the best iPhone application for Twitter, TweetDeck is great for users who are following lots of people.
2. Flickr – Yahoo’s Flickr iPhone application is used for browsing flickr and uploading your iPhone photos
3. eBay Mobile – eBay on the go, this application is great for just browsing eBay on the move or getting push reminders about watch items
4. FStream – FStream is great for listening to those streaming radio stations on the go!
5. Google Earth – The world at your fingertips, literally!
6. Google Mobile Application – Everything google Web App under one convenient roof, it’d be nice if the web apps launched inside this app though.
7. WordPress 2 – WordPress 2 is an application to manage your WordPress blog, whether it be creating and editing posts or trashing comments.
8. Uno™ – Do you know Uno? The great game, transformed to iPhone with multiplayer capabilities.  A free version is available if you don’t want multiplayer.
9. Facebook – Facebook, duh.
10. Stanza – Stanza is an e-book application for the iPhone and features purchasing through FeedBooks and others, plenty of free works available.
11. Apple iTunes Remote – A must for all iTunes users the remote will allow you to control iTunes over your wireless network.
12. RampChamp – Another addictive casual game, think shooting or ball toss at the carnival
13. Quota – Quota is an application for viewing your bandwidth quota with ISP’s like Telstra, iiNet, Optus, 3 Mobile, etc. free versions are available for iiNet and Optus
14. Peggle – The world’s most addictive casual game is now on the iPhone, waste time wherever you may be!
15. Oz Weather – The best weather tool for Australia on iPhone, Oz Weather data is supplied by BOM and doesn’t just provide numbers, but satellite imagery also.
16. OsXs – OsXs is a free Naught and Crosses game from some guys i know
17. NetNewsWire Premium (Free/Lite/Ad Version)
18. Domino’s Pizza – Sometimes you just want to order cheap pizza and have it meet you at home, this iPhone application will do just that
19. Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D – One of the first driving games to hit the iPhone, a fun little game
20. CardStar – CardStar is an application for storing the barcodes of all those customer loyalty cards you carry around, enter them all in CardStar and never carry them around in your wallet again.
21. Bomberman Touch 2 – Volcano Party – A classic video game, the Bomberman series for iPhone is everything you’d expect it to be and then some.

The system now works around the shortag [itunes] with the following attributes:

• url – a mandatory attribute, this a clean itms store url, fetched via link maker or your itunes client
• title – the string in this field is passed into the output link as the alt tag on the image/title of the link
• content – if you don’t use this field, the itms link image from the settings page is displayed, if you do use this attribute the string is output instead.

Saying all that you don’t need to type this stuff anyway, because that’s the beauty of the button being in both editors. Select text (it’ll be output as the content attribute) or don’t, click the button, search for what you want (or click manual url) and be quickly prompted through the process.  If you enter nothing in the box? It’ll still enter someting like <Artist Name>-<Album name> out for you.

I think this is a nice step forward for the plugin, your feedback is appreciated, the general consensus seems to be to drop feedback over at the article page but i’m now closing that, so please leave your feedback on this post.

Heres a list of ones i submitted through the course of the day:

John Lennon – Imagine

function Imagine() {
	$ppl = World::getPopulation();
	$ppl->liveForToday();
	$ppl->liveInPeace();
	World::Share($ppl);
	World::liveAsOne($ppl);
}

The Beatles – Octopus’ Garden

if(garden.owner == "Octopus"
	&& garden.location == "under-sea"
	&& garden.shadeLevel == 80 ) {
		me.satisfied();
}

Nancy Sinatra – These Boots Are Made For Walking

$boots = bootFactory.make(WalkingBoots);
boots.Walk();
boots.WalkAllOver(you);

Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby

function Stop($ice) {
	Collaborate();
	Listen();
	$ice.invent();
	$ice.comeBack();
}

The Commodores – Three Times A Lady

while(i=1;i == 3; i++) {
	lady++;
}

Lamb Chops – The Song That Doesn’t End

while(1 != 1) {
	playVerse();
}

Queen – Fat Bottom Girls

if(Girl.styles.borderBottomWidth > 100) {
	RockingWorld.rotate();
}

The Beatles – I Am The Walrus

if(me.getSpecies() == Species.ODOBENUS_ROSMARUS
	&& me.getJob() == Jobs.POULTRY_FARMER) {
		print "GooGooGaJoob";
}

Homer Simpson – When I Was 17

me.age = 17;
beer.quality = Beverages.VGOOD_QUAL;
fakeID = new FakeID('Brian McGee');
me.add(fakeID);
me.buyNDrink(beer);

The Beatles – Yellow Submarine

if(this.Town=="Liverpool") {
	s=new Submarine();
	s.color ='Yellow';
	us.setLivingArrangements(sub);
}

Masters Apprentices – Turn Up Your Radio

everybody.learnFromPast();
everybody.listenToMusic(time());
radio.setVolume(Volume.MAX);

Nat King Cole – Wonderful World

this.see(Trees.Color.Green);
this.see(Roses.Color.Red);
this.see(Roses.Bloom);
this.think(Memory.WONDERFUL_WORLD);

Will Smith – Fresh Prince of Bel Air Theme

while(w in WestPhiladelphia) {
	w.shootBall();
	thugs.makeTrouble();
	w.fight(thugs);
	Mum.getScared();
	w.Location(BEL_AIR);
}

The Thrasmen – Surfin’ Bird

person.heard('Bird') ? '' : 'Ba Ba Ba Boo Ma Mow Mow Ba Ba Boo Mow Ma Mow';

Notorious B.I.G – Ten Crack Commandments

for(i=1; i == 10; i++) {
	echo $crackCommandment[i];
}

Freestylers – Push Up

up = array('your body');
array_push(up,'your body next to mine');

Bart Simpson – Do The Bartman

function doTheBartman($person) {
	$person->ShakeBody();
	$person->TurnOutBody();
	$person->MoveButtSide2Side();
}
if ($guy->reputation == LUDE) {
	$guy->greet(Greets.DUDES);
	$guy->terrorise(people);
	$guy->keepFlow();
	$guy->fixTestScores();
	$guy->dropBananaPeels();
	$guy->setLastName('Simpson');
	$guy->setFirstName('Bart');
}
for($person in $House)
{
	doTheBartman($person);
}

So there we have it, #SongsInCode, seems the guys over at SitePoint like a few of mine enough to mention them too!

Recycled for Recycle A Blog Post Day

I’m not sure what the intention was here, my thoughts were that it could be a monthly or yearly thing?  But i get the impression others maybe thinking weekly? Anyway it seems like a cool idea.

When’s it happening?

TOMORROW!! (12th August 2009)

Who’s recycling?

Mark tagged the following people in and I guess we’ll see if they partake:

• @dirkthecow (website)
• @servantofchaos (website)
• @juliancole (website)
• @jyesmith (website)
• @scott_drummond (website)

Of course, you know you can take part too, post below with a comment if you’re going to join in and let’s see where this goes to.

Head over to glyFX and get your free copy of the Android Developer Common Icon Set II now.

1. I got the feeling PayPal loves the buyer more than the Merchant, something seems backwards there
2. PayPal want you to think “outside the box” but still do things their way?  I must say though, being forced to do things their way is sometimes a good thing, othertimes not so much.
3. Criticism is generally met with spin – some products were criticised or lack of products and spin spin “maybe we will, maybe we’ll do something else” just answer the question, if you don’t know you don’t know.
4. They failed to engage our local web community as a whole, due to this the turnout was terrible, next time get in touch with the AWIA.
5. My security key won’t activate, i called on the phone for help (i’ll never be calling PayPal again, just because your primary business is online, it doesn’t mean your phone support can be TERRIBLE, yes that’s right my experience was TERRIBLE)

I want to expand upon that last point, at the event we were told we could activate the security keys onto our accounts, upon trying to do this when i got back to work it just wouldn’t activate.  The error eventually told me to call the 1800 number, which i did.  After waiting on hold i spoke to a girl who basically kept telling me I had no card associate with my account and i didn’t order it, after i repeatidly told her how i aquired it free at the Developer Day.  She then asked me if it was an eBay security key, which i told her it wasn’t, she then told me it was an eBay security key because thats the only way i can get a free one and that i needed to call eBay.  After 15 minutes of this back and forth over the card i gave up, fairwelled the young lady, tweeted to @PayPalAustralia to try get help (still waiting but thats ok, it’s friday night) and now have a very negative perception of the kind of service my customers are going to receive when they phone PayPal with an issue.

Later in the afternoon i thought i’d try my hand at another call (after all the website did tell me to call that number to sort it out).  This time, the prompter forwarded me to another line that basically went like this “We’re experiencing a high volume of calls at the moment, most questions can be answered by visting the help link at the top of every page, Thank You for calling PayPal, have a nice day *hang up*”.  Ummm, if the call centre your IVR is targetting me to doesn’t have enough lines to take my call, that’s possibly the worst way you can handle the situtation.

All in all the developer day itself was great and i hope they come back next year if only so everyone can come next time.  But I feel PayPal Australia still have a bit more to do in Australia to win people over, they still have a very negative perception amongst alot of users (just because they’re active users, doesn’t mean they’re happy users), but they definately look to be taking steps towards changing how they’re perceived.