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Ross replied on June 21, 2009 18:23 to the problem "No support for new text-field on self posts." in reddit:

We're getting ready to release an update, which does fix this problem. Thanks.

A comment on the problem "account settings crashes" in reddit:

we're waiting on apple here. unfortunately, there's nothing I can do to expedite the process. – Ross, on February 21, 2009 07:54

Ross replied on February 19, 2009 03:12 to the problem "More time-stamp tomfoolery (Comment time-stamps are wrong more than they are right)" in reddit:

There are a lot of oddities with resizing. It seems like nothing works quite right, and a lot of code is needed to work around bugs.

As for this one in particular, I'll see what I can do. The timestamp stuff is definitely broken, will look into it.

Ross replied on February 18, 2009 02:18 to the problem "account settings crashes" in reddit:

Alright, based on emails with a few users, and the code itself, I'm reasonably confident I've found the source of most or all of the "custom reddits" crashers.

I'll be uploading a fix immediately, hopefully it will be on the app store by the end of the week.

Sorry for the all the trouble everyone.

Ross replied on February 18, 2009 01:02 to the problem "account settings crashes" in reddit:

I've identified one source of problems, but before we submit a new version to Apple I'd like to investigate a bit more.

For anyone who's having this problem, could you please post a detailed, step by step description of the process you went through before the crash? I'm talking, pretend I'm a three year old simple instructions.

It may help to have a fresh start: delete the app (by tapping and holding your icon on it on the home screen), go to the AppStore, and redownload the app. Even though it reads $1.99, it will redownload the app for free (and it will tell you this at the very last step before it does just in case you don't believe me).

Now, carefully record (mentally or in writing) each step you take as you try to login and select the "use account settings" switch. If it crashes, post those steps here and I'll try to verify that they have been fixed with the pending update.

Thank you all so much for your help. I want to make iReddit as stable and fun to use as possible.

Ross replied on February 18, 2009 00:43 to the question "Immediate crash after blank screen. Can it use a wifi with proxy or not??" in reddit:

You should be able to use it with a proxy. As far as I know, this is completely transparent to applications.

I'll try to investigate further though.

Ross marked one of Phil Webster's replies in reddit as useful. Phil Webster replied to the question "Where Do the Saves Go?".

Ross replied on February 17, 2009 19:31 to the problem "account settings crashes" in reddit:

From above: "If you delete the app off your phone, you can redownload it for free from the app store. It will have reset the settings too, so that should give you a workaround until the bug is fixed."

We're working on a fix.

A comment on the problem "account settings crashes" in reddit:

This is unfortunate, and a top priority fix. If you delete the app off your phone, you can redownload it for free from the app store. It will have reset the settings too, so that should give you a workaround until the bug is fixed. – Ross, on February 15, 2009 17:52

Ross replied on February 15, 2009 17:50 to the idea "A couple of features I'd like to see. :-)" in reddit:

Some definitely great ideas in here. I'll see what we can do in the next release.

Ross replied on February 04, 2009 17:55 to the question "loading a picture" in 280 North, Inc.:

What information can you provide about your browser and the type of image you tried to upload?

Is it possible the image was just taking time to load? Were you able to wait a bit longer to see?

Just trying to guess at what some of the problems might be. Any more information would be helpful.

Ross replied on February 01, 2009 19:44 to the question "Is 280Slides only available in English?" in 280 North, Inc.:

We're not currently working on internationalization features. One current limitation we do plan on fixing is that you can only type ASCII (non accented, english alphabet) characters. I can't say with any certainty when that will be fixed.

As far as localizing the interface into multiple languages, we don't currently have support in the framework we use, so it will probably be some time before we're able to do this.

Ross replied on December 19, 2008 17:04 to the question "What browsers does 280 Slides support?" in 280 North, Inc.:

Unfortunately it does mean that. It's not possible to do many of the things we do in that version of Safari.

Ross replied on October 31, 2008 18:59 to the question "I want to learn Object-J Give me a advice" in 280 North, Inc.:

Well, Objective-J and Cappuccino are very different than HTML (and probably visual basic). There are tutorials on the cappuccino website here:

http://cappuccino.org/learn/tutorials/

If you find these to be a bit above your level, I would recommend finding some introductory reading material on both Object-Oriented programming and JavaScript. Those two concepts are central to Cappuccino and Objective-J.

Ross replied on October 05, 2008 17:39 to the problem "Import Bug" in 280 North, Inc.:

If you're clicking the button labeled "Import", it's not meant for images, but rather existing powerpoint presentations.

To upload an image, click on the Pictures button in the toolbar, and then click on the Upload button in the Media Window that pops up. There you can choose between jpg, gif, and png images to upload. We don't currently support any other images formats.

Ross asked a question in Schillmania! on October 03, 2008 23:16:

Loading SoundManager with a dynamic script tag

I'm trying to load SoundManager 2 dynamically, rather than by placing a script tag in my <head>. I've written the code that seems to nearly work -- the flash object is created and added to the DOM, it responds to createSound and play, but when play is called, it does everything except actually make sound. Below is the code I'm using to load. Any thoughts?


var setupSoundManager = function()
{
var script = document.createElement("script");

script.type = "text/javascript";
script.src = "Resources/soundmanager2.js";

script.addEventListener("load", function()
{
window.x = soundManager;
soundManager.url = "Resources/"; // path to directory containing SoundManager2 .SWF file
soundManager.onload = function() {
soundManager.createSound("foo", "Resources/1hz-10khz-sweep.mp3");// etc. may now be called
soundManager.play("foo");
};
soundManager.beginDelayedInit();
}, YES);

document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(script);
}
</head>

Ross replied on September 26, 2008 06:58 to the question "How do I delete a presentation?" in 280 North, Inc.:

If you click on "Open", you can select a presentation and hit the delete key. You can also click the "Manage Documents" button, and then click on the X next to a presentation.

Ross replied on September 17, 2008 05:31 to the problem "Pictures. What pictures?" in 280 North, Inc.:

vbond: You hit enter after typing the search, right? There are still a few Chrome related issues to look into, so we'll keep working on this.

Ross replied on August 18, 2008 04:58 to the problem "Pictures. What pictures?" in 280 North, Inc.:

Hi Peter,

Can you tell me more about the problem? You're using the "Upload" button to upload the images, and they are appearing in the Library tab? If so, then you try to drag them into the presentation and nothing happens? Do they show up as gray squares? If you could send me the pictures, it would also help. feedback@280slides.com.

-Ross

Ross replied on August 15, 2008 06:10 to the question "Announcement mailinglist" in 280 North, Inc.:

We don't have an actual announcement mailing list, but we'll post it here, on our blog (blog.280north.com), and on objective-j.org. We'll also try to email anyone who's ever e-mailed us asking when it will be released.

Actually, it's hopefully going to be soon enough that setting up a mailing list and getting people to sign up would just seem like a waste of everyone's time.