Localizing Icy, Issues and more

As promised, here is the localization file containing strings that need to be translated to make Icy speak your native language. Translating is fairly easy — open the file in your favorite text editor that can handle Unicode, and then translate all the pairs of strings — leave the left side intact, and translate the right side….

The War of The iOS Development Tools

Apple iOS development tools and Google are redoubling their efforts so that developers use their in-house tools to build applications. After all, it is not for nothing if the two groups “invite” California developers from around the world for a week. One of the goals of these conferences is to help them best use ‘official’…

iOS Software Development Installer 4.0b9

Ripdev.org finds out that, after a fair amount of inactivity on the Installer front, we’re bringing it back to speed by providing rapid updates to get it in shape as soon as possible. What’s new or fixed in this update… Added user-driven ratings. We encourage you to submit your votes for various packages. Once more…

Bye Bye iOS Development Tool Installer!

Today, a new iPhone OS, 3.0 has been released. This is obviously a big and long waited for update for all iPhone users. Here in ripdev, we believe, it is about time to officially announce that we are discontinuing support of Installer platform for iPhone and iPod touch. Over past 1.5 years when we were…

Installer iOS App Development Tutorials Version 1.1

Ripdev have just released a free update to our package installer tool, InstallerApp, for both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Among other things, we have ensured it works on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, removed support for Installer repositories (that are no longer supported anyway), and stripped off the Pusher technology in favor…

Kali Anti-Piracy Pricing Model Changed

The release of Kali Anti-Piracy protection system got quite positive feedback from both developers and even some Apple employees. However, one common thing we have received as a feedback is that the pricing model used is too complicated and that the developers don’t want to take the hassle of reporting and calculating their sales volumes. So we’ve…

Icy 1.4.1

A semi-minor Icy update rooling out available at ripdev. Immediately download– aimed primarily at iPhone OS 3.0 compatibility — thanks again for your support! Now automatically moves some of the folders to stash if needed to prevent situations with insufficient disk space when installing some packages. UI fixes for smooth display on the iPhone OS…

Icy 1.4

Ripdev proudly present a new version of Icy, 1.4. It was tested on 2.2.1 and 3.0b5 firmware versions, and everything seems to work great. A first thing you will notice is the new icon. This is something we wanted to do all along since pre-1.0, but unfortunately Max was busy for a while, so we…

i2Reader Pro 3.0 Available at Ripdev.org

There’s ios development tool product that is probably not much known outside of Russian market — i2Reader Pro. It is an eBook reader for the iPhone supporting most of the features you’d anticipate from the reader — autoscroll, landscape and fullscreen modes, changeable styles, tap zones, and so on. The reason it was not nearly as…

Best ios Development tools: InstallerApp 1.0 for Microsoft Windows

It took much longer than we have anticipated, but the Microsoft Windows version of InstallerApp is finally out. It works on anything from XP to Seven and requires an installed iTunes. Otherwise, give it a go. License purchased ties to the devices, not the app itself, so it doesn’t matter which platform you use –…