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Jason is the lead developer for Paw Apps as well as President and Co-founder. He graduated from University of Cincinnati with a degree in Computer Science and has a passion for technology. In addition to working for Paw Apps, Jason proudly serves his country as a US Navy Information Warfare Officer. He commissioned as an Ensign in 2010 and loves being able to lead the world's FINEST Sailors in the world's FINEST Navy. He'd be excited to talk to anyone about code, running a startup or being in the Navy, so shoot him an email.
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Paw Apps Reviews
Paw Apps is expanding its horizon and moving beyond the iOS App development and into the world of iOS App reviewing! There are a few reasons we are doing this, mainly being a lack of response from other review sites when submitting our own apps for review. It seems that unless you are willing to
Continue reading »Word Mishmash 1.0.0
Word Mishmash is now available on the Apple App Store! Link http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/word-mishmash/id548942378?ls=1&mt=8 Description Love word puzzles? The four-letter words are all jumbled and it is your job to rearrange the letters to spell a word all the while watching the clock! There are 5 levels of difficulty. They range from 2 moves (Very Easy) to
Continue reading »Real World Interactivity in Gaming
People love real world interactivity in games. It is the reason MMORG’s are so popular. Interacting with other humans through a non-human interface is for some reason a highly sought experience. My first video game system was a Nintendo Entertainment System. My brother and I would play Mario Bros. Two player consisted of one person
Continue reading »A note to our players: Word Overflow Ads
Dear Players, Recently, you updated to a version of Word Overflow that includes ads. We were met with a surprising amount of pushback from our players. What surprised us was that Word Overflow is in fact a free app. We don’t charge you to download the app nor to play as many full games as
Continue reading »Word Overflow 1.2.0
Pending App Store Approval Now Available in the App Store! We are very excited about Word Overflow 1.2.0 and we think you should be very excited as well! In the newest update of Word Overflow, multiplayer is now available! Now that thousands have been playing solo Word Overflow, their skills are toned and ready to
Continue reading »Quick Code: URL Encoding – mailto example
Ever notice that when you go to a website there are some strange percent sign things going on up in the address bar? Well that’s URL encoding. You are probably most familiar with %20. That’s a space. When typing out Objective-C code, if you need a URL encoded string (maybe for a GET request), there
Continue reading »Word Overflow 1.1.0
Word Overflow 1.1.0 has been submitted to Apple for approval. Thanks for making Word Overflow such a App Store sensation! See below for what’s new in Word Overflow. As always, send questions/comments/suggestions to support@pawapps.com (or visit the About screen). What’s new in this version? ✔ Share scores with friends and followers on Facebook, Twitter, or
Continue reading »Word Overflow – Now on the Apple App Store
I am very excited to announce that Word Overflow is now available on the Apple App Store! It is free to download so give it a try and tell your friends. Here’s a few links, screen shots, and a video to check out. Page: http://www.pawapps.com/apps/word-overflow App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/word-overflow/id467959862?ls=1&mt=8 Description Word Overflow brings a highly addictive
Continue reading »Tutorial: CDAudioManager and CDSoundEngine
Intro This post came from a need for more flexibility than was offered from SimpleAudioEngine. If you are new to iOS audio, I would highly recommend you check out SimpleAudioEngine (my tutorial here). If all you need is background music and sound effects, it is perfect for you. The flexibility that I needed stemmed from
Continue reading »Quick Code: CCNode setPosition: #macro (You will love this!)
For those that love cocos2d as much as I do, you know that basically everything is a subclass of CCNode. Position is a the location in points (not pixels) of a CCNode where (0,0) is the bottom left corner of the parent object. Once you get into writing cocos2d apps, you will find that you
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