Where's Gumbo? & Circus Find

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:23:17 +0000

There seems to be some issues with Where’s Gumbo? running on iOS4 that I will work to get resolved ASAP. Apologies to anyone who is having trouble. I’ll get the update out soon.

Thanks,

Please email me anytime you have troubles.

Circus Find – Listed in “Our TOP 10″ best apps!!

admin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:16:21 +0000

Check out the site iPhone 4 kids and you will see Circus Find listed in the top 10 of all time on their website!!

We are very excited about it and appreciate the publicity. Go to iPhone 4 Kids to see reviews of all of the new iPhone apps that you may be considering for your kids. They do a good job of reviewing the app and have their own “staff” of kids to prove it.

New Circus Find App – it’s Here!!

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:44:37 +0000

**Please note this app is designed for young children**

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/circus-find/id347180513?mt=8

Things aren’t always what they seem in this Circus tent! Created by a mom and a dad, Circus Search is a fun, interactive book that gets kids thinking about the world a little differently. Join us inside the big top as we search for our clown’s missing nose — You never know where it will turn up!

Entertain your children while encouraging problem solving skills, shape recognition and fine motor development.
• Push the elephant on his balance ball
• Pop some balloons
• Watch the tightrope walker try to stay balanced
• Light the fuse and watch the human cannon-ball blast off!
• and much, much more!

Circus Find encourages children to explore each scene before revealing the big picture. Everything isn’t always what you think it is when you only see a small part of the scene, and as a parent, you can help encourage creative thinking and problem solving by having your child guess what’s next.

Touch, explore and discover all the amazing things this circus has to offer!

Please email me at support@wheresgumbo.com for any issues you have with Circus Find or Where’s Gumbo?

Preview to come…

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:31:51 +0000

Check out ParentDish at http://www.parentdish.com/ to see what they are writing about in the next few days.

New Update may have to reload your application

admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:16:34 +0000

So, with the new 2.0 update of Where’s Gumbo?, you may have to remove the application from your iPhone by touching then holding your finger on the Gumbo icon. Once the “X” comes up on the icon, please hit the “X” to remove it. You can then sync your iPhone up with iTunes and re-install Where’s Gumbo? which will then allow you to play.

Thanks and email me with any questions or problems.

** this issue arose due to the fact that I had to rebuild my laptop with my Snow Leopard install and get a new Provisioning profile for my iPhone App development.

The application is already installed on the device – error during Iphone Development

admin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:58:45 +0000

So I downloaded and installed the new iPhone 3.0 SDK and when I returned to developing my apps when I would make a change, then hit “Build and go” I would get this error in the organizer: “The application is already installed on the device”. I would have to manually remove the app from within the Organizer then hit Build and go again and it would install just fine and move on.

I noticed In the organizer Console tab this is what appears:

unknown mobile_installation_proxy[334] : preflight_application_install: The application has already been installed
unknown mobile_installation_proxy[334] : install_application: Could not preflight application install
unknown mobile_installation_proxy[334] : handle_install: Installation failed

So I went to iPhone Dev center and downloaded my provisioning profile again and dragged it from my desktop onto the Xcode icon. Opened up Xcode and was able to “Build and go” like I used to.

This Page showed me the light

Two domains pointing to the same Rails app

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:01:06 +0000

The easiest way to have 2 (or more) domains point to the same Ruby on Rails app is to setup your first domain the same way you do for a normal implementation. I use Rails Machine for all my rails apps so I just follow the normal 5 minute deploying process they provide.

That sets up domain1.com. Now to setup domain2.com I ssh into my server. Navigate to my httpd conf files. Mine is located here:

>/etc/httpd/conf/apps

Then I copy my domain1.com conf file called domain1.conf and call the new one domain2.com.

I then edit this file and change any reference to domain1.com to domain2.com.

Save the file, then reset your httpd

>sudo /etc/init.d/httpd reload

and voila!

New Update soon

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:38:40 +0000

I submitted a new update to the team at Apple this past weekend so hopefully a new update will be sent to your iPhones/iPods soon.

Im hoping that this will help get Where’s Gumbo? ranked again in the Kids section of the App Store. I think with the release of the new iPhone 3G S, there are a ton new customers out there to reach. I see most all of my apps that I have installed are thinking the same. I had 7 updates ready yesterday for my iPod Touch.

Go Apple.

Back in the Top 100

admin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:39:12 +0000

A goal of mine is for “Where’s Gumbo?” to remain in the top 100 list of iPhone apps for the Kids subcategory of Games. We dipped out of the top 100 for a few weeks, but then released the newer version of “Where’s Gumbo? Lite” and crept back in at number 90 or so.

The ranking systems seem a bit arbitrary at times when our daily downloads are pretty consistent. My guess is that Apple still is working through some issues on the rankings and will get them all ironed out at some point.

New Updates Coming

admin — Thu, 14 May 2009 04:21:55 +0000

I need to do something to generate some interest in “Where’s Gumbo?” so I have re-released the “Where’s Gumbo?” lite application. It is free and you can preview the full version by downloading the free one.

I am submitting an update to the free version to make the animals random. I just hope that people read the description before they download it so they understand the audience the app is intended for.

We will see!