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My 2nd favorite restaurant in Raleigh

Laziz Biryani Corner: My 2nd favorite local restaurant! (on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh, NC). Seriously, this is the best Indian food anywhere!

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March stock photography numbers

$49 from the big three this month with about the usual $10 from the rest. Not bad, I’ll take it! Still haven’t gotten a chance (or the motivation) to upload new work since last year. Too busy with Whack ‘em All!

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Whack ‘em All surpasses 750,000 downloads!

Quite a milestone! Hard to believe we got here after the slow start we had back in December! Thanks to everyone who’s downloaded and purchased the game! Hearing from so many of you and reading all your great reviews of Whack ‘em All are very inspiring! Stay tuned for an announcement in the next few [...]

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How annoying your users can be profitable

Whack ‘em All! If you don’t know - you should!
Since the release of the free version of Whack ‘em All on January 21st, our earnings from AdMob have been underwhelming. To the tune of $83 and 750k impressions a day with a click through rate averaging around .4%
Taking advice from AdMob into consideration, we released [...]

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February’s stock photography numbers

Well, I haven’t had time to edit and submit photos from last year’s cruise I keep meaning to, but never find the time! Last month’s stock income was $54.18 from the big three and about $10 from the rest. Not bad at all considering how long it’s been since I contributed anything to this [...]

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January’s Whack ‘em All numbers

Not a bad first month! We released the 99 cent version of Whack ‘em All on Christmas Eve, 2008 and the free version on January 21st, 2009.
At the end of January, the free version of Whack ‘em All was about the 5th most popular free family game and had just entered the top 100 free [...]

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Awesome app to get sales numbers for the App Store

I ran across Sales Report yesterday.
This is a fantastic app for iPhone that lets App Store developers track their earnings without having to log into the dreaded itunes connect page every morning. I know if other developers are like me, this is a daily chore. Not anymore! Check it out! You’ll love it! [...]

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January stock numbers

This month picked up from the last couple! I made $57.48 from the big three, $8 from bigstockphoto, $8 from 123rf and a buck from fotolia Hopefully the market will continue to rebound and the renewed earnings will inspire me to edit, tag and upload some shots currently gathering dust
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iPhone Developer’s Guild, who’s in?

“Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” - Winston Churchill
“The AppStore is the worst mobile software storefront, except all those other mobile software storefronts that have been tried from time to time.” - Chris Garrett, ZWorkbench
Assertion [...]

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Sales numbers from Whack ‘em All’s first month

Today is the one month anniversary of the release of Whack ‘em All!
What a month it’s been! We’ve had 23,010 free downloads and 830 paid downloads from the App Store. That works out to $581 in sales and $55.06 in ad-revenue. We’ve also had $76 in donations, bringing our monthly gross to $712.06.
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