After researching for the fastet way to do it and trying a few products (such as Sandvox) I found the following approach to work best:

1) Use this great online tool to convert the Doc file to a “Clean HTML”: http://word2cleanhtml.com/
2) Copy the result to the clipboard
3) Use this online tool to remove line breaks AND paragraph breaks (from step 2): http://www.textfixer.com/tools/remove-line-breaks.php
4) Copy the result to the clipboard. Then paste it as HTML to your WordPress post

You might still want to adjust the styles in the WordPress visual editor, but it’s much more simpler than any other method I found.

Good luck!

During the last couple of years I specialized in mobile development and I got to lead or be involved with quite a few iOS related projects. The most important “Do’s and Don’ts” I got to learn from this app. 90% of them are not even related to coding…

I do intend to share these learned lessons with a followup post.

Till then, here is a video review that was just published by CrazyMikesApps:

I’m aware that there are useful guides about this topic, but unfortunately I could not find a complete article that answer all the various build option errors. So hopefully this will be it… :)

First thing to notice is that there is a difference between the “Archive” option and the different “Build for X” options (e.g. for running, archiving, testing).

First thing first. Let’s get the “Build for X” option to work:

1. Open your project in Xcode4 and in the “Project Navigator” view, do the following for each “Three20″ related project (e.g. Three20, Three20Core, etc):
   - Click on the project.
   - Select the “Build Settings” tab.
   - Search for “Skip Install” setting and make sure it is set to YES for Debug, Internal and Release configuration.
   - Click on the project’s target (under the TARGETS section).  Make sure it is NOT the UnitTests target but rather the actual build target – and set the same YES value in the “Skip Install” setting.

   Make sure to repeat these steps in each Three20 project in your project tree.

2. In the “Project Navigator” view, select your project and then “Build Settings”. In the “header search paths” setting add the two following entries (with the quotes) and make it the first entries in the list:”$(BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR)/../three20″
   “$(BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR)/../../three20″

   Make sure to set it both in release and debug configuration, and that the same build setting appear in your poject’s target (under the TARGETS section).

3. Follow this link to edit the Three20 scripts to enable support for Xcode4: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5261447/xcode-4-three20-create-ipa-archive-no-such-file-or-directory/5270483#5270483
4. Go to Xcode4 Preferences (Cmd + ,) > Locations > Build Location > and select “Place build products in derived data location”.
5. Build your project. This should work fine both for release AND debug configurations! If there are still build errors, see the troubleshooting section below.

Now comes the part where we make the “Archive” function to work:

1. Make sure you performed the steps above and everything compiles OK.
2. Go to Xcode4 Preferences (Cmd + ,) > Locations > Build Location > and select “Place build products in locations specified by targets”
3. Select the Archive option – it should build OK now.

As you can notice, from now on the only thing you need to manually change before switching between “Archive” and “Build fo *” option is the “Build Location” setting in Xcode4 preference window.

Troubleshooting

1. If you still getting build errors try the “Clean” action under the “Product” menu and build the project again.
2. If you get the “File not found” error, make sure your import is “Three20/Three20.h” and not a direct import to a class header  (e.g. “Three20/TTImageView.h”)

The app is actually the next generation of “Birthday Synchronizer” which I developed more than 18 months ago for the windows platform. This time I invested some more thought and efforts into it, and frankly, I like the results! :-)

You are more than welcome to check it out yourself and let me know what you think!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/happy-bday/id401949944?mt=8

I bought the 16gb version (599$) from the Apple store. Before doing anything with my SIM card, i simply plugged the new iPhone to my Mac, and iTunes asked for a few “I agree” clicks. Then it asked me if want to restore my old 3GS iPhone backup into my new iPhone 4. That took about 3 minutes and then the phone was up.

After that I cut my AT&T SIM card with a good pair of scissors to get the shape of the micro SIM I’ve got with the new iPhone. If you do that, you have to be carful. You might want to look at some videos on youtube before you start.

After placing my “new micro SIM” into the iPhone4 SIM slot, I waited about two seconds before getting the message I was hoping for: the iPhone activation succeeded!!

So now I could use the iPhone4 for texting and voice but no data yet. so I simply followed the same steps I wrote about a few months ago (see here) and it works! Now I have iPhone4 running with my AT&T GoPhone account, with a regular data package and without any special iPhone contract with AT&T.

I actually had to go through the process twice with another iPhone4. The first iPhone had a bad pixel so I got back to Apple and they replaced it with a new device. Then I placed my “homemade” micro SIM and the activation worked again like a charm.

**though it worked for me I can’t take any responsibility if it does not work for you :-)

UPDATE (OCT. 5th 2011):  You can now get a micro sim in the ATT store instead of the regular sized card, so you dont have to cut it. They did not ask me to pay more for it. In addition, you should note that the GoPhone Unlimited plan with the unlimited data does not apply to smartphones including the iPhone (in regards to 3G Data). So you have to purchase a separate data plan (e.g. 500MB for 25$) to make the internet work for you.

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After some trials and errors I found how to make it work. You just need to make sure that your image is set to size: 1004*768 portrait.

Note that it is 1004 and not 1024. They did the same with the iPhone: 460 instead 480..

Hope you will find this useful.

Here is a small example: if you leave the iPhone simulator open, and try to install any program, it will probably get stuck on the “Preparing” stage… the solution is to close the simulator and reinitiate the install.

If you wonder how you can kill (force close/quit) the installer (or any other program) in a MAC, then it is only a matter of pressing command+option+esc and selecting the program to close.

After reading about it quite a lot, I realized that many users are facing the same issue.. well..  I think I’ve found a full working solution for it!

What apparently is happening is that by default the iPhone pulls from AT&T  an iPhone specific APN that blocks you if you don’t have a real iPhone plan on your account. To override this settings you can use Apple Configuration Utility to change the APN manually. You do NOT need to jailbreak your iPhone.

This is what you need to do to make the data/internet connectivity work on your iPhone with AT&T prepaid sim card. Please note that if you follow these steps I can’t take responsibility for any negative influence it might have while using it.

1. Place your AT&T SIM in your iphone

2. Make sure it finds the network and that you have a data package! The unlimited plan does not apply…

3. Download and install iPhone Configuration Utility from Apple (free) for your PC/MAC

4. Plug your iPhone to your PC/Mac

5. Create a new configuration profile on the iPhone Configuration Utility

6. Go to “advance” and create a new APN by giving it any name you want and any identifier you wish. Type the following in the relevant fields:

APN: wap.cingular

User Name: wap@cingulargprs.com

Password: CINGULAR1

Proxy wireless.cingular.com port: 80

7. Save the profile and then select your iphone name under “devices”

8. Click on “install” button near the configuration profile name you just created (check your iPhone screen, you might be asked to tap on ‘Install’ there as well)

9. Turn on and off the Airplane mode (or restart your iPhone)

That’s it! now it should be able to access the web using the network data connectivity, same as the Android or any other device can do with the same SIM card..

When you’ll want to go back to your old SIM, just place it in and go to your settings on your iPhone and uninstall the profilfe. Or you can use the configuration utility to remove, what ever works better for you.

UPDATE (OCT. 5th 2011):  You can now get a micro sim in the ATT store instead of the regular sized card, so you dont have to cut it if you’r using an iPhone4. They did not ask me to pay more for it. In addition, you should note that the GoPhone Unlimited plan with the unlimited data does not apply to smartphones including the iPhone (in regards to 3G Data). So you have to purchase a separate data plan (e.g. 500MB for 25$) to make the internet work for you.

UPDATE (DEC. 28th 2011):  Several of you have asked about the iPhone 4S,  some have already commented that this approach still works with the new iPhone and iOS 5.0.1, and now I confirmed it myself to be working OK.

This is why I decided to try (as many others) and gain some profits from iPhone/iPod touch apps. In order to that I had to start learning some new skills: using MAC OS and its “unique” concepts, developing in objective c (new language and syntax) and using a new IDE (xCode). Not a trivial task as I believed..

So today I wanted to share with you a great starting point for the later two skills I pointed out. Stanford university has a course called CS193P which teaches how to build an iPhone application. This course is available online including the lectures videos, slides and assignments.

The course and its assignments are built in a very constructive way from the language basics to a full featured application communicating with Twitter.

After covering most of the course and its assignments, I can try and conclude that not only it is an enjoying course, I also managed to gain a solid understanding about iPhone development. Moreover, they cover some really important best practices that I believe are hard to find if you just surf the web for iPhone code snippets.

So even if you past the point of understanding the objective c syntax and how to build a basic application, I really recommend going over the lecture slides, making sure you don’t miss some important practices.

After exploring several options, I decided to use WordPress, and today I installed the platform on my hosting service. It took me less than an hour to set it up together with my old posts!

The installation process is an ease. You simply upload a compressed file to the hosting server, unpack it, create and configure a database, and from that point on all you have to do is to open the install page and follow the web based wizard.

Beside blogs management, the platform also allows to add pages, media and more easily and intuitively. It has a built-in blog import mechanism, so it was a matter of seconds to move my old posts at blogger to my new site.

Now I still need to fine tune some areas, but overall I’m really satisfied with the midterm results. I guess that the real test for it will come quite soon when I’ll be ready to publish the new content.

By then, I’ll be hoping that you enjoy the new look & feel :)