Virtual Tags for iOS 

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New version for iOS 5.1 submitted

The new 2.2 version of the Virtual Tags application has been finally submitted to the iTunes Store for approval after fixing a critical issue that was incompatible with iOS 5.1. In addition a new feature has been added to locate in a map the fellow taggers wherever in the world. Clients of the application will freely receive the new version as an update as soon as it is approved.
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Unbelievable sequence of unlucky event

Since November a number of unfortunate events plagued the current application. As for the starting thing all users with the new iOS release, special programming item is no longer supported and that results in a crash. As for the things you do not see, the programming toolkit (Xcode) started crashing while opening the project what was finally solved with the help of the Apple staff by confirming my project did not crash their version. So I had my mac reformatted and reinstalled and the problem went away. All finished? Not quite: as one of tests done to solve the issue, I upgraded to Mountain Lion having been offered this possibility by Apple. So after reformatting iPhoto was apparently touched by Mountain Lion and did not work any longer: so I installed again Mountain Lion and the iPhoto problem was solved; yet one of the latest updates did not allow the current Xcode to work asking to install a new version (4.4) that, in addition to requesting a Mac Development enrollment for strange reasons, did not allow to submit updated to the iTunes Store. So I had to reformat again my Mac and have Lion reinstalled and now I hope at the end to the updates I will finally be able to tackle the Virtual Tags application and the other apps both to solve this crash and adding new exciting features!
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Possibly the VT ones the last love lockers

The Rome’s administration has decided to remove the physical lockers having been left by lovers at Ponte Miglio thus just leaving the ones left with Virtual Tags so highlighting how augmented reality objects sometimes survive where physical ones do not:
http://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2011/12/12/news/roma_mozione_della_circoscrizione_rimuovete_i_lucchetti_da_ponte_milvio-26481180/
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Technical incident submitted to Apple

The new version with the solution about the white ribbons occasionally appearing on the main view is ready and is waiting a solution from Apple about the closed curtain appearing in the portrait view after returning from the other views.
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New version at work

A new version is ready to solve the issue with the white bars occasionally appearing on the main view and is eating for a fix by Apple of the problem with the locked objective when returning from another view and holding the device in profile mode. Note: the problem does not show when holding the device in landscape mode.
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New sweepstake open to all users

All users of this web site may take part to the new sweepstake been activated today to win the beautiful objects of our merchandize by submitting their peculiar experiences with the Virtual Tags iOS application. Prizes will be given on a monthly bases to the users having received most votes. You may check the sweepstake details, submit or vote starting from the home page that has been partly revamped to present this exploit.
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A new sweepstake will be opened in November

We are happy to inform the users of the Virtual Tags app and anyone with enough creativity that, starting in November, we will be offering on a monthly base our merchandise to the author of the best idea for the use of the application. In the meantime you might want to visit the scenario page for some hints.
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Version 1.5 of Virtual Tags available for download

The new iOS 5 ready version of Virtual Tags has been approved by Apple and is now ready for download. The new version, with the help of the iOS 5 SDK, finally provides a full landscape experience in all views of the application including the main one with the camera. Other long expected improvements are the possibility of posting and viewing messages using non-latin alphabets like the cyrillic. Moreover some minor glitches were removed.
The current version was based on a pre-release of iOS 5 and had to be posted in advance of its release as the old ones did not work on iOS 5 and will be probably followed by an updated one when the final version of iOS 5 is out.
As usual you may download it on the iTunes Store by clicking on the following button:

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Virtual Tags obituary for Steve Jobs

I met my first Apple product while I was composing my final university dissertation in the university of Pisa in 1987 at my teacher's office. I was happy enough to find Macs even at my first business place and from one of them in 1993 I delivered one of the first italian web sites including reproductions of paintings by my father.
Also on the Mac in 1995 I started a .net web site dedicated to italian art with my gf of the time. I then took a leave from Apple for a few years until I acquired an iBook I have now presented my over 80 mum. I embraced iTunes and stopped purchasing hard supports in favor of liquid music. Nowdays I am an iOS developer with five successful application on the iTunes store.

 I must admin Steve has been for me a sort of beacon for my business life, and not only that, and his passing away is now just a painful sign of how everything passes, a sentence on which Mr. Job, a buddhist practitioner himself, would have most likely agreed. I wonder where a new Baby is born, but I am sure to find him near an Apple tree, possibly of the Macintosh quality!

Also submitted to the NYTimes Reader Memories of Steve JobsNote: as a sign of remembrance, Virtual Tags and the two other charged apps from Mia Foto have had their prices lowered for this painful day.
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Apple allowed the submission of iOS 5 apps

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The next generation of the world’s most advanced mobile operating system will soon be in the hands of hundreds of millions of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch customers. This major new release features more than 200 new features and an updated SDK with over 1,500 new APIs and developer tools.


Get your apps ready for the next generation of iOS. Install the GM seed of iOS 5 and build your apps with Xcode 4.2 GM seed. Test your existing apps for compatibility, review the iOS Data Storage Guidelines, and submit your new apps that take advantage of the exciting technologies in iOS 5 today.
Read the iOS Readiness Checklist now and submit your iOS 5 apps for review.
Apple today sent this message to developers encouraging them to submit the new releases of their apps for the exciting new iOS. Mia Foto will thereafter deliver in the next hours the new releases for three of its apps, including Virtual Tags, with a number of new features trying to take advantage of this wonderful platform at its best .
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