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		<title>help improve the robots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Hearts Net 2.1.1, I added a feature where you can upload your current game state to my web server. It&#8217;s the very last thing on the Settings view, labelled &#8220;Upload State.&#8221; Among other things, this is useful for helping me improve the robots.
Let&#8217;s say you see the robots make a card play that you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2010/03/06/help-improve-the-robots/</link>
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		<title>Hearts Net 2.1.1 available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hearts Net 2.1.1 is now available for download from the App Store. This is a free upgrade for anybody who has already purchased the program.
I tried to resolve the &#8220;shy robot&#8221; problem, described in an an earlier blog post. I can&#8217;t be sure I&#8217;ve fixed it, because that situation never happens to me personally. Perhaps [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2010/03/02/hearts-net-2-1-1-available/</link>
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		<title>iPhone: nibless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just had a look, and my blog is the number one hit on google for the search phrase &#8220;iphone nibless.&#8221; That leads to a blog post I wrote on the subject last year. I linked to another blog that explained how to accomplish such a goal, but that blog post has since been taken [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2010/02/28/iphone-nibless/</link>
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		<title>UIProgressHUD replacement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear internet: I have been searching for a UIProgressHUD replacement for many, many months. Why have you failed me? I don&#8217;t suppose it was because of that other, similarly named UIProgressHUD replacement? Which I am not going to link to or name, because it sucks. Sorry, yes I am a jerk, but it does. If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2010/02/27/uiprogresshud-replacement/</link>
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		<title>the &#8220;shy robot&#8221; problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard from several players that it&#8217;s possible for Hearts Net to get into a situation where it appears &#8220;stuck,&#8221; because one robot won&#8217;t play a card when it should. This seems most likely to happen to people who play the game in short bursts, interrupted frequently with phone calls or texts or whatever. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2010/02/26/the-shy-robot-problem/</link>
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		<title>testimonial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I lost my momentum. My rank for Hearts Net is now down to number 46 in the U.S. store. Sales are still substantial, though, so that just means that I can&#8217;t live solely on the profits, as I might have been able to do if I&#8217;d made it into the top ranks. Still plenty good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2010/02/21/testimonial/</link>
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		<title>Now you can change the colors and fonts!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone&#8217;s second biggest complaint is that they don&#8217;t like one or the other of the new color schemes. Okay then, version 2.1.0 of Hearts Net is now available on the App Store. It allows you to switch back to the original Hearts Solo &#8220;classic&#8221; theme, if you wish. The game will look almost exactly like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2010/02/19/now-you-can-change-the-colors-and-fonts/</link>
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		<title>Number 33</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, a funny thing happened. I thought that the people buying my game were all Hearts Solo players, forced into upgrading because I crippled that version. But the number of people downloading Hearts Solo has peaked, and is heading down. Yet the number of people buying Hearts Net is still going up.
I wondered: You don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2010/02/19/number-33/</link>
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		<title>troll marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just got the sales numbers for yesterday. It&#8217;s going to sound like bragging if I keep quoting them. So I&#8217;ll just say that they are still going up.
Dear internet: I have a shameful confession. When I crippled Hearts Solo, I honestly didn&#8217;t know that it was going to create such a firestorm. But once I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2010/02/18/troll-marketing/</link>
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		<title>not a fluke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was holding my breath, wondering what the first full day of sales would be like. iTunes Connect had the daily report available exceptionally early today, so I didn&#8217;t have to wait long. The final total: $113.39.
Okay, wait. Just stop a minute. Um. Holy crap! Over a hundred dollars! In one 24-hour period!
Putting this into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2010/02/17/not-a-fluke/</link>
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