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Free Status Orb Images for iOS Apps

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I’m currently wrapping up development of my next app for Mac, iPhone and iPad.

One screen in this app uses green, red and gray status orb images to indicate the correctness of the user’s credentials for a particular online service.

For the OSX edition I was able to use the excellent NSImageNameStatusAvailable, NSImageNameStatusUnavailable and NSImageNameStatusNone status orbs that come pre-bundled with Cocoa and are intended for use with NSImage.

The iPhone and iPad editions of my app however could not avail themselves of these handy graphics and I had to create my own, which I now share with you for free.

I used Inkscape to create the below green, red and gray vectors (in SVG) from which I could export rasterized versions. The appearance is more or less keeping inline with the orbs in OSX but the files are originals.

Status orb green Status orb green 2x Status orb red Status orb red 2x Status orb gray Status orb gray 2x

The below file contains those SVG and PNG files in both Retina display and non-Retina display resolutions. Download File

Feel free to use/modify these in your iOS projects.

How do I price my software?

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I found a great resource today for software developers struggling to figure out how much to charge for their hard work.

Ironically, the book, Don’t Just Roll the Dice: a usefully short guide to software product pricing, is free as a PDF download.

Neil Davidson is articulate and explains in simple terms the factors to consider when pricing your software.  It’s well worth the $10 Amazon is currently charging for it and I intend to compensate Neil for his insights.