Last updated: 3/19/2010 | © Robert Aubin
This is a work in progress and as such there are no guarantees it will work for you. I don't have a lot of free time and I whipped this up one afternoon while in between emails. It isn't fancy and there are no bells or whistles. I find it handy in my day-to-day uploading of applications to Apple and maybe you will too. Please send feedback or comments here.
I code applications for the iPhone. The company I work for often receives a word doc containing what the client wants posted to Apple for the app description and keywords used for the iTunes store. Since Apple started asking for keywords to help correctly index apps in the store, someone had to decide what these keywords would be. If I don't select the keywords myself, I get them in a variety of formats from clients and the folks in sales.
Apple limits these keywords to 100 characters. Now, I don't know about you, but I can count words up pretty quickly, but it seems no one has successfully been able to deliver me keywords that contain less than 100 characters. I usually don't figure this out until I'm on the page in itunesconnect that asks me for them and I have to make a decision about what words to drop or adjust to get the app submitted. I created this simple utility to avoid finding out last minute.
- clicking in the second input box should select all text for easy copying. It doesn't work in all browsers
- spaces on either side of commas are not stripped out resulting in an extra character. Just ran out of time.