iPhone 4 and iOS 4 Updates
July 29, 2010 — Mike (admin)We are just finishing up the final updates for the iPhone 4 and iOS 4. There are a ton of changes to Feeds, Tweets and a few for FileFly. All the images were redone for Tweets and Feeds so they look a TON better on the iPhone 4. We added fast app switching support to Tweets and Feeds as well. FileFly won’t be getting fast app switching support because it just doesn’t make sense to waste precious memory for no good reason. The final Tweets and Feeds updates should be heading out to Apple this week so everything should be looking much better on the iPhone 4.
Tweets – Twitter for the Rest of Us Preview
February 10, 2010 — Mike (admin)The last few months we have been hard at work on our next application. It is called Tweets and
as you can guess from the name it is a Twitter application. Why another Twitter application when there are already a gazillion of
them? We couldn’t find one that worked exactly the way we wanted. When we build apps it is first because we want to make something work exactly how we want it to. Most of the Twitter apps in the App Store do some things really well but none fit what we were looking for…until now. We borrowed some ideas from things we liked in a bunch different Twitter apps then we added the things we thought were missing and put our own spin on it all. The result: Tweets – Twitter for the rest of us. (more…)
iPad and iPhone Apps and the App Store
February 1, 2010 — Mike (admin)With the coming of the “Jesus Pad” (see previous post) Apple is threatening to shake things up yet again. This time it’s not the smart phone world that’s in for a rattling but the much larger world of personal computing. As mentioned in my previous post, apps are going to be a big thing on the iPad (Obviously. What good is an iPad with no apps). Developers have some big decisions to make about how they are going to create and sell their apps in the coming months.
Feeds Version 1.8 Off to Apple for Review
December 6, 2009 — Mike (admin)We sent off the newest build of Feeds to Apple for review. Hopefully it will take them less than a month to get this one out. This version contains the following:
- You can now add a note to any article (if using Google Reader)
- Fixed a crashing bug when deleting a folder
- Fixed the ‘Get 20 more’ issue when show only unread was turned ON and it didn’t actually return 20 more
Enjoy!
UPDATE (12/11): In record time Apple has finished reviewing the update and it is now live. This marks by far the quickest update we have ever received clocking in at just 5 days. 2.5 weeks was the previous record and it has most often been over a month. Maybe Apple doesn’t hate us as much as we thought…or maybe they just forgot to tell the new guy to stick our updates on the back burner for a few weeks before looking at them.
Feeds Users not Using Google Reader for Syncing – OPML Export
October 8, 2009 — Mike (admin)This one goes out to all our users who have been around since the early days of the App Store. A long, long time ago Feeds didn’t sync with Google Reader and instead did all syncing through our servers. Once we added Google Reader support a HUGE majority of our users ditched the old way of syncing and in a way, so did we. All new features were made for Google Reader syncing only unless it was dead easy to add for old style users. (more…)
Feeds 1.8 Sneek Peek (if Apple ever finishes reviewing the 1.7 update)
September 4, 2009 — Mike (admin)Since Apple has taken over a month now to review version 1.7 of Feeds we have been busy preparing version 1.8. 1.8 is probably the biggest update yet besides when we added Google Reader syncing a loooong time ago. There are a few screen shots below to let you see the visual changes we made. The internal changes that I can remember off the top of my head are:
Feeds – The Next Minor Update
April 24, 2009 — Mike (admin)UPDATE: ReadItLater seems to be working well and our testing of the other changes is complete. Feeds version 1.5 is now in Apple’s hands.
We are wrapping up testing on the next update now. There isn’t too much to report on this one. There are a couple additions and we are starting the process of removing some settings as well. (more…)
Google Reader Integration Status
December 11, 2008 — Mike (admin)After a hiatus to Japan for 2 weeks we are back on the prowl getting Google Reader integration wrapped up. As we work through adding functionality we are of course coming to some roadblocks that are requiring us to make some decisions on what to include and what to scrap. The biggest problem we are having is with offline mode and synching properly when there is no internet connection. Unlike the non-reader part of Feeds, we don’t have a way to ask Google for all posts that came after x. We instead, have to download a whole bunch of extra posts which is quite slow over Edgel (more…)
Providing Your iPhone Device ID to a Developer
August 11, 2008 — Mike (admin)On occasion when submitting a bug for an iPhone application you will be asked to provide a Device ID. This is a 40 digit alpha-numeric code that represents your iPhone. Providing the Device ID allows developers to look for errors or other oddities in log files on our servers. This can prove to be instrumental in finding bugs/errors that had previously gone unnoticed.