Tweets – Twitter for the Rest of Us Preview

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. [Read More →]

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iPad and iPhone Apps and the App Store

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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 [Read More →]

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Feeds Version 1.8 Off to Apple for Review

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 [Read More →]

Feeds Users not Using Google Reader for Syncing – OPML Export

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 [Read More →]

Feeds 1.8 Sneek Peek (if Apple ever finishes reviewing the 1.7 update)

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.  [Read More →]

Feeds – The Next Minor Update

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 [Read More →]

Google Reader Integration Status

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 [Read More →]

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Providing Your iPhone Device ID to a Developer

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 [Read More →]

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