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tap tap tap reveals secrets of how to succeed in the App Store

Demian Turner — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:23:31 +0000

(via tuaw) tap tap tap, developers of a number of popular iPhone apps, recently posted an entry on their in-house blog about how they made their most recent launch, Camera+, succeed in the App Store. According to the company, the classy photography app launched very successfully, making over $250,000 in the first month of sales.

Update Submitted for Doris App for iPhone

Demian Turner — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:41:07 +0000

Thanks to all the users who wrote in about the Doris crashes after updating to iOS4, a new binary was uploaded to Apple last night and should be with you shortly! Thanks for your patience.

Login problems fixed with Read Later app

Demian Turner — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:49:48 +0000

There was an issue with the new Yahoo login feature on our Read Later app, this is now fixed since our latest update went live in the App Store last night.

Yahoo had changed the HTML on their login page which we scrape to allow for easy logins from our app. The fix, which consisted in changing one line of HTML, took over a week to be accepted by Apple!

Apologies for the inconvenience.

Major Update for My High Street app

Demian Turner — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:16:24 +0000

On May 4th we released a major update for our My High Street app. At last you can view your favourites brands and retailers within the app, no need to quit out into the Maps app.

Also we added the ability to search by brand or retailer. Rather than having to scroll through the hundreds of High Street brands stored within the app, simply pull down the categories list and type in your search, just a few letters are needed to bring up the relevant results.

Here’s a full list of the new features and improvements in version 1.3:

maps now work inline
integration with Maps app for directions
integration with the Contacts app
email a location to a friend
search for any brand

Update for Read Later released

Demian Turner — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:00:36 +0000

On April 8th 2010 we released a major update for our Read Later iPhone app. Users will happy to hear you can now login to the app either with your Yahoo ID, or a Delicious ID.

As some users may be aware, in the last few months Delicious has changed its account creation policy and now you may only create new accounts using a Yahoo ID. Existing Delicious accounts are still functional, and those users may optionally migrate their account to be Yahoo ID based.

Some other exciting features that made it into this release:

you can now view original webpage saved, as well as the offline version
we implemented a rotation lock for those who prefer a specific device orientation
shake to update: shake your iPhone to check for new links added to Delicious
the swipe to delete animation was improved

iPhone Apps Developed by Seagull Systems

Demian Turner — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:45:01 +0000

I got a chance yesterday to put together a brief list of some of the iPhone apps we’ve developed recently, check it out:

http://seagullsystems.com/services/iphone-development/our-customer-apps/

You can also get more information about our in-house apps and how to get a quote here:

http://seagullsystems.com/services/iphone-development/

If you’re a customer here’s some information on locating your UDID, which you’ll need if you want to install an Ad Hoc build we provide you.

My High Street voted Top Shopping App by T3

Demian Turner — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:55:49 +0000

Check out the Feb 2010 issue of T3, in their 60 Best iPhone Apps feature you’ll find our My High Street app as one of the 4 finalists in the shopping section. Thanks guys!

Read Later live in AppStore

Demian Turner — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:27:13 +0000

Read later finally went live in the AppStore last Saturday. Took a bit longer than expected, but that’s Apple for you

Read Later is targeted at heavy Delicious.com users who want to keep track of their favourite web finds and don’t always have time to read everything they bookmark.

Simply add the bookmark of your choice on Delicious to signify that an article must be read later, eg, to_read, and let Read Later load up all your articles for easy reading on the iPhone, offline if needed.

All web content is cleaned up for easy reading, ie banners and ads are stripped, as are images.

UPDATE: it’s already #21 in the Japanese AppStore!

Doris wins second place in Betavine widget contest

Demian Turner — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:19:07 +0000

Betavine Widget Competition

We almost won, but second place is not too bad so we’re really happy with the Betavine results!

Two months ago we entered the Betavine competition which asked mobile developers to build widgets for devices based on the S60 platform using the Opera widget runtime.

You can check out the Doris mobile widget on the Doris Integration page.

Read Later app launched

Demian Turner — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:23:29 +0000

Our latest iPhone app, Read later, was submitted to the AppStore last week and will go live any day now.

The app is targeted at heavy Delicious.com users who want to keep track of their favourite web finds and don’t always have time to read everything they bookmark.

All web content is cleaned up for easy reading, ie banners and ads are stripped, as are images.