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Thinking about building an iPad app?

Demian Turner — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:30:00 +0000

If you haven’t played with an iPad yet I highly recommend it. It’s surprising how much more fun it is to use than a laptop or regular mobile device. Even the iPhone feels quite boring by comparison. To give you some ideas Apple has created a site profiling some of the better 3rd party iPhone apps, with videos, recommended viewing.

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.

Season’s Greetings to all our customers

Demian Turner — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:19:40 +0000

We’d like to thank all our customers and partners for a great year and we wish you all the best in health and happiness for 2010. Thanks for your continued interest and support and stay tuned in 2010 for some great new products we’ll be announcing.

Season’s Greetings!

Companion positioning bugs fixed in OpenX 2.8.1

Demian Turner — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:03:16 +0000

Just a quick note to our OpenX customers, we can confirm that the companion positioning issues have been resolved in OpenX 2.8.1, so please upgrade to fix the problem, or let us know and we’ll be happy to do the upgrade for you.

Doris API Announced

Demian Turner — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:25:46 +0000

As some of our techie users will have guessed, we’ve had an API (Application Programming Interface) for Doris working for some time now, that’s the reason you can use a range of clients (iPhone, Dashboard widget, Opera widget) to access and update your account data.

But starting today we’ve made the API publicly available, see for yourself by checking out the Doris API documentation.

What does this mean for all users? It means you now have total control over your data and can use it exactly how you like. With the help of a developer you can write custom programs to use Doris data in new and exciting ways.

What does this mean for developers? It means you can now create Doris-based applications and/or integrate Doris with your existing development workflow.

We’re excited to see what ideas our users come up with and judging by the amount of requests over at Uservoice, I’m anticipating a healthy response.

If you have any questions, ideas or bug reports please drop us a line at the usual place.

Demian interviewed on Betavine

Demian Turner — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:37:20 +0000

The folks over at Betavine/Vodafone interviewed me several weeks ago thanks to our second place results in the Betavine widget contest.

We had of course hoped to win the contest with our Doris widget but were very pleased with second place results, there were a lot of great competitors.

Read the Betavine interview here.

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!