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Outage Resolved – Server is in it’s new home!

Sunday, April 22nd, 2012

Just wanted to post a quick note to let everyone know the server is back up and running in it’s new home. By now, it should have detected (and pushed) notifications for any videos that were posted by our partners today.

Thanks for your patience during this outage!

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Partial Outage – 4/21/2012

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

We are moving our servers to a new location on Saturday, 4/21/2012 so portions of our services will be unavailable.

All of our YouTube apps will still list and play videos fine, but the following services will be unavailable beginning around 1:30PM Eastern Time:

Push Notifications – Push notifications will not work until our server comes back online in it’s new location. Once everything is back online, it will push notifications for any videos posted during the downtime. In the meantime, simply check your app(s) periodically through the day – if any new videos are posted, they will be listed and available for playback
GeekUtils.com will be unavailable during the outage
eMail – All of our eMail addresses will be unavailble as the servers are moved to their new location. If you attempt to contact us and the email is bounced back to you, please try again on Sunday 4/22.
DEV BLOG (the tab inside all of our apps) – This tab reads geekutils.com and will be unavailable until the servers are back online
MORE APPS (tab inside all of our apps) – This tab connects to our server to get it’s application listing and will be unavailable until the servers are back online

We currently plan to be back online by midnight eastern time as a worst case scenario, and we hope to be back online much sooner. We thank you for your patience while we move our servers to a location which will help us to continue our trend of growth in the long term.

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Peter Hollens Official App is out!

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

When Peter Hollens contacted me a few months ago and said that he really wanted to work with me on an app I was flattered — he knew he wanted an app – and loved the workflow that the GeekUtils framework provided. I didn’t know much of Peter before this introduction, but I have grown to truly appreciate his talents – both vocally and creatively. It didn’t take long for me to happily agree to create an iOS product to showcase his content.

Peter has been involved in a capella music since 1999 when he co-founded the University of Oregon’s award winning a capella group “On the Rocks”. In 2010, Peter was featured on NBC’s “The Sing Off” and received acclaim from the judges for his solo performances.

Peter records and produces his music from his home studio in Eugene, Oregon and has recently recorded for Sony and Epic records. In February, Peter released his first full album which is available in iTunes (click here).

If you have not introduced yourself to Peter’s content yet – allow me to introduce you 🙂 Below find two videos – his latest video at the time of this writing (which has already gone viral) – a Skyrim themed video featuring Peter’s amazing a capella talents combined with Lindsey Stirling’s amazing violin performance. The second video is one that I particularly enjoy, Peter’s original song entitled “Sleepwalking”.

Check them out – then go download the app and buy his tunes 🙂