Archive for the ‘JoeNationTV’ Category

Push Notifications Are Here…

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

Over the next several days, you will notice timed updates to all of our apps based on our awesome Vlogger framework.  This update only has one purpose – enabling push notifications for new videos!

We’re very happy to release this service and the app updates and thank everyone for their patience while we have worked hard to implement this functionality.   We know that we’ve been promising it for a while, but we wanted to make sure that we had the simplest, most effective, most reliable and most flexible solution possible.

We will be releasing the apps one at a time over the next few days.  We are doing this to ensure that the push notification server that we have developed is stable, and to prevent mass chaos should something go awry.  Please bare with us and rest assured that push notifications in your favorite vlogger app will be available very soon – be sure to check the app store periodically over the next few days.

Why you need to set date and time correctly.

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

We’ve gotten a couple of people who have e-mailed us over the past couple of months where they tell us that in any of our apps, none of the videos will play.

The solution for this problem is simple.  When the iPod touch, iPad (and iPhones on some carriers) go completely dead, they lose the date and time settings.   The YouTube authorization algorithm requires that the date and time are set properly, because the device receives authorization for a given timeframe to play a video.

If the date and time settings are wrong, when YouTube sends back an authorization timeframe, it will always be wrong versus your device, so the videos will not play.

You would also notice that when your date and time are incorrectly set, you cannot download from the app store.  For these reasons, it is always important to make sure to reset your time settings if you ever allow the iPod or iPhone to go completely dead.

Happy YouTubing!

Two NEW Apps Released!

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Like we described in the video on our YouTube channel the other day, the reception of our apps has been amazing and we’ve gotten the chance to work with some really talented people who have taken a chance on us by allowing us to provide their official apps into the app store.

We’re very happy to announce two new apps, released today, that are available now in the app store.  The first is JoeNationTV Official, and the second one is KevJumba Official.  We’ve been amazed by the cinematic quality of Joe’s videos for quite some time, and we laugh out loud constantly to Kev’s videos and love his philanthropic spirit.

We’re honored to announce these two official additions to our app lineup.  To download, just do the following:

  • If you are already in one of our apps, just go to the “More” view, then pick “More Apps”, and then touch the app you want to download to automatically go to the app store.
  • If you are on our website, both apps have been added to “the grid” on the right side of our homepage at http://www.geekutils.com

Thanks Joe and Kevin and thank you to all of the loyal fans for downloading!  We hope you all enjoy the new additions!