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Thanks for an amazing 2010!

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has downloaded our free or paid apps this year.  GeekUtils is still a new and growing company, and you all have helped to get us off to a good start.  We’re now averaging around 60,000 individual application sessions per day – which means one of our apps is launched about every second and a half worldwide.

I would also like to thank our content partners for whom we have “official” apps for giving us the chance to celebrate their branding through our suite of iPhone apps.   So, Charles Trippy and Alli Speed, Phil DeFranco, Tony Valenzuela (BlackBoxTV), OlgaKay, Joe Nation, stirFryTV, Kev Jumba, Mark Watson (SoldierKnowsBest), Mike Tompkins, Benny & Rafi Fine (TheFineBros), Paul (TeamDMG Official), and Peter Chao (app coming soon) – Thank You! It’s been a pleasure and I really appreciate the opportunity to work with you folks by providing your official apps and I hope you enjoy what I’ve provided 😉

Here’s to a great 2010, and an even better 2011.  Please remember that we can’t continue to provide and maintain all of these awesome free apps if our paid apps are not successful.  Please spread the word about AutoTV, GamerTV, EDUTV, and TypeCam – and if you haven’t had a chance to check them out yet – please give them a shot .  These great apps are only 99 cents each – and we think that they’re worth every penny and then some 😉

Please keep in mind that you can follow this blog, and follow all of our latest app releases right within our apps by periodically checking out the “Dev Blog” and “More Apps” tabs found in the “More” section of the main tab bar.

Posted in BlackBoxTV, CTFxC, JoeNationTV, KevJumba, Mike Tompkins, OlgaKay, Peter Chao, PhillyD, SoldierKnowsBest, stirfryTV, TeamDMG, TheFineBros | No Comments »

UPDATED: Push Notification Delays for Mike Tompkins App

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

UPDATED 12/29/2010 5:00PM EST: This issue has been resolved.  Push notifications for Mike Tompkins’ content should now be functioning normally.  Thanks for your patience!

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Unlike most of our apps for YouTube content creators that monitor different “channels” for new videos, our Mike Tompkins official app uses new technology that we have created to monitor “playlists” for new videos. While this doesn’t sound much different, it’s an entirely different mechanism in place for sending push notifications for Mike’s content.

We’ve found a slight bug that caused the process to miss Mike’s latest new videos. We have manually sent a push notification to let anyone using the app know that there are new videos – but the notifications were not as “Immediate” as everyone is used to with our suite of apps.

We are working on fixing the issue now – and soon, push notifications for Mike’s content will be immediate just like the other apps we have in the store. Important Note – this bug is on the server side – once it’s repaired it will automatically work – you will not be required to update the app that you have already installed. We’ll update this posting as soon as the issue is resolved.

Thanks for your patience, and Happy Holidays!

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Customize your tab bar – HOWTO

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

We get a lot of e-mail where people say “Hey, I love your app for <insert YouTube celeb name here>, but I don’t care about his/her facebook page – why don’t you put twitter on the main tab bar and move facebook to the more tab”.

Of course, this same e-mail comes in hundreds of different variations – everyone has their own preferences it seems.  The truth is, we can’t make everyone happy with the default order – which is why the tab bar in ALL of our YouTube apps is completely configurable.  Configuring the bar is identical to the way you can configure the iPod tab bar – to customize, simply:

  • Touch the “More” tab (the one on the far right)
  • Touch “Edit” in the upper right corner of the screen.
  • Drag the icons from the listing up top down to the position where you would like them to appear on the tab bar OR move the existing four tabs around by dragging them into a new location
  • Press “Done”

Now, every time you start the app – the tabs will appear in the exact order YOU want them, not the order we provide them in 😉  Our default order is based upon statistics and/or the Content Creator’s request for the default layout – but you can order these any way you want.

Customize away! 🙂  Happy Holidays!

Posted in Annoying Orange, BlackBoxTV, CTFxC, iJustine, JoeNationTV, KevJumba, Mike Tompkins, OlgaKay, PhillyD, Shane Dawson, ShayTards, SoldierKnowsBest, stirfryTV, TeamDMG, TheFineBros | No Comments »

Mike Tompkins Official now Available

Monday, December 20th, 2010

We’re super excited to announce our latest partnership with Mike Tompkins.  If you didn’t see him on the today show or have not yet seen him yet on YouTube – check out the video below for a sample of Mike’s work:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtBeobpTcmk&fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&autoplay=1&hd=1]

Awesome, right? Now you can stay up to date with all of Mike’s content with our Mike Tompkins Official iPhone App. To download, click the link here or visit the “more apps” section of the “more” tab in any of our popular apps. We hope you all enjoy Mike’s content as much as we do!

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