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Thanks for the downloads!

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

We were impressed again today to see that our official apps for Joe Nation TV and KevJumba were listed in the new and noteworthy category in the iTunes app store.  Along with that, our apps for CTFxC, OlgaKay, and our unofficial app for ShayTards were the top three picks in “What’s Hot” in social networking.

We can’t thank everyone enough for the downloads, and we cannot possibly thank our content partners enough for allowing us to provide apps for their content.  Thanks Everyone!

GeekUtils Apps reviewed on YouTube?

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

So, we were just searching through YouTube last night and we found some people that had taken time out of their day to review several of our apps.  We took a moment to comment on each one, but would like to thank each of you who did this.

We’re glad to see people enjoy our apps, and glad to see that they enjoy them enough to spread the word.  Thanks again!

Our official YouTube channel does not yet contain any videos, but we have favorited each of those reviews.  Please be sure to check it out – http://www.youtube.com/geekutils – If you’d like to subscribe, feel free.  We have plans to periodically post short videos talking about upcoming products, and to provide general help using our apps.

Thanks!

Twitter view is not working?

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Hello everyone!  We just wanted to inform you that we are currently experiencing difficulty with the twitter view we use in our apps.  We have contacted twitter to report the issue and hope to have resolution soon.

Please check back for updates.  We’ll post them as soon as we hear something in a positive direction.

iOS 4? iPhone 4? New Updates submitted!

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Since I could not make it to vidcon last weekend (other than watching the livestream), I decided to spend the weekend working on updates to the framework that drives the “Vlogger” apps.  I’ve submitted these updates to Apple for review, so hopefully they will be live and available to everyone in the coming days from the app store. These updates are significant, and are built for use with iOS 4.  What do these updates include?  Well – here’s a short rundown:

  • Built to take advantage of iOS 4 (Yes, that means you will need to be running iOS 4 in order to download the new updates)
    • With full support for iOS 4’s fast app switching, you can stay up to date with your latest vlogger’s videos and have the convenience of not having to watch the app load from scratch each time it’s launched.  This is supported on the latest iPods, the iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 4.
    • Video listings, store listings, and blog entries will automatically refresh for the latest content at pre-defined intervals (or, of course, you can still manually refresh any listings whenever you choose).
  • Built to take advantage of the iPhone 4’s retina display.
    • All graphics and thumbnails in the app will now load at a resolution which just looks amazing when you are on an iPhone 4.  For all other devices, the apps continue to run just as smoothly as they always have.
  • Browser views have all been updated with both a home and a back button.  The home button always re loads the screen as it was when you originally loaded the content.  The back button always takes you back one page in your navigation tree.
  • YouTube like / dislike support is now fully implemented rather than the old five star rating system.  Video listings and detail views have also been updated to show you what percentage of voters like a particular video.
  • Video listing view has been updated with a slightly new look.
  • Network communication between our app and YouTube’s API has been significantly optimized.  When fetching comment and video listings, our app now transmits and receives up to 60% less data to provide the same content.  This means that video and comment listing views now load quicker than ever before.

This is only the tip of the iceberg!  We have many more updates planned (including push notifications for new content) – Keep checking our blog at www.geekutils.com or via the “Dev Blog” view inside any of our apps to stay up to date with what is coming.  With that, I say thank you and provide a few screenshots, below 😉

Internet Killed Television v1.0 Released!

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

We’re proud to announce the release of our app for Charles and Alli’s content.  Please check the “More Apps” tab in any of our apps or visit http://bit.ly/iktapp to download!

As always, if you have any questions, concerns, feature suggestions, bug reports, etc – please use the “About” tab in the app to contact us!