Twitter and Links in the Underbar, Oh My!

June 2nd, 2010

We have been listening to the comments that you have been providing by way of the “About Tab” in our apps and we are excited that a couple of new updates are coming very soon.

  • Twitter integration – Just as our apps currently allow you to easily share content via facebook or eMail, twitter will be added to the list shortly.  This will allow you to share your favorite content directly to your twitter followers.  Additionally, we hope to streamline the app away from the current web-based twitter reader to a more native format.  This will allow you to tweet and reply to tweets directly from our apps
  • Links in the UnderBar – many of you have asked why the links in the underbar don’t appear to work like they do from youtube.com.  Unfortunately, this is a limitation of the API call that we are using to retrieve information directly from youtube and into our apps.  We have devised a way to actually get the full description, so links in the underbar will be working soon.

Of course, keep up to date with our twitter feed (@geekutils) to stay up to date with the latest updates to our apps.  You can also use the “More” tab in any of our apps to read this blog, view our other apps that are available, and contact us to provide feedback and feature suggestions.

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Update: Android / iPad timeline

June 2nd, 2010

Many of you have asked when the Android and iPad versions of our popular apps, such as “PhillyD Official” will be released.

The short answer is: We are in the process of working on both.

The longer answer is: iPad will come before Android, simply because the iPad version of the app is a natural extension of the extensive codebase we have already developed for the iPhone versions.  Android requires a complete ground-up re-write of everything that we have built so far.  We have been working on the iPhone versions of these apps since November of 2009, so the complete Android rewrite will not happen overnight, but is in progress.

Timelines will heavily depend on our overall workload – but please believe me when I say that we are listening, we hear you, and we’re working as quickly as possible to bring you what you want 😉

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PhillyD Official tops the charts in Canada!

May 17th, 2010

As of my last check at 3:00AM Eastern Time, PhillyD Official has reached the number one spot for free news apps in Canada’s iTunes app store.  It’s also moved to the #6 spot in the news in the U.S. App store – moving ahead of USA Today in downloads for Sunday!

The purpose of this post was not to boast (well, maybe a little ;)), but rather to take a moment to say thank you very much for taking the time to download our app.  While reaching the top of the charts is not something that is new to Phil – it’s very new to GeekUtils and I’m excited to see the response.  We hope you are enjoying the app, and we welcome your comments, questions, and feature suggestions.  Feel free to contact us via the “About” tab inside any of our apps – we’ll do our best to respond to each and every request we receive.

Thanks Again!

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PhillyD Official is burning the charts!

May 16th, 2010

Our official app for Philip DeFranco’s content stream is flying up the charts this weekend in the app store. Phil announced the app at the end of his Friday video (entitled “Selling Virgins”) and as of 10:15PM eastern standard time this evening, it’s sitting squarely in the #7 spot in downloads today in the Free News apps category.

This is huge! This means that for the time being, PhillyD Official has surpassed downloads of apps for DIGG, CBS News, Time Mobile, ABC News, The Onion, MSNBC.COM, the Discovery Channel, Mashable! and the Wall Street Journal. This speaks volumes as to the general acceptance and credibility of new media and social networking in the grand scheme of the daily news world.

Go DeFranco Nation, Go! Keep downloading 😉 I’m hoping that we can keep up the trend. Spread the word, tell your friends about the app, and use the Share functionality inside the app to share Phil’s content to your friends and spread awareness of the app. Also, don’t forget to login using your YouTube account and subscribe/rate/follow/favorite Phil’s content stream!

I’m very appreciative for the opportunity to work with Phil on this awesome app – and appreciative to those of you in the DeFranco Nation who have now downloaded and are using the product. For information on new releases and news from GeekUtils – please follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/GeekUtils) and/or check the developer blog view inside the app.

If you have not downloaded the app yet – please do so by clicking here or by searching for PhillyD Official in the app store.

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Latest Updates now available

May 14th, 2010

The x.x.1 micro updates of all of our vlogger apps are now available. These updates address errors that could occur in previous versions when posting replies to comments on YouTube videos. To update, please visit the app store and check for updates.

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