Happy Holidays and Thank You’s

November 18th, 2010

As we come up upon the holiday season, I just wanted to take a moment to say Happy Holidays and best wishes to all.

I also wanted to take a moment to say thank you for all of the downloads and support. Since January, our free apps have logged over 8.5 million unique sessions across nearly a half million downloads, and we are now averaging one app usage every 2 seconds worldwide. This is amazing and very humbling for a tiny company like GeekUtils – I can’t possibly thank everyone enough for giving us a chance and installing our apps on your device.

We couldn’t get to that point without partnering with some great YouTube celebrities, and we thank all of those who have given us the opportunity to work with them to provide their official applications into the app store.

Finally, I want to send a quick thank you to everyone who has taken the time to contact us using the “About” tab in any of our apps. Whether it be a user asking how to use a particular feature in our apps, or contacting us to make a feature suggestion – we appreciate that you are taking time out of your schedule to share your comments. In the end, it’s only by interaction with our valuable users that we can continue to add new features and functions, and make our apps into the experience that works well for everyone.

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Updated: Known Facebook Outage

November 17th, 2010

Looks like the facebook connect site has a certificate issue. What does this mean? It means until they fix the problem, sharing to facebook from any of our applications using the facebook API is not available.

We have submitted a bug report to facebook which has been confirmed by other app developers as well. We hope they resolve this issue quickly. In the meantime, posting to facebook using pretty much any iPhone application using Facebook’s official API is affected.

Updated 8:30AM EST 11/17/2010 – Facebook appears to be working normally now. All share functionality for third party apps has resumed normal function.

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PhillyD, AnnoyingOrange, and stirfryTV App Updates Available

November 16th, 2010

Thanks to an awesomely fast response by Apple, the updates we mentioned yesterday for PhillyD, AnnoyingOrange, and stirFryTV are now available in the app store.

The actual versions are as follows:

PhillyD Official 2.2.2
Unofficial AnnoyingOrange 2.2.2
stirfryTV 1.2.2

NOTE: To determine if you have the latest version of any of our applications, you can simply view the “About” tab (on most apps, this is located on the “More” tab) – the version you have is listed in the lower right corner of the screen.

These updates resolve the issue that some were seeing on older devices running iPhone OS 3.x. If you are using iPhone OS 3.x, please download these as soon as possible to get you back up and enjoying the experience you have always enjoyed from our apps.

To download the update, please simply launch the app store on your device and the updates should appear. If they do not yet appear, please be patient – it takes up to 24 hours from the launch of an update for it to be available in all countries via the app store.

If you gave the previous update a negative review in the app store due to the playback bug, please take a couple of seconds to re-rate the application after the fix. We appreciate your patience and thank you in advance!

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Issue with Latest update and iOS 3.x

November 14th, 2010

A couple of people who still have not updated to iOS 4.x have reported to us that the latest updates for PhillyD Official, Unofficial AnnoyingOrange, and stirFryTV are not working correctly on their devices.

We are aware of the issue – and will include a fix for this in the updates we are submitting to Apple today (mentioned in yesterday’s blog post).

Unfortunately, iOS 4.x and iPhone OS 3.x are quite different from a developer’s perspective. Trying to support the latest and greatest iOS 4.0 features, while retaining compatibility with 3.x devices is a challenge sometimes.

Our apps have to have functionality that will work on one, but not on the other. Along with this functionality, we need to be aware of which version is running so that we don’t try to execute a routine designed for 4.x on a 3.x device.

We are usually very good about testing to ensure compatibility with older devices, unfortunately, in this scenario – we missed one case that will cause the app to crash on iPhone OS 3.x devices.

The updates will be available shortly – but in the meantime, consider upgrading to iOS 4.x if you are running a 3GS or 3rd generation iPod. Not only does iOS 4 run brilliantly on these devices – there are so many new features that it’s almost silly not to update.

Original iPhone and iPhone 3G users and users of the 1G and 2G iPods may want to hold off due to performance concerns – and this is understandable… but if you have any of the newer devices, you should consider updating.

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App updates on the way again ;)

November 14th, 2010

Shortly after the release of our last set of updates, several people using iPhones reported a bug to us that would cause video playback to stop when a SMS message was received.

Unlike the twitter outage we recently experienced, this particular bug was due to an update that we made to our framework. We responded quickly thanks to the users who reported the bug to us and submitted updates to all of our apps to Apple earlier this week.

At the time of this writing, these updated versions have been released to the app store for the PhillyD Official, Unofficial AnnoyingOrange, and stirfryTV apps.

The remainder of the apps updates should be available very soon (As quickly as they can be approved for the app store, they will be available to you) – if you are using an iPhone, keep your eye out for the latest updates to resolve this issue.

For iPad and iPod users, this update is not as critical because it only contains a fix for a bug that occurs when SMS are received during video playback. We do, however, always recommend that all users of our apps always stay up to date with the latest versions, so please install them once they are released regardless of the type of device you are using.

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