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20 Feb 2010

Feathers iPhone app with a tweet showing the two new text styles: leet and strikeoutIt's only been a week since the release of Feathers and I just submitted the first update to Apple.

The new update has two new styles and new magic quotes substitutions for you to play with. It also brings with it the option to turn of auto-correction (including auto-capitalization and those annoying periods that get autoinserted when you enter two spaces following a character.) Auto-correction is on by default but you may want to turn it off if you do a lot of Unicode art.

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Feathers Update 1.1 coming soon!

I just submitted the first update of Feathers to Apple for approval.

17 Feb 2010

Feathers iPhone App: Decorate your tweets.Within two hours of its release, my new iPhone app, Feathers, shot into the Top 25 in the Social Networking category in the App Store. Thank you to everyone who helped by tweeting, blogging, and – of course – buying the app.

If you haven't seen the short 1-minute screencast yet, what are you waiting for? Head over to feathersapp.com to watch it!

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Feathers: initial reactions

Thank you for your wonderfully warm reception of Feathers and please help me to spread the word.

15 Feb 2010

Boobs: the new social networking? (Image from the Attractive Sweet Queen app in the Social Networking category of the App Store)

It appears that boobs are the hottest new thing in social networking. At least if you take the Social Networking category on iTunes as a reference.

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Social Boobworking? Or “Why Apple needs to be stricter about App Store categories”

I have nothing against boobs, but they don't belong in the Social Networking category on the App Store.

12 Feb 2010

Feathers decorate your tweets

I just released my new iPhone app, a labor of love called Feathers.

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Feathers: decorate your tweets!

My new iPhone app just launched! And with your help we can take it to the Top 25 in the Social Networking category on the App Store.

17 Nov 2009

Occipital is the company behind RedLaser (iTunes link), a hugely-successful barcode scanning app for the iPhone that is one of the top-selling and highest-grossing apps on the App Store.

Beyond that, however, Occipital is a Value Adder, just like Joe Hewitt.

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How Apple’s App Store review process hurt Occipital’s RedLaser SDK and my very own ‘avit iPhone app