New Apps - Sciencepedia and Artpedia

The last two apps I had waiting for approval were approved today. They are Sciencepedia and Artpedia. You can find links to them in the usual place. I hope you like them.

I've started updates on existing apps. The updates add Read It Later functionality and in some cases update the app info text.
Religionpedia and Histopedia updates have been submitted and I hope to get the rest of the apps updated over the next day or two.

New App - Histopedia

Apple has approved my latest app Histopedia. It's another Wikipedia browser, this time based on the History category. I've also completed an update to all my Wikipedia based apps that allows for offline saving via "Read It Later". I'm just waiting for two more apps I have under review to be approved and then I'll update them all. It's just easier for me to update all the apps at once so I don't have to keep track of which app has which set of features. I've also started working on including a way to switch views in the Wikipedia apps. I think I might start by allowing for the user to view the Wikipedia mobile view along with the regular web view.

New App - Religionpedia

Religionpedia was approved by Apple last night. This one had to be appealed just like Philosopedia, but it only took the Appeals Board about 24 hours to approve it. I have two more Wikipedia browsers currently in review. Once those two are in I have one more that I'm going to submit. If you're interested Religionpedia is listed with all the others on the right hand side of this page.

Inspect Tor in the Toronto Star

Inspect Tor is included in a Toronto Star photo gallery today. I'm hoping that this will help get the word out about this app. Thanks to the Toronto Star.

Lots of Updates - New iPhone RSS reader

A whole bunch of updates were approved yesterday. All the iPhone RSS readers have been updated. It was just a minor change; there was an issue with seeing all categories in some circumstances when adding a new feed. As well ScienceNewsRSSHD and EnviroRSS HD have been updated to fix a problem with the apps crashing when adding a new feed or category. An iPhone version of the ScienceNewsRSSHD reader is now available as well.

In its first couple of days Philosopedia has done pretty well. I'm hoping to have a few more Wikipedia browsers in the App Store by the end of the month, but lets see if Apple's on board with that.

Good News From Apple - Philosopedia

Last week Philosopedia a Wikipedia browser app similar to Biblicalpedia and Deathpedia was rejected by the app store review team for the second time. I decided to appeal the rejection to the App Review Board which is a group that Apple set up last year to deal with developer complaints regarding app rejections. I wrote them a short explanation as to why I thought my app deserved to be in the app store and an outline of what I saw as the proper use of my app. Well I got word today that they have approved my app. This is great news and a good argument for all of those people that claim that Apple is an organization that doesn't listen to or care about developers. Sometimes their system works.

If you're interested in Philosopedia a link to it has been added to the list on the right hand side of this page.

Fixes For iPad RSS Readers Are In The App Store

The folks at Apple are working real fast these days on updates. It only took about 24 hours to get the iPad RSS reader updates reviewed and approved and in the app store. Hopefully the iPhone updates will be in tomorrow.

Bug Fixes Submitted

I found two issues with my iPad RSS readers yesterday. I've already fixed them and submitted them to Apple, so hopefully they will be available by the end of this week. Apple is usually a little quicker with updates than they are with reviewing new apps. The apps were crashing when one attempted to delete a feed or a feed category. As well when adding new feeds one was not always able to see all category options when the keyboard was viewable. This second one wasn't really a bug because one can always dismiss the keyboard, but I just felt it was a better user experience to be able to scroll and view all categories without having to dismiss the keyboard.

As well I've updated all my iPhone RSS readers to better display the categories when adding a new feed. These updates are currently awaiting Apple's approval which I hope will be by the end of this week.

ScienceNewsRSSHD has a great first few days. It peaked at #5 yesterday in the News category in the Canadian App Store (it's currently sitting at #10), and it's at #12 in the News category in the US store. On the first day it was free and had over 200 downloads. It looks like there's reasonable demand for this app so I'll be building and releasing an iPhone version in the very near future.

New App - ScienceNewsRSSHD now in the App Store

My latest themed RSS reader is now in the App Store. The theme is science and it contains almost 150 feeds. It was free for the first day, but is now selling at the standard $0.99. This is an iPad only app. I might make an iPhone version if there's much demand sometime over the next few weeks.

I've also completed updates to one of my Wikipedia themed browsers and hopefully the folks at Apple will accept it. I've cleared up a minor GUI issue and added a new feature; the ability to organize articles into a "My Category" folder. I've also figured out how to offer an alternative view of Wikipedia articles, one that strips out a lot of the surrounding content and just displays the article. I don't think that the result looks great, so I've left it out for now, but I'm considering integrating it in the future if Apple decides that the app needs more features in order to be allowed into the App Store.