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Groceries 2.0

Published
by
Sophia
on May 9, 2009
in Groceries News
. 7 Comments

I‘m very pleased to announce that Groceries 2.0 is now available! There‘s a lot of improvements and fixes in this version, however the biggest enhancement in this release is the ability share shopping lists over standard email. Aisles and units are now more customizable, and it‘s even possible to define own supermarket layouts for each shopping list.

Groceries

The Groceries 2.0 update is available directly from the App Store, and also (what a coincidence!) on sale for 99¢. This is a limited time offer, and no, the app won‘t get cheaper than this.

Mea Culpa
Sadly some users experienced a rather rough start into the new update. The app would just crash on launch when upgrading directly from version 1.0. Bugs like these are of course super annoying and are such a support hell for me. Have my word that I try even harder to detect such errors from now on.

However, you‘re not totally lost if you‘re experience this crash. Currently there are two options to choose from:

First there is the quick and dirty solution by deleting Groceries from your iPhone and downloading it again from the App Store. Apple won‘t charge you a second time. However, going this route will delete all your customized groceries and shopping list items. So think twice!

The second solution is to simply have patience. The updated version 2.0.1 is now in review by Apple and will surely be available by the week starting on monday. I know, waiting totally sucks but it‘s frankly the best solution with the given infrastructure.

Dankeschön!
I like to send out a big thank you to all the great artist who worked on Groceries so far. These are namely, and in alphabetical order: Emanuel Sá, Joseph Wain, Laurent Baumann, Louie Mantia, Sebastiaan de With and Wolfgang Bartelme.

Also a big thanks goes out to Buzz Anderson for making this super sweet progress indicator view that you‘ll see when importing a shopping list through mail.

I‘d also like to thank all of my testers, especially Alex, Maxie, Volker, Danny, David, Matt and the workers of The Iconfactory for giving me the kind of feedback that helped me to make the app stand out.

Baby got home

Published
by
Sophia Teutschler
on December 16, 2008
in News iPhone
. 2 Comments

I’m happy to announce that the sale for Where To?, the points of interests application for the iPhone, is finally complete.

Where To? was once a product of tap tap tap, but due to some conflicts the company got split up and the iPhone app was offered for sale.

It took quite some time from the initial sale announcement back in october to today’s finalizing of the deal. However, I’m glad that Where To finally found a new home, one that I feel confident that it’s the right one.

So as of today, Where To? is officially available from FutureTap, a new iPhone development company founded by Ortwin Gentz. Ortwin isn’t new to the Mac scene and is probably best known for co-founding equinux in 1999. equinux in turn is surely well known for it’s quality Mac application iSale. It’s worth noting that iSale won not one, but two Apple Design Awards. Believe me, it’s a good feeling to hand over your baby to a Design Award winner…

That’s maybe the best thing about the whole sale. The application doesn’t just go to someone with interest in iPhone apps, or even to some investor digging for the Cupertino gold rush. It goes to an indie developer with equal ideas and an equal mindset.

You can read more about this sale, and about Ortwin’s experience about „How to purchase an iPhone app“ at the FutureTap blog.

Also I’m very happy to be involved in the future of Where To. I’ll support him during the transition phase with ideas and coding help. All in all this should help to bring Where To? back on track and hopefully back in the App Store charts. Keep in mind: The best features are the ones yet to come.