Introducing phnx photos and phnx 1.1.6

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Exciting news today to top off a great Thanksgiving weekend. All existing installations of phnx now are able to upload to the brand new http://photos.phnxapp.com website! No more relying on TwitPic’s unstable API and cluttered interface! Plus, your images get shared with cool phnx.ws URLs to boot.

In addition, phnx 1.1.6 was submitted to Palm with FAST photo uploads and the ability to preview images posted with the phnx photos service!

If you’d like to give the phnx photos service a try, go ahead and just upload an image as normal, no update required. All users of phnx have automatic access to the new photo site!

If you’d like to use phnx 1.1.6 before Palm approves it, go ahead and download the source code on GitHub.

I’m looking forward to building a great image service, feel free to send any suggestions over here!

phnx 1.1.2 changelog

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phnx has been updated to version 1.1.2. This update includes various bug fixes.

  • The “Exclude search results not in my own language” preference has been removed. An unexpected change by Twitter broke this feature which caused searches to return 0 tweets.
  • The “No internet connection” warning has been silenced. Many users place their device in airplane mode at night and it would be annoying having the app run in the background with this alert every 15 minutes.
  • The “Twitter failed” message now ignores HTTP 403 errors, which were causing the message to appear more than usual.
  • Fixed some memory “leaks” (not really leaks but poorly optimized code and a few dangling event listeners)
  • Some code cleanup and reorganization that won’t affect normal users
The update should be available shortly.

phnx 1.1.1 changelog

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Sorry about the super fast update releases, folks. Yesterday’s phnx 1.1 update brought lots of nice features and fixes but unfortunately a couple of silly bugs slipped through. I just submitted this update to HP and it should be available shortly. My apologies for any inconveniences this may have caused.

Bug fixes

  • Doing an edit retweet no longer carries HTML into the compose box
  • Auto-refresh after posting now works
  • Fixed some duplicating tweet situations
  • Addressed some notification issues

Thanks for everything and I’m going to get back to work on update 1.2!

phnx 1.1.0 changelog

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Hey all thanks for all the great feedback in the first week of phnx, just submitted version 1.1 of phnx to HP for approval. It should be live sometime this week!

New Features and Fixes

  • URL shortening via bit.ly (the compose box will be redesigned soon so please excuse the current layout. Didn’t want to make people wait for a basic feature like URL shortening for so long) – NOTE: custom bit.ly is not supported yet but it will be very soon!
  • View followers and followings of a user
  • Added larger font options
  • Added confirmation to delete, block, report, and unfollow actions
  • Auto refresh (refresh when the card is maximized again) preference added
  • Preference for forward swipe action added
  • Ability to undo a retweet
  • Ability to choose the default account (when more than one account is added)
  • Hashtags now open in the search view
  • Open user profiles in a new card
  • Fixed notifications – now tapping on a mention scrolls to the mentions panel, etc
  • Fixed a zillion bugs!

Coming Soon

  • Gap detection for old tweets
  • Redesigned compose toaster
  • Just Type support
  • Much, much more

Announcing phnx for webOS

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phnx for webOS

I haven’t finished the phnxapp.com website yet, but that isn’t stopping phnx from rising into the HP webOS App Catalog. I submitted the app to HP last night, it should be available within the week. Here are the details on pricing, features, and some screenshots.

Price: $2.99 1.49 (50% off for the first week!)

Unique features

  • Beautiful and unique interface
  • Slide or tap to view panels on the home and profile scenes
  • Unique “Toaster” pop ups to compose and display tweets, conversations, and more without leaving the current view
  • Auto-expand many short URLs when the tweet is viewed
  • Break away searches, lists, and retweet timelines into new cards
  • Special icons that appear when a card is minimized to easily manage multiple accounts (can be disabled via preferences)
  • Show the amount of retweets a given tweet has
  • View who has retweeted a given tweet (by tapping on the RT count)
  • Two beautiful themes (Rebirth and Ash) with more on the way
  • Resume browsing timelines from where you left off
  • Background notifications, of course
  • Infinite accounts

Screenshots

 

Dominio and Instagram Preview source code now available

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Greetings, all. I’ve pushed the source code for Dominio (a domain name look up tool for webOS) and my Instagram thumbnail PHP script (used in phnx to get Instagr.am thumbnails from a URL).

Both are MIT licensed so do whatever you want with them!

Dominio source on Github.

Instagr.am preview on Github (there’s a Forrst post on this as well)

It’d be awesome if someone added WHOIS lookup and registration links to Dominio. And the Instagram script could use some improvements as well.

Enjoy!

Hiatus

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When I started developing apps for Palm webOS a year ago, I did it as a way to pass time and earn a little extra cash while in college. Since then, I’ve gotten married, started a career, and moved back to the great state of Wisconsin.

It’s time for a break. I took a short break last fall while I got adjusted to the new gig and married life in general – and those were some good months. I need to give myself some time with family and to entertain other ideas I’ve had.

Also, I am not currently able to give my faithful users the commitment and support that you all deserve. To keep dangling carrots in front of you would be unfair.

Development and support on phnx, Zipsquare, Dominio, and Cabbie are officially on hold as of today. Zipsquare is open-source (MIT) and available on GitHub. Dominio will be open sourced within a few days.

Thanks everyone for your continued support!

phnx 0.7.1 changelog

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phnx 0.7.1 should be available soon from http://phnx.ws/get-phnx

Changelog

  • Fixed Pixi display issues
  • Fixed Favorites loading issues
  • Fixed other bugs
  • Added Instagr.am image preview

Known Issues

  • Sym key does not work this is fixed!

phnx 0.7 is now available

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Hey phnx people. phnx 0.7 is now available at http://phnx.ws/get-phnx

Changelog

  • Read-only profile support (follow/unfollow and other actions coming soon)
  • View user info, tweets, and favorites
  • Link to My Profile in app menu
  • Subtle UI improvements
  • Many bug fixes
  • Oh, and a new theme: #sb45 (go @packers!)

Known Issues

  • Sym key still does not work (going to be contacting someone about this – no idea why it doesn’t show up)
  • Favorites sometimes do not load and instead show a tweet about Wikileaks (not on purpose, don’t think I’m making a statement or anything, sometimes it gets the wrong favorites)
  • Profile URL is not clickable (oops)
  • UPDATE: This apparently is happening on Pixi devices: http://twitpic.com/3wdzyv

Enjoy the update everyone, and have a great weekend!

The blog returneth

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It’s long overdue but I finally took the time to resurrect my blog. Twitter is perfect for 90% of the things I want to share, but sometimes I just need to post longer tidbits of text and other things.

So please pardon the mess while I get this all sorted out. I have a neat custom theme mocked up but it will take me some time to actually build out.