App #0003 has finally launched! It’s been 6 long months since we started on this project. I don’t want to turn this into a long post about how we got here, because all that really matters is we made it and hope you’ll enjoy it. Pastebot is definitely different than our previous apps. Some would say it’s riskier. But there’s no other way to grow and move forward without taking risks. After all, who would have thought anyone could make a living creating software for mobile devices? Pastebot was a lot more work than our previous apps, but it also does so much more than them. We are happy with the results and hope you are too.
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For the first time ever, get a good look of the Tapbot’s Mad Scientist hard at work in the form of a desktop background. Just click on the image above, or right here to download this little goodie sized for 4:3 screens, widescreens, and your iPhone. Enjoy!
We’re no strangers to silly app rejection emails from Apple, but this one seems to take the cake (at least in our opinion). Convertbot 1.4 was rejected because our icon for Time is too similar to one of Apple’s default resource icons for History/Recent. They say users might get confused that our Time category might mean History or Recent. Now I might be able to understand if this happened when we first submitted Convertbot, but there have been multiple releases already so why is this a show-stopper now? It does worry me that our product has to be held back for another 1-2 weeks for something so trivial.
So what’s the plan? I need to redo the icon, I suppose. But Convertbot icons were meant to use as little lines/shapes as possible to identify the category. I feel that our current icon represents time as simply as possible. So how can we make Time different? What if it’s set at 9 o’clock instead of 3? Is that acceptable? The big problem here is the only way I can get that answer is by making the change, resubmitting the app, and waiting another week or 2 for Apple’s verdict.
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Weightbot 1.4 is now available on the iTunes App Store and Convertbot 1.4 will be available within a few weeks. Read on to find out what’s new.
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We’ve gotten quite a few requests about resetting forgotten passwords and providing a way to access all that weight data. Well, we’ve finally gotten around to finishing it. Just visit weightbot.com. When you log in, the only thing you can do at the moment is export your weight data into a CSV file that’s readable by any spreadsheet application. If you try this from mobile Safari, you’ll just get a read-only table view of the data. We hope to add more features to weightbot.com in the future so look forward to that as well.
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