KillerDeals released in AppStore
March 15, 2009 by admin
Recently, we were involved in the deisgn and implementation of a cool new app for Grio, a small company in San Francisco. The application was under review for a pretty long stretch but now it’s available for sale. It’s a pretty simple concept. It aggregates the data from several (currently 4) of the BackCountry.com ODAT (one deal at a time) sites and displays them in a simple easy to navigate UI.
KillerDeals gives you access to 4 of the hottest sources for outdoor gear on the web in the one convenient application. Now you can check the latest deals anytime, anywhere.
KillerDeals features products from:
- SteepandCheap ®
- TramDock ®
- WhiskeyMilitia ®
- ChainLove ®
KillerDeals displays all the relevant information for each gear deal including photos, detailed descriptions, prices, and even customer reviews. You can always grab a fresh copy here
1.2 available, get it while it’s hot
February 3, 2009 by kidjan
Like the title says: 1.2 is out. We added a new explore feature which will recommend feeds, vastly improved interfaces for adding feeds through auto discovery and explore, numerous bug fixes, landscape view, etc.
Let us know what you like, what you want (or still want–sorry, we didn’t get everything, but we track every suggestion made for DaisyFeed), what works, and what doesn’t. Any news for us is good news.
Thanks again, and enjoy Daisy Feed 1.2 
Daisy Feed 1.2 submitted to Apple
January 28, 2009 by kidjan
Our next version has been submitted to Apple. We hope this is the best release yet; we added new features and hopefully have resolved the crashing issues people have been encountering with the default feed.
If you’ve suffered the crash: please give us another chance! We really do want to make Daisy Feed the best RSS reader available for the iPhone, and your feedback is the best resource at our disposal.
Thanks for your continued support!
A sneak peak at 1.2
January 14, 2009 by kidjan
We’re putting some final elbow grease into 1.2 and wanted to give everyone a sneak peak at what’s in store:
- We’ve added an “explore” feature, which makes use of the very-especially-extra nice AideRSS features to suggest popular feeds.
- The crash at start up has been resolved. Our sincere apologies to everyone who suffered through this problem and extra thanks to users who helped us isolate the problem (techno babble: naughty apple XML + naughty XML parser = doh!); please give the app another try!
- The brief item viewer has been improved; it now has landscape view and a progress indicator (screen shots below).
- Adding feeds through the AutoDiscovery and Explore features has been improved; it now shows a listing of feeds and allows you to pick and choose which ones to add.
- A warning when zapping the database to double-check that user actually wants to do that, and understands what it means.
- Numerous fixes for specific websites (if you have a site not working for you, please let us know!)
- We’re going to try to sneak in a few more requested changes.
Here’s a shot of Dinosaur Comics (which, btw, we are huge fans of) in landscape view:
This page also includes a progress indicator, which is nice when you’re on slower networks or loading pages with lots of graphics.
Here’s a shot of the new AutoDiscovery “add” page:
Once DaisyFeed locates feeds, it displays them and you can pick and choose which feeds to add (in the above picture, we only selected the Atom feed to add, but we could choose both). By clicking the blue arrow, you can edit the details of that particular feed.
Here’s the new explore page:
These are feeds that were recommended (we’re computer nerds, so apologies in advance for content). It has the same mechanism to select and add feeds as the AutoDiscovery page.
As always, feedback is both welcome and appreciated–let us know what you think!
Default Feed causing crash
January 9, 2009 by admin
It appears that the default feed that comes with DaisyFeed has gone a little haywire. It causes the app to crash when you tap refresh on the Favorites page. To be honest, the feed doesn’t even work when you try to load it with FireFox.
If you are experiencing this problem, just navigate over to the categories page and delete the feed. This will solve your problem.
We are currently working on 1.2 right now and should have it out pretty soon. It should be a good one.