Blipr is a brand new way to send fun sounds and messages to friends using push notifications. You can use blipr to send your girlfriend a kiss, or make your friend’s phone fart. Try waking up your brother with an air raid siren or a rooster crowing. There are more than 100 high quality sounds in your arsenal. blipr also makes a great replacement for text messaging. blipr is messaging with attitude. =)

To celebrate blipr’s release, we are issuing a challenge! If blipr makes it into the Top 10 Paid Apps (over all) on the App Store by November 30, 2009 we will make all of our other applications (including BillMinder) free for one week*.

Check out blipr on the App Store.

* Push Notifications in BillMinder will not be free.

We were going to do a minor bug fix release (2.0.1) but we decided to whip something else up at the last second: THEMES! Yep, 2.1 brings:

• 4 New Themes (5 total: green, blue, yellow, red, gray)
• Add “Variable Amount Due” switch on the recurring picker for recurring bills that change amount each month
• Fix Export
• Fix settings being lost (rare bug)
• Other minor bug fixes

EDIT: BillMinder 2.1 has been submitted to Apple!

We just submitted BillMinder 2.0 to the Apple. This is our most amazing update yet! Did we mention it’s a free update for existing users?

BillMinder 1.6.1 was just approved by Apple (Thanks!). It should hit your phones soon and bring the fixes/features mentioned here. We’re already hard at work on version 2.0, which will bring an entirely rewritten interface that’s easier to use and easier on the eyes.

Yea, we’re already working on it..and yea, it’s gonna be pretty. Oh, and it’s a free upgrade for BillMinder 1.x users.

Here’s a teaser..

We just sent BillMinder 1.6.1 to the folks at Apple. It includes the following changes:

- You can now choose the hour at which your Push Notifications are sent to your phone. E.g. 3PM. BillMinder automatically compensates for your time zone.

- A small number of users experienced trouble upgrading from version 1.5.1 (especially if you hit the home button and interrupted the upgrade process). This update should resolve that problem, but please do use the backup functionality in BillMinder regularly. This problem did not affect new users.

- Fixed  a bug that sometimes caused duplicate recurring bills to appear when Push Notifications were enabled

- Fixed a bug that prevented deletion of recurring bills in the future on the server when deleting the first bill in a chain (when Push Notifications were enabled)

- Fixed a bug that prevented the Collector picker from being properly updated in some cases

- Fixed a bug that prevented users from changing the color of the “Uncategorized” category

The Apple iPhone Approval Team has been extremely busy as of late so we do not know when they will get a chance to review BillMinder. We hope the update will be available shortly.

So we’ve been working on BillMinder 1.6 and push notifications. We’re almost finished. There’s still a little more server stuff to do on our end but it’s basically working. Drew threw in a nifty calendar view (you guys asked and here it is!) on top of that. Be on the lookout for it soon. We’re also planning something nifty in the future for BillMinder so stay tuned in the long run.

We submitted PlaceTagger 1.1 to our friends at Apple. It takes advantage of a few new iPhone 3.0 features (Google maps, in app email + attachments for better reliability, etc.). We also submitted a new version of ClockIn to Apple. It fixes a few bugs and adds in app email ala iPhone 3.0 as well. We also updated the integrated webserver to the more robust version found in PlaceTagger.

So we’re going to take advantage of iPhone 3.0’s new features and add the following:

• Improved mapping using Google Maps
• GPX Support so Windows users can tag with existing apps
• Built in email with attachment support instead of sending through our servers to your inbox

So BillMinder 1.5.1 is out with a bunch of fixes and general goodness. We also just pushed BillMinder Lite 1.5, which is basically BillMinder 1.5.1. This is cool because users of BillMinder Lite can now upgrade to BillMinder and take their data with them via our spiffy backup feature. Hawt. Oh yea, we also just finished a silly little free app called Randy. More on that later.

So Apple just rejected PlaceTagger for the 3rd time. This go around, the reviewer kindly sent this useless message:


Your application, PlaceTagger, cannot be posted to the App Store at this time because it does not adhere to the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines as outlined in iPhone SDK Agreement section 3.3.5.

When the device is not connected to a network, PlaceTagger does not display a network alert. This behavior might lead to user confusion. It would be appropriate to display either a notification or an alert stating that internet connectivity is required.


That’s fine and dandy but PlaceTagger does not require a network connection to function. It just requires location services. If a network connection is available, it is used to display the optional map. We’ve submitted the app for the 4th time (edit: with an additional label on the screen). digg this and save a unicorn.

Update: It took a little while but Apple did finally approve PlaceTagger and we appreciate it.

And here are some fresh screenshots of the new UI:

We are pleased to announce that our newest iPhone app, PlaceTagger, is nearing release.  PlaceTagger will geotag your photos with the place where each photo was taken.  Best of all, it will tag photos taken with any digital camera.

Have you been noticing that new Places feature in iPhoto 09, but never been able to really use it?  Now you can.  Are you a professional photographer tired of dealing with multiple devices and tons of GPX files?  Here’s your solution.  Are you tired of typing in each address for every photo before sharing on your favorite online site?  Now it’s simple.

What sets PlaceTagger apart from the competition is the ease of use.  You don’t have to remember what time you took each picture or deal with exporting/importing data files.  Just open up the (free) companion OSX App or Aperture Plug-In and let it do the work for you.  Of course, if you are in to exporting/importing data files, we support that as well, .

Here are some screen shots to wet your appetite:

Oh, and for our Windows friends out there.  A version of the companion app for Windows is currently under development.

We need a small group of dedicated testers to help us prepare our latest iPhone application for prime time. This is a neat app and we need you to be absolutely hush hush about it until it’s released.

Requirements:

• iPhone (2g or 3g)
• A mac with leopard
• A digital camera
• An account on our forums (so we can give you access to the super secret testing forum)

Nice if you have any of:

• iPhoto 09
• Aperture

Do you fit the criteria? Please email us the following:

1. Your Name
2. return 7 Forum Username
3. Your iPhone’s UUID (40 Characters)
4. Beta Testing Experience
5. Why should you be a r7 beta tester?
6. Do you use iPhoto 09 or Aperture?
7. Do you have a 2g or 3g iPhone?
8. Your favorite kind of cheese (ok, just making sure you’re paying attention at this point)

We are now accepting applications for the newly created return7 Beta Program.  Please see this post in our forums for more information.

Here’s a demo video for PunchClock. Look for it soon on App Store at the introductory price of $0.99.

We’ve been hard at work on PunchClock, our latest iPhone application. We just pushed the final 1.0 build to Apple. Don’t fret, we’ve also been working on BillMinder 1.3, which adds a ton of new (requested) features! We’re hoping to push this update to Apple very shortly.

Manage your time

Major thanks to Apple for approving CastCatcher 1.3.

CastCatcher Internet Radio cannot be posted to the App Store because it is transferring excessive volumes of data over the cellular network, which as outlined in the iPhone SDK Agreement section 3.3.15, is prohibited

Right. Except for the fact that every other radio app works over cell network as well AND Apple has approved THREE prior releases of CastCatcher. We’ve emailed them and are hoping to resolve this quickly. CastCatcher does not burden cell networks any more than any other radio application. Ridiculous.

EDIT: We resubmitted and Apple approved CastCatcher and it’s been on the store some time. Thanks Apple!