Posts Tagged ‘iphone’

RSS Viewer for the iPhone Now Available

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

RSS Viewer (Push) for the iPhone is now available in the Apple App Store. This is the first release but supports Push Notifications for all your favorite sites. We are already hard at work on the next versions that will feature the following improvements:

  • Google Reader synchronization and support
  • Dynamic Keyword support to receive notifications when any feed contains certain text
  • Friends support to view your friends’ feed, send feeds to your friends, and subscribe to friends’ feeds
  • Sharing support to share feeds with a variety of sources including email, friends, digg, twitter, etc
  • Private feeds that support simple authentication and are hidden from all users including friends
  • Special landscape support for easier viewing of articles in newspaper style
  • Much, much more to come. Feel free to send us your favorite requests

We hope you enjoy the application and make sure to rate the application in the iTunes store!

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RSS Viewer Demo

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

[Update Sept 17, 2009] RSS Viewer is now available in the App Store

In anticipation of the soon to be released RSS Viewer application for the iPhone featuring Push RSS, I have uploaded a video demoing some of the features of the application. Check it out including a highly anticipated that will be launched soon after the first release (hint: its Google Reader synchronization!)

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Coming Soon to iPhone: Push RSS

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

[Update Sept 17, 2009] RSS Viewer is now available in the App Store

We have officially released our new RSS Viewer application to the App Store for approval. RSS Viewer brings for one of the first times Push RSS directly to your iPhone or iPod Touch. No longer do you have to periodically check your favorite sites. RSS Viewer aggregates all your favorite feeds and immediately notifies you of new articles. The application also provides an easy to use interface for viewing all your feeds. Check out the official product page here: http://znetdevelopment.com/znet/iphone.html.

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Building Scalable Servers

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

As part of my new iPhone project to build a new game, I need to have a backend server to communicate with all the members in order to sync and dynamically update on the fly.  Knowing the iPhone and its possibilities, I want to plan for a highly optimistic future in which thousands of concurrent connections take place.  The transactions will be minimal and compressed to conserve bandwidth, but will occur frequently to monitor player actions and provide alerts to other players as they are interacted with.  So, my immediate question was where do I start.  I obviously have two primary choices:  HTTP or proprietary.  Let’s look into each option a little more in depth.

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iPhone Wish List

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

As a proud owner of an iPhone, I truly love the platform and its capabilities. However, like any technology, there are always those things we really want extra. I am compiling my list of wishes for the next generation iPhone.  My wish list is available on the right at the top of the navigation menu.  Leave me a message if you have other wishes you too would like to see.

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