Linkie Update: 1.0.65 now available

July 6, 2010
Written by Neil Cowburn

An update to Linkie has been approved by Apple. This version includes the following changes:

  • FIXED: iOS 4 compatabilty & high-res resources for Retina Display
  • FIXED: URLs with query strings resulting in incorrectly shortened URLs
  • FIXED: NSURLConnection not starting from non-main thread (iOS 4 only)

  • NEW: View bit.ly statistics with in-app browser – customer request

If you encounter any issues, please do get in touch.

Work on v2.0 continues with some interesting additions to bit.ly API v3 on the cards which I hope to leverage. If you have any features you would like to see included, please do leave a comment or drop me an email.

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Bit.ly API Version 3

March 31, 2010
Written by Neil Cowburn

Yesterday, the bit.ly team introduced Version 3 of the API for the URL shortening service. This version is still under development and new features will be added as and when they are prime-time ready, but there are already some welcome changes over the current version.

Some of the new features will result in a significant performance improvement in Linkie as I’m now able to reduce the number of API calls required to refresh the history list and click counts by an order of magnitude. Preliminary testing is going well and the improved refresh time is simply quite astounding.

There is no word on whether the current last 15 items limit will be increased, but I’m hoping the bit.ly guys come good and open up the API so you access as much of your data as like you. One user has already commented in the App Store that they would like to see and I’m assuming many more would also welcome the increase.

The current plan is to adopt bit.ly API v3 in Linkie 1.1, but as yet I don’t have a timescale for its release.

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Linkie 1.0 is out

March 23, 2010
Written by Neil Cowburn

I’m very happy to announce that Linkie 1.0 is now available in the App Store. I’ve been working on this for a couple of months now and it’s great to see it out in the world.

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