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shrinkURL v1.3 Released

ShrinkURL v1.3 has hit the App Store today with the following new features;

• Option to save you favourite shortened links to a history page
• Ability to send shortened links to a multitude of sharing services, including Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader and more
• Improved GUI for iPad
• iPhone 4 optimised icon

I decided to bring the App back to life and put some of the functionality into it that I had initially intended when first developing it back in August 2009.

Because the App is free I've also taken the opportunity to implement iAds too but my thoughts on that will be delayed for a future post.

shrinkURL v1.2 – iPad compatible

A little bit late at posting this, however shrinkURL v1.2 was approved and released to the App Store recently. No new changes except for iPad compatibility.

It's not a huge task in converting an iPhone App (at least certainly not in the case of shrinkURL) to be universal but there are some pitfalls and a distinct lack of documentation knocking around on the subject.

I'm looking at posting about some of those pitfalls and things to watch out for in an upcoming post.

shrinkURL 1.1

I’ve submitted shrinkURL 1.1 to the App Store today with the (long overdue) support for the bit.ly and j.mp shortening services.

The new features will be available for configuration via the application settings page on the iPhone / iPod Touch (as seen in the screenshots to the left) If you have a bit.ly account then entering your username and API Key (found on the Account section of the bit.ly web service) will give you the option of storing any URLs created by shrinkURL to your bit.ly web history, a great feature provided by the service, and giving you some nice statistics on the links you’ve shortened.

Future enhancements I’m debating whether to continue with shrinkURL going forward due to other applications I'm wanting to get underway with, however shrinkURL has been if anything a good way to get myself a great understanding of Objective C and the iPhone platform and I've been touched with many nice comments and reviews of the application since it’s release.

If i was to continue I’d like to maybe incorporate bit.ly statistics into a history page along with the ability to select historically saved URLs for re-pasting to the clipboard or tweeting directly from shrinkURL but for now I'm likely to start on my next project. shrinkURL should be available from the App Store shortly