YeoSoft » SF Bay News http://www.yeosoft.com Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:31:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Removed SF Bay News from App Store http://www.yeosoft.com/2010/03/12/removed-sf-bay-news-from-app-store/ http://www.yeosoft.com/2010/03/12/removed-sf-bay-news-from-app-store/#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:19:41 +0000 support http://www.yeosoft.com/?p=284 We have removed SF Bay News from the iPhone App Store.  We received another Cease and Desist from the Bay Are News Group.  Their claim is that linking to their rss feeds, infringes on their terms of service, since we sell SF Bay News for $0.99.

Since we are a small development company we don’t have the resources to fight this, so we have decided to remove the application from the store.  Unfortunately, this just the consumer, as it limits the ways that they can access the content that they want.

I believe that they reason that they issued the Cease and Desist now, is because they are about to release a iPhone application for the San Jose Mercury News.  Ironically, four months ago, the Bay Area News Group contacted us because they were looking for help developing their iPhone application.  I am assuming that they are about to release their own application and they don’t want to have any competition.

Our hope is to have a fix that will allow our users get access to the content that they want.

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These applications are also available for download for free. If you like the applications, you can upgrade them from within the applications themselves. This will allow you to try the applications and get the full versions with out downloading a separate lite and full version.

]]> http://www.yeosoft.com/2009/12/04/chicago-la-and-seattle-news/feed/ 2 SF Bay News 1.2.1 http://www.yeosoft.com/2009/11/24/sf-bay-news-1-2-1/ http://www.yeosoft.com/2009/11/24/sf-bay-news-1-2-1/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:23:15 +0000 support http://www.yeosoft.com/?p=250 SF Bay NewsOur 1.2.1 update to SF Bay News has been posted to the Apple iPhone app store.  This update adds the East Bay Express to the list of news sources.

]]> http://www.yeosoft.com/2009/11/24/sf-bay-news-1-2-1/feed/ 0 SF Bay News 1.2 http://www.yeosoft.com/2009/10/30/sf-bay-news-1-2/ http://www.yeosoft.com/2009/10/30/sf-bay-news-1-2/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:12:03 +0000 support http://www.yeosoft.com/?p=201 SF Bay NewsThe 1.2 update to SF Bay News has been approved by Apple, and is now available in the iPhone app store.  This version fixes some minor bugs and addes the following news sources:

]]> http://www.yeosoft.com/2009/10/30/sf-bay-news-1-2/feed/ 0 SF Bay News Twitter performance http://www.yeosoft.com/2009/10/07/sf-bay-news-twitter-performance/ http://www.yeosoft.com/2009/10/07/sf-bay-news-twitter-performance/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:08:16 +0000 support http://www.yeosoft.com/?p=183 Our server team spend some time and significantly improved performance for loading the Twitter feeds for the various news sources in the SF Bay News iPhone application.  Now the list loads significantly faster.  Since this change was done completly on our servers, the application installed on your iPhone doesn’t have to be updated.

]]> http://www.yeosoft.com/2009/10/07/sf-bay-news-twitter-performance/feed/ 0 The Design Lab http://www.yeosoft.com/2009/09/26/the-design-lab/ http://www.yeosoft.com/2009/09/26/the-design-lab/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:08:01 +0000 support http://www.yeosoft.com/?p=165 We wanted to improve the look of SF Bay News in our last update.  We worked with Elliot Ling at The Design Lab for all of our graphics.  We had some ideas for the graphics that we wanted to use in our application, and he was able to run with them and create some great art for our application.

We would recommend The Design Lab for your graphic design work.

Here are some samples of the work for SF Bay News:

SF Bay News IconLiteItunesIcon

SF Bay News Splash screen Default

SFBayNewsAbout Page

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You can download the lite version of the app here [itunes link].  The full version can be found here

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More details are available on the product page.

]]> http://www.yeosoft.com/2009/09/16/sf-bay-news-1-1/feed/ 2 Parental Controls and iPhone applications http://www.yeosoft.com/2009/08/16/parental-controls-and-iphone-applications/ http://www.yeosoft.com/2009/08/16/parental-controls-and-iphone-applications/#comments Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:24:01 +0000 support http://www.yeosoft.com/?p=115 During the process to have the 1.0.1 version of SF Bay News approved by apple, it was rejected because it wasn’t appropriately rated.  At first we were shocked, as SF Bay News is just a news application.  But looking closer into the feedback from Apple, we understood their rational.

SF Bay News can show the web pages for news articles.  Some of the news providers provide a search box on these pages.  In addition to being able to search their articles, some providers also allow searching across the Internet.  This could enable a user to get to some inappropriate content.

On the iPhone a parent can configure things that a child can not access applications above a certain rating.  In addition, a parent can disable the built-in web browser.  So, theoretically, someone could use an application like SF Bay news to access content that wasn’t intended for them.

We changed the rating to 17+ for SF Bay News, because we want to support parents making the decision about what content their children would be able to access.  We made the change, instead of preventing searching from these web sites, because we didn’t want to restrict or limit functionality from the providers.

]]> http://www.yeosoft.com/2009/08/16/parental-controls-and-iphone-applications/feed/ 0 SF Bay News 1.0.1 http://www.yeosoft.com/2009/08/16/sf-bay-news-1-0-1/ http://www.yeosoft.com/2009/08/16/sf-bay-news-1-0-1/#comments Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:06:38 +0000 support http://www.yeosoft.com/?p=111 SF Bay NewsThe 1.0.1 version of SF Bay News has been approved by Apple, and is now is on the iPhone App Store.  This version fixes a minor bug in the built-in web browser.

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