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john ellis replied on September 16, 2009 21:07 to the problem "Tweetie should use OAuth instead of passwords" in atebits:

i think that right now, without collecting the password, there is no way to do the image sharing since yfrog and twitpic both require the twitter password...

there might be some other image sharing site that has already worked this out with twitter, but at this point, i'm guessin most users would rather enter pw than loose img sharing.

john ellis replied on September 08, 2009 14:41 to the question "Is This a Pay Apps????!!" in Dove Valley Apps:

do you have some more specifics about what the trouble is? if so, then i may be able to fix the problems in an upcoming release.

what, exactly, isn't working?

A comment on the idea "OAuth Support" in atebits:

ouch... that doesn't sound like this'll be solved any time soon and twitter is not allowing any new source id's for basic auth clients... apps that already have source id's in are fine, but new ones are out of luck. – john ellis, on August 12, 2009 12:05

john ellis replied on August 11, 2009 16:35 to the idea "OAuth Support" in atebits:

the other problem i've found with my app is that the twitter image sharing sites mostly don't support oauth yet.

even when they do, it seems that they might not support it in a way that works (ie, they may make it so that you have to get a token from twitter for regular posts and from the image sharing site for image posts).

john ellis replied on August 03, 2009 00:16 to the idea "No Adds when picture is zoomed please." in Dove Valley Apps:

thanks so much for enjoying The Tag Show!

we had definitely considered that, but realized that we only get paid for clicks, not impressions, so if we removed the ad as you are saying, we would get no clicks at all...

one thing you might not have thought of, or realized, there is a menu option to save the image to your library. this saves the original image without the ads... then when you wanna setup your wallpaper, you can scale and move it from there.

another way to go would be to get the $1.99 "My Tag Show"... if you have a twitter account, you can tweet this:
RT @dovevalleyapps: My Tag Show 1.3 released image slideshows: http://bit.ly/myTagShow first 20 to follow me and RT get a promo code

and follow http://twitter.com/dovevalleyapps

i will DM you a promo code good for My Tag Show for free... i ask, however, that you give me a review in the app store after you've downloaded it. My Tag Show is exactly the same as The Tag Show except that it has no ads.

the same goes for anyone else who reads this up to the first 20 promo codes given away.

hope this helps!

john ellis
dove valley apps

john ellis reported a problem in yfrog on July 11, 2009 13:53:

pics not being posted through api

it seems the full url isn't coming back from the api in certain cases. i am seeing this alot in my applicaiton: hideNtweet. i have also seen in in other applications as in this post from tweetie:
http://twitter.com/mrskutcher/statuse...

here is one from my app:
http://twitter.com/pleat/statuses/258...

this is a serious problem as ppl are posting pics that they think are being shared (the main purpose of your site)...

if this is caused by something i'm doing in my code, please let me know.

john ellis replied on May 31, 2009 20:06 to the idea "add captions to pictures" in yfrog:

captions would be great but on twitpic it isn't captions it is the fact that the message field is still used in the api for upload so you can get a caption even if you don't want to directly post to twitter.

john ellis started following the idea "add captions to pictures" in yfrog.

john ellis replied on May 25, 2009 13:07 to the question "What should I do if hideNtweet crashes?" in Dove Valley Apps:

also, keep in mind while playing that you can go right back into hideNtweet and you should be right where you left off in the game.

john ellis asked a question in Brightkite on February 19, 2009 01:06:

location caching

the CLLocationManager is caching location so that i show up where i last got a good gps location. you can fix that by ignoring CLLocation updates that are older than a certain time:

NSTimeInterval howRecent = [newLocation.timestamp timeIntervalSinceNow];
if(abs(howRecent) > 5.0){
return;
}

john ellis started following the question "Mint for Small Business?" in Mint.com.

john ellis replied on January 01, 2009 17:40 to the question "does Tagshow exist as a mac widget?and will it ever?" in Dove Valley Apps:

i'm very glad you are enjoying The Tag Show! it isn't likely we'll make a mac widget. i'd imagine there are several mac apps that will show slideshows from various photo feeds. i use MediaCentral for slideshows on my mac. it also has several other media features, so that might be overkill for what you are lookin for, but i'll bet there are many other great apps out there.

john ellis replied on November 26, 2008 19:10 to the question "search always safe?" in Dove Valley Apps:

neigther version has a switch for safe mode. it is something i can try to get into the paid version, but i think apple has been pretty careful about only not allowing "unsafe" content on the iphone app store, so we will see if it is allowed in the next release or not.

john ellis started following the question "Can I route support emails into Get Satisfaction?" in Get Satisfaction.

john ellis replied on October 10, 2008 14:57 to the problem "Please help me in that really i need it" in Dove Valley Apps:

are you connected to wifi when you start the app?

john ellis replied on October 02, 2008 15:59 to the question "Viewing my flickr group images" in Dove Valley Apps:

do you mean the images other users have added to groups that you belong to? if this is what you mean, then it has not been designed to do that. it is a good idea, however. we'll certainly consider it for the next release.

if you mean images that you uploaded that are in a group, then i'm confused. i'll look into this and see if we are using the api for flickr in some incorrect way.

john ellis replied on October 01, 2008 14:12 to the question "Viewing my own Picasa Album using "MY TAG SHOW" apps?" in Dove Valley Apps:

your picasa images are incorporated into the slide show. not by album, just all your images. under account settings, there should be a place to put in your picasa user name and password. once you do that, and then make sure to tunr on "my feeds" your private images will be in the show. if you only want to see your private images, turn off "public feeds".

sorry, at this time, there is no album browsing feature, it just shows you pictures from picasa randomy.

hope that helps.

john ellis set one of john ellis' replies as an official response to "My Tag Show crashes soon after startup" in Dove Valley Apps

john ellis replied on September 30, 2008 02:21 to the problem "My Tag Show crashes soon after startup" in Dove Valley Apps:

glad that worked... sorry it crashed in the first place.

incidentally, that is a trick you can use with any app that crashes on startup. it might help.

john ellis replied on September 29, 2008 05:31 to the question "Picasa Albums" in Dove Valley Apps:

it will randomly choose private images as part of the slideshow, but there is no browse for albums.