Wandle SoftwareJust for the holiday period I have reduced the price of Rootn Tootn and Yummy by half. You can now get the same app goodness for only 99c, 69p, €0.89 or your local equivalent. It may take a few hours for the new price to percolate across all of Apple’s servers so if you don’t see the new price, don’t panic!
Well, it’s taken more than a year to be available, but Delicious finally updated their API so that clients can use spaces in tags. And that’s what this new version of Yummy, submitted to the App Store yesterday, is all about.
In short, if you use Delicious tags are now delimited by commas, just like on the website, rather than spaces as has been the case in Yummy until now. If you use Pinboard, nothing should have changed.
Because it’s a change, I’ve also added a hint on the tag entry screen so you know what character to use.
If you have already downloaded bookmarks and Yummy has (incorrectly) split your tags into individual words, then I’m afraid that you’ll have to log out and back in again. This will download all your bookmarks again, but this time they should have the correct tags.
I apologise that this has taken so long to come about but, as I’ve said to everyone who has contacted me about this issue, this was a problem with the API and not strictly a problem in Yummy.
There are also a couple of other smaller changes in this release. Firstly, there’s a bug fix. Occasionally Yummy got the count of the number of tags wrong. Annoying but not disastrous. That should be fixed in this version.
Finally, until now when you logged out of Yummy, it kept all the old details up to the point where you start syncing with the new account. I felt that this was a fail-safe; an extra opportunity to cancel. But I’ve had a few emails from people saying that they like to log out to prevent other users from seeing and editing their bookmarks.
In 2.7.4, Yummy now allows this by wiping out all the previous account information when you confirm you want to log out.
At this stage I think it’s unlikely that Apple will approve the update this side of Christmas but it should hopefully be a nice New Year gift for everyone.
Update: Released on December 20.
As part of a wider discussion about “How to Monetize Your WordPress Web App,” wpmu.org mention — and seem quite happy with — my Smart App Banner WordPress plugin. Follow the link to read more about it.
While I’m talking about it, it’s worth noting that it looks as though it’s the most downloaded Smart App Banner plugin in the WordPress Plugin Directory. This, and the generous donations from some users, makes me very happy.
I have just submitted a small update to Yummy that is currently with Apple and will, hopefully, be released some time in the next week.
It has a single bug fix: if you leave the app when you’re on the tags screen Yummy will sometimes crash. This should never have resulted in data loss so, while I never like to release crashing code, I would hazard that most people never noticed.
Update: Yummy was approved on the 4th December, pretty much in record time — thank you Apple!