With the recently added ability to “link” your account, YouTube now allows google account holders to rate/comment/subscribe to content without actually having a YouTube channel on their account.

We are working on an update to support these new “linked accounts” that are active on YouTube that do not have a YouTube channel, but, in the meantime – if you would like to login to YouTube using our app – simply add a channel to your account.  It’s free, takes only a couple seconds, and it doesn’t mean you have to start uploading videos.

To add a channel to your YouTube-Linked google account, simply visit the Create Channel page on YouTube by clicking here:

Once you add a channel, you can use all of the YouTube specific functionality in our apps without issue.

To download now, simply visit the “More Apps” page inside of any of our apps (usually on the “More” tab), use the links found on the right side of our home page, or simply click here.

As with all of our apps – this new addition features all of Wheezy’s social streams and YouTube channels, and includes the ability to partake in any of the YouTube community features you love, as well as share your favorite content to all of your friends.  We hope you enjoy this latest addition!

If you have not updated your apps yet, please visit the app store now to do so.  Along with all other updates, of course, these latest iterations also solve any bugs that have been discovered or introduced since the last update.

For a run down on how to use the new features, please check out this blog entry we posted while they were still in development.

We hope you enjoy these new updates.  As always, if you have any questions, feedback, or problems – please don’t hesitate to contact us using the contact button on the About tab in any of our apps.

This great new addition to our app lineup allows you to keep up to date with everything that Travis and crew are up to – tour dates, tweets, YouTube videos, as well as any new additions to iTunes and Merchandise offerings.

We’re happy to welcome We The Kings to our family of apps – and encourage you to check it out – they’re a great group of guys with great values who produce great music – you can’t go wrong!

To download, simply click (or touch) here, use the “More Apps” tab inside of any of our apps, or click the We The Kings app icon found in the app listing on the right side of the homepage.

PhillyD 2.7 Changes (Click here for app store):

• The new SourceFed channel has been added into the app.
• The “Store” page has been updated to ForHumanPeoples.com
• LTA and SPL are being phased out and are no longer part of the app.

CTFxC 2.7 Changes (Click here for app store):

• New splash screen
• Alli’s Twitter updated (from @AlliSpeed to @AlliTrippy)
• Old Content Removed (Stache, Journal, DailyBooth, Flickr, Blippy)
• New Content Added (Google+, Tumblr, Razzi)

To download any of these latest versions, simply use the links above, the icons on the right side of our homepage, or – if you already have the apps installed – simply visit the App Store and check for updates.

Enjoy!

We are currently in the process of updating all of our apps to use this updated framework, and they will be released into the app store very shortly.

This latest version of our framework includes some small bug fixes (Posting Replies to Comments is now fixed, for example), but also a couple of great new features.

The first new feature worth mentioning is Twitter integration for iOS 5.0 and greater.  As many of you already know, iOS5 has built-in functionality for your twitter account.  If you have twitter configured on your device, our new framework takes advantage of this and allows you to easily tweet your favorite videos, blog entries, or spread shirt merchandise to your followers.

The way it works is simple.  You must have iOS5.0 or greater on your device, and you must have twitter configured.  If you do, a new option will appear under “Share” options from the Actions Menu called “Share to Twitter” like this:

When you select “Share via twitter” – you are presented with the standard iOS twitter posting mechanism – and the content to share will automatically be attached to your tweet.   It will look like this:

The app will insert some “default” text, but you can change this text to whatever you want.  If you have more than one twitter user configured, you can even touch the username and choose which one you wish the tweet to originate from.

The second feature is something that we believe is very cool and helps to “show the love” to your favorite content creators.  One of the most famous phrases on YouTube is “Make sure you hit subscribe, favorite, and like this video if you enjoyed it”.  Of course, via the actions button – you have always been able to perform any of these functions - but this new feature makes one of them automatic.

Auto-Like is a new feature that we hope everyone will start using.  In this latest framework, when you use the Actions / Rate button to “Like” a video, you will be presented with a new screen that allows you to enable Auto-Like for a channel.  This new screen looks like this:

If you choose Ask Later – the app will automatically ask you the next time you like a video as well.  If you choose YES, then every time you look at a new video, the app will automatically register a LIKE with YouTube for you.  If you choose NO, the app will simply behave just as it always has in the past.

It’s important to note that even though the app will automatically “like” every video for you, you can always change your mind and manually “DISLIKE” a video.  YouTube only allows one vote per person, so – even if you vote more than once, your most recent vote is the only vote that counts.

Also – Auto-Like works on a PER CHANNEL basis.  So, if you are using PhillyD’s app, for example, he has multiple channels.  If you want to enable auto-like on all three, you need to enable it on each channel individually.

We hope that you enjoy these new features – these features are currently active in the latest version of the PhillyD and CTFxC apps – but very soon will be available in ALL of our apps.  Keep your eye out on the app store for availability.

I am coding the fix for this now, and it will be in all of the updates – which I will be submitting to Apple this weekend.

Thank you to Erin for reporting this issue.  If you are reading this message and you know of any other bugs, or have feature suggestions – please let us know by using the contact button on the About tab – located under “More” from the main tab bar in any of our apps.

Even though we’ve worked together on the CTFxC app for almost 2 years now, this was the first time we got the chance to meet in person.  It’s easy to see why hundreds of thousands of people subscribe to his daily vlogs –  he’s probably one of the coolest guys you’d ever have the chance to meet.

In addition, the entire crew of We The Kings are an amazing lot.  Their show was fantastic, their attitude is stellar – and if you get the chance, you should check them out.

You can find all of their music in iTunes by clicking here.

For tour dates, check out their website by clicking here.

We have a couple of updates coming very soon for the CTFxC app. There are a couple of small bug fixes, but the best part is that the stache and journal will be up and running again from the app.

Stay tuned… the update will be submitted soon and should be available in the app store shortly!

P.S. thank you to all of you who tweeted with hash tag #CTFxCWedding after seeing our push notification earlier – we got the topic trending worldwide within 5 minutes of the push… that is truly awesome!!

For you CTFxC fanatics, here is a link to the engagement video for nostalgia

Whether you are an Apple fanboy or simply a lover of technology, there is no denying that Steve Jobs has had a profound effect on what we see as “technology” today.  Anything from complex computers that facilitate our livelihood, simple devices that keep us entertained with music, devices that plug into our TVs and play movies, or computer animated films we enjoy – Steve’s visionary leadership has played a role – Apple Product or not.

Tonight, more than ever, I understand that I am an example of this.  Even though the majority of my life prior to 2007 was spent developing products for the Microsoft world, I could easily argue that without Steve, I may not be on the career and life path that I am today.

If Steve hadn’t started Apple and hadn’t released the Apple IIe that my father purchased for me in grade school — I may have not had the *spark* that has led me to a life of computing.  If not for Steve’s passion to build technology that was easy for anyone to use – I might not have been able to get “hooked” at such a young age.  It was countless hours in Print Shop on that Apple IIe that led me to want to learn BASIC.  It was hundreds of hours spent on AppleLink (Later AOL) that led me to meet some great people online, from whom I would purchase my first MS-DOS based PC.  After that, it was tinkering with this MS-DOS based PC that led me to seek a major in Computer and Information Science, start working in a computer store, study programming theory, and become the developer I am today – doing the job I love.

Think about your history – what you’re doing today, maybe even what you “love”.  I’ll bet somewhere in there, Steve has played a role in your life too…  and you won’t have to dig far to find it.

It’s a sad day today, a day where I post this blog entry on a site for a company that I created, a company that only exists because of the products Steve conceptualized and developed….  a day where it’s impossible not to be affected by the loss of someone so important.

I can only express my emotion, sadness, and condolences to Steve’s friends and his Apple family with a notion adopted from his 2005 Stanford commencement speech….

“Thank you for connecting the dots.”