uplink.to

Cool beans just secured my vanity URL for my Linked In profile – check it out!

Apple said in their copy to developers once that the better an iPhone app icon looks, the more chance it has of being listed on the front page of iTunes. That hasn’t happened to me yet, but I found a great graphic designer to do the icons for PhotoUpLink, VideoUpLink and Torus. He is currently helping me with the new achievement icons for Torus, my placeholder programmer art doesn’t look so great. So be prepared to have your Facebook page (hopefully) festooned with those annoying Farmville/Mafia Wars style postings but this time from Torus, with gorgeous icons. I feel fortunate to have his services, he is a major player. Neil is always available for graphic design and art work, check out his site for more information.

A forthcoming release schedule, remembering that quite literally *anything* can happen to change this, and is subject to the time constraints of my other work.

PhotoUpLink 2 for iPhone – waiting for review at Apple
New build Mac VideoUpLink – up next
New version of Torus for iPhone (point release + social)
PhotoUpLink 2 for iPhone Lite
VideoUpLink for iOS4.0 supporting multitasking for background downloads and iPhone 4 resolutions
PhotoUpLink 2 for iOS4.0 supporting multitasking for background downloads and iPhone 4 resolutions

Labor Day Weekend (September 6, 2010)

ProteinScope for Mac ****
VideoUpLink for Windows
PhotoUpLink 2 for Mac (desktop/Automator, Aperture, and iPhoto)

New Years Day 2011

Of course this is subject to change at any moment, but for people who are sending me bugs and feedback, thank you and here is an approximate timeline of when to expect releases.

Kagi hosts the main storefront where you can buy licenses for my desktop products. iPhone purchasing is handled through iTunes. The disparate domain situation is the result of 10 years of gypsy development but the new platform for future growth is now in place. All domains now lead to Rome…

http://www.photouplink.com
http://www.videouplink.net
http://www.proteinscope.com
http://www.genomescope.net
http://www.mmorrisdev.com

It went off almost without a hitch, but the world kept spinning even though photouplink.com was in name server purgatory for a while. But here we are! uplink.to officially launches July 21st, next Wednesday, with the new version of PhotoUpLink for iPhone to follow soon after. Thanks for your help Uncle Dave!

Drop this routine in a convenient location in your Xcode project to add uplink.to/ URL shortening to your application.

-(NSString*)shortenURL:(NSString*)url
{
  CFStringRef legalStr = CFSTR("!@#$%^&()<>?{},;'[]");
  NSString *escUrl = (NSString*)CFURLCreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes(kCFAllocatorDefault,
 (CFStringRef)url, NULL, legalStr, kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
  NSString *apiEndpoint = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://uplink.to/uplinkto.php?longurl=%@",escUrl];
  NSError* error;
  NSString* shortURL = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:apiEndpoint]
 encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding error:&error];
  if (shortURL)
   return shortURL;
  else
   return [error localizedDescription];
}

I’ve rented a 3GS for 10 days to finish VideoUpLink and some client work. Its going to be an exciting week.

uplink.to short URLs are now functioning.

You’ve landed on uplink.to – everything I am working on across all platforms will be accessible through this portal. This will include:

PhotoUpLink
VideoUpLink
ProteinScope
iPlanes
Matrix Warriors
Torus

and related web services. White label applications and stand alone contract applications will be handled through here also – Enjoy.