Moving to blogspot domain to archive

 Underscore AB was orderly shut down a few years ago because I moved to the US in 2003. All IP was transferred to my US company Underscore Research LLC. Keeping this part of the underscore.se site around for archival purposes.

Underscore Notify 4.0.2 is available now in the AppStore

The most recent bug fix release that fixes several update issues and one bad data corruption issue is now available in the AppStore.

Reason prevailed Notify 4.0.1 is now available in the AppStore

After politely asking Apple to reconsider their rejection of Notify in the AppStore yesterday they today relented and made the most recent upgrade available without the 17+ age restriction.

NEW FEATURES

• ability to export directly to another application

IMPROVEMENTS

• added option to bring back old auto advance in docked mode (check settings)
• you can now more easily exit a sub menu on iPhone

BUG FIXES

• fixed crash when needing to move focus while editing text
• fixed several issues when using Kanji keyboard
• fixed issue where you couldn't change font size or type
• fixed issue when you forgot to add protocol to WebDAV url
• fixed several minor issues with retina display usage

The Notify 4.0.1 release just got rejected by Apple

Here is the reason

Since your application contains a web browser and allows unfiltered access to the internet, where content with mature or suggestive themes can be accessed, it should be rated 17+. Applications must be rated accordingly for the highest level of content that the user is able to access.

I'm upset and confused about this decision. First of all if I go along with it, it means that the application will become unavailable in several markets (For instance Korea and Suadi Arabia).

Secondly I don't understand why they chose a critical bug fix as the timing for a rejection of this reason. Especially for a feature that has been in the application since it's inception 2 years ago.

Underscore Notify 4.0 is available now in the AppStore

The new version is now available in the AppStore! See previous post for information about changes.

Underscore Notify 4.0 submitted to Apple

After almost a year of work the new major version of Notify is finally submitted to Apple and contains tons of new features and improvements.

NEW FEATURES

• completely rewritten rendering pipeline that is faster, uses much less memory, is more responsive and higher quality
• all remote services have been revamped so that now all services support syncing and you can specify what format
• support for FTP, WebDAV and iDisk
• exporting as text
• select pages to include when exporting to PDF
• upgraded to latest version of WritePad engine
• new user feedback website accessible from inside the application
• smarter algorithm for converting photos to drawing layer
• indicator of current zoom level
• much better support of Retina display devices
• audio recordings can now span several pages
• application launch password
• new music paper background

IMPROVEMENTS

• smarter auto advance for docked magnified mode
• better support for external keyboard
• merged pen & fill format popover to one popover on iPad
• don't use separate format per mode by default
• use manual wrist guard inside magnified view
• faster restart from background
• better security for entered passwords
• much smaller memory foot print which should lead to less spurious crashes
• added manual degree entry for rotate image
• swapped place of toolbars on iPhone
• reset zoom now zooms to selection
• OmniFocus export now goes to specific page
• deleting one object of a PDF now deletes all pages of it
• allow viewing URL of web clipping
• upgraded OCR engine to latest version

BUG FIXES

• crash when moving document to last place in document list
• crash when going out of tutorials or map view quickly
• crash when entering non ASCII7 character in web search box
• crash when making magnified window fill entire screen
• crash when deleting audio element while recording
• crash when inserting photo and resizing
• memory leak during undo
• fixed lost Evernote auth token
• layout bugs in notebook list after showing keyboard
• layout bug for popovers on iPhone when status bar hidden
• calculate text now works

Underscore Notify 3.2.2 is available now in the AppStore

Apple finally approved this new version which fixes several iOS 5 issues and also enables WritePad for owners of the stand alone application plus several other minor fixes.