Kitaplik.app #1 in Turkey!
20/12/10 12:35
Kitaplik topped the most downloaded iPad apps list in the Turkish iTunes Store for over a week after it became available. What a great feeling! Now, it is still the #1 App in Books but not overall anymore...
Kitaplik.app available in iTunes Store
02/12/10 13:15
Fifteen Jugglers are proud to announce the availability of Kitaplik in iTunes Store.
Kitaplik is an eBook reader, which integrates with user accounts on idefix.com platform, the biggest online retailer of books and eBooks in Turkey (practically the turkish Amazon). We have worked in close collaboration with idefix.com not only to create a smooth experience managing user accounts and books in the ‘cloud’ but also to provide a strong content protection for publishers, which is at the same time completely transparent for the users. It just works.
Please contact us for more information about the underlying technology and how we can help you integrate your e-Publishing chain.
Kitaplik is an eBook reader, which integrates with user accounts on idefix.com platform, the biggest online retailer of books and eBooks in Turkey (practically the turkish Amazon). We have worked in close collaboration with idefix.com not only to create a smooth experience managing user accounts and books in the ‘cloud’ but also to provide a strong content protection for publishers, which is at the same time completely transparent for the users. It just works.
Please contact us for more information about the underlying technology and how we can help you integrate your e-Publishing chain.
50% discount for education institutions
10/08/10 01:02
Fifteen Jugglers are taking part in the Apple’s newly announced “education institutions“ discount program.
All current and future Fifteen Jugglers apps can be bought for 50% off by the education institutions in the US for redistribution to their faculty, students and staff.
I hope this program becomes available to international institutions as soon as possible.
On other news,
I have submitted PaperPad 1.2.1 to review yesterday. This is a bug fix release for a few small bugs.
I am additionally working on bringing PaperPad Lite to the same technical level with PaperPad. Moreover, transparent colors are definitely coming back, if I can finally slash my way through the PDF graphic state dictionaries jungle...
All current and future Fifteen Jugglers apps can be bought for 50% off by the education institutions in the US for redistribution to their faculty, students and staff.
I hope this program becomes available to international institutions as soon as possible.
On other news,
I have submitted PaperPad 1.2.1 to review yesterday. This is a bug fix release for a few small bugs.
I am additionally working on bringing PaperPad Lite to the same technical level with PaperPad. Moreover, transparent colors are definitely coming back, if I can finally slash my way through the PDF graphic state dictionaries jungle...
PaperPad 1.2 available in AppStore
19/07/10 21:27
The new and vastly improved new version is now available for your download pleasure. Contains the following:
- Brand new PDF engine: PDF’s at their maximum sharpness both on screen and in your emails!
- Much smoother and more responsive user interface.
- Improved drawing performance.
- No need to synchronize with iTunes to delete unwanted files.
- Lot’s of small fixes and improvements...
Honestly, this is the PaperPad, as it should have been in the first place.
- Brand new PDF engine: PDF’s at their maximum sharpness both on screen and in your emails!
- Much smoother and more responsive user interface.
- Improved drawing performance.
- No need to synchronize with iTunes to delete unwanted files.
- Lot’s of small fixes and improvements...
Honestly, this is the PaperPad, as it should have been in the first place.
PaperPad 1.2 finally ready!
11/07/10 19:13
I’ve just submitted the 1.2 release of PaperPad to Apple. I hope it goes through quickly. It has had a hard birth already...
The new release features big improvements in speed and stability, in addition to a completely new PDF library that I ended up writing from scratch. The new PDF library allows me to use full resolution PDF files both on the display and in the emails. Moreover it’s much more memory efficient than Quartz2D PDF output functions, resolving almost all memory related crashes.
On the downside, since this is the initial release of my PDF library, I expect some compatibility issues. I had not imagined how many different versions of PDF, with their infinite combinations of parameters, were out there while I was optimistically starting out write the library. The last around of testing with a large document test base resulted in no compatibility issues, but you can never be sure out there in the wild world...
And finally, I had to disable the add-new-page-button and transparent colors for PDF output because the underlying functionality is simply not available yet in the new PDF library. Wait for the next update...
The new release features big improvements in speed and stability, in addition to a completely new PDF library that I ended up writing from scratch. The new PDF library allows me to use full resolution PDF files both on the display and in the emails. Moreover it’s much more memory efficient than Quartz2D PDF output functions, resolving almost all memory related crashes.
On the downside, since this is the initial release of my PDF library, I expect some compatibility issues. I had not imagined how many different versions of PDF, with their infinite combinations of parameters, were out there while I was optimistically starting out write the library. The last around of testing with a large document test base resulted in no compatibility issues, but you can never be sure out there in the wild world...
And finally, I had to disable the add-new-page-button and transparent colors for PDF output because the underlying functionality is simply not available yet in the new PDF library. Wait for the next update...
PDF files and memory related crashes
11/06/10 17:54
I’m sure PaperPad users came across crashes while they are working with PDF files. Most of these crashes are caused by PaperPad running out of memory and the operating system shooting it down.
I have been losing sleep over this issue. Especially because it crashes very predictably and consistently when you try to send a big PDF document (15+ pages, depends on the amount of images), because there is simply not enough memory in the iPad to render the whole document into. (Thanks to Warren to first noticing and reporting this issue)
You might say, that rendering the whole document into the memory is a very inefficient way of handling this. You would be right, very right. Unfortunately, that is the only way to render pages into PDF documents using Apple’s Quartz2D library.
In the last update I have provided the option to only save pages with changes on them if the document is larger than a certain size. This helps to prevent crashes, but is a plain bad solution.
I have been working on implementing my own PDF library, optimized for PaperPad’s needs for some time now. I am very happy to announce that I have reached feature-complete yesterday. I have been testing it for a day and it seems to be working fine.
This, of course, means a big and long overdue update to PaperPad. Most of the memory issues will be solved by this library and the PDF files will be rendered properly resolution independent in the user interface, instead of the current rasterized versions.
However, before I release this update, I need to test it throughly with different PDF files. Since I only have so many PDF files, and I’m sure that some the PaperPad users would have some fringe-case, frankenstein PDFs which would crash PaperPad and its brand new shiny PDF engine after I go public, I ask you to help me test the new version with as many files as possible.
If you are interested in beta testing the new PaperPad please shoot me an email with your device ID. Please be aware that you should only do this if you are interested in experimenting with buggy software and able and willing to provide me feedback about the crashes that are bound to occur.
In return, in addition to the good feeling of helping a poor young indie developer, you'll get to download of all of my current and future apps for free...
Peace.
I have been losing sleep over this issue. Especially because it crashes very predictably and consistently when you try to send a big PDF document (15+ pages, depends on the amount of images), because there is simply not enough memory in the iPad to render the whole document into. (Thanks to Warren to first noticing and reporting this issue)
You might say, that rendering the whole document into the memory is a very inefficient way of handling this. You would be right, very right. Unfortunately, that is the only way to render pages into PDF documents using Apple’s Quartz2D library.
In the last update I have provided the option to only save pages with changes on them if the document is larger than a certain size. This helps to prevent crashes, but is a plain bad solution.
I have been working on implementing my own PDF library, optimized for PaperPad’s needs for some time now. I am very happy to announce that I have reached feature-complete yesterday. I have been testing it for a day and it seems to be working fine.
This, of course, means a big and long overdue update to PaperPad. Most of the memory issues will be solved by this library and the PDF files will be rendered properly resolution independent in the user interface, instead of the current rasterized versions.
However, before I release this update, I need to test it throughly with different PDF files. Since I only have so many PDF files, and I’m sure that some the PaperPad users would have some fringe-case, frankenstein PDFs which would crash PaperPad and its brand new shiny PDF engine after I go public, I ask you to help me test the new version with as many files as possible.
If you are interested in beta testing the new PaperPad please shoot me an email with your device ID. Please be aware that you should only do this if you are interested in experimenting with buggy software and able and willing to provide me feedback about the crashes that are bound to occur.
In return, in addition to the good feeling of helping a poor young indie developer, you'll get to download of all of my current and future apps for free...
Peace.
PaperPad Lite in Top 10
11/06/10 17:52
PaperPad Lite has been in the Top 10 under the free productivity apps in most major App Stores since its release.
Thank you very very very much all for your interest. I hope PaperPad has been useful to you...
Thank you very very very much all for your interest. I hope PaperPad has been useful to you...
PaperPad Lite
07/06/10 21:56
PaperPad Lite is essentially the same as PaperPad except that it is free and places a small line about itself into each emailed PDF file. Oh, and the emailed PDFs are limited to three pages.
Other than that every feature is still the same...
Download (iTunes)
PaperPad 1.1 in the AppStore
07/06/10 19:31
Is it just coincidence, that it became available just when iPhone 4 was being announced?
Download (iTunes)
Akbank - Kırmızı'ya Koş
05/06/10 22:23
Developed by Fifteen Jugglers in collaboration with the ad agency 41? 29!, Kırmızı’ya Koş makes use of push notifications to notify the users of opportunities to win cash prizes in real-time and can publish their high-scores in their Facebook stream.
Download for free in iTunes
PaperPad 1.1 submitted to review
31/05/10 22:08
A short list of changes:
- A new icon!
- Much improved handling of large documents
- Now remembers what you were last doing when you open PaperPad.
PaperPad 1.0.1 in Review
14/05/10 22:06
Today, I submitted the first update to PaperPad to Apple for review. It should become available in a few days.
The update contains the following:
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The update contains the following:
- Open photos from the Photo Library
- Rename documents
- Minor bug fixes
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PaperPad accepted to AppStore!
13/05/10 22:05
You can use PaperPad to take notes in your own handwriting and to edit PDF documents or JPEG images on your iPad. Jot down notes during a meeting, review documents, give feedback to colleagues.
We are online!
13/05/10 22:04
I turned the switch and here we are. The webpage is still under progress but be sure to check out our fine Apps.
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