The decision wasn’t an easy one to make – as many of you will already know, Syncode was the brainchild of three high school students, each of us bringing our unique talents together to produce the wonderfully useful and well-designed applications you all know. We are very proud of our achievements and the release of our three major applications on the iTunes App Store, iTweetReply, Syncopy, Synotes (Slate & Mobile).

However, between school, our social lives and work we haven’t been able to find the time to continue to develop these applications towards the original goals we set for ourselves. We have always had high hopes and we feel that we have not only let ourselves down, but let you, the users, down as well.

As such, we are opening up our doors and sending out a call to find someone who will pick up where we’ve left off, and continue to develop these applications into the future.

We feel that this is best for both ourselves and most of all, for you, our loyal customers.

We are open to any and all offers – individual products, the company as a whole, the ‘brand’ (so to speak) – Just let us know. We would absolutely love to hear from current iPhone developers who are willing to continue our work.

Please contact mail@syncode.com.au to speak with us.

The next version of Syncopy will be available free, with ads – or for $1.99 with the ads switched off. Existing paid users, and those who purchase before the update is approved, will have the option to switch ads off in settings.

We look forward to expanding Syncopy into a whole new audience of users over the coming months.

iTweetReply 2 now focuses on push notifications, offering multiple account support, the ability to push Twitter search terms, unified push history, opening a notification in a Twitter client, advanced Tweetie 2 opening, iPad support and more.

In line with changes to the Twitter API, all interactions between Twitter and iTweetReply are now done through OAuth.

“With Twitter’s upcoming closure of Basic Auth one of the biggest reasons for developing iTweetReply 2 was to enable the use of OAuth (through xAuth), a token system of exchange where user password’s are not stored. The use of OAuth enables for better security and piece of mind all round.” said co-founder and Systems Engineer Matthew Lesh.

iTweetReply 2 is a free upgrade for existing users, providing a cleaner and smoother application that integrates with user’s existing full Twitter clients. iTweetReply provides one complimentary account and two complimentary search terms with further account and search packs available using in-app purchases.

Unified push history provides one view for seeing all incoming replies, direct messages, timeline and search that have been pushed to your account.

“iTweetReply has been totally re-written from the ground up, giving users exactly what they both want and need through a much smoother interface, and with its availability on both the iPhone and iPad, it redefines how 3rd-party Twitter push notification application function.” said co-founder and software engineer Matthew Roberts.

iTweetReply 2 is available from today on Apple’s App Store.

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Background

Syncode is an Australian startup that pushes the boundaries of iPhone development. Started by three high-school students, Syncode has already released iTweetReply, one of the first Push notification providers for popular micro-blogging site Twitter, Syncopy, which takes your clipboard into the cloud and Synotes, the notes system that syncs into the cloud.

Syncode is determined to stand strong as a leading young voice in Australian software development, with plenty of innovative and professional products planned for 2010 and beyond.

PR Contact:
Matthew Lesh
pr@syncode.com.au

Synotes is available as a web, iPhone or iPod touch application. The web app can be accessed on any web browser.

Synotes Slate boosts all the features from the original Synotes Mobile application for iPhone & iPod touch including synced notes, searchable notes, icon assignment and filtering, offline editing, previous versions history, smart sync and more.

Synotes combines both simplistic features such as note editing, adding and deleting with advanced features such as notes sync to the iPhone, iPod touch and web and the unique ability to assign each note an icon, a visual tag of each note that allows you to organise and filter notes by their icons.

“The entire Syncode team has found it very exciting to expand the Synotes platform onto the iPad, we belive that the form of the iPad is a perfect fit for Synotes.” said co-founder Matthew Lesh.

Synotes Slate provides users with a brand new iPad focused design and user interface.

“Designing for the iPad has been a rewarding experience. The expanded screen real-estate provides us with many new opportunities that we believe has lead to a premier iPad application for our users.” said co-founder and Syncode designer, Tom Ricciardiello.

Synotes Slate is available from today on Apple’s App Store.

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Background

Syncode is an Australian startup that pushes the boundaries of iPhone development. Started by three high-school students, Syncode has already released iTweetReply, one of the first Push notification providers for popular micro-blogging site Twitter, Syncopy, which takes your clipboard into the cloud and Synotes, the notes system that syncs into the cloud.

Syncode is determined to stand strong as a leading young voice in Australian software development, with plenty of innovative and professional products planned for 2010 and beyond.

PR Contact:
Matthew Lesh
pr@syncode.com.au

Over the past months, the entire Syncode team has been busy re-developing Synotes for Apple’s brand new platform, the iPad. We have now submitted version 1.0 to Apple for approval.

Synotes for iPad is a whole new application and will be known in the App Store as “Synotes Slate”. Alongside this name the iPhone & iPod touch version of Synotes will soon be known as “Synotes Mobile”.

Synotes for iPad brings all the sophisticated features from Synotes for iPhone & iPod touch to the iPad. The iPad provides a fantastic note taking device surface that we felt was perfect for Synotes. Below are some screenshots from the new application:

We believe it is important to note why we made the decisions we have. We came to the decision to do a few controversial things, and here is our justification.

Brand new application

We felt, as many other developers have expressed, that a universal application was not for us. The new platform brings many new opportunities, and to fully utilize them with a changed user interface we have decided against a universal binary. It is important to note that the application has been written from scratch for the new platform. This means a better user experience for everyone involved.

UI choices

The biggest difference between designing for the iPad compared to the iPhone is the capacious screen we had to work with. Before even thinking about how Synotes Slate would be designed, we carefully studied and analysed Apple’s standard iPad applications and their design in both function and form. Like many iPad apps, Synotes Slate uses universal iPad UI elements such as a UISplitView and Pop-Over menus to both increase productivity and provide a continuous experience between multiple applications.

Day one release

Despite having no testing devices, we have come to the decision to submit what for the iPad. The reason is simple: we want to be around from day one, and we do not want our users being stuck with a double pixel application. Simply put, we feel this is the best possible way to bring the application to our customers, and we look forward to releasing updates to fix any issues that may arise.

So today, we’re proud to announce that Synotes 1.1 for iPhone and iPod Touch and the web is being released – a free upgrade for all current Synotes users. Significant new features include:

• Redesigned Synote editing and creation and added full screen viewing.
• Added additional note icons to better represent your Synotes in list view.
• Added Synote History – view and restore previous revisions of your Synotes.
• Multiple ordering options: Manually, date/time created, date/time last modified or by icon.
• Added ability to filter Synote list by icon.
• Create Synotes by email.
• Synotes are now viewable by RSS feed

(you can generate your custom email and feed address from within the settings of the new web ui)

These features will be enabled on the web interface once the app has been approved for the iTunes App Store.

For now we encourage you to follow us on Twitter, learn more about Synotes, check out the web inferface or head to the App Store and pick up your own copy of Synotes – Notes for the best of us.

Update: Synotes 1.1 has now been accepted into the app store.

Synotes is available as a web, iPhone or iPod touch application. The web app can be accessed on any web browser.

Synotes’ interfaces make it easy to access both basic and advanced features, such as search and offline editing.

Offline editing enables users who don’t have an active internet connection on their iPhone or iPod touch to continue adding, editing, deleting and rearranging notes.

Search functionality is built into the iPhone and iPod touch application to filter results as you type in phrases. This enables you to quickly find the Synote you are searching for.

“Synotes is the first Syncode application to use our new Smart Sync technology, which only syncs what you need it to when you need it to. It’s all about being more efficient and invisible to the user,” said co-founder Matthew Lesh.

Syncode has released an open REST API for developers to create applications on the Synotes platform. “We hope we see some exciting applications being available to our users in the coming days, weeks and months” said co-founder Matthew Lesh.

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Background

Syncode is an Australian startup that pushes the boundaries of iPhone development. Started by three high-school students, Syncode has already released iTweetReply, one of the first Push notification providers for popular micro-blogging site Twitter, and Syncopy, which takes your clipboard into the cloud.

Syncode is determined to stand strong as a leading young voice in Australian software development, with plenty of innovative and professional products planned for 2010 and beyond.

PR Contact:
Matthew Lesh
pr@syncode.com.au

Syncopy securely transmits your clipboard between the Mac, iPhone and iPod touch.

“I knew there must have been an easier solution when emailing myself to get text to my iPhone.” said co-founder and designer Tom Ricci.

“I’m surprised the idea wasn’t there the whole time.”

Syncopy aims to keep your clipboard identical no matter where you are.

“Just having the ability to quickly look back through what I’ve previously copied enables me to never lose important information.” said co-founder Matthew Lesh.

Syncopy is two applications: Syncopy for Mac and Syncopy for iPhone and iPod touch.

Syncopy for Mac automatically tracks uses of the clipboard and syncs it to other Macs and the iPhone and iPod touch.

Syncopy for iPhone and iPod touch enables users to sync their Mac clipboard and view its history from their mobile device and vice versa.

Syncopy for iPhone/iPod touch is now out in the App store.

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Background

Syncode is an innovative startup that places itself at the leading edge of iPhone development.

Started by three high-school aged teenagers spread across Australia.

Syncode’s goal is to bring you fantastic, innovative and polished products.

Syncode’s first  product, iTweetReply, provides unique twitter “push” features to iPhone users.

Syncode is planning to continue to innovate with lots of new products planned for the future.

PR Contact:
Matthew Lesh
pr@syncode.com.au

The long-awaited iTweetReply 1.2 update brings Twitter Search capability to its users. This capability enables users to select search terms to have pushed to their device from Twitter search.

To find out more details about this update please see the previous blog post.

“Syncode hopes that search capability will benefit its current users and bring iTweetReply to a new market of business users” said co-founder Matthew Lesh. “Giving them the ability to be instantly alerted when people are talking about their business or slogan”.

Syncode today also announced that iTweetReply’s usage of the Twitter steaming API for replies – which enables instant push (within seconds) of replies on Twitter (instead of having to wait minutes for Syncode to “poll” twitter) – has been successfully speeding up communication for all iTweetReply users over the previous weeks.

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Background

Syncode is an innovative startup that places itself at the leading edge of iPhone development.

Started by three high-school aged teenagers spread across Australia.
Syncode’s goal is to bring you fantastic, innovative and polished products.

Syncode’s flagship product, iTweetReply, provides unique twitter “push” features to iPhone users.

Syncode is planning to continue to innovate with lots of new products planned for the future.

PR Contact:
Matthew Lesh
pr@syncode.com.au

Syncode has enabled the Streaming API for all users – this means that instead of the Syncode cloud having to go to Twitter every X minutes (set in options), Twitter tells the server whenever there is a new reply over a continuous connection, rather like push email from Google Sync and MobileMe. This means that replies take but a few seconds to arrive at your device.

The system is not perfect – the Streaming API only provides access to public data, so replies won’t stream from people with protected profiles, and Direct Messages cannot be streamed – so the server will continue to poll Twitter every 2 minutes for the data that can’t be accessed via Streaming. The streaming API itself is still in the Alpha stage (as it is still very much a new feature) so this secondary checking facility helps to correct any unforeseeable issues – should a reply not stream, it will be picked up at the next polling interval as before.

Syncode hopes to continue to innovate and that all iTweetReply users enjoy these new almost instant notifications.