Posts Tagged ‘api’

Press Release: Synotes – Notes for the best of us.

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Application developer Syncode has released Synotes [App Store], a notes and task management system that syncs your information across Apple devices and into the cloud.

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.

ENDS

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

Twitter API Issues and iTweetReply Push

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

Many of you will have noticed that Twitter has been intermittently slow and occasionally down altogether in the last 2 days. This is because it was hit with a DDoS attack – an attack where the server is overloaded with many “fluff” requests that cause it to slow down and sometimes even crash – in short, someone was deliberately trying to bring Twitter offline.

Though the Twitter.com web front-end is back up, the API (Application Programming Interface – a method by which third parties such as ourselves can talk to Twitter to send/recieve your tweets) has taken a serious hit on Twitter’s end – we have no doubt that they’re doing their best to get it back up to full potential.

However, until those issues are fixed and the interface is stable again, iTweetReply will remain less reliable than usual – other services have gone down completely, as OAuth, the method used by others for authenticating with Twitter, is completely offline at the moment.

We’re doing our best to keep everything working on our end – you can (oh the irony) follow us on Twitter for status updates.

Update: iTweetReply push now appears to be stable, though this could change in the future relative to the Twitter API.