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shrinkURL 1.1

I’ve submitted shrinkURL 1.1 to the App Store today with the (long overdue) support for the bit.ly and j.mp shortening services.

The new features will be available for configuration via the application settings page on the iPhone / iPod Touch (as seen in the screenshots to the left) If you have a bit.ly account then entering your username and API Key (found on the Account section of the bit.ly web service) will give you the option of storing any URLs created by shrinkURL to your bit.ly web history, a great feature provided by the service, and giving you some nice statistics on the links you’ve shortened.

Future enhancements I’m debating whether to continue with shrinkURL going forward due to other applications I'm wanting to get underway with, however shrinkURL has been if anything a good way to get myself a great understanding of Objective C and the iPhone platform and I've been touched with many nice comments and reviews of the application since it’s release.

If i was to continue I’d like to maybe incorporate bit.ly statistics into a history page along with the ability to select historically saved URLs for re-pasting to the clipboard or tweeting directly from shrinkURL but for now I'm likely to start on my next project. shrinkURL should be available from the App Store shortly

shrinkURL for iPhone

My first iPhone Application is now available. It’s just a small, simple utility but one i decided to develop after noticing (at least at the time of developing) that there just wasn’t an easy way of creating a shortened URL on the iPhone.

There are a number of Twitter applications that do that, but not all of them, and sometimes you want to shorten a URL outside of Twitter altogether (for emails, text messages, posting to Facebook etc)

I wanted to quickly get something into the App Store and just experience the whole thing, hence the currently ‘limited’ list of shortening services (well 1 actually).

I wanted the functionality of the application to be something you just open, it does it’s job and you close it again so it was difficult to make it look ‘pretty’, after all it only has 2 fields, your original URL and your TinyURL and i did find the hardest part was actually having a look that didn’t just have an ‘empty’ feel – hence the decision to make the keyboard a permanent fixture on the screen

So now the initial experience is out of the way I plan to enhance the functionality of shrinkURL and also start working on my second iPhone application.

shrinkURL can be downloaded for free from the App Store