December 2011
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“Daily Grape” with Gary Vaynerchuk just released...
Today we are super excited to announce the availability of Gary Vaynerchuk’s incredible daily wine show, Daily Grape, for the Roku. The successor to Wine Library TV, Daily Grape provides over 80 episodes of reviews and insight with its always amazing. We have always been huge fans and while he is no longer broadcasting (we wish he was), we have teamed up with VaynerMedia to make sure the...
October 2011
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Delicious TV's “Totally Vegetarian” now available...
It is with great pleasure that we introduce another great new Roku channel that was developed in conjunction with our friends at Delicious TV. Totally Vegetarian with Toni Fiore brings deceptively delicious vegetarian meals onto your Roku device and makes it simple for everyone to produce amazing food in their own kitchen.
We are also huge fans of Toni’s mantra - “Buy Locally, Eat...
September 2011
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New Roku Channel "Travel With Kids" Released!
We are very pleased to announce the release of “Travel With Kids” on the Roku. “Travel With Kids” is an award-winning family travel show that shows parents how they can travel the world with the little ones without breaking the bank or losing their minds. Its also great for the kids as they can experience what its like to travel and see all the great things there are to...
August 2011
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Our newest app, Classic Westerns, now available...
We are very pleased to announce that our newest app, Classic Westerns, is now available across multiple devices including the iPhone and iPad. Movie Vault users have been asking us for a while to come up with inexpensive pre-sorted versions and everyone loved our last genre specific version, House of Horrors, so we wanted to add to the collection. With this release, we expose a great selection of...
April 2011
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Movie Vault now on Windows Phone 7!
We are pleased to announce that Movie Vault is now available on the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace for $1.99. After much hard work, we are happy to see our app within the beautiful WP7 user experience. It has all the same great features and content as the other platforms, but takes advantage of the WP7 smooth Panorama controls giving it a nicely integrated feel. We would love to hear feedback and...
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Movie Vault for Android 1.0 Release Notes
We are really pleased to announce today our first release of Movie Vault on the Android Market. After months of development, we are proud to have an Android specific version of our application that takes advantage of many Android specific features as well as being (we think) mighty handsome.
Movie Vault for Android includes all the great features of its iOS counterparts:
Over 1,000 classic...
Details about our new logo and website!!
Today we are pleased to show off our new logo and our updated website. We all felt the logo was definitely in need of an overhaul and we think the new version is a lot more fun and of course, a little retro. We also dropped the “Soft” from our public name in favor of Fling simply because it exemplifies an attitude and a feeling we strive to bring to our apps.
The site also needed some...
March 2011
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Thoughts on Mobile Application QA and Testing
As we wait for the imminent release of Movie Vault 1.2 on the iPhone and 1.3 on the iPad (which both add AirPlay!!), I thought I would offer up some information on the devices and testing we do for the various applications. We are also avidly working on Android, OS X, and Windows Phone builds which should be showing their faces very soon!
Most development teams do not have access to a wide array...
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Movie Vault 1.2 for iPad Release Notes
Movie Vault 1.2 for iPad went live today in the App Store and we are really pleased to make available some a great new feature, My Queue. A ton of users have been asking for it and after some work, we now have added it. It is super simple to use as well, simply select a movie and then under the Watch Movie button you will find a button labeled Add to Queue. Click it and it will be added to your...
February 2011
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What's Next for Movie Vault and Fling Soft?
The better question is probably what’s next for Fling Soft, but I wanted to give everyone a quick glance at what we have in store in the coming months. As some may know, we recently launched our Roku app and this is really just the start of our expansion onto other platforms. Here is the tentative roadmap and what we are working towards due to user feedback:
Mac OS X
Android 2.2+
Windows...
January 2011
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Movie Vault now available on Roku!!
We are pleased to announce that Movie Vault is now available on Roku. This is something that has been in the works for a while and before we go into whats including and whats coming, I wanted to give a little personal insight on this lovely little box.
I have personally owned a Roku since almost day one. All it really was in the beginning was a way to stream Netflix content and soon took a...
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Movie Vault on sale and selected to Apps for Movie...
Much to our surprise and excitement, the Thursday cut over in the iTunes app store showcased a new category named “Apps for Movie Lovers” and inside was Movie Vault. The iPhone and iPad versions were both named “App Store Essentials” and the response has been great.
In honor of being selected, we are discounting both apps for a limited time. The iPhone version is now...
November 2010
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Movie Vault for iPhone 1.1 Released!
We just wanted to let everyone know that Movie Vault for iPhone 1.1 has been released into the App Store. The new version features:
Updated graphics to support retina displays on iPhone 4.
iOS 4.2 ready with AirPlay support!
In-app rating system, show us some love!
Flurry analytics added.
We are working on the iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G streaming issues people are experiencing, so please...
Update on Streaming Issues (Older devices)
A number of Movie Vault users have been reporting streaming issues under various network connections and I wanted to give everyone an update of our progress. Many users/reviewers are referring to this as “crashing”, but in actuality it is an issue with the actual streams. In all our testing we never experienced any issues and Apple never identified any issues during review, so we...
October 2010
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Movie Vault for iPhone launched!
After a lot of hard work and some significant re-engineering, we are happy to announce Movie Vault for iPhone. Featuring all the great benefits of the iPad version, but we now also have access to the multitasking feature of the OS. This means you can take a call, read some email, check your texts, and then come back and pick up right where you left off. We kept the same visuals, kept the same...
Muhahaha, its Halloween Movie Vault for iPad!!!
We have been brainstorming for a while how to offer a “Lite” experience of Movie Vault for iPad to our users and it has always been a challenge. When one of the team suggested the Halloween theme, we knew what to do next. So we are now proud to present Halloween Movie Vault.
At only .99 cents, Halloween Movie Vault brings you over 100 classic horror films streamed straight to your...
September 2010
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Movie Vault version 1.1 on its way!!
Tonight we submit Movie Vault 1.1 to the app store. We have gathered all the feedback from users and reviewers and tried to capture as much as possible with this release. Our first and foremost priority was stability. The following will be the release notes for 1.1:
Bug fixes:
Major improvements to application stability during usage and movie watching.
Eliminated an issue where you can lose the...
August 2010
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Quick update from the Movie Vault development...
I just wanted to post a quick update and let everyone know we are quickly working on Movie Vault 1.1 as well as 1.2 and also an iPhone version. The reception within the app community has been well above what we expected, so we are spending our time making sure this next version resolves some of the issues people are seeing. We are also working on our backend servers to make sure the streaming...
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Movie Vault for iPad is now available!
When the iPad was first announced, it quickly became clear to most people that this device was going to be more about consumption than it was about creation. Sure people have done some amazing things with apps like Brushes and of course the entire iWork suite is available, but everything feels very scaled down. It just wasn’t there to be a creation device, but it was the perfect platform to...
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Insight on the iTunes App Review process
For those that have been following us on Twitter, you have probably noticed that we have a new app in the queue with the App Store review gods. I thought I would take a moment today and give you a little insight on the process and to give you an idea the sense of frustration a lot of developers feel. I am not going to talk about the app itself because well, its a SURPRISE but you may get a few...
May 2010
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Having a little fun with our apps
After our initial work on some functional apps, we decided to have a little fun. Part of it was due to my young (2 years at the time) son and his obsession with the iPhone and little silly apps. So the next two apps were more about making something silly with some great design behind it. They were also based on the fortune cookie concept which is something simple for people to understand and...
April 2010
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Musings on initial iPhone development
In the beginning, the idea was simple… find a hole in the iPhone application landscape and fill it with something people needed. This hasn’t changed much obviously, but the amount of gaps in those first six months were so much greater than they are now. So we decided to tackle something that was relatively simple and something we felt was much needed. It was a way to get us into the...