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Here at Brancipater, we’re celebrating the new version of TextGuru and the New Year by giving away TextGuru for 99 cents (normally $5) for the next 3 days, so get it now before its too late!

TextGuru is the only editor for the iPhone with full copy and paste support, landscape editing, HTML editing and preview, full-fledged in-text file search and Spotlight®-like file search throughout all your text documents, and iPhone-to-iPhone file sharing. Now, there’s more!

The new version of TextGuru adds a bunch of highly requested features to an already impressive feature-set, now you can browse the web and download any supported file directly to your device; and with full FTP support, you will be able to download files from your FTP servers, and make changes to your websites on-the-go using our award-winning editing interface.

So what are you waiting for? Buy TextGuru from the Apple iTunes AppStore now!

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Our 1.0.7 update for TextGuru was approved earlier today, it includes our new speed-scrolling feature for long PDF and Office documents (video preview here).

So after initially being rejected, MediaShare has now finally been approved! In celebration, we’re running a limited-time $0.99 promotion, so get it now while it’s hot!

What is MediaShare?

Most modern mobile phones allow you to transfer your media (videos/pictures etc) to other phones over Bluetooth. While the iPhone has Bluetooth, it doesn’t support file transfers. This is a shame because the iPhone is arguably the best media player on the market, it’s high resolution widescreen aspect ratio leaves other phones in the dust. But you still can’t share that funny video clip with your buddies…

That’s where MediaShare comes in. MediaShare lets you transfer your favorite clips onto your device over Wi-Fi and then share them at super-high wi-fi speeds with friends on the same network. MediaShare uses the same file-sharing protocol in TextGuru making it completely compatible with our Mac and Windows FileServer apps (download for free here).

MediaShare currently supports the following formats (with more to come):

• M4V, MOV, MP4, MPV and 3GP video files
• PNG, TIFF, TGA and JPG picture files

The $0.99 promo is planned to run for the next 7 days, after which the price will be raised back to the original $2.99. Get it now before its too late! Tell your friends!

TextGuru 1.0.6 was released today, download the update if you haven’t already!

What’s new?

While we were waiting for the 1.0.6 update to be approved, we were hard at work on the 1.0.7 update, which we submitted minutes after 1.0.6 was approved

So what’s coming to TextGuru in 1.0.7?
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We are proud to announce that in conjunction with our 10,000th download we are launching the Windows version of our TextGuru File Server! We would like to thank ALL of our customers for their endless support and feedback!

The TextGuru File Server for Windows is now available for download! And the best thing of all is that its FREE!

With TextGuru File Server for Windows, you would be enjoying the ease of transferring your files to your iPhone/iPod touch!

For the TexGuru File Server for Windows to work, users would need to install the following packages from Microsoft and Apple:

Microsoft .NET Framework

Apple’s Bonjour for Windows

Lastly, you can get TextGuru File Server for Windows here : TextGuru File Server (Windows) (6990)

Do take note, Windows users would need to unblock port 49999 on their firewalls for the TextGuru File Server for Windows to work.

Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard versions are also available at our Downloads page!! Mac OSX Users need not download the .NET Framework or the Bonjour for Windows. Heres a simple tutorial for Mac Users!

We’re proud to announce that Apple has FINALLY approved and released TextGuru 1.0.5!!

The update will be available to ALL existing users for FREE!!

Whats New?

New Features:

• Full Landscape-mode viewing of files.
• Native support for viewing Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Character, word and paragraph counts.
• Quick navigation of long files using Home/End buttons.
• Easily revert all changes using the “Revert” feature.
• Ability to edit the AutoSave interval.
• Ability to set the minimum limit for displaying your files in an alphabetically organized list.

Enhancements:

• New and greatly improved desktop-style highlighting for selections.
• Shake your device to remove highlights! (tapping anywhere on the screen also works).
• Double-tap at a certain point in “View” mode to begin editing at that location.
• Prompts for overwriting existing files.
• More informative alerts and error messages.

Bug-Fixes:

• Fixes all 2.1-related crashing bugs
• Fix for the issue when replacing text with case-sensitivity.
• All available file encodings are now supported.
• Stability improvements across the board, and fixes to a variety of minor interface glitches reported in v1.0

This week, Apple released the new iPhone/iPod touch firmware, on release, we got our hands on it early on our testing devices and found an issue with the application crashing on saving a file. After further investigation, our team of developers determined that this was caused by a bug introduced in the iPhone/iPod 2.1 Software Update.

That being said, our developers cranked in some overtime and have already fixed that issue. The update has already been submitted to the AppStore and is awaiting approval from Apple, which will hopefully be tomorrow or within the next 2 to 3 days.

Also, due to repeated enquiries, we would like to state that all these updates will be FREE to those who have already bought the app!

On another note, we’re proud to announce that our TextGuru File Server application for Windows is nearing its final stages of development and will be released soon for FREE ! So, keep checking our blog for updates!

Cheers!

Update : Thanks to all those who bought TextGuru, as of today, our promotion is no longer valid and we will be reverting to the original price of $4.99.

TextGuru v1.0.5 has some exciting new features and improvements to make the already-great editor, better than ever!

Here’s the list of new features and enhancements/fixes coming to v1.0.5:

New Features:

- Full Landscape-mode viewing of files.

- Native support for viewing Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).

- Character, word and paragraph counts.

- Quick navigation of long files using Home/End buttons.

- Easily revert all changes using the “Revert” feature.

- Ability to edit the AutoSave interval.

- Ability to set the minimum limit for displaying your files in an alphabetically organized list.

Enhancements:

- New and greatly improved desktop-style highlighting for selections.

- Shake your device to remove highlights! (tapping anywhere on the screen also works).

- Double-tap at a certain point in “View” mode to begin editing at that location.

- Prompts for overwriting existing files.

- More informative alerts and error messages.

Bug-Fixes:

- Fix for the issue when replacing text with case-sensitivity.

- All available file encodings are now supported (no more Cocoa error 261!).

- New files no longer attempt to overwrite paths of previously viewed existing files

- Stability improvements across the board, and fixes to a variety of minor interface glitches reported in v1.0

We have submitted this update to Apple, and hope to see it in the AppStore within a week :).

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• New text selection method for copy & paste:
• Landscape view while typing
• Some fixed encoding issues
• Some fixed file searching issues
• Fix for the issue when replacing text with case-sensitivity

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